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Signaling Through Board Diversity: Is Anyone Listening?, Kimberly D. Krawiec, Lissa Lamkin Broome Jan 2008

Signaling Through Board Diversity: Is Anyone Listening?, Kimberly D. Krawiec, Lissa Lamkin Broome

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The ethnic and gender make-up of corporate boards has been the subject of intense public and regulatory focus in many countries, including the United States, in recent years. Of particular interest has been quantitative research on the impact, if any, of board diversity on corporate performance. This body of work leaves substantial gaps in our understanding of the precise mechanisms by which board diversity may alter the corporate environment, if indeed it does. In this Symposium, we discuss some preliminary findings from our first thirty-five of a series of confidential, semi-structured interviews of 45 to 90 minutes in length with …


A Conversation Among Deans, Katharine T. Bartlett, Edward Rubin, W. H. Knight Jan 2006

A Conversation Among Deans, Katharine T. Bartlett, Edward Rubin, W. H. Knight

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On March 10, 2006, the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, and Harvard Law Review co-sponsored a conference, "Results: Legal Education, Institutional Change, and a Decade of Gender Studies," to address the number of student experience studies that detail women's lower performance in and dissatisfaction with law school. Rather than advocate for a particular set of responses to the different experiences of men and women in legal education , this conference sought to foster a discussion about the institutional challenges these patterns highlight. As a means of accomplishing this end, law school deans from …


Book Review, Catherine Fisk Jan 2003

Book Review, Catherine Fisk

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Reviewing Alice Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America (2001)


Comparing Race And Sex Discrimination In Custody Cases, Katharine T. Bartlett Jan 2000

Comparing Race And Sex Discrimination In Custody Cases, Katharine T. Bartlett

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Criminal Abortion Revisited, Samuel W. Buell Jan 1991

Criminal Abortion Revisited, Samuel W. Buell

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This note focuses on the issue of the state's application of the criminal law as a sanction against women who choose to have abortions. History reveals that pre-Roe criminal-abortion law-both by its terms and in its application-expressed an incoherent attitude toward the culpability of these women. While criminal-abortion laws treated the abortionist as a serious felon, sending him to prison for up to twenty years,' the same statutes either did not cover the woman seeking an abortion, or, if the statutes did deem her a criminal, prosecutors and courts refused or neglected to hold her liable criminally. The law instead …


Equality For Individuals Or Equality For Groups: Implications Of The Supreme Court Decision In The Manhart Case, William W. Van Alstyne Jan 1978

Equality For Individuals Or Equality For Groups: Implications Of The Supreme Court Decision In The Manhart Case, William W. Van Alstyne

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This commentary breaks down the case of the City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power v. Manhart and discusses what effects the Supreme Court's decision will have when Title VII is applied to university employers, particularly in their relationship with TIAA-CREF