California Legal Studies Journal

Decomposing Racial Disparities in Prison and Drug Treatment Commitments for Criminal Offenders in California.

Blacks convicted of drug-related offenses in the U.S. have higher prison-commitment rates than Whites. Studies have been largely unsuccessful in explaining these disparities. This study uses administrative data from a random sample of individuals arrested for drug offenses in California to examine this issue. We use a decomposition model to estimate whether Black-White disparities in commitment...

Studies in Borreliae Part 1. A variant of Borreliae parkeri Davis 1942 isolated in California and its tick vector

Patenting of human genetic material v. bioethics: revisiting the case of John Moore v. Regents of the University of California.

Moore v. Regents of the University of California was one of the first cases internationally that dealt with the patenting of human genetic material. The case is closely related to the development of medicine and of biotechnology applied to medicine. These developments require the utilisation of human body parts, both for experiments and for transplant, and present certain major medico-legal pro...

Curbing or Facilitating Inequality? Law, Collective Bargaining, and Teacher Assignment Among Schools in California

This study focuses on the legal, policy, and contractual structures in California that are designed to place highly qualified teachers in low-income, high-minority schools as well as those that may constrain efforts to get good teachers into more difficult teaching assignments. Prior studies document that teachers in California schools with high percentages of lowincome, minority, and low-perfo...

Effects of marine reserves on California spiny lobster are robust and modified by fine-scale habitat features and distance from reserve borders

Studies of marine reserves often describe mean differences in organism size or abundance inside versus outside reserves, but recent work indicates that these differences are influenced by habitat and proximity of sites to reserve borders. In this study, we measured mean effects of reserves and the influence of distance from reserve borders on the number and size of legal (≥82.5 mm carapace leng...