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Discrimination By Comparison, Suzanne B. Goldberg
Discrimination By Comparison, Suzanne B. Goldberg
Faculty Scholarship
Contemporary discrimination law is in crisis, both methodologically and conceptually. The crisis arises in large part from the judiciary's dependence on comparators – those who are like a discrimination claimant but for the protected characteristic – as a favored heuristic for observing discrimination. The profound mismatch of the comparator methodology with current understandings of identity discrimination and the realities of the modern workplace has nearly depleted discrimination jurisprudence and theory. Even in run-of-the-mill cases, comparators often cannot be found, particularly in today's mobile, knowledge-based economy. This difficulty is amplified for complex claims, which rest on thicker understandings of discrimination developed …
Justice Stevens And The Obligations Of Judgment, David Pozen
Justice Stevens And The Obligations Of Judgment, David Pozen
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How to sum up a corpus of opinions that spans dozens of legal fields and four decades on the bench? How to make the most sense of a jurisprudence that has always been resistant to classification, by a jurist widely believed to have "no discernible judicial philosophy"? These questions have stirred Justice Stevens' former clerks in recent months. Since his retirement, many of us have been trying to capture in some meaningful if partial way what we found vital and praiseworthy in his approach to the law. There may be something paradoxical about the attempt to encapsulate in a formula …
Impartial Patents, Clarisa Long
Impartial Patents, Clarisa Long
Faculty Scholarship
Over the past decade or more, a rising sense of dissatisfaction with patent law has begun to creep across the patent community. A number of factors no doubt have contributed to this sense of dissatisfaction, among them the perception that patents are too often being enforced by “trolls” (if you don’t like them) or “nonpracticing entities” (if you want to remain neutral). Professor Parchomovsky and Mr. Mattioli propose a solution in which they create two new forms of patent protection that they call “quasi-patents” and “semi-patents” – or generically, “partial patents.” Partial patents are designed to be cheaper to obtain …