The Michigan Business & Entrepreneurial Law Review (MBELR) has always strived to provide a platform for legal scholars, professionals, and students publish business-related scholarship. Yet, little business scholarship focusing on the Black community exists, despite extraordinary impact that communities have in U.S. landscape. In year of revolutionary social change, we are excited feature t...

Through their professional education and training, new lawyers are generally encouraged to adopt a civic vision of identity. This article explores convergences divergences in how entering an increasingly globalized legal profession conceive roles different national contexts. In particular, I draw on interviews cross-cultural identity-mapping method examine the lived experiences professionalism ...

As noted by Della Sala and Grafman in their Editorial, the traditional peerreview process has many drawbacks. In this comment, we would like to emphasize one particular problem of peer review, namely how reviewers handle findings that are incompatible with their own viewpoints. Speculating as to why it took several years before his ideas on the architecture of human memory were accepted by cogn...

BACKGROUND Whereas work-hour regulations have been taken for granted since 1940 in other occupational settings, such as commercial aviation, they have been implemented only recently in medical professions, where they lead to a lively debate. The aim of the present study was to evaluate arguments in favour of and against work-hour limitations in medicine given by Swiss surgeons, lawyers, and pil...

BACKGROUND Enabled by globalizing processes such as trade liberalization, medical tourism is a practice that involves patients' intentional travel to privately obtain medical care in another country. Empirical legal research on this issue is limited and seldom based on the perspectives of destination countries receiving medical tourists. We consulted with diverse lawyers from across Barbados to...

The lawyer is standing at the gate to Heaven and St. Peter is listening to his sins. .. the list goes on for quite awhile. The lawyer objects and begins to argue his case. He admits all these things, but argues, "Wait, I've done some charity in my life also." St. Peter looks in his book and says, "Yes, I see. Once you gave a dime to a panhandler and once you gave an extra nickel to the shoeshin...