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Essay: Accommodation as professionalism

December 1, 2014 1:43 pm

By Alex Long, Professor of Law. Originally published in Tennessee Law, fall 2014. “For many years, if you were a person with a severe mobility impairment… your only options to reach a second-floor courtroom were to be carried up the stairs or crawl up the stairs.

Don’t touch that dial

December 1, 2014 1:28 pm

Cable and Internet companies: Can’t live with them, can’t live without them. And if Comcast’s acquisition of Time Warner Cable is approved, most Americans will have a single choice for their telecomm services. Professor Maurice Stucke argues the merger will damage market competition and net neutrality—and he has joined the fight against it.

‘Inevitable’

December 1, 2014 1:23 pm

It’s a “meet-cute” moment straight out of a romantic comedy. “This might seem cheesy, but it was meant to be,” says Val Tanco of the serendipitous moment she met Sophy Jesty. “I literally just ran into her in an elevator.

Equality: 50 years of the Civil Rights Act

December 1, 2014 1:00 pm

How far we’ve come—and how far we still have to go. “We must not approach the observance and enforcement of this law in a vengeful spirit. Its purpose is not to punish. Its purpose is not to divide, but to end divisions—divisions which have lasted all too long. Its purpose is national, not regional.