The two most important types of logic on the LSAT are conditional and causal reasoning. Conditional reasoning may be dressed up in various guises, but can be essentially reduced to if-then statements.

What follows are my impressions of the oral argument that took place in Pacific Operators Offshore v. Valladolid, dealing with the proper construction of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. In ...

In the introduction to his eye-opening work on the Supreme Court certiorari process, “Deciding to Decide,” H.W. Perry summarizes the court’s lack of institutional transparency: “Although some rules ...