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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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Labor Law Prof Blog
Are Law Firm Reverse Discrimination Suits Around the Corner?
Rob Rogers at the BLT Blog writes about yesterday's morning panel discussion at the American Enterprise Institute entitled "Are Law Firms Breaking the Law? Racial and Gender Preferences in Attorney…
The Right Coast
Does the Quest for Diversity Result in Discrimination in Favor of Women and Minority Law Professors? Gail Heriot
Tom Bell has some interesting data on this issue. It appears that women and minority members who participate in the AALS "Meat Market" are more likely to get jobs than…
The Right Coast
Still More on the ABA’s Diversity Standards for Law School Accreditation: Case Study #3 Gail Heriot
Here is the third example of the ABA's standards on diversity in action:The ABA Accreditation Committee's treatment of Law School #3, an up-and-coming public law school in the Southeast, seems…
Law School Academic Support Blog
Diversity and Doctrinal Courses
At last week's meeting of the AALS Section on Academic Support, the audience was asked to share with one another ways in which doctrinal professors could inject diversity considerations into…
Law People
Five New Studies on Diversity in Law
By Ronda Muir
The last few months have seen five new studies relating to diversity and the practice of law: 1. A new study by the ABA’s Commission on Women in the Professions entitled…
Law People
Partnering with Law Schools to Improve Diversity
By Ronda Muir
Pepper Hamilton has recruited one of their of-counsel attorneys who sits on a diversity committee to be responsible for a new program that Pepper Hamilton is sponsoring with Villanova University…
Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
Diversity in Large Law Firms
UCLA Law Professor Rick Sander has a new law review article that discusses what the article refers to as the "racial paradox in corporate law firms". The hiring preference given…
Labor Law Prof Blog
More Background Checks, More Diversity?
So says this new piece in the Journal of Law and Economics and highlighted today at HR.BLR.com. According to the article:Employers that perform criminal backgroundchecks generally hire more black workers…
Legal Profession Blog
Tracking the Diversity Talk/Actions of the Profession and Especially Law Firms
There is a blog, named Law Firm Diversity: A Rational Discussion, that follows diversity in law firms, even specific named ones, as well as the issue of diversity of race…
Legal Profession Blog
ABA teleconference 10/11 on bias in profession
ABA's cle by audio- and video-conferencing series has announced a program to be re-aired Wed., October 11, 2006. It is on Bias in the Legal Profession -- featuring speakers Michael…