Exhausting domains of the symmetrized bidisc

We show that the symmetrized bidisc may be exhausted by strongly linearly convex domains. It shows in particular the existence of a strongly linearly convex domain that cannot be exhausted by domains biholomorphic to convex ones.Comment: 6 page

Obstructions to embeddability into hyperquadrics and explicit examples

We give series of explicit examples of Levi-nondegenerate real-analytic hypersurfaces in complex spaces that are not transversally holomorphically embeddable into hyperquadrics of any dimension. For this, we construct invariants attached to a given hypersurface that serve as obstructions to embeddability. We further study the embeddability problem for real-analytic submanifolds of higher codimension and answer a question by Forstneri\v{c}.Comment: Revised version, appendix and references adde

Doing Well and Doing Good: The Careers of Minority and White Graduates of the University of Michigan Law School

Of the more than 1,000 law students attending the University of Michigan Law School in the spring of 1965, only one was African American. The Law School faculty, in response, decided to develop a program to attract more African American students. One element of this program was the authorization of a deliberately race-conscious admissiosn process. By the mid-1970s, at least 25 African American students were represented in each graduating class. By the late 1970s, Latino and Native American students were included in the program as well. Over the nearly three decades between 1970 and 1998, the admissions efforts and goals have taken many forms, but, in all, about 800 African American, 350 Latino, 200 Asian American, and nearly 100 Native American students have graduated from the Law School

Michigan\u27s Minority Graduates in Practice: Answers to Methodological Queries

Before making a few remarks in response to those who commented on our article (Lempert, Chambers, and Adams 2000), we would like to express our gratitude to the editors of Law and Social Inquiry for securing these commentaries and to the people who wrote them. The comments both highlight the potential uses to which our research and similar studies may be put and give us the opportunity to address methodological concerns and questions that other readers of our article may share with those who commented on it. The responses to our work are of two types. Professors Nelson, Payne, and Sander focus largely on methodological concerns and the limits of what can be learned from our study. Professors Guinier, Russell, and Wilkins draw on our work to pursue their own themes. Except for clearing up some understandable but nonetheless mistaken impressions of Professor Russell, we shall not discuss the Guinier, Russell, and Wilkins essays, for we think they stand on their own as articles and do not call for a response. For those who may similarly seek to draw on our research, however, we wish to emphasize a point that Professor Sander makes and that is at the heart of Professor Wilkins\u27s important contribution. Our study looks at the graduates of only one law school, a school that is among the most selective and prestigious of American law schools. In comparison to the graduates of most law schools, for example, far more Michigan graduates work in large private firms, and far fewer work as solo practitioners or in very small firms. While we are confident in the general validity of our results as they apply to Michigan graduates and believe that our findings are likely to generalize to graduates of most so-called elite American law schools, our findings cannot be safely generalized to graduates of other law schools. We are not saying that our findings will not generalize beyond the graduates of elite law schools, but we are noting that no strong claim can be made that they will

The African American, Latino, and Native American Graduates of One American Law School, 1970-1996

In the spring of 1965, only one African American student and no Latino students attended the University of Michigan Law School. At the time, Michigan, like most American law schools, was a training place for white males. In 1966, the law school faculty adopted a new admissions policy that took race into account as a plus factor in the admissions process. This policy of affirmative action has taken many forms over the years, but, across the decades of the 1970\u27s, the 1980\u27s and the 1990\u27s, about 800 African Americans, 350 Latinos, 200 Asian Americans and 100 Native Americans have graduated from the law school. The great majority of the African American, Latino and Native American students would not have been adrrutted to Michigan if race had not been taken into account. In 1996, three of us at Michigan who have been interested for many years in the careers of our alumni decided to undertake a survey of all of our minority graduates and a sample of our white graduates. Our principal goal was simply to learn the experiences of 30 years of minority graduates of our school We also realized that one of many ways to respond to public doubts about affirmative action in admissions would be to demonstrate (if it in fact proved true) that the minority graduates of our school have had productive careers and provided highly valuable service

Michigan\u27s Minority Graduates in Practice: Answers to Methodological Queries

Before making a few remarks in response to those who commented on our article (Lempert, Chambers, and Adams 2000), we would like to express our gratitude to the editors of Law and Social Inquiry for securing these commentaries and to the people who wrote them. The comments both highlight the potential uses to which our research and similar studies may be put and give us the opportunity to address methodological concerns and questions that other readers of our article may share with those who commented on it. The responses to our work are of two types. Professors Nelson, Payne, and Sander focus largely on methodological concerns and the limits of what can be learned from our study. Professors Guinier, Russell, and Wilkins draw on our work to pursue their own themes. Except for clearing up some understandable but nonetheless mistaken impressions of Professor Russell, we shall not discuss the Guinier, Russell, and Wilkins essays, for we think they stand on their own as articles and do not call for a response. For those who may similarly seek to draw on our research, however, we wish to emphasize a point that Professor Sander makes and that is at the heart of Professor Wilkins\u27s important contribution. Our study looks at the graduates of only one law school, a school that is among the most selective and prestigious of American law schools. In comparison to the graduates of most law schools, for example, far more Michigan graduates work in large private firms, and far fewer work as solo practitioners or in very small firms. While we are confident in the general validity of our results as they apply to Michigan graduates and believe that our findings are likely to generalize to graduates of most so-called elite American law schools, our findings cannot be safely generalized to graduates of other law schools. We are not saying that our findings will not generalize beyond the graduates of elite law schools, but we are noting that no strong claim can be made that they will

Michigan\u27s Minority Graduates in Practice: The River Runs through Law School

This paper reports the results of a 1997-98 survey designed to explore the careers of the University of Michigan Law School\u27s minority graduates from the classes of 1970 through 1996, and of a random sample of Michigan Law School\u27s white alumni who graduated during the same years. It is to date the most detailed quantitative exploration of how minority students fare after they graduate from law school and enter law practice or related careers. The results reveal that almost all of Michigan Law School\u27s minority graduates pass a bar exam and go on to have careers that appear successful by conventional measures. In particular, the survey indicates that minority graduates (defined so as to include graduates with African American, Latino, and Native American backgrounds) are no less successful than white graduates, whether success is measured by the log of current income, self-reported satisfaction, or an index of service contributions. Also, although an admissions index that combines LSAT scores and undergraduate grade-point average is a significant predictor of law school grades, it does not predict career success on any of our three outcome measures. Michigan is a highly selective law school; our results may not generalize to people who have graduated from other law schools

On the Kobayashi-Royden metric for ellipsoids

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