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Why The International Exhibitions Bureau Should Choose Minneapolis For Global Expo 2023, Steve Charnovitz
Why The International Exhibitions Bureau Should Choose Minneapolis For Global Expo 2023, Steve Charnovitz
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In November 2017, the 170 governments in the International Exhibitions Bureau (BIE) will vote for a country to host the 2022/23 specialized expo. The United States strengthened its bid in 2017 by a remarkably rapid bipartisan action by the US Congress and Trump Administration to rejoin the BIE which the United States had quit in 2002. This paper reviews the legislative history of US membership in the BIE treaty going back to 1968 and provides a brief overview of the role of the BIE in supervising world's fairs and expos going back to 1928. The BIE is an unusual treaty …
Statistical Inequality And Intentional (Not Implicit) Discrimination, Michael Selmi
Statistical Inequality And Intentional (Not Implicit) Discrimination, Michael Selmi
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Racial disparities remain a disturbing fact of American life but whether those disparities are the product of discrimination remains deeply contested. This is an important question because as a society we are committed to remedying discrimination but are significantly more conflicted over addressing racial disparities that are not tied to discrimination. This essay explores the question of how we can determine when statistical disparities are the product of discrimination, and relies on two areas where the presence of racial disparities are incontrovertible – police automobile stops and school discipline. Based on a large number of studies, there is little question …
Forward To Festschrift Honoring Chief Judge Rader, Martin J. Adelman
Forward To Festschrift Honoring Chief Judge Rader, Martin J. Adelman
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This Forward discusses papers that highlight the judicial work of Chief Judge Rader in the field of patent law.