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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Orlando Patterson: Race and Diversity in the Age of Obama
Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson had a nice piece in the N.Y. Times on Friday condsidering the differential assimilation of immigrants, many of whom arre Latinos, and African Americans. KJ
Legal Profession Blog
Sotomayor’s High Road, Writes Kelly Anders
[Our occasional guest-poster Kelly Lynn Anders, associate dean for students at Washburn Law and author of The Organized Lawyer, wrote a version of this op-ed for the Missouri Lawyers Media…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
A companion piece to the story below – what will the faculty of the future look like?
By legalwriting
Here's an excerpt from the Chronicle of Higher Ed story:The faculty workplace has changed significantly in the last 20 years: More women, minority professors, and adjuncts have joined the professoriate.…
Land Use Prof Blog
“Hometown week” … and the tentative success of diversity ….
I’m spending July in my old hometown of Silver Spring, Md., which in my humble opinion is a rich locale for examining topics of land use law. Accordingly, I introduce…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Live From…The ABA Presidential Summit on Diversity, Day 2 Recap
While I'm tempted to write on my airplane flight adventures on the way home from the ABA Presidential Summit on Diversity (they involved a "ground hold" and a Congressional member…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Live from…the ABA Presidential Summit on Diversity: The Next Steps
I'll be attending the ABA Presidential Summit on Diversity the next two days in Washington, DC and using Twitter to report on the highlights. It's an important topic for…
The Legal Watercooler
Law Firm’s Diversity Initiative = Discriminatory Policies??
Having been around legal marketing for more than a decade now, I have watched how our firms have tackled diversity and women’s initiatives. The Association of Corporate Counsel is highly…
Corporate Governance and Compliance
Back Door To ??????
Last week the American Lawyer reported the results of its first "Women in Law" survey. Despite the occasional standout firm, women still account for approximately 1 in 5 big firm…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Obama Picks Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court
NY Times: Obama Selects Sotomayor for Court, by Peter Baker & Jeff Zeleny: President Obama announced on Tuesday that he will nominate the federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor for the…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Four Employment Law and HR Lessons From “Star Trek”
As employment law and HR professionals, our mission always seem to require us exploring strange new worlds (perhaps a study of the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act?). We also seek…