Vol. 87:3
Categories: In Print, In Print - Table of Contents, Volume 87, Volume 87-3, Volumes | Posted: March 26, 2010
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Closing the Legislative Experience Gap: How A Legislative Clerk Program Will Benefit the Legal Profession and Congress
This fall, like every fall, is a time of keen competition among the nation’s best third-year law students and recent graduates, as they pursue prestigious legal apprenticeships as federal court law clerks, Executive Branch “Honors” program attorneys, law firm junior associates, and fellows and new faculty at law schools. This year’s round of musical chairs [...]
Pics, Grutter, and Elite Public Secondary Education: Using Race as a Means in Selective Admissions
Every year, Newsweek publishes a list of the top one hundred public high schools in the country that excludes many prestigious public schools. Instead, Newsweek places these schools on a separate list—“The Public Elites.” The reason for this distinction: “Because their students are too good. The best of the best.” These schools, [...]
Left Behind, and then Pushed Out: Charting a Jurisprudential Framework to Remedy Illegal Student Exclusions
As the United States embarks on its first year with an African American President, African American and Latino students in many of our major cities still have less than a sixty percent chance of graduating from high school. The “human cost” of these disparities on the nation as a whole and especially on these [...]
Property Frames
Property law confronts circumstances where owners’ excessive perceptions of their ownership rights impose social costs, frustrate policy goals, and hamper the very institutions meant to support private property. Groundbreaking research in cognitive framing suggests an answer to the question of how to selectively attenuate (or strengthen) ownership perceptions. In a novel application of this research, [...]
Theorizing the Charitable Tax Subsidies: The Role of Distributive Justice
Distributive justice plays a starring role in many fundamental tax policy debates, from the marginal rate structure to the choice of base to the propriety of wealth transfer taxes. In contrast, current tax scholarship on the charitable tax subsidies generally either ignores or explicitly disavows distributive justice concerns. Instead, it focuses on the efficiency and [...]
