Topic
Equity
122 published works
Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest
Change to the No-Action Relief Regarding Definition of “Ready Market” With Regard to Foreign Equity Securities Pursuant to SEC Rule 15c3-1(c)(11)(i)
By James Van De Graaff, Ross Pazzol, Dina Wegh
On February 9, the Securities and Exchange Commission withdrew a no-action letter that was issued on November 28, 2012 (Old Letter), and issued a new one in its place (New…
Education Law Prof Blog
Chicago Schools with the Most Disadvantaged Students Have the Most “Ineffective” Teachers, According to New Study
By Derek Black
As detailed here, new teacher evaluation systems that measure teaching effectiveness based on students' achievement test scores are riddled with serious flaws. One of the most obvious is the likelihood…
TortsProf Blog
Rendleman on Equity
Doug Rendleman has posted to SSRN The Triumph of Equity Revisited: The Stages of Equitable Discretion. The abstract provides:Every judge’s discretion includes equitable discretion. For a symposium in Steve Subrin’s…
Education Law Prof Blog
Congress Again Fails to Tackle Equity in Revised Federal Education Law by David Sciarra and Molly Hunter
By Derek Black
On December 9, 2016, Congress passed a bill reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), and President Obama signed it today. The new "Every Student Succeeds Act" (ESSA) retreats…
PropertyProf Blog
Call for Papers: Local Government Law Works-in-Progress
The Rutgers Law School Center on Law in Metropolitan Equity (CLiME) is proud to host the Third Annual Local Government Law Works-in-Progress Conference.This scholarship conference will take place November 6-7,…
Land Use Prof Blog
CFP: Rutgers Law: Local Government Law Works-in-Progress
From the folks at CLiME:Call for Papers: Local Government Law Works-in-Progress The Rutgers Law School Center on Law in Metropolitan Equity (CLiME) is proud to host the Third Annual Local Government…
The Faculty Lounge
Crow on Go Set a Watchman — A Wrinkle in Maycomb County
Our next contribution to the Go Set a Watchman blog symposium is by Matthew Crow, who is a history professor at Hobart and William Smith College, where he writes and…
Education Law Prof Blog
No Matter How You Define Quality Teachers, Poor and Minority Students Have Less Access
By Derek Black
This blog's title is the bottom line takeaway from Dan Goldhaber, Lesley Lavery, and Roddy Theobald's new study Uneven Playing Field? Assessing the Teacher Quality Gap Between Advantaged and Disadvantaged Students. The abstract explains:Policymakers…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
The Fusion of Law and Equity in the Field Code
Forthcoming in the Journal of Legal History is an article by Princeton Ph.D. candidate Kellen Funk entitled Equity Without Chancery: The Fusion of Law and Equity in the Field Code of…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Effective review of effective(?) use of sentencing mitigation videos … and concerns about equity
Main May 24, 2015Effective review of effective(?) use of sentencing mitigation videos ... and concerns about equityToday's New York Times has this lengthy discussion of a digital development in modern…