Featured Alumnus
- Our “Citadel of Truth,” William Brantley Aycock
September 27, 2009 | 1:37 pm
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 [...] -
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2009 Symposium
Globalization, Families, and the State |
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| Professor Maxine Eichner and Professor Deborah Weissman Volume 88: Issue 5 |
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| The effects of globalization on markets and workers have been widely examined in the legal literature. However, the impact of globalization within households and upon families, and the response of the state, have not received adequate attention. This symposium will focus on issues related to globalization and families. Attention will be given principally to the United States, informed by an awareness of global interdependencies, and set within a larger comparative international framework as a means to examine the range of possible legal responses to these issues.
The globalization of the economy has placed unrelenting pressures on contemporary families. Throughout the industrialized world, marriage rates are declining, birth rates are falling, and hours that family members work outside the home are rising. Globalization demands longer hours in the workplace, and inevitably results in competing and conflicting demands on time allocated to interpersonal relationships within households. Workplace demands strain the labor resources of families, taxing the ability of heads of households to care for young children and aging parents. Further, the stability in which families flourish is undermined by the flexibility that globalization requires, and the increasing entrepreneurialism demanded of workers. Globalizations’ effects include the loss of state-sponsored social and regulatory programs, increased privatization of family carework, the marketization of the very creation of family, and changing social and economic relationships within families and communities. Government policies that promote the demands of the marketplace can exacerbate this tension between families and marketplace. In this symposium, we will examine the consequences of globalization on families and consider the effectiveness of different possible government responses to the difficulties that globalization poses for families.
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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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