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Asylum In A Different Voice: Judging Immigration Claims And Gender, Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Asylum In A Different Voice: Judging Immigration Claims And Gender, Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
An extensive statistical study of disparities in asylum adjudication throughout the United States reveals gross disparities in rates of asylum grants by region of country, experience of adjudicators, prior employment, and other factors. One of the most robust findings was one of gender disparities in adjudication rates. If the adjudicator of claims for asylum was female there was a 44% greater likelihood that asylum would be granted. This chapter in the book reporting these findings reflects on this significant finding of gender differences in judging and discusses, in light of the author's prior work on gender differences in lawyering, whether …
The Emergent Logic Of Health Law, Maxwell Gregg Bloche
The Emergent Logic Of Health Law, Maxwell Gregg Bloche
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The American health care system is on a glide path toward ruin. Health spending has become the fiscal equivalent of global warming, and the number of uninsured Americans is approaching fifty million. Can law help to divert our country from this path? There are reasons for deep skepticism. Law governs the provision and financing of medical care in fragmented and incoherent fashion. Commentators from diverse perspectives bemoan this chaos, casting it as an obstacle to change. I contend in this Article that pessimism about health law’s prospects is unjustified, but that a new understanding of health law’s disarray is urgently …