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Echoes Of The Sumptuary Impulse: Considering The Threads Of Social Identity, Economic Protectionism, And Public Morality In The Proposed Design Piracy Prohibition Act, Lucille M. Ponte

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

Traditional sumptuary laws, especially those government efforts aimed at regulating public attire, are often considered to be largely dusty relics of pre-industrial societies. Yet cultural legal theorists have long argued that sumptuary codes are still relevant and inextricably linked to the development of our contemporary socio-legal hierarchy. A better understanding of the primary objectives embodied in earlier sumptuary codes can shed important historical light and guidance on issues being discussed in current policy-making arenas, such as the proposed Design Piracy Prohibition Act (DPPA). The proposed law has yielded lively debates amongst legal commentators and industry professionals regarding whether or not …

The Inheritance Of Economic Status - By John A. Brittain, Michael R. Olneck

Vanderbilt Law Review

The Inheritance of Economic Status - by John A. Brittain

In the- mid-1960's and in the early 1970's, research results appeared that challenged conventional liberal beliefs about the causes and consequences of poverty. In 1966 the federal government published Equality of Educational Opportunity, a report prepared by James Coleman and his associates.' The data used in the report contained the startling result that, with some exceptions, within regions, the provision of educational resources was substantially uniform across racial and socioeconomic groups. Moreover, the data showed that what measurable differences existed between the schools attended by disadvantaged and advantaged students did …

The Organized Bar--Yellow Brick Road To Legal Services For The Poor, Lawrence L. Thompson

Vanderbilt Law Review

The experience of GILS-GLSP demonstrates that the extensive investment of time necessary to involve the organized bar in the legal services effort can make a vital contribution to the development of a stable, professional, statewide, legal services program. Bar support eases access to the political process, improves community relations, and facilitates program funding. Furthermore, bar support helps reduce the political strife that has heretofore plagued legal services programs. The rewards of such an approach can be great. Adequate funding obtained with active bar support has enabled GILS-GLSP to provide increasingly comprehensive legal services to indigent clients. From a modest budget …

Book Notes, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

CONGRESS AND THE PUBLIC TRUST Report of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York Special Committee on Congressional Ethics New York: Atheneum, 1970. Pp. xxvii, 351. $8.95.

How TO TALK BACK TO YOUR TELEVISION SET By Nicholas Johnson Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1970. Pp. ix, 228. $5.75.

THE QUALITY OF THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT Edited by Harvey S.Perloff Washington: Resources for the Future, Inc., 1969. Pp. xiii, 332.$6.50.

WELFARE MEDICAL CARE: AN EXPERIMENT By Charles H. Goodrich, Margaret C. Olendzki, and George G. Reader Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. Pp. viii, 343. $7.00.