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13 Jun 2007, 6:18 pm
This is interesting. It is a chart of the 2005 First-Year J.D. Attrition Rates at California's ABA-Approved Law Schools. The first number is overall attrition rate (which includes transfers), and the second number is academic attrition. UC-Davis -- 0.5%--0.0% Stanford-- 0.6%--0.0% UC-Berkeley -- 1.1%--0.0% UC Hastings -- 3.0%--1.2% UCLA -- 5.2%--0.0% USC -- 5.4%--1.5% University of San Diego -- 8.3%--1.8% Chapman -- 8.8%--2.2% Loyola -- 10.8%--4.2% Santa Clara --… [read post]
8 Feb 2007, 11:45 pm
Here are some interesting affirmative action statistics reported last week in Inside HIgher Ed. They are from a recent study published in the American Journal of Education: About 13% of Blacks aged 18 or 19 in the United States are first- or second-generation immigrants. But at the selective colleges studied, 27% of Black students are. And at Ivy League schools, the number is 41%. The largest numbers of Black immigrants at selective colleges come from the… [read post]
1 Jan 2007, 9:26 pm
So far the only government officials involved in the post-election Michigan Civil Rights Initiative saga who don't seem utterly crazy to me are the judges of the Sixth Circuit .... As all loyal readers know, the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, which outlaws race-based admissions at state universities, passed overwhelmingly back in November. And it did so despite receiving almost no support from politicians, either Democratic or Republican, and despite the fact that opponents outspent… [read post]
4 Nov 2006, 8:26 pm
Last summer, on a telephone conference, Federated Department Store's CFO reportedly urged anxious retail analysts to "wait until September" to evaluate Macy's strategy to convert eighty profitable Marshall Field's stores (and more than 300 other profitable regional department stores across the country) into Macy's. Despite the protests over Marshall Field's, shoppers really don't care about these things--or so he argued. Well, it's… [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 12:42 pm
It seems doable.Senator Grassley announced Wednesday that Judge Kavanaugh's hearing will be delayed until at least September. That's too bad. I would have preferred to move things along more quickly. The notion that nothing gets done in Washington in August has long annoyed me. But I suppose I'll get over it. Paul Mirengoff on Powerline expressed hope that Kavanaugh will nonetheless be confirmed by the full Senate in time for the Supreme Court's new term (this year October 1).… [read post]
21 Nov 2018, 2:03 am
To read Menninger today is itself punishment.These days most people don't remember psychiatrist Karl Menninger. But in his day, he was an important public intellectual. His 1966 book The Crime of Punishment argued that all punishment is cruel and useless and that criminal behavior should instead be treated as mental illness. As Dr. Menninger put it, those who asked us to spare a thought for the victims were being "melodramatic" and "childish" and appealing only to the… [read post]
20 Aug 2018, 5:07 am
Ha! Science now has a non-shocking answer that question: Yes, of course, they are.Do individuals tend to rate a story as more "newsworthy" if it backs up their side of a controversial issue? UC-San Diego's Hal Pashler and I thought such a bias was likely. But to assess this question more objectively, we created six pairs of hypothetical news stories, each describing an event that seemed likely to encourage people to adopt attitudes on the opposite side of a particular controversial… [read post]
15 Jun 2018, 3:09 am
” Gail Heriot gives Stanley Mosk his due; Suing for faculty positions: “While I find it [read post]
3 Oct 2017, 3:01 am
Conference on Civil Rights (note in particular separate statements and rebuttals by commissioners including Gail [read post]
27 Jan 2014, 8:05 pm
in Schuette, including colorful background of litigant BAMN (“By Any Means Necessary”) [Gail [read post]
15 Oct 2014, 9:05 pm
disability discrimination, and claimed “dumping” of psychiatric patients [Alison Somin on Gail [read post]
2 Dec 2015, 9:05 pm
Eve of Oral Argument” [Cato event Dec. 7 with Andrew Grossman, John Paul Schnapper-Casteras, Gail [read post]
8 Jun 2012, 7:05 am
Petitioner Brief for Current and Fiormer Civil Rights Officials in Support of Petitioner Brief for Gail [read post]
9 Jul 2022, 11:35 am
Thanks to Gail Heriot, writing at InstaPundit, for the pointer. [read post]
10 Sep 2010, 11:40 am
I mentioned in an earlier post that the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will be conducting an all-day conference entitled "A New Era: Defining Civil Rights in the 21st Century" on September 14th at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Featured speakers will include William Raspberry, Roger Clegg, Kay Hymowitz, Heather MacDonald, Ken Marcus, Carol Swain, Amy Wax, and Robert Woodson. Here's the sign-up information. There will be a free lunch. (I know, I know, there's no such… [read post]
20 Aug 2010, 10:42 pm
On September 14th, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is hosting an day-long conference entitled "A New Era: Defining Civil Rights in the 21st Century in Washington, D.C. Our keynote speaker will be the inimitable William Raspberry. Among the topics to be discussed will be The Role of Family Structure in Perpetuating Racial and Ethnic Disparities, New Tools for a New Civil Rights Era? and The Future of the Civil Rights Commission Panelists will include Amitai Etzioni, Tera Hunter, Harry… [read post]
13 Jun 2010, 1:48 pm
This is funny. Apparently the Unitarian Universalist Society of the High Desert welcomes a "diversity of opinions and beliefs," so long as you "lean to the left politically" and want to join their "forum of like-minded people." I've never seen a religious group advertise a preferred political orientation before. I guess it's all just part of the brave new world. "Our UU group offers a liberal oasis in the high desert. We believe in the inherent worth and… [read post]
2 Feb 2010, 9:08 am
You gotta love it. Footnote: During his final illness, the father of a friend of mine had to be evacuated from a hospital in Schenectady, New York to a hospital in Detroit. My friend went along. The helicopter was Canadian. The crew told him how happy they were to finally pick someone up at an American hospital. All or almost all their work is to drop off Canadians at American hospitals. There is virtually no traffic in the other direction, so they would simply fly back empty. Of course, this trip… [read post]
4 May 2008, 7:11 pm
If you missed my op-ed in the Wall Street Journal last week, then ... well ... shame on you. Fortunately for you, the internet allows for infinite grace. You can read it here. [read post]
15 Dec 2007, 10:11 pm
This is a significant story about people taking the initiative in their lives. I'd heard about the story of Ben Williams from a friend of mine. I'd not heard about the case of the young child in the story. May God help those who help themselves (and their children). Related to all this, of course, is the debate over legal access to "experimental" drugs. The D.C. Circuit's opinion in Abigail Alliance v. Eschenbach is… [read post]
