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Full-Text Articles in Law
Recent Developments In Attorneys' Fees, W. Perry Brandt, Pendleton C. Waugh, Richard C. Stark Special Project Editor
Recent Developments In Attorneys' Fees, W. Perry Brandt, Pendleton C. Waugh, Richard C. Stark Special Project Editor
Vanderbilt Law Review
Special Project--
Recent Developments in Attorneys' Fees
In recent years, the subject of attorneys' fees has become the focal point of pressures to improve the accessibility of legal services for those unable to pay large fees. Courts, scholars, and special interest groups have examined in detail the relationship between fees and the ability to assert legal rights. This increased scrutiny has led to the elimination of minimum fee schedules, the criticism of and possible relaxation of restrictions on fee advertising, and the establishment of maximum contingent fee schedules by court rule. Private enforcement of newly enacted federal statutes against private …
Preferences In Public Employment, Robert Vaughn
Preferences In Public Employment, Robert Vaughn
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
INTRODUCTION: Open and competitive examination is generally perceived as the surest method of ensuring that public employees are selected on the basis of their merit and ability. Since the Pendleton Act of 1883, legislation has continually attempted to implement the view that efficient and impartial public sector employment requires that qualifications be demonstrated in an objective examination. But blacks, women and other minorities have been systematically excluded from public employment. This exclusion has resulted not only from bias in the examination, but also from other less visible aspects of the appointment process which supplant strict merit selection.
Book Review: Urban Homesteading, John E. Mogk
Book Review: Urban Homesteading, John E. Mogk
Law Faculty Research Publications
No abstract provided.
Protecting The Appalachian Trail In Maine, University Of Maine At Portland - Gorham
Protecting The Appalachian Trail In Maine, University Of Maine At Portland - Gorham
Maine Collection
Protecting the Appalachian Trail In Maine
A Handbook Compiled by the Allagash Environmental Institute, Center for Research & Advanced Study, University of Maine Portland - Gorham, 1976.
Directed & edited by Patricia Solotaire.
Contents: The Project Itself / The History of Trail Agreements in Maine / The Landowner's Duty to Hikers and Campers / History and Description of the Statutory Protection of the Appalachian Trail / An Overview of Tax Considerations / Land Protection Devices / Using the Information / Bibliography / Footnotes / Appendices
Book Review, Arthur R. Landever
Book Review, Arthur R. Landever
Cleveland State Law Review
This review discusses two texts by Roberto Mangabeira Unger - Knowledge and Politics and Law in Modern Society: Toward a Criticism of Social Theory. In first of these writings the author attacks classical liberalism. He believes that liberalism often contradicts itself and falsely categorizes the goals of individuals as being focused on independence from society. The second of these texts uses historical and global content in order to better understand modern social theory and the ties that keep society going.
Subdivision Exactions And Congestion Externalities (With Noel Edelson)
Subdivision Exactions And Congestion Externalities (With Noel Edelson)
Richard Adelstein
A model of congestion in housing and pricing policy to address it.
Preferences In Public Employment, Robert G. Vaughn
Preferences In Public Employment, Robert G. Vaughn
Robert G. Vaughn