The thin film microwave iris

Development of waveguide iris for microwave coupling applications using thin film techniques is discussed. Production process and installation of iris are described. Iris improves power transmission properties of waveguide window

Book Review: A Lawyer Looks at the Equal Rights Amendment, by Rex E. Lee

In the wake of the ERA\u27s demise, Rex Lee\u27s book, A Lawyer Looks at the Equal Rights Amendment, is instructive, not as an academic postmortem on the Amendment itself, but as a bellwether of the future prospects for constitutional equality of women in America

Third Annual Golden Gate University School of Law Chief Justice Ronald M. George Distinguished Lecture: Chief Justices of Color

Transcript of the panel discussion at the Ronald M. George Distinguished Lecture: Chief Justices of Color held October 18, 2011, featuring guest lecturer Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye of the California Supreme Court

Calculation of Attorneys\u27 Fees Awards in Title VII Actions Against Private Defendants

In this article it will be argued that the legislative history of the attorneys\u27 fees provision of Title VII requires that fee awards be computed by a method which produces fees sufficient to sustain a Title VII bar, and that this may best be accomplished by a modified version of the approach customarily used in the antitrust area. First addressed will be a brief overview of Title VII litigation problems, with emphasis on the complexity, duration, and high-risk nature of the work involved. Then follows a discussion of the legislative purpose of Title VII and its fee provisions, with particular attention to the strong public policy considerations which must underlie judicial implementation of the fee award provisions of the Act. Next addressed will be the comparative advantages of the two primary methods of fee calculation employed by federal courts in complex litigation based, respectively, on the Title VII case of Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express and the antitrust case of Lindy Brothers Builders, Inc. v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. It will be argued that the Lindy method should be adopted by courts in computing Title VII fee awards. Lastly, two selected problem areas of implementation of Lindy in the Title VII context will be discussed

Viewpoint: Post-Feminist Legal Profession? Not So Fast

Just the other day I had occasion to dine with a group of remarkable women of a certain age who had recently been featured by this newspaper as Women Leaders in the Law: Blazing the trail for 35-plus years. Right there you knew, of course, that these were women who had stayed the course, who had early and often resisted the siren call of a more conventional path, and who collectively called to mind the rallying cry of an earlier time: This is what a feminist looks like. Having individually and together fought their way to the top of their respective fields at the height of the woman\u27s movement, it was clear that this group was flummoxed by younger women\u27s apparent repudiation of the feminist label. This despite the conviction that newer generations surely must be no less concerned than their forebears with issues of equality and liberation of the human spirit. Grappling with the feminist sobriquet is hardly a new phenomenon. Some years ago, Dame Rebecca West, for example, observed, I ... have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. But I fear that today\u27s plainly erroneous yet oft-stated assumption that we now live in a post-feminist, post-racial society poses great peril to the women now coming up in the legal profession

Issues Forum: Pornography

Prof. Dru Ramey discussed the ramifications of the decision of the school book store manager to carry issues of Playboy for sale