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150th Anniversary Gala Dean Address
Get PDFOne hundred fifty years ago tomorrow, eighteen professors and approximately sixty students held the first day of classes at what was then called Boston School of Law. It was 1872. The Civil War had ended less than a decade before. The telephone had not been invented yet. It was a remarkably different time in our nation’s history.
Our law school’s rather humble beginnings did not portend the impressive legacy that it would build over the next 150 years. At the time, the school consisted of only one small lecture hall and an adjacent room for the dean—tight quarters for a burgeoning law school with big ambitions
The New Over-the-Counter Oral Contraceptive Pill—Assessing Financial Barriers to Access
Get PDFIn July 2023, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Opill (norgestrel), the first over-the-counter (OTC) daily oral contraceptive pill in the United States, a move that could dramatically improve practical access to family planning. Opill’s price, however, hasn’t been made public and may not be revealed until the drug enters the market in early 2024. Although contraceptive pills generally cost between 50 per month without insurance, there’s no indication that Opill’s price will fall within this range. In addition, although the manufacturer (Perrigo) has expressed interest in a consumer-assistance program, it hasn’t released details regarding eligibility for such a program
How Discriminatory Censorship Laws Imperil Public Education
Get PDF“Discriminatory censorship laws” regulate classroom conversations about racism, gender identity, and other topics targeted in the backlash against efforts toward inclusive classrooms and curricula. This policy brief examines the proliferation of these laws and their impact on K-12 schools, including the creation of hostile learning environments that expose students and educators to a heightened threat of race- and sex-based harassment and to formal sanctions and social ostracization. The laws also foster a climate of fear and anxiety among educators, effectively coercing them to shun critical inquiry and thought on targeted topics and more generally. The result is a curriculum that subtracts comprehensive, culturally attentive content and adds whitewashed and heteronormative narratives of American history and culture. The brief highlights the need for laws, policies, and practices that promote inclusive learning environments that encourage critical thinking, and offers recommendations to constructively counter discriminatory censorship
Rules and Laws for Civil Actions 2023
Get PDFRules and Laws for Civil Actions is an open-access resource for law students containing the U.S. Constitution, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, and selected federal and state statutes. The book was created by a team of faculty members at the University of Iowa College of Law to supplement the study of Civil Procedure, Evidence, Constitutional Law, and other law school courses. In addition to containing the official text, each legal source found in Rules and Laws for Civil Actions is accompanied by an introductory section written by an Iowa Law professor explaining its significance and background. Students are able to access the online and digital versions of the resource free of charge. Additional digital copies in a variety of formats are available for at https://pressbooks.uiowa.edu/civil-procedure-rules/.Note that this digital file matches with the pagination of the hardcover edition of Rules and Laws for Civil Actions. The pagination of the hardcover and paperback editions is different due to differences in formatting.https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/books/1356/thumbnail.jp
Chapter 11: Revisiting Stanley Milgram\u27s Obedience to Authority: An engaged followership perspective on legal ethics
No full textFamed psychologist Stanley Milgram’s obedience studies, as documented in his classic book on the subject, Obedience to Authority, have been highly influential in the field of legal ethics, with a wide body of scholarship exploring and applying his work to various practice settings. A central theme of this scholarship is that Milgram’s findings are a testament to the situationist perspective in social psychology, which posits that even small changes in circumstances can have an outsized effect on behavior, including how people resolve ethical dilemmas. The result for many legal ethics scholars has been to focus on the situational variables that Milgram studied to determine how changes in context can influence obedience to authority in legal work settings.
This chapter adds a different perspective by considering an approach developed by a team of psychologists over the last decade that reinterprets Milgram’s work. Drawing on reanalysis of Milgram’s own data and original research, this approach, which has been dubbed the ‘engaged followership’ model, does not deny that situational variables influence how people respond to authority. Rather, it argues that these variables are part of a larger picture in which the social identity of participants plays a central role. Given the importance that social identity can play in legal work environments, this reassessment of Milgram’s work adds a valuable new perspective on how Milgram’s studies should be considered in the field of legal ethics
Second Chances Part I - Federal Employment for Workers with Past Arrests or Convictions
No full textIn June 2021, President Biden signed Executive Order 14035 to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the Federal workforce. This order called for an evaluation and expansion of Federal employment opportunities for formerly incarcerated persons.
Before this executive order, in fiscal year (FY) 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) formed a task force to identify vulnerable workers and determine ways to better serve them. The EEOC identified formerly incarcerated persons as one category of vulnerable workers due to the challenges they face in securing employment after their incarceration. In the FY 2017-2021 Strategic Enforcement Plan, the EEOC identified the use of background checks related to arrest and conviction records as among its national substantive area priorities because African Americans and Latinos are disproportionately incarcerated.
This report comes from the EEOC’s Reports and Evaluations Division at the Office of Federal Operations (OFO). It asks two related questions:
1) How likely are people with prior arrests or convictions to work in the Federal sector?
2) Could regulating the timing of background checks during the recruitment process (e.g., ban-the-box policies) protect those applicants with a prior arrest or conviction from discrimination
Ambivalent Advocates: Why Elite Universities Compromised the Case for Affirmative Action
Get PDF“The end of affirmative action.” The headline is near. When it arrives, scholars will explain that a controversial set of policies could not withstand unfriendly doctrine and less friendly Justices. This story is not wrong. But it is incomplete. Critically, this account masks an underappreciated source of affirmative action’s enduring instability: elite universities, affirmative action’s formal champions, have always been ambivalent advocates./= / \u3e/= / \u3eElite universities are uniquely positioned to shape legal and lay opinions about affirmative action. They are formal defendants in affirmative action litigation and objects of public obsession. And yet, schools like Harvard and the University of North Carolina—embroiled in litigation now before the Supreme Court—avoid the facts and theories that would buttress their own race-conscious programs against predictable lines of attack. As a result, affirmative action’s formal advocates enable the case against affirmative action./= / \u3e/= / \u3eIn this Article, I explore the source of this ambivalence. Specifically, I examine how common institutional dynamics disincentivize elite universities from marshaling the most compelling case for their own policies, thereby compromising the case for affirmative action in the court of law and the court of public opinion. The consequences transcend legal skirmishes over race-conscious admissions. For decades, affirmative action debates have stood in for more fundamental fights over what, if anything, is necessary to overcome America’s legacy of legalized white supremacy. Accordingly, when university defendants understate the case for affirmative action, they do more than compromise their own modest interventions. They also enable a resurgent right-wing campaign to discredit antiracism as the new racism, and antiracists as the new racists
Chapter 8: What is the purpose of securities regulation?
Get PDFThe necessity and effectiveness of mandatory disclosure, and the ongoing contestbetween public and private means of enforcing such disclosure, is helpful to bear inmind when analysing the many purported purposes of securities regulation. While allagree that such regulation creates a system of mandatory disclosure, the purpose andgoals of such disclosure remain disputed