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Overcoming Resistance To Diversity In The Executive Suite: Grease, Grit, And The Corporate Promotion Tournament, Donald C. Langevoort Sep 2004

Overcoming Resistance To Diversity In The Executive Suite: Grease, Grit, And The Corporate Promotion Tournament, Donald C. Langevoort

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Making Gay Straight Alliance Student Groups Curriculum-Related: A New Tactic For Schools Trying To Avoid The Equal Access Act, Brian Berkley Sep 2004

Making Gay Straight Alliance Student Groups Curriculum-Related: A New Tactic For Schools Trying To Avoid The Equal Access Act, Brian Berkley

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Pensions, Risk, And Race, Dorothy A. Brown Sep 2004

Pensions, Risk, And Race, Dorothy A. Brown

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Race Matters In Bankruptcy, A. Mechele Dickerson Sep 2004

Race Matters In Bankruptcy, A. Mechele Dickerson

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Fighting Racism In The Twenty-First Century, Dorothy A. Brown Sep 2004

Fighting Racism In The Twenty-First Century, Dorothy A. Brown

Washington and Lee Law Review

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"We Are An Equal Opportunity Employer": Diversity Doublespeak, Cheryl L. Wade Sep 2004

"We Are An Equal Opportunity Employer": Diversity Doublespeak, Cheryl L. Wade

Washington and Lee Law Review

There are too few discussions about race and race relations among corporate managers and directors. The rhetoric used in these infrequent discussions revolves around the idea of diversity in the workplace. In recent years, when speaking about employees and race issues, corporate actors have become curiously silent about discrimination and racism. This Article provides several examples of the rhetorical devices used by corporate spokespersons that ignore persisting problems with discrimination and racism by focusing solely on diversity efforts. Diversity rhetoric allows corporate managers to avoid responsibility for enduring discrimination in the workplace. Diversity efforts, without antidiscrimination efforts, increase the likelihood …


Games Ceos Play And Interest Convergence Theory: Why Diversity Lags In America's Boardrooms And What To Do About It, Steven A. Ramirez Sep 2004

Games Ceos Play And Interest Convergence Theory: Why Diversity Lags In America's Boardrooms And What To Do About It, Steven A. Ramirez

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Race To The Top Of The Corporate Ladder: What Minorities Do When They Get There, Devon W. Carbado, Mitu Gulati Sep 2004

Race To The Top Of The Corporate Ladder: What Minorities Do When They Get There, Devon W. Carbado, Mitu Gulati

Washington and Lee Law Review

Racing to the top of the corporate hierarchy is difficult, no matter how qualified or capable the candidate. Producing more widgets than one's competitors is not enough. Negotiating the political landscape of the institution is also required. More specifically, individual corporate officers have to be appeased, powerful interest groups have to be co-opted and made allies, and competitors have to be undermined or eliminated. The more bureaucratic the organization and the more opaque the promotion process, the more important this institutional game to climbing the corporate ladder. This Article identifies the kind of racial minorities or racial types who are …


Racial Dimensions Of Credit And Bankruptcy, David A. Skeel, Jr. Sep 2004

Racial Dimensions Of Credit And Bankruptcy, David A. Skeel, Jr.

Washington and Lee Law Review

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The Economics Of Race: When Making It To The Middle Is Not Enough, Elizabeth Warren Sep 2004

The Economics Of Race: When Making It To The Middle Is Not Enough, Elizabeth Warren

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Archer V. Warner: Circuit Split Resolution Or Contractual Quagmire?, Jennifer R. Belcher Sep 2004

Archer V. Warner: Circuit Split Resolution Or Contractual Quagmire?, Jennifer R. Belcher

Washington and Lee Law Review

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A Model Definition Of The Practice Of Law: If Not Now, When? An Alternative Approach To Defining The Practice Of Law, Soha F. Turfler Sep 2004

A Model Definition Of The Practice Of Law: If Not Now, When? An Alternative Approach To Defining The Practice Of Law, Soha F. Turfler

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Double Jeopardy And Capital Sentencing: Preserving The Implied Acquittal Of Death In The Wake Of Sattazahn V. Pennsylvania, Leslie Evans Wood Sep 2004

Double Jeopardy And Capital Sentencing: Preserving The Implied Acquittal Of Death In The Wake Of Sattazahn V. Pennsylvania, Leslie Evans Wood

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Tax, Corporate Governance, And Norms, Steven A. Bank Jun 2004

Tax, Corporate Governance, And Norms, Steven A. Bank

Washington and Lee Law Review

This Article examines the use of federal tax provisions to effect changes in state law corporate governance. There is a growing academic controversy over these provisions, fueled in part by their popularity among legislators as a method of addressing the recent spate of corporate scandals. As a case study on the use of tax to regulate corporate governance, this paper compares and contrasts two measures enacted during the New Deal-the enactment of the undistributed profits tax in 1936 and the overhaul of the tax-free reorganization provisions in 1934-and considers why the former was so much more controversial and less sustainable …


Shakin' It To The Back Of The Bus: How Parks V. Laface Uses The Artistic Relevance Test To Adjudicate Artistic Content, Mitchell David Greggs Jun 2004

Shakin' It To The Back Of The Bus: How Parks V. Laface Uses The Artistic Relevance Test To Adjudicate Artistic Content, Mitchell David Greggs

Washington and Lee Law Review

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A Normative Theory Of Bankruptcy Law: Bankruptcy As (Is) Civil Procedure, Charles W. Mooney, Jr. Jun 2004

A Normative Theory Of Bankruptcy Law: Bankruptcy As (Is) Civil Procedure, Charles W. Mooney, Jr.

Washington and Lee Law Review

This paper develops a normative theory of bankruptcy law called "procedure theory." The core of procedure theory is that bankruptcy law exists in order to maximize the recoveries for holders of legal entitlements ("rightsholders") in respect of a financially distressed debtor. Bankruptcy law in the United States is a branch of civil procedure and the jurisdiction of federal courts. Procedure theory holds that it generally is wrong in bankruptcy to redistribute a debtor's wealth away from its rightsholders to benefit third-party interests, such as at-will employees and the general community. It also generally is wrong to rearrange priorities in bankruptcy …


From The Xyz Affair To The War On Terror: The Justiciability Of Time Of War, John M. Hagan Jun 2004

From The Xyz Affair To The War On Terror: The Justiciability Of Time Of War, John M. Hagan

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Deregulating Telecommunications In Internet Time, James B. Speta Jun 2004

Deregulating Telecommunications In Internet Time, James B. Speta

Washington and Lee Law Review

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 has yielded more litigation and less local competition than its supporters expected or intended. Calls for its reform are multiplying. In this Article, Professor Septa diagnoses the 1996 Act's failings and prescribes a framework for reform. The successful deregulations of the transportation industries and of long-distance telecommunications (precedents the 1996 Act sought to follow) demonstrate that the Act should have taken additional steps to promote intermodal telecommunications competition. Transportation deregulation successfully prompted competition where (as in the case of airlines and trucking) multiple firms could compete on an intramodal basis or where (as in the …


No Penalty On The Play: Why The Bowl Championship Series Stays In-Bounds Of The Sherman Act, M. Todd Carroll Jun 2004

No Penalty On The Play: Why The Bowl Championship Series Stays In-Bounds Of The Sherman Act, M. Todd Carroll

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Red Flagging Civil Liberties And Due Process Rights Of Airline Passengers: Will A Redesigned Capps Ii System Meet The Constitutional Challenge?, Leigh A. Kite Jun 2004

Red Flagging Civil Liberties And Due Process Rights Of Airline Passengers: Will A Redesigned Capps Ii System Meet The Constitutional Challenge?, Leigh A. Kite

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Faith And Federalism: Do Charitable Choice Provisions Preempt State Nondiscrimination Employment Law?, Melissa Mcclellan Jun 2004

Faith And Federalism: Do Charitable Choice Provisions Preempt State Nondiscrimination Employment Law?, Melissa Mcclellan

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Focusing On Children: Providing Counsel To Children In Expedited Proceedings To Terminate Parental Rights, Bridget A. Blinn Mar 2004

Focusing On Children: Providing Counsel To Children In Expedited Proceedings To Terminate Parental Rights, Bridget A. Blinn

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Drafting Of A Constitution For The European Union: Europe's Madisonian Moment Or A Moment Of Madness?, Grainne De Burca Mar 2004

The Drafting Of A Constitution For The European Union: Europe's Madisonian Moment Or A Moment Of Madness?, Grainne De Burca

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Viewpoint Discrimination By Public Universities: Student Religious Organizations And Violations Of University Nondiscrimination Policie, Mark Andrew Snider Mar 2004

Viewpoint Discrimination By Public Universities: Student Religious Organizations And Violations Of University Nondiscrimination Policie, Mark Andrew Snider

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Lords Of Democracy: The Judicialization Of "Pure Politics" In The United States And Germany, Russell A. Miller Mar 2004

Lords Of Democracy: The Judicialization Of "Pure Politics" In The United States And Germany, Russell A. Miller

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Restraint And Responsibility: Judicial Review Of Campaign Reform, Spencer Overton Mar 2004

Restraint And Responsibility: Judicial Review Of Campaign Reform, Spencer Overton

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Character Of Legal Reasoning, Brett G. Scharffs Mar 2004

The Character Of Legal Reasoning, Brett G. Scharffs

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Applications For Benefits: Due Process, Equal Protection, And The Right To Be Free From Arbitrary Procedures, Virginia T. Vance Mar 2004

Applications For Benefits: Due Process, Equal Protection, And The Right To Be Free From Arbitrary Procedures, Virginia T. Vance

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Evidence-Based Medicine In The Law Beyond Clinical Practice Guidelines: What Effect Will Ebm Have On The Standard Of Care?, Carter L. Williams Jan 2004

Evidence-Based Medicine In The Law Beyond Clinical Practice Guidelines: What Effect Will Ebm Have On The Standard Of Care?, Carter L. Williams

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Consolidating The Diffuse Paths To Trade Dress Functionality: Encountering Traffix On The Way To Sears, Margreth Barrett Jan 2004

Consolidating The Diffuse Paths To Trade Dress Functionality: Encountering Traffix On The Way To Sears, Margreth Barrett

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.