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Managing Without Capitalism: Transforming Library Leadership In Service Of Anti-Racism, Inclusion, And Equity, Heather Slania

New Librarianship Symposia Series: Fall 2021

Library leaders at all levels are grappling with addressing institutional racism. Despite years of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) interventions and a recognition of the overwhelming whiteness of libraries, the profession is not a better or safer place for library workers of color, people from other marginalized communities, or anyone who has had to endure the normalized toxic library work environment.

Leaders are stuck and previous interventions have failed primarily due to two factors:

• Modern libraries (and the institutions that hold them) were constructed as tools of white supremacy.

• Library leadership and management concepts/practices are rooted in capitalism.

Numerous …

Library Publishing Curriculum Policy Module: Diversity (Unit 3), Instructor's Guide, Sara Benson, Harriet Green, Merinda Kaye Hensley, Janet Swatscheno, Katherine Skinner, Melanie Schlosser

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Gandhi’S Prophecy: Corporate Violence And A Mindful Law For Bhopal, Nehal A. Patel

Nehal A. Patel

AbstractOver thirty years have passed since the Bhopal chemical disaster began,and in that time scholars of corporate social responsibility (CSR) havediscussed and debated several frameworks for improving corporate responseto social and environmental problems. However, CSR discourse rarelydelves into the fundamental architecture of legal thought that oftenbuttresses corporate dominance in the global economy. Moreover, CSRdiscourse does little to challenge the ontological and epistemologicalassumptions that form the foundation for modern economics and the role ofcorporations in the world.I explore methods of transforming CSR by employing the thought ofMohandas Gandhi. I pay particular attention to Gandhi’s critique ofindustrialization and principle of swadeshi (self-sufficiency) …

Deferred Corporate Prosecution As Corrupt Regime: The Case For Prison

Lawrence E. Mitchell

Abstract: This paper looks at the growing phenomenon of deferred corporate criminal prosecutions from a new perspective. The literature accepts the practice and is largely concerned with the degree to which efficient and effective criminal deterrence is achieved through pretrial diversion. I examine the practice and conclude that it presents, from a structural perspective, a case of a corrupt law enforcement regime centered in the United States Department of Justice. The regime works in effective –if unintentional-- conspiracy with corporate officials to produce an inefficient enforcement regime that disregards democratic processes and threatens a loss of respect for the rule …

Applying The Non-Profit Duty Of Obedience In Litigation: Penn State, Paterno, Student-Athletes, & The Ncaa, Joseph M. Long

Joseph M Long

The fiduciary duty of obedience standard for non-profit leaders may offer a means to either externally challenge or internally refocus the decision-making of the NCAA leadership. The duty of obedience standard, as a tool in litigation, has been infrequently used. Nevertheless, a duty of obedience claim, if brought by the proper party, can complement or enhance an antitrust claim. As this paper will show, NCAA antitrust arguments often consider whether the NCAA has promoted amateur intercollegiate athletic competition. These arguments focus upon the NCAA’s mission statement and purpose. Since the mission statement is already a component of the antitrust litigation, …

Investigating Impacts Of Legal Practice Management System On The Employee Productivity Of The Small Thai Law Firm, Onanong Pilun-Owad

Onanong Pilun-owad

This paper focuses on the study and investigation of the impacts in the implementation of a software package to support the operation and management of legal practice, which is referred to as the Legal Practice Management System (LPMS), on employee productivity. This implementation is considered the Information Technology-enabled business process and organization change of a small law firm in Thailand. The focal organization is a law firm in Thailand employing thirty-two people, which has been facing various business challenges from both internal and external factors; for example, increasing clients’ expectations, local and foreign competitors, poor financial performance, slow responses to …

Roger Nash Baldwin And The American Civil Liberties Union, Mathias Alfred Jaren

Mathias Alfred Jaren

The thesis for this essay is that social work, acting for the benefit and welfare of others, can be accomplished effectively by non-lawyers employing an agenda of political and legal interventions. Legal interventions even as uncomplicated as filing an amicus curiae brief for some unknown defendant being prosecuted for an offense against his government can have significant and important long term implications. This thesis is examined in the context of a life devoted to civil liberties - The Life and times of Roger Nash Baldwin.

Changed Circumstances: The Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure And The Future Of Institutional Reform Litigation After Horne V. Flores, Catherine Y. Kim

Catherine Y Kim

Since Brown v. Board of Education, the federal courts have played an expansive role in institutional reform litigation to restructure state and local government institutions such as public school systems, prisons, law enforcement agencies, and health care facilities accused of violating individual rights. The 2009 decision in Horne v. Flores, in which a five-four majority of the Supreme Court employed a novel interpretation of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to substantially enlarge government-defendants’ ability to terminate ongoing judicial oversight in these types of cases, threatens the future viability of this model of social reform. The propriety of institutional reform …

Reforming Paradoxes Of Socio-Economic Development: Modeling Change And Continuity At The World Bank, Peter Hammer

Peter Hammer

In 1995, James Wolfensohn became President of the World Bank. He inherited an institution at a time of crisis and drift. The crises were triggered by the sustained backlash against the so-called “Washington Consensus,” a strong wave of anti-globalization sentiment and a shocking lack of evidence that Bank policies have had any real impact in generating growth or reducing poverty. His two-term presidency (1995-2005) oversaw the creation of an ambitious agenda for socio-economic development. The truth is, however, that this is not the first time the Bank has undergone radical policy shifts. In the past, the Bank has cycled through …

Where Did Mill Go Wrong?: Why The Capital Managed Firm Rather Than The Labor Managed Enterprise Is The Predominant Organizational Form In Market Economies, Justin Schwartz

Justin Schwartz

In this Article, I propose a novel law and economics explanation of a deeply puzzling aspect of business organization in market economies. Why are virtually all firms are organized as capital managed and owned (capitalist) enterprises rather than as labor managed and owned cooperatives? Over 150 years ago, J.S. Mill predicted that efficiency and other advantages would eventually make worker cooperatives predominant over capitalist firms. Mill was right about the advantages but wrong about the results. The standard explanation is that capitalist enterprise is more efficient. Empirical research, however, overwhelmingly contradicts this. But employees almost never even attempt to organize …