Recently, Center Director Deborah L. Rhode traveled to Washington D.C. to be honored by the U.S. Department of Justice for decades of work on Access to Justice issues. Professor Rhode took part in a panel discussion as part of the “Winning the Future Initiative, ” under the heading of the department’s “Access to Justice Initiative.”
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Center Director Deborah Rhode Honored by the White House and the Justice Department as a “Champion of Change”
Diversity on Corporate Boards: How Much Difference Does Difference Make? Rock Center Working Paper Now Available for Download
Following the 2009 conference co-sponsored by the Center on the Legal Profession, Deborah L. Rhode and Amanda K. Packel followed up with a Rock Center Working Paper of the same name.
Download a copy of Diversity on Corporate Boards: How Much Difference Does Difference Make, Rock Center Working Paper No. 89 (October 1, 2010) [...]
Is Forced Pro Bono Legal?
The Wall Street Journal took a look last week at a proposed Mississippi rule to require 20 hours of Pro Bono work per year. Read the full article and comments here.
CLP to co-host Book Event featuring Joan Williams: “Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter”
With the Michelle R. Clayman Center for Gender Research, the Center on the Legal Profession will co-host Joan C. Williams of UC Hastings College of the Law as she discusses her new book, “Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter.”
Work-family conflict remains a central fact of American life: Americans report much higher [...]