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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “ethan michelson”
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  • The Making of Lawyers' Careers

    Inequality and Opportunity in the American Legal Profession

    by Robert L. Nelson, Ronit Dinovitzer, Bryant G. Garth, Joyce S. Sterling, David B. Wilkins, Meghan Dawe, Ethan Michelson ...
    Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    An unprecedented account of social stratification within the US legal profession.How do race, class, gender, and law school status condition the career trajectories of lawyers? And how do professionals then navigate these parameters?The Making of Lawyers’ Careers provides an unprecedented account of the last two decades of the legal profession in the US, offering a data-backed look at the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Decoupling

    Gender Injustice in China's Divorce Courts

    by Ethan Michelson ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    Michelson's analysis of almost 150,000 divorce trials reveals routine and egregious violations of China's own laws upholding the freedom of divorce, gender equality, and the protection of women's physical security. Using 'big data' computational techniques to scrutinize cases covering 2009–2016 from all 252 basic-level courts in two Chinese provinces, Henan and Zhejiang, Michelson reveals that ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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  • Blind Spots

    Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It

    by Max H. Bazerman, Ann E. Tenbrunsel ...
    When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, leading business ethicists Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel examine the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right and how we act unethically without meaning to. From the collapse of Enron and corruption in the tobacco ... Read more

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  • Butterfly Politics

    by Catharine A. MacKinnon ...
    The minuscule motion of a butterfly’s wings can trigger a tornado half a world away, according to chaos theory. Under the right conditions, small simple actions can produce large complex effects. In this timely and provocative book, Catharine A. MacKinnon argues that the right seemingly minor interventions in the legal realm can have a butterfly effect that generates major social and cultural ... Read more

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  • What Works

    Gender Equality by Design

    by Iris Bohnet ...
    Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back, and de-biasing people’s minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. Diversity training programs have had limited success, and individual effort alone often invites backlash. Behavioral design offers a new solution. By de-biasing organizations instead of individuals, we can make smart changes that have big ... Read more

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  • The Law and Society Reader II

    by Erik Larson, Patrick Schmidt ...
    Series series Washington Mews
    "A cornucopia of knowledge and insight on the biggest questions in the sociolegal tradition . . . an invaluable resource for researchers and teachers." —Michael McCann, Gordon Hirabayashi Professor for the Advancement of Citizenship, University of WashingtonLaw and society scholars challenge the common belief that law is simply a neutral tool by which society sets standards and resolves disputes. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Tyranny of Metrics

    by Jerry Z. Muller ...
    How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens business, medicine, education, government—and the quality of our livesToday, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in our zeal to instill the evaluation process with scientific rigor, we ... Read more

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  • Distorting the Law

    Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis

    by William Haltom, Michael McCann ...
    In recent years, stories of reckless lawyers and greedy citizens have given the legal system, and victims in general, a bad name. Many Americans have come to believe that we live in the land of the litigious, where frivolous lawsuits and absurdly high settlements reign.Scholars have argued for years that this common view of the depraved ruin of our civil legal system is a myth, but their research ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Middle Income Access to Justice

    by M. Trebilcock, Lorne Sossin, Anthony Duggan ...
    Though most conceptions of the rule of law assume equality before the law – and hence equal access to the justice system – this basic right is not being met for many low and middle income Canadians. This book focuses on the problem of civil access to justice for middle income earners – those whose household income is high enough to disqualify them from legal aid but not high enough to cover the ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Lower Ed

    The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy

    by Tressie McMillan Cottom ...
    **"The best book yet on the complex lives and choices of for-profit students."—The New York Times Book ReviewAs featured on The Daily Show, NPR's Marketplace, and Fresh Air, the "powerful, chilling tale" (Carol Anderson, author of White Rage) of higher education becoming an engine of social inequality** Lower Ed is quickly becoming the definitive book on the fastest-growing sector of higher ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research

    Edited by Peter Cane, Herbert Kritzer ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The empirical study of law, legal systems and legal institutions is widely viewed as one of the most exciting and important intellectual developments in the modern history of legal research. Motivated by a conviction that legal phenomena can and should be understood not only in normative terms but also as social practices of political, economic and ethical significance, empirical legal researchers ... Read more

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  • Sex and Sexuality in China

    Edited by Elaine Jeffreys ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    Elaine Jeffreysexplores the issues of sex and sexuality in a non-Western context by examining debates surrounding the emergence of new sexual behaviours, and the appropriate nature of their regulation, in the People's Republic of China. Commissioned from Western and mainland Chinese scholars of sex and sexuality in China, the chapters in this volume are marked by a diversity of subject material ... Read more

    $65.99 USD