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Fee-Shifting Statutes And Compensation For Risk, Maureen Carroll
Fee-Shifting Statutes And Compensation For Risk, Maureen Carroll
Indiana Law Journal
A law firm that enters into a contingency arrangement provides the client with more than just its attorneys’ labor. It also provides a form of financing, because the firm will be paid (if at all) only after the litigation ends; and insurance, because if the litigation results in a low recovery (or no recovery at all), the firm will absorb the direct and indirect costs of the litigation. Courts and markets routinely pay for these types of risk-bearing services through a range of mechanisms, including state feeshifting statutes, contingent percentage fees, common-fund awards, alternative fee arrangements, and third-party litigation funding. …
Designing The Legal Architecture To Protect Education As A Civil Right, Kimberly J. Robinson
Designing The Legal Architecture To Protect Education As A Civil Right, Kimberly J. Robinson
Indiana Law Journal
Although education has always existed at the epicenter of the battle for civil rights, federal and state law and policy fail to protect education as a civil right. This collective failure harms a wide array of our national interests, including our foundational interests in an educated democracy and a productive workforce. This Article proposes innovative reforms to both federal and state law and policy that would protect education as a civil right. It also explains why the U.S. approach to education federalism will require legal reforms by both levels of government to protect education as a civil right.
With All Deliberate Speed: Brown V. Board Of Education, Julian Bond
With All Deliberate Speed: Brown V. Board Of Education, Julian Bond
Indiana Law Journal
Julian Bond, former president of the NAACP and the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, delivered the Indiana University Maurer School of Law’s Harris Lecture on Oct. 15, 2014 in the school’s Moot Court Room. Bond’s presentation, “The Broken Promise of Brown,” was part of the school’s commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
The Impact Of The Obama Presidency On Civil Rights Enforcement In The United States, Joel Friedman
The Impact Of The Obama Presidency On Civil Rights Enforcement In The United States, Joel Friedman
Indiana Law Journal
Labor and Employment Law Under the Obama Administration: A Time for Hope and Change? Symposium held November 12-13, 2010, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana
Twins At Birth: Civil Rights And The Role Of The Solicitor General, Seth P. Waxman
Twins At Birth: Civil Rights And The Role Of The Solicitor General, Seth P. Waxman
Indiana Law Journal
This is the text of a lecture sponsored by the Indiana Supreme Court and delivered at the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington on February 3, 2000.
The Constitution And The Subgroup Question, Martha Minow
The Constitution And The Subgroup Question, Martha Minow
Indiana Law Journal
Presented on Nov. 18, 1994, Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington as the 1994 Harris Lecture.
The Violence Against Women Act: Civil Rights For Sexual Assault Victims, W. H. Hallock
The Violence Against Women Act: Civil Rights For Sexual Assault Victims, W. H. Hallock
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Civil Rights, The Constitution And The Courts, By Archibald Cox, Mark Dewolfe Howe, And J.R. Wiggins, Winton D. Woods
Civil Rights, The Constitution And The Courts, By Archibald Cox, Mark Dewolfe Howe, And J.R. Wiggins, Winton D. Woods
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Segregation In Transportation: Substantive And Remedial Problem
Segregation In Transportation: Substantive And Remedial Problem
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.