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Race And Sentencing Equality In Kentucky, Robert L. Hurley Dec 1979

Race And Sentencing Equality In Kentucky, Robert L. Hurley

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Disparity in sentencing felons based on racial considerations has long has been considered a problem for civil libertarians and scholars alike. Examining data gathered in Kentucky, this thesis addresses this issue through the application of recently developed methodological techniques. Utilizing an index of sentencing equality, this study shows that while differences do exist in black and white offender offense characteristics, these differences do not account for the variations in sentences rendered in cases of white as opposed to black felons. This exploratory research reviews and critiques previous research and provides evidence which should prove useful in resolving the problem of …


Bakke, Weber And Mr. Justice Stewart: Constitutional Theory And Affirmative Action, Albert Broderick Oct 1979

Bakke, Weber And Mr. Justice Stewart: Constitutional Theory And Affirmative Action, Albert Broderick

North Carolina Central Law Review

No abstract provided.


Lawyers V. Educators: Changing Perceptions Of Desegregation In Public Higher Education, Jean Preer Oct 1979

Lawyers V. Educators: Changing Perceptions Of Desegregation In Public Higher Education, Jean Preer

North Carolina Central Law Review

No abstract provided.


Clash In The Classroom, David L. Chambers Jul 1979

Clash In The Classroom, David L. Chambers

Reviews

David L. Chambers reviews two books covering Brown vs. Bakke in The Washington Post. Chambers discusses ‘The Bakke Case: Politics of Inequality’ by Joel Dreyfuss and Charles Lawrence III, and ‘From Brown to Bakke: The Supreme Court and School Integration’ by J. Harvie Wilkinson.


Beyond Bakke: The Constitution And Redressing The Social History Of Racism, Robert Allen Sedler Apr 1979

Beyond Bakke: The Constitution And Redressing The Social History Of Racism, Robert Allen Sedler

Law Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.


Slavery, Race, And The Criminal Law In Antebellum North Carolina: A Reconsideration Of The Thomas Ruffin Court, Patrick S. Brady Apr 1979

Slavery, Race, And The Criminal Law In Antebellum North Carolina: A Reconsideration Of The Thomas Ruffin Court, Patrick S. Brady

North Carolina Central Law Review

No abstract provided.


South Africa: Using The Law To Establish And Maintain A Pigmentocracy, Rex S. Heinke Mar 1979

South Africa: Using The Law To Establish And Maintain A Pigmentocracy, Rex S. Heinke

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Human Rights and the South African Legal Order by John Dugard


The Changing, But Not Declining, Significance Of Race, Thomas F. Pettigrew Mar 1979

The Changing, But Not Declining, Significance Of Race, Thomas F. Pettigrew

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions by William Julius Wilson


Racial Prejudice And Scholarly Prejudice: New Confrontations At The Selma Bridge, J. Mills Thornton Iii Mar 1979

Racial Prejudice And Scholarly Prejudice: New Confrontations At The Selma Bridge, J. Mills Thornton Iii

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by David J. Garrow


What Does Bakke Require Of Law Schools? The Salt Board Of Governors Statement, Howard Lesnick Jan 1979

What Does Bakke Require Of Law Schools? The Salt Board Of Governors Statement, Howard Lesnick

Statements

In 1979, Professor Lesnick wrote a statement for the Board of Governors of the Society of American Law Teachers after the Supreme Court's decision in University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978). The question addressed in the statement is: What changes (if any) in minority-admissions programs are university law schools now obligated to make to comply with the Supreme Court's decision in Bakke?


Book Review: In The Matter Of Color: Race & The American Legal Process-The Colonial Period. By Leon Higgenbotham, Jr. , 12 J. Marshall J. Prac. & Proc. 731 (1979), Robert Kratovil Jan 1979

Book Review: In The Matter Of Color: Race & The American Legal Process-The Colonial Period. By Leon Higgenbotham, Jr. , 12 J. Marshall J. Prac. & Proc. 731 (1979), Robert Kratovil

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Comment: Race, Property Rights, And The Economic Consequences Of Reconstruction, Robert B. Jones Jan 1979

Comment: Race, Property Rights, And The Economic Consequences Of Reconstruction, Robert B. Jones

Vanderbilt Law Review

Professors Haws and Namorato are to be praised for their pioneer work in studying the operation of a county court system in the Reconstruction era. They break new historical ground in this effort that has the potential for greatly contributing to the study of the legal history of the South. More scholars must engage in this endeavor if the field of legal history is to reach its full maturity. While their efforts are to be complimented it must be pointed out, however, that they generally fail to make their case in this Article. They do not show a significant link …


Bakke As Precedent: Does Mr. Justice Powell Have A Theory, Vincent A. Blasi Jan 1979

Bakke As Precedent: Does Mr. Justice Powell Have A Theory, Vincent A. Blasi

Faculty Scholarship

What does it all mean? The Supreme Court's decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke invites assessment at many levels. Was it really a "Solomonic compromise" worthy of our constitutional tradition, as some prominent scholars have suggested? Or does the decision represent, as I believe it does, a disturbing failure by the Court to discharge its responsibility to give coherent, practical meaning to our most important constitutional ideals? Does the uncharacteristically opaque and simplistic opinion of Justice Stevens mask deep divisions and ambivalences among the four justices who subscribed to it? Can there be any validity to …


The Desegregation Dilemma: A Vote For Voluntarism, Frank Goodman Jan 1979

The Desegregation Dilemma: A Vote For Voluntarism, Frank Goodman

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Affirmative Action And The Harvard College Diversity-Discretion Model: Paradigm Or Pretext?, Alan M. Dershowitz, Laura Hanft Jan 1979

Affirmative Action And The Harvard College Diversity-Discretion Model: Paradigm Or Pretext?, Alan M. Dershowitz, Laura Hanft

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Unresolved Problems Of Reverse Discrimination, Kent Greenawalt Jan 1979

The Unresolved Problems Of Reverse Discrimination, Kent Greenawalt

Faculty Scholarship

The current widespread use of remedial affirmative action programs makes the legitimacy of reverse discrimination a pragmatic social concern. That alone, however, would not explain the intense interest generated by Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. The question posed in the case compels our attention because it forces a choice between two values that occupy a high place in the liberal conception of justice and claim substantial support in the equal protection clause. On the one hand, justice requires that groups that have previously suffered gross discrimination be given truly equal opportunity in American life; on the other, …


The Constitution And School Desegregation: The Nature Of The Substantive Right, Robert Allen Sedler Jan 1979

The Constitution And School Desegregation: The Nature Of The Substantive Right, Robert Allen Sedler

Law Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.


What Does Bakke Require Of Law Schools?, Howard Lesnick Jan 1979

What Does Bakke Require Of Law Schools?, Howard Lesnick

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


A Prison And A Prisoner: The Provincial's View, Emily Calhoun Jan 1979

A Prison And A Prisoner: The Provincial's View, Emily Calhoun

Publications

No abstract provided.