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Who Gets In? The Quest For Diversity After Grutter, Margaret E. Montoya, Athena Mutua, Sheldon Zedeck, Frank H. Wu, Charles E. Daye, David L. Chambers

Faculty Scholarship

Transcript of The 2004 James McCormick Mitchell Lecture. On March 8, 2004, the University at Buffalo Law School hosted its annual Mitchell Lecture,1 a panel discussion entitled, "Who Gets In? The Quest for Diversity After Grutter." The Mitchell Committee decided to focus this year's lecture on innovative proposals to ensure diversity in law school admissions in light of the Supreme Court's ruling in Grutter v. Bollinger, which confirmed that race and ethnicity could be taken into consideration in admission decisions for diversity purposes. Noting that much of the debate about Grutter thus far has emphasized the decision's constitutionality or its …

Rights In The Shadow Of Class: Poverty, Welfare, And The Law, Frank W. Munger

Articles & Chapters

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Beyond Welfare Reform: Can We Build A Local Welfare State, Frank Munger

Santa Clara Law Review

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2004-2005 Bgsu Catalog, Bowling Green State University

Course Catalogs

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Some Legacies Of Brown V. Board Of Education, Mark V. Tushnet

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The litigation campaign against segregation that culminated in Brown v. Board of Education' remains an important subject of study. Brown continues to be controversial because Americans remain uncertain about what its substantive commitments were, and, perhaps more important, how those commitments, as we now understand them, fit together with the other values and institutions that provide the structure of contemporary politics. This Essay will follow up on three aspects of the litigation campaign preceding Brown in an effort to show how Brown and its legacy illuminate enduring features of the organization of the U.S. political system.

The Human Right To Housing: Making The Case In U.S. Advocacy, Maria Foscarinis, Brad Paul, Bruce Porter, Andrew Scherer

Articles & Chapters

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Standardized Clients: A Possible Improvement For The Bar Exam, Lawrence M. Grosberg

Articles & Chapters

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Occupational Health And Safety Laws To Prevent Toxic Exposures : A Comparative Analysis Of Agriculture And Industry In Washington State, Megan K. Schuknecht

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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My Last Lecture: Unsolicited Advice For Future And Current Lawyers, Stephen D. Easton

South Carolina Law Review

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Popular Culture As A Lens On Legal Professionalism, Alexander W. Scherr, Hillary Brave Farber

South Carolina Law Review

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Protecting The Interests Of Older Clients In Multi-Generation Representations, Carolyn L. Dessin

Akron Law Faculty Publications

Estate planning is a field in which attorneys often represent members of the same family of different generations. This frequently leads to situations in which the family members have conflicting, or at least potentially conflicting, financial interests. Unfortunately, attorneys sometimes do not recognize the difficulties that such conflicting interests may cause until a full-blown fight develops between members of the family. At that point, the attorney may find himself open to a disciplinary complaint or a malpractice action, or, at the very least, a group of unhappy former clients.

Special concerns arise when one or more of the family members …

Religious Lawyering In A Liberal Democracy: A Challenge And An Invitation William A. Brahms Lecture On Law & Religion, Russell G. Pearce

Faculty Scholarship

At a time when many believe that law is no longer a noble profession, many lawyers see no reason to devote time and energy to promoting the public good. Religious lawyering may offer a powerful antidote: a robust framework for lawyers to integrate into their professional lives their most deeply rooted values, perspectives and critiques, and persuasive reasons to improve the quality of justice and work for the common good. At its best, religious lawyering echoes Martin Luther King's advice to the street sweeper. How wonderful it would be, indeed, if we practiced law so well that the host of …

"Tax Services" As A Trojan Horse In The Auditor Independence Provisions Of Sarbanes-Oxley, Matthew J. Barrett

Journal Articles

This article argues that the failure of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOx) to prohibit auditors for public companies from also providing tax services to audit clients or their executives and selling tax shelters to anyone remains a Trojan horse that threatens both the investing public and the auditing profession. Although SOx enacted several reforms designed to enhance auditor independence, the legislation and implementing regulations that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) subsequently promulgated allow an auditor for a publicly traded company to provide tax services to the company as long as the audit committee preapproves the engagement.

As the …

Legal Institutions And International Trade Flows, Daniel Berkowitz, Johannes Moenius, Katharina Pistor

Faculty Scholarship

Globalization and increasing international flows of goods and capital have created a sense that the importance of individual nation states and the public goods they provide, including law and law enforcement institutions, is in decline. Opting out of domestic legal institutions and into those of a third country or into an "international" architecture have been elevated to important complements, if not substitutes for "good" institutions at home. If traders and investors could indeed effectively opt-out of their home jurisdiction's legal systems, we should observe empirically that the quality of domestic institutions has little impact on international patterns of trade flows. …

Porterfield V. Mascari H, Inc.: "A Clear Mandate Of Public Policy" Remains Unclear In Maryland's Wrongful Discharge Jurisprudence, Benjamin S. Haley

Maryland Law Review

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Mississippi Class Actions And The Inevitability Of Mass Aggregate Litigation, Howard M. Erichson

Faculty Scholarship

It's not about whether there will be mass aggregate litigation, but how. As long as the economy features mass marketing, mass employment, mass entertainment, mass transportation, mass production of goods, and mass provision of services, disputes will arise in which a mass of claimants seek relief from a common defendant or set of defendants. Lawyers on both sides naturally handle such matters collectively rather than individually. With or without the judicial imprimatur of class certification, multi- claimant disputes routinely are litigated and resolved on a collective basis. The real question is not whether there will be mass litigation, but whether …

Sierra Club V. Meiburg: Out, Damned Pollutants - Out, We Say - What, Will Georgia's Water Ne'er Be Clean, Taylor L. Archambault

Villanova Environmental Law Journal (1991 - )

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"Bonded & Insured?": The Future Of Mandatory Insurance Coverage And Disclosure Rules For Kentucky Attorneys, Nicholas A. Marsh

Kentucky Law Journal

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Shout From Taller Rooftops: A Response To Deborah L. Rhode's Access To Justice Colloquium: Deborah L. Rhode's Access To Justice, Steven H. Hobbs

Articles

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William A. Brahms Lecture On Law & Religion: Religious Lawyering In A Liberal Democracy: A Challenge And An Invitation, Russell G. Pearce, Amelia J. Uelmen

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Afterword: Free The Fortune 500 - The Debate Over Corporate Speech And The First Amendment, Rodney A. Smolla

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Checklists And Illustrative Financial Statements For Health And Welfare Benefit Plans : A Financial Accounting And Reporting Practice Aid, July 2004 Edition, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Accounting And Auditing Publications, Linda Delahanty

Industry Guides (AAGs), Risk Alerts, and Checklists

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Independence And Ethics Alert - 2004/05; Audit Risk Alerts, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Industry Guides (AAGs), Risk Alerts, and Checklists

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Aicpa Professional Standards: Code Of Professional Conduct And Bylaws As Of June 1, 2004, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

AICPA Professional Standards

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Introduction: The New Economy And The Unraveling Social Safety Net, Elizabeth M. Schneider

Faculty Scholarship

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Extensible Markup Language (Xml) For Competitive Advantage, William P. Wagner, Ralph Hilken, Q B. Chung

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

eXtensible Markup Language (XML) has received much attention in the popular press lately as a new technology designed to facilitate information sharing among business entities. One of the biggest problems that companies are experiencing today with XML is that many executives do not understand what XML is and why it is important, nor do they understand what its potential impact on their information strategy might be. In this paper, we present an overview of XML and a framework for generating IS strategic alternatives, which was introduced in its original form in the 1980s. This framework is adapted to suit the …

Robert James Simms: Standard Bearer For Family And Fairness (1947-2004), Morison Buck

Morison Buck Biographies of Hillsborough County Judges

A biography of Judge Robert Simms who served on Florida's Thirteenth Circuit.

Free To Fortune 500! The Debate Over Corporate Speech And The First Amendment, Rodney A. Smolla

Law Faculty Publications

While the Supreme Court shirked the merits of the corporate free speech debate in Nike v. Kasky with the cryptic dispatch that the petition for a writ of certiorari was "improvidently granted," the decision of those who organized this Symposium to proceed with scholarly commentary on the case was not improvidently made. One will find no shirkers here. ...

A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose - Or Is It - Fiduciary And Dtpa Claims Against Attorneys Third Annual Symposium On Legal Malpractice & (And) Professional Responsibility., James M. Parker Jr., Thomas H. Watkins, Rachel L. Noffke

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.

Delivery Of Legal Services To Children In The Boston Area, Tamar Ezer

Articles

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