Richard O Lempert
Biographic Data
| ID | 1044982 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard O Lempert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | O Lempert |
| SIGNATURE | LEMPERT R O |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
When Law Calls, Does Science Answer? A Survey of Distinguished Scientists & Engineers
Sound legal decision-making frequently requires the assistance of scientists and engineers. The survey we conducted with the cooperation of the American Academy examines the views of the legal system held by some of the nation's most distinguished scientists and engineers, what motivates them to participate or to refuse to assist in lawsuits when asked, and their assessment of their experiences when they do participate. The survey reveals that a …
Activist Scholarship
This comment responds to Frank Munger's Law and Society Association Presidential Address on scholars as activists. It argues that scholarly research can both constitute and fuel activism. Activist scholarship is, however, not confined to scholars in any one part of the political spectrum. Deeply held values can motivate exceptional work but also raise the danger that political commitments will unduly influence purportedly "objective" findings. Va…
Michigan's 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 r…
Michigan's 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's minority graduates from the classes of 1970 through 1996, and of a random sample of Michigan Law School's 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. Th…
Under the Influence? Drugs and the American Work Force
Drug use in the workplace, its effect on performance and safety, and the role of workplace drug testing has received much attention in the popular press. But what do we actually know about this troubling issue?With an extensive and readable overview of the literature, the committee presents what we do know by examining the major issues: The extent and severity of drug use on and off the job. The strengths and weaknesses of methods for detecting d…
Under the Influence: Drugs and the American Work Force
The effects of graduate training on reasoning: Formal discipline and thinking about everyday-life events
quot; The theory of formal disciplinenthat is, the view that instruction in abstract rule systems can affect reasoning about everyday-life eventsnhas been rejected by 20th century psychologists on the basis of rather scant evidence. We examined the effects of graduate training in law, medicine, psychology, and chemistry on statistical reasoning, methodological reasoning aboutconfounded variables, and reasoning about problems in the logic of the c…
Civil Juries and Complex Cases: Let's Not Rush to Judgment
holding that there is no complexity exception to the seventh amendment).2. 631 F.2d 1069 (3d Cir.1980) (holding that due process considerations mean that the seventh amendment does not necessarily mandate jury trials in complex civil suits).5. 631 F.2d at 1087. 6.Judge Seitz argues, for example, that the prospect of a long trial may weed out the most able from the venire, and that a judge's greater ability to allocate time can help him to surmoun…
Grievances and Legitimacy: The Beginnings and End of Dispute Settlement
The study of dispute settlement within the sociology of law has, for the most part, been organized around institutionalized processes of dispute settlement, which typically has meant around dispute settlement institutions. Although some researchers-notably in anthropology-have provided detailed natural histories of disputes, including information about denouements, most dispute settlement research has focused on the immediate inputs into the inst…
Transcript of Conference Proceedings
Mobilizing Private Law: An Introductory Essay
The mobilization of law may be thought of as the process by which legal norms are invoked to regulate behavior. In the area of private law, mobilization has two distinct aspects. The first is the process by which existing disputes become engaged in the legal system. In theory this means that disputes are transferred from an arena where their resolution and the enforcement of resolutions depends on the relative power of the parties as enhanced or …
Questions for Research
The list of research questions that follows reflects an attempt to cull all the research ideas found in the original transcript. Hence some of these ideas may be missing from the edited version of the transcript reproduced above. In this list each research idea is phrased in the form of a question, which at least one of the conference participants would like to see answered. Other than that, no editing was attempted. Some research questions shoul…
Michigan's 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's minority graduates from the classes of 1970 through 1996, and of a random sample of Michigan Law School's 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. Th…
Mobilizing Private Law: An Introductory Essay
The mobilization of law may be thought of as the process by which legal norms are invoked to regulate behavior. In the area of private law, mobilization has two distinct aspects. The first is the process by which existing disputes become engaged in the legal system. In theory this means that disputes are transferred from an arena where their resolution and the enforcement of resolutions depends on the relative power of the parties as enhanced or …
Grievances and Legitimacy: The Beginnings and End of Dispute Settlement
The study of dispute settlement within the sociology of law has, for the most part, been organized around institutionalized processes of dispute settlement, which typically has meant around dispute settlement institutions. Although some researchers-notably in anthropology-have provided detailed natural histories of disputes, including information about denouements, most dispute settlement research has focused on the immediate inputs into the inst…
Activist Scholarship
This comment responds to Frank Munger's Law and Society Association Presidential Address on scholars as activists. It argues that scholarly research can both constitute and fuel activism. Activist scholarship is, however, not confined to scholars in any one part of the political spectrum. Deeply held values can motivate exceptional work but also raise the danger that political commitments will unduly influence purportedly "objective" findings. Va…
Civil Juries and Complex Cases: Let's Not Rush to Judgment
holding that there is no complexity exception to the seventh amendment).2. 631 F.2d 1069 (3d Cir.1980) (holding that due process considerations mean that the seventh amendment does not necessarily mandate jury trials in complex civil suits).5. 631 F.2d at 1087. 6.Judge Seitz argues, for example, that the prospect of a long trial may weed out the most able from the venire, and that a judge's greater ability to allocate time can help him to surmoun…
Michigan's 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 r…
Transcript of Conference Proceedings
Mobilizing Private Law: An Introductory Essay
The mobilization of law may be thought of as the process by which legal norms are invoked to regulate behavior. In the area of private law, mobilization has two distinct aspects. The first is the process by which existing disputes become engaged in the legal system. In theory this means that disputes are transferred from an arena where their resolution and the enforcement of resolutions depends on the relative power of the parties as enhanced or …
Questions for Research
The list of research questions that follows reflects an attempt to cull all the research ideas found in the original transcript. Hence some of these ideas may be missing from the edited version of the transcript reproduced above. In this list each research idea is phrased in the form of a question, which at least one of the conference participants would like to see answered. Other than that, no editing was attempted. Some research questions shoul…
Civil Juries and Complex Cases: Let's Not Rush to Judgment
holding that there is no complexity exception to the seventh amendment).2. 631 F.2d 1069 (3d Cir.1980) (holding that due process considerations mean that the seventh amendment does not necessarily mandate jury trials in complex civil suits).5. 631 F.2d at 1087. 6.Judge Seitz argues, for example, that the prospect of a long trial may weed out the most able from the venire, and that a judge's greater ability to allocate time can help him to surmoun…
Grievances and Legitimacy: The Beginnings and End of Dispute Settlement
The study of dispute settlement within the sociology of law has, for the most part, been organized around institutionalized processes of dispute settlement, which typically has meant around dispute settlement institutions. Although some researchers-notably in anthropology-have provided detailed natural histories of disputes, including information about denouements, most dispute settlement research has focused on the immediate inputs into the inst…
The effects of graduate training on reasoning: Formal discipline and thinking about everyday-life events
quot; The theory of formal disciplinenthat is, the view that instruction in abstract rule systems can affect reasoning about everyday-life eventsnhas been rejected by 20th century psychologists on the basis of rather scant evidence. We examined the effects of graduate training in law, medicine, psychology, and chemistry on statistical reasoning, methodological reasoning aboutconfounded variables, and reasoning about problems in the logic of the c…
Under the Influence: Drugs and the American Work Force
Under the Influence? Drugs and the American Work Force
Drug use in the workplace, its effect on performance and safety, and the role of workplace drug testing has received much attention in the popular press. But what do we actually know about this troubling issue?With an extensive and readable overview of the literature, the committee presents what we do know by examining the major issues: The extent and severity of drug use on and off the job. The strengths and weaknesses of methods for detecting d…
Michigan's 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 r…
Michigan's 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's minority graduates from the classes of 1970 through 1996, and of a random sample of Michigan Law School's 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. Th…
Activist Scholarship
This comment responds to Frank Munger's Law and Society Association Presidential Address on scholars as activists. It argues that scholarly research can both constitute and fuel activism. Activist scholarship is, however, not confined to scholars in any one part of the political spectrum. Deeply held values can motivate exceptional work but also raise the danger that political commitments will unduly influence purportedly "objective" findings. Va…
When Law Calls, Does Science Answer? A Survey of Distinguished Scientists & Engineers
Sound legal decision-making frequently requires the assistance of scientists and engineers. The survey we conducted with the cooperation of the American Academy examines the views of the legal system held by some of the nation's most distinguished scientists and engineers, what motivates them to participate or to refuse to assist in lawsuits when asked, and their assessment of their experiences when they do participate. The survey reveals that a …
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