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The Legal Subject In Exile, Kathryn Abrams
The New Deal Constitution In Exile, William E. Forbath
The New Deal Constitution In Exile, William E. Forbath
Duke Law Journal
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The Thirteenth Amendment And The Lost Origins Of Civil Rights, Risa L. Goluboff
The Thirteenth Amendment And The Lost Origins Of Civil Rights, Risa L. Goluboff
Duke Law Journal
For the fifteen years prior to the Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, "civil rights" did not refer to a unified, coherent category. Rather, the content of the term was open, changing, and contradictory. The lawyers of the Civil Rights Section of the Department of Justice, which was created in 1939, were among those thinking about, and experimenting with, different ways of practicing and framing civil rights in the 1940s. Their practice shows how, as the Great Depression faded and World War II loomed, the most prominent civil rights issues shifted from the labor arena to …
Super-Statutes, William N. Eskridge Jr., John A. Ferejohn
Super-Statutes, William N. Eskridge Jr., John A. Ferejohn
Duke Law Journal
Not all statutes are created equal. Appropriations laws perform important public functions, but they are usually short-sighted and have little effect on the law beyond the years for which they apportion public monies. Most substantive statutes adopted by Congress and state legislatures reveal little more ambition: they cover narrow subject areas or represent legislative compromises that are short-term fixes to bigger problems and cannot easily be defended as the best policy result that can be achieved. Some statutes reveal ambition but do not penetrate deeply into American norms or institutional practice. Even fewer statutes successfully penetrate public normative and institutional …