Sex, race, and credentials: the truth about affirmative action in law faculty hiring

Article Abstract:

A comprehensive study of law professors hired for tenure-track positions at prestigious law schools reveals that affirmative action programs have had little influence on hiring patterns. Men of color and white women were slightly favored in hiring at the most prestigious schools, but women of color had hiring patterns comparable to white men. Sex bias against women was found in the level of professorial rank that the respondents were hired into. Men were also more likely to teach higher prestige classes like constitutional law and women lower prestige classes like trusts and estates.

Research, Demographic aspects, Recruiting, Affirmative action, Law schools, Law teachers, Law school faculty

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From dancing halls to hiring halls: Actors' Equity and the closed shop dilemma

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The National Labor Relations Act should be revised so that theatrical unions like Actors' Equity Association can enter into union security agreements without the threat of unfair labor practice charges. The closed shop that exists for Broadway, Off Broadway and major national productions is an unfair labor practice under current law, but it is also necessary to ensure professionalism and protect actors wages and working conditions. Revisions to the National Labor Relations Act should be patterned after the hiring hall exemptions made in the construction industry.

Laws, regulations and rules, Labor relations, Actors, Labor unions, Theater, Actors' Equity Association

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Race, class, and drugs

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Differential sentences received by those convicted of crimes concerning crack cocaine and powder cocaine can be explained by differential police enforcement according to class. Commentators often explain the harsher sentences received by crack cocaine defendants by reference to race. However, race is relevant insofar as it is connected with class. Examination of historic vice crime prosecution supports the theory that lower classes are treated more harshly due to the relative ease of police penetration and concentration of ancillary crimes in their communities.

United States, Social aspects, Influence, Comparative analysis, Social classes, Social class, Cocaine, Crack (Drug), Vice control

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