Law

The US News & World Report annual rankings play a key role in ordering the market for legal education, and, by extension, the market for entry level lawyers. This Article explores the impact and evolution of placement and post-graduation data, which are important input variables that comprise twenty percent of the total rankings methodology. In general, we observe clear evidence that law schools are seeking to maximize each placement and post-graduation input variable. During the 1997 to, 2006 time period, law ...

OF THE UNITED STATES 395 (114th ed. 1994) (Table 614: Employment Status of the Population: 1950 to 1993) [hereinafter 1994 STATISTICAL ABSrRACT] (calculating that the 1993 agricultural workforce consisted of 116,232,000 workers). (2) Covered by union contract: Peck, supra note 13, at 8 (stating that only 21 million persons were members of unions in 1976); Stieber & Murray, supra note 14, at 322 (stating that there were fewer than 16 million workers represented by labor organizations in 1981); 1994 STATISTICAL ABSTRACT, supra, at 439 (Table 683: Union Members, by Selected Characteristics: 1983 and 1993) (estiniating that 12.3% of nonagricultural workers were represented by unions in 1993). (3) Excluded government employees: Peck, supra note 13, at 8-9 (explaining that more thanhalf of state employees and over 90% of federal employees enjoy procedural safeguards); Stieber & Murray, supra note 14, at 322 (excluding all government employees from calculations because they are protected f...

Abstract: This introduction from the book Silent Spring at 50 describes the various contributors' insights into Rachel Carson's landmark work. The authors come from a variety of disciplines, including conservation biology, English, law, and economics, and offer critical assessments of Silent Spring and its legacy. The first part has three chapters that put the book into the context of its time, examining it in light of Carson's previous books on the sea (Wallace Kaufman); the larger tradition of authors warning against human hubris in ...

Abstract: The magnitude of the Harry Potter phenomenon alone would make it worthy of consideration; the fact that it is children's literature, and thus may play a significant part in forming a future generation's attitudes toward law and legal institutions, makes it even more so. The various contributions to this article explore various aspects of law and culture as presented in or viewed through the Harry Potter stories. The contributions of James Charles Smith and Danaya Wright address the depiction of families in the narratives and the ...