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LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE USE OF STANDARDIZED ABILITY TESTS IN EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION |
68 Columbia Law Review 691 (April, 1968) |
The average American adult under thirty years of age does not need to be told how important tests are in his life. If he grew up in the New York City school system, for example, he was given a minimum of nineteen different standardized tests between grades one and nineat least one test each year. After that he took New York State Regents... |
1968 |
| Louis H. Pollak, Dean and Professor of Law, Yale University |
LEGAL RESTRAINTS ON RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT |
67 Columbia Law Review 1180 (June, 1967) |
In 1945, in Supplement One to The American Language, Mencken devoted a number of pages to cataloguing and analyzing the plethora of pejoratives with which Americans (white and black) have verbalized the Negro's outcast state. At the close of his discussion Mencken drew attention to a curious euphemism for Negro, apparently originating in the... |
1967 |
| Sanford Jay Rosen |
LEGAL RESTRAINTS ON RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT. BY MICHAEL I. SOVERN. NEW YORK: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY FUND. 1966. PP. IX, 270, 54 (NOTES). $6.00. |
81 Harvard Law Review 276 (November, 1967) |
Professor Sovern's study, five years in preparation, has been well worth the wait. Addressed principally to the concerned layman, the practitioner, and the government official, this book also satisfies much of the demand for a truly scholarly work in the field of employment discrimination. After defining the problem and tracing a brief history of... |
1967 |
| Pauli Murray |
LEGAL RESTRAINTS ON RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT |
45 Texas Law Review 390 (December, 1966) |
Racial discrimination in employment, a major civil-rights issue since the beginning of World War II, has been a strong motivating factor of numerous protest demonstrations in the 1960's. It contributes heavily to chronic joblessness and poverty among Negroes and to the continued unrest which explodes into violent racial disturbances. Against a... |
1966 |
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EMPLOYEE CHOICE AND SOME PROBLEMS OF RACE AND REMEDIES IN REPRESENTATION CAMPAIGNS |
72 Yale Law Journal 1243 (May, 1963) |
The National Labor Relations Board in its zeal to ensure a reasoned choice by employees in representation elections has created a distinction between emotional and rational campaign propaganda on the subject of race. While a closer consideration of the requirements of a free choice suggests that this distinction is not a tenable one, other... |
1963 |
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STATE FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES ACT AS APPLIED TO INTERSTATE CARRIER HELD INVALID UNDER THE COMMERCE CLAUSE |
62 Columbia Law Review 1348 (November, 1962) |
Plaintiff, a Negro air force captain, applied for the position of pilot with defendant, a commercial air line operating in several western states with headquarters, hangars, and employment offices in Denver, Colorado. Plaintiff underwent tests and interviews in Denver and was found highly qualified; nevertheless he was rejected although a number of... |
1962 |
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THE RIGHT TO EQUAL TREATMENT: ADMINISTRATIVE ENFORCEMENT OF ANTIDISCRIMINATION LEGISLATION |
74 Harvard Law Review 526 (January, 1961) |
Discrimination by private persons on the basis of race, color, or religion has been contrary to the public policy of some states for many years. The first statutes implementing this policy were in the area of public accommodations and established either criminal penalties against persons discriminating or a right to damages in persons discriminated... |
1961 |
| Robert A. Leflar , Wylie H. Davis |
SEGREGATION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS - 1953 |
67 Harvard Law Review 377 (January, 1954) |
THE legal problems which inhere in the movement away from racial segregation in American public schools are much broader and more numerous than the issues directly presented in the five cases now pending before the United States Supreme Court. Yet all these problems, as well as others that are primarily political, social, and economic, necessarily... |
1954 |
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RACIAL DISCRIMINATION BY A UNION AGAINST EMPLOYEES IT DOES NOT REPRESENT |
52 Columbia Law Review 1058 (December, 1952) |
A contract between defendant railroad and defendant brotherhood of brakemen stipulated that another class of employees, designated as train porters and represented by a separate union, could no longer perform the work of brakemen. Since train porters' duties consisted almost entirely in the performance of brakemen's work and since, being Negroes,... |
1952 |
| Raymond R. Farrell |
REGULATION OF UNION SECURITY CONTRACTS |
59 Yale Law Journal 554 (February, 1950) |
The main purpose of a union security agreement is to increase the union's bargaining power. With greater control over dissident members, and with the employer tied to a union-dominated labor market, the secured union can more forcefully press its demands for better working conditions. But the monopoly power conferred by such agreements has at times... |
1950 |
| Alex Elson, Leonard Schanfield |
LOCAL REGULATION OF DISCRIMINATORY EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES |
56 Yale Law Journal 431 (February, 1947) |
The social and economic stresses of war and reconversion have produced an upsurge of activity to make more effective use of the processes of law to reduce discrimination in employment. The federal Fair Employment Practices Committee carried on intense efforts in this direction during the war; several states have enacted anti-discrimination... |
1947 |