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View article: Inventing Birthright: The Nineteenth-Century Fabrication of <i>jus soli</i> and <i>jus sanguinis</i>
Inventing Birthright: The Nineteenth-Century Fabrication of <i>jus soli</i> and <i>jus sanguinis</i> Open
Formal membership in a state has been an essential political status for well over a century. It is typically gained at birth, either jus soli or jus sanguinis . Jus soli assigns nationality by birth in a nation's territory; jus sanguinis a…
View article: Status Manipulation in Chae Chan Ping v. United States
Status Manipulation in Chae Chan Ping v. United States Open
A Review of Chae Chan Ping v. United States. By Rose Cuison-Villazor in Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and the Law 74, 84. Edited by Bennett Capers, Devon W. Carbado, R.A. Lenhardt and Angela Onwuachi-Willig.
View article: The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on first‐generation women test‐takers: Magnifying adversities, stress, and consequences for bar exam performance
The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on first‐generation women test‐takers: Magnifying adversities, stress, and consequences for bar exam performance Open
By magnifying gender‐ and socioeconomic status‐based inequalities, the COVID‐19 pandemic caused stress and disrupted career progress for professional students. The present work investigated the impact of pandemic‐related stress and prevail…
View article: Mindsets in Legal Education
Mindsets in Legal Education Open
If you teach 1Ls, you may share the following concern. At the start of each year, we meet enthusiastic and successful students who are passionate about law. They arrive on campus invested in learning, ready to work hard, and eager to parti…
View article: Productive Mindset Interventions Mitigate Psychological Friction and Improve Well-Being for Bar Exam Takers
Productive Mindset Interventions Mitigate Psychological Friction and Improve Well-Being for Bar Exam Takers Open
By participating in a brief productive mindset intervention, prospective lawyers improved their wellbeing and performance on the California Bar Exam. Those are the initial results of the research conducted by our interdisciplinary, multi-i…