The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (the “PSLRA”) reflects an innovative congressional effort to refine securities fraud class actions. In adopting the PSLRA, Congress recognized that although the class action is a valuable tool for increasing plaintiff access to the legal system, its structure presents opportunities for abuse. In particular, collective action problems and smal...

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In the late nineteenth century, the number of lawyers in the United States rose sharply across the country. The largest contributor to the national increase, however, was the Western region. States in the West had significantly higher levels of lawyers per capita than other regions. Census Bureau data was used to evaluate two hypotheses. Limited support was found for the hypothesis suggesting t...

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has committed $500 million to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015. To accomplish this ambitious goal, RWJF and its partners have developed a movement to tackle childhood obesity as a societal problem, calling for population-based solutions. The movement is borrowing from the “social norm change” approach that has yielded tremendous public hea...

As shown in previous studies, semantic processing of words is mainly affected by frequency, context and concreteness. Recently sensory, motor and emotional components are also examined to explain the concreteness effect within the embodiment framework. Concreteness effect, which adopts the processing advantages of concrete words over abstract ones, is supported by studies, which show better rem...

This article examines the methodology behind an empirical study investigating the ‘real life’ role of criminal defence lawyers and their approach to ethical conflict resolution. Using a normative conceptual framework entitled the ‘zealous advocate’ model, the study involved interviews with defence practitioners. A central feature of the interviews was a method known as the ‘vignette technique’,...

Speech given at Session 3: Challenge Facing Resource Development. Our topic is the impact of globalization of resource development, with particular emphasis on trans-boundary ventures. For the purpose of my remarks, she took it as a given that we will see a continuation of the trends of the past decade or so. She focused on what these trends are likely to mean for lawyers who work in the area o...

A Review of An Equal Place: Lawyers in the Struggle for Los Angeles. By Scott L. Cummings.