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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Edited by John Kang and Tracy A. Thomas.
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/gender_law/
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Sep 25
Rethinking the Legislative History of Title VII and Sex Discrimination
Rethinking the Legislative History of Title VII and Sex DiscriminationArianne Renan Barzilay, Parenting Title VII: Rethinking the History of the Sex Discrimination Prohibition, 28 Yale J.L. & Feminism 55 (2016) It is a pillar of employment discrimination law that Title VII’s prohibition of “sex”… -
Sep 22
Dept Ed Rescinds Obama Title IX Procedures for Campus Sexual Assault
Dept Ed Rescinds Obama Title IX Procedures for Campus Sexual AssaultToday the Dept of Education rescinded the prior Title IX "Dear Colleague Letter" on handling claims of campus assault and issued its own letter. 2017 Dear Colleague Letter (Sept. 22, 2017) The purpose of this letter is to inform… -
Sep 22
New Book Podcast on Gender, Criminal Justice, and Jim Crow
New Book Podcast on Gender, Criminal Justice, and Jim CrowSarah Haley, "No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity" Recent popular and scholarly interest has highlighted the complex and brutal system of mass incarceration in the United States. Much of this…
Rank this Week: 430
Business Law Prof Blog
Business Law Prof Blog
Edited by C. Steven Bradford, Joshua P. Fershee, J. Haskell Murray, Marcia L. Narine, Stefan J. Padfield and Anne Tucker.
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/business_law/
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Sep 24
ICYMI: #corpgov Weekend Roundup (September 24, 2017)
ICYMI: #corpgov Weekend Roundup (September 24, 2017)10/12 SEC Investor Advisory Committee agenda includes blockchain technology & Law School Clinic Advocacy https://t.co/6qI2SoHAqn #corpgov— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) September 22, 2017 "50% and 70% of U.S. household wealth is… -
Sep 23
A New Front in the Race to the Bottom
A New Front in the Race to the BottomStates frequently compete with each other to attract businesses. They’ll offer tax credits, subsidies, and regulatory waivers to persuade corporations to set up shop locally. (Right now, Amazon is asking cities to compete to host its second… -
Sep 22
Students and Wellne
Students and WellneBelow are a few wellness tips, with a focus on student life. I didn’t do all, or even many, of these things consistently well when I was in school, but I was better off when I did, and I paid...
Rank this Week: 562
Health Law Prof Blog
Health Law Prof Blog
Edited by Katharine Van Tassel, Jennifer S. Bard, Leslie Francis, Nicole Huberfeld, Mary Munson, David Orentlicher, Frank Pasquale, Nicolas P. Terry and Vickie Williams.
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/healthlawprof_blog/
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Nov 13
KY Governor-Elect Bevin and Health Care Federalism Post-ACA
KY Governor-Elect Bevin and Health Care Federalism Post-ACAMatt Bevin will soon become Kentucky's Republican Governor, which has created consternation regarding his plans for discontinuing Kentucky's successful implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). While on the campaign trail,… -
Oct 30
News from the AALS Section on Law, Medicine and Health Care
News from the AALS Section on Law, Medicine and Health CareThe AALS Section on Law, Medicine & Health Care has issued a call for nominations for section officers. The Section would like to encourage anyone who is a faculty member at an AALS member school to apply. The Section is... -
Aug 15
A Very Special 'The Week in Health Law' Podcast
A Very Special 'The Week in Health Law' PodcastBy Nicolas Terry TWIHL presents its first Back to School Special. We asked some wonderful health lawyers what were the compelling additions to this Fall’s health law curriculum. The answers are diverse and fascinating. To hear their…
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Written Description
Written Description
By Lisa Ouellette, Camilla Hrdy, and Michael Risch. Reviews recent news and scholarship on patent law, intellectual property theory, and innovation.
http://writtendescription.blogspot.com/
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Sep 25
What can we learn from variation in patent examiner leniency?
What can we learn from variation in patent examiner leniency?Studying the effect of granting vs. rejecting a given patent application can reveal little about the ex ante patent incentive (since ex ante decisions were already made), but it can say a lot about the ex post effect of patents on things like… -
Sep 18
Tattoos, Architecture, and Copyright
Tattoos, Architecture, and CopyrightIn my IP seminar, I ask students to pick an article to present in class for a critical style and substance review. This year, one of my students picked an article about copyright and tattoos, a very live issue. The article was decent enough,… -
Sep 18
Barton Beebe: Bleistein and the Problem of Aesthetic Progress in American Copyright Law
Barton Beebe: Bleistein and the Problem of Aesthetic Progress in American Copyright LawBleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., is a well-known early twentieth century copyright decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. In his opinion for the majority, Justice Holmes is taken to have articulated two central propositions…
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