Race, Class, and UCLA School of Law Admissions, 1967-1994

Are Bar Exam Scores Affected by Law School Admissions Practices ?

The Race to Punish in American Schools: Class and Race Predictors of Punitive School-Crime Control

Despite the general agreement that US schools have become increasingly punitive since the 1980s, researchers are uncertain about what types of schools use toughon-crime measures. Some assert that punitive control is concentrated in poor, predominantly ethnic minority schools. Governing-through-crime scholars argue that US schools with mostly middle-class and white students are also punitive, bu...

Louis Kaplow Harvard Law School “ A Distribution - Neutral Perspective on Tax Expenditure Limitations ” UCLA

A recent wave of literature, partly motivated by Presidential campaign tax reform plans, advances and analyzes the effects of proposals to limit tax expenditures. In addition to reducing distortions caused by favoritism for some types of expenditures over others, many of these reforms are advanced on distributive grounds and because the resulting broader base enables lower marginal tax rates an...

Reproducing Social Inequality through School Security : Effects of Race and Class on School Security Measures

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

CHANGE IN JURY DUTY EXEMPTION REQUIREMENTS Los Angeles Superior Court has stipulated that medical students can no longer defer their jury duty service until after graduation. ONLY those students who are scheduled to participate in APPROVED school-related activities during breaks (e.g., research or volunteer work in clinics, etc.) may qualify for exemption from service, upon review and approval ...