Supreme challenge; a law professor hopes some justices will correct their dismal hiring records for women law clerks
Article Abstract:
Law professor Mark Brown of the Stetson University College of Law has an article scheduled for Oct 1996 publication in the Oregon Law Review giving statistics on the US Supreme Court's poor record in the hiring of female clerks. While women comprised about 42% of the students in elite law schools during the 1990s, they were only about 24% of law clerks at the Supreme Court. The number of law clerks has gone up somewhat since 1994, the last year of statistics in Brown's study. In the Oct 1995 term, clerkship was 38% female. Brown's reasons for this possible employment discrimination are given.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1996
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Generation X jurors a challenge: lawyer oratory may bore those raised with MTV and remote control
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A study by Decision Research of people born between 1961 and 1981, the so-called Generation X, suggests their approach to information may call for different courtroom strategies when they are jurors. The study found they have less tolerance for long speeches, prefer information presented via high technology, and like to control and manipulate information. Other researchers say they are more cynical and doubt they will do as well financially as their parents, but other jury experts say individual differences are more important.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1995
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Dividing up the vote: racially drawn congressional districts face constitutional challenge
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The Supreme Court in spring 1995 will decide two sets of combined cases over when unusually shaped voting districts designed with racial blocks in mind are in fact unconstitutional. The cases concern two congressional voting districts in Georgia and Louisiana, each designed to maximize the proportion of black voters and increase the chance of electing black candidates. The cases arose out of the 1993 decision in Shaw v Reno.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1995
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