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Brown V. Board In The World: How The Global Turn Matters For School Reform, Human Rights, And Legal Knowledlge, Martha Minow
Brown V. Board In The World: How The Global Turn Matters For School Reform, Human Rights, And Legal Knowledlge, Martha Minow
San Diego Law Review
Global perspectives can contribute to our understandings of any one nation’s laws and decisions. In this light, America’s educational landmark, Brown v. Board of Education, matters not just for the United States but around the world. Inside the United States, a cottage industry of academic scholars studies the influence of Brown where the decision’s impact reaches well beyond racial desegregation of schools. The litigation has by now a well-known and complicated relationship to actual racial integration within American schools, as the case perhaps exacerbated tensions and slowed otherwise gradual reform, and perhaps at the same time galvanized the social movement …
Finding Fundamental Fairness: Protecting The Rights Of Homosexuals Under European Union Accession Law, Travis J. Langenkamp
Finding Fundamental Fairness: Protecting The Rights Of Homosexuals Under European Union Accession Law, Travis J. Langenkamp
San Diego International Law Journal
In tackling the issue of sexual orientation discrimination, the European Union must make significant efforts to conform or, perhaps, eradicate incongruous legislation within Applicant Countries. The difficulty of this endeavor is two-fold: first, in terms of the number and complexity of the laws of each Applicant Country; and, second, in the absence of any detailed and systematic documentation of sexual orientation discrimination within those same Applicant Countries. Compounding, if not confounding, such legitimate endeavors are the inconsistent anti-gay legislation prevalent within the present Member States. The stakes are high for Member States and Applicant Countries alike. Thus, the European Union's …
A Tale Of Two Cultures: Or Making The Proper Connection Between Law, Social History And The Political Economy Of Despair, Robert J. Cottrol
A Tale Of Two Cultures: Or Making The Proper Connection Between Law, Social History And The Political Economy Of Despair, Robert J. Cottrol
San Diego Law Review
In this Article, Professor Cottrol examines a pervasive culture of pessimism amongst a minority of underclass Black Americans the likes of which must be addressed if America's laws and public policy is to complete the unfinished work of the Civil Rights Revolution. The author argues that the development this culture is the result of long-term historical trends, the results of which came to fruition after the Second World War. He suggests Americans must shift their focus from familiar histories of southern slavery and Jim Crow to an examination of the histories of race relations in northern cities. Further, the author …