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Monthly Archives: June 2010
The Boundaries of Business Law
Written by Katie Porter I teach business law. Or at least **I** think I teach business law. But to my surprise, some people do not think my courses and scholarship fit into “business law.” What are the boundaries of business … Continue reading
Some Musings on the Market for Votes
Written by Lisa R. Pruitt I’ve thought about vote buying a lot over the course of my life. I’m not talking about how corporations and other affluent actors donate money to campaigns in hopes of swaying legislators’ votes, or even … Continue reading
Taking Rural People Seriously. Not.
Written by Lisa R. Pruitt I started writing about rural people and places in relation to the law a few years ago, motivated in part by their near total absence from legal scholarship. I grew up in a very rural corner … Continue reading
Posted in Social Justice, Unspecified
Tagged agriculture, gender, poverty, rural and urban, work-life balance
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Lawyers v. Bankers: The New CFPA
Written by Katie Porter At a recent FDIC Conference exploring the idea of “Safe Financial Products,” I was struck by the hostility of the representatives of the banking industry to “more law.” I don’t expect businesses to volunteer to take on … Continue reading
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Contesting the Very Meaning of (Small-Town, Agrarian) America(n)
Written by Lisa R. Pruitt Anyone who is following the debate about immigration and its reform in the United States is familiar with rhetoric disputing what America’s core values are as a means of supporting the competing visions for who … Continue reading
What do MMS and MSHA have in common?
Written by Lisa R. Pruitt In addition to being acronyms most of us had never heard before two different disasters brought them to our attention in April, the Minerals Management Service (MMS) and the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) … Continue reading
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Tagged administrative law, environment, regulatory capture, workplace safety
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Questions for Elena Kagan on “Private” Law
Written by Katie Porter Legal scholars have queued up several lists of good questions for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. Most have focused on her views on “hot” topics, such as national security, racial diversity, how she might be influenced … Continue reading
Optimistic Outcomes of Lawyers
Written by Katie Porter Elizabeth Loftus (UC-Irvine Law) has co-authored a new paper on lawyers’ abiliy to predict outcomes in litigation. She and her colleagues surveyed about 500 lawyers with pending litigation, asking them to specify a minimum goal for their case … Continue reading
Posted in Pedagogy
Tagged Elizabeth Loftus, lawyers' ability to predict case outcomes
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Free Enterprise
Written by Angela Harris When I was in college, there was a button that some of us took to wearing. It was green (I seem to remember) and the message it bore was “59¢.” It recorded the fact that, on … Continue reading
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& the Money on My Mind
Written by Tucker Culbertson What specific understandings of — and interventions against — forms of subordination inherent to liberal capitalism must be integrated into, or considered along with, work on structural racism? * * * These are further thoughts on … Continue reading
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