Featured Alumnus
- Our “Citadel of Truth,” William Brantley Aycock
Dedication to Volume 73
This issue of the North Carolina Law Review is dedicated to Professor and Chancellor Emeritus William Brantley Aycock, a man who has graced the UNC School of Law in one way or another for fifty years. Albert Coates observed that there is a special spirit here at the UNC School of Law, [...]
2008 Symposium
Frontiers in Empirical Patent Law Scholarship |
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| Professor Andrew Chin Volume 87: Issue 5 |
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| Policymakers have urgently called for predictions and prescriptions regarding the effectiveness of the U.S. patent system in promoting 21st-century innovation in an international environment. In many cases, empirical scholarship can go beyond more traditional modes of legal analysis to identify significant problems and to propose concrete, feasible solutions.
The 2008 North Carolina Law Review Symposium will showcase the remarkable diversity of recent quantitative research on the patent system, and the potential for even broader and deeper interdisciplinary engagement on questions of innovation law and policy. Nationally recognized scholars in law, business and economics will be joined, for perhaps the first time in such a setting, by leading research scientists who have brought distinctive data sets, analytical methodologies, and stakeholder perspectives to their own examinations of the patent system. For all who attend, the resulting conversation is likely to be uniquely challenging and rewarding.
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ArticlesFrontiers in Empirical Patent Law Scholarship Keynote Address The Political Economy of the Patent System Copying in Patent Law Patents and Growth: Empirical Evidence From the States University Software Ownership and Litigation: A First Examination Of Trolls, Davids, Goliaths, and Kings: Narratives and Evidence in the Litigation of High-Tech Patents Search for Tomorrow: Some Side Effects of Patent Office Automation Patent Citation Networks Revisited: Signs of a Twenty-First Century Change |
2007 Symposium
Precedent and the Roberts Court |
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| Professor Michael Gerhardt Volume 86: Issue 5 |
October 26, 2007 Photos Video |
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The symposium united prominent legal scholars and political scientists to discuss their different perspectives on the Roberts Court and its handling of precedent. The extent to which the Court either does or should follow its precedents is one of the most controversial, divisive subjects in constitutional law. It was the central focus of the confirmation hearings for both Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito, and a central focus of the symposium will be on how these two new justices approach precedents generally and particularly those with which they disagree. The symposium will feature different theories about the possible fates of some of the Court’s landmark decisions, such as Roe v. Wade. It will also feature important discussions about the different methods employed in legal and social science studies of precedent in constitutional law.
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2006 Symposium
High Poverty Schooling in America: Lessons in Second-Class Citizenship |
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| Professor Michael Gerhardt Volume 85: Issue 5 |
October 23, 2006 Photos Video |
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Despite the promise of the 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, many of our nation’s public schools and districts are becoming part of a two-tiered system of middle and upper class schools populated largely by white students, and high poverty schools populated largely by African-American and Latino students. The social and educational injustice is clear—academic performance and life outcomes are demonstrably poorer for students in high poverty schools. Less clear is what to do.This one-day conference will explore not only the best strategies to improve academic achievement, teacher quality and parental satisfaction in high poverty schools, but also will seek to generate more conversation about how educators, scholars and lawyers—as well as parents and communities—can help confront the nation’s growing tolerance for separate and unequal schools. Some of the nation’s best scholars and lawyers will share their latest findings and perspectives on the effects of high poverty schooling on students; the mechanisms of harm in high poverty schools; the limits and possibilities of legal remedies; and the most promising strategies to improving achievement in high poverty schools. Most panelists will also contribute a paper to the conference and selected papers will be published in a special 2007 symposium edition of The North Carolina Law Review.
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