Rethinking Law School Tenure Standards

Rethinking tenure in dental education.

In the midst of changes in the environment of academic dentistry over the past two decades, reform of traditional tenure is one way for dental schools to respond to these changes while maintaining scholarly, evidence-based learning environments. Challenges facing academic dentistry today and in the future include a crisis in workforce capacity, difficulty attracting recent graduates into academ...

Academic Tenure and “White Male” Standards: Some Lessons from the Patent Law

Rethinking legislative consent law?

Rethinking Health-based Environmental Standards

though only at too high a level of generality to provide regulators with the needed guidance.32 For example, Professor Mark Sagoff suggests agencies should regulate up to the “knee of the [cost] curve,”33 which is “the point at which the cost of controlling the next incremental unit of pollution begins to increase rapidly,” and returns to the environment rapidly diminish per dollar spent.34 But...

Rethinking Jurisdiction in International Law

Jurisdiction has traditionally been considered in international law as purely a question of the rights and powers of states. Conceived in this way, the rules on jurisdiction serve the important function of delimiting (while accepting some overlap of) state regulatory authority – the question of when a person or event may be subject to national regulation – a function which is shared with the co...