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Full-Text Articles in Law
The Voting Rights Amendment Act Of 2014: A Constitutional Response To Shelby County, Gilda R. Daniels, William Yeomans, Nicholas Stephanopoulos, Gabriel J. Chin, Samuel Bagenstos
The Voting Rights Amendment Act Of 2014: A Constitutional Response To Shelby County, Gilda R. Daniels, William Yeomans, Nicholas Stephanopoulos, Gabriel J. Chin, Samuel Bagenstos
All Faculty Scholarship
This Issue Brief from the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy begins by explaining the Voting Rights Act, Shelby County v. Holder, and the Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014 (VRAA). The remaining sections then explain the four specific ways the VRAA attempted to counter the holding from the Shelby County decision.
The Right To Food As A Human Right: Placing The Blame For World Hunger, Gayle Eagan
The Right To Food As A Human Right: Placing The Blame For World Hunger, Gayle Eagan
In the Public Interest
No abstract provided.
Black Police, White Society, Michigan Law Review
Black Police, White Society, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Black Police, White Society by Stephen Leinen
Of Cultural Determinism And The Limits Of Law, Paul R. Dimond, Gene Sperling
Of Cultural Determinism And The Limits Of Law, Paul R. Dimond, Gene Sperling
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality? by Thomas Sowell
The Burden Of Brown: Thirty Years Of School Desegregation, Michigan Law Review
The Burden Of Brown: Thirty Years Of School Desegregation, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Burden of Brown: Thirty Years of School Desegregation by Raymond Wolters
0413: Mason Co., W. Va. Court Records, 1805-1890, Marshall University Special Collections
0413: Mason Co., W. Va. Court Records, 1805-1890, Marshall University Special Collections
Guides to Manuscript Collections
Assorted records of the county and circuit courts discarded when the old courthouse was razed, ca. 1955. Included are estate appraisals, school house plans, wolf scalp claims and oaths of allegiance. Also included in this collection is accession 0473, composed of photo reproduction of marriages, 1806-1850, and the Register of Free Negroes, 1838-1860.
Ua21 Wku Affirmative Action Plan Volume V, Wku Office Of Equal Opportunity / 504 / Ada Compliance
Ua21 Wku Affirmative Action Plan Volume V, Wku Office Of Equal Opportunity / 504 / Ada Compliance
WKU Archives Records
This volume contains the Report to the President for 1983-84 and the workforce analyses, availability rates, goals and timetables for the 1984-85 academic year by departmental units. The ultimate goals are scheduled for 1987.
Safeguarding Due Process In A Hostile Environment: Foreign Lawyers In South Africa, David S. Abramowitz
Safeguarding Due Process In A Hostile Environment: Foreign Lawyers In South Africa, David S. Abramowitz
Michigan Journal of International Law
Part I of this note briefly describes the effect of apartheid on human rights in South Africa. It then examines how liberal South African attorneys use procedural due process, as defined by the rule of law, to counter these effects. Part II discusses the methods used by foreign attorneys to support South African human rights lawyers. In particular, this section focuses on the activities of the International Commission of Jurists and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. The note concludes that infusing fair process into the South African legal order is the most significant contribution foreign lawyers can …
Book Review Of Passion: An Essay On Personality , Richard F. Devlin Frsc
Book Review Of Passion: An Essay On Personality , Richard F. Devlin Frsc
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
Passion is a cogently structured, compel Jingly argued and seductively enthralling masterpiece which, in years to come, will undoubtedly stand out as an inspirational source for many who seek social transformation. Unger's style, in this essay at least, is lucid and inviting. Substantively, Passion demonstrates not only the depth of his penetrating intellect but also his command of an array of' disciplines. Unger's polymathy is all the more impressive when we remember that ours is an era in which idiosyncratic specialization is the norm.
The Transformation Of The Fourteenth Amendment: Reflections From The Admission Of Maryland's First Black Lawyers, David S. Bogen
The Transformation Of The Fourteenth Amendment: Reflections From The Admission Of Maryland's First Black Lawyers, David S. Bogen
Faculty Scholarship
October 10, 1985, was the one hundredth anniversary of the admission to the bar of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City of Everett J. Waring, the first black lawyer admitted to practice before the state courts in Maryland. This article explores the efforts of African-American lawyers to establish the right to practice law in Maryland and their role in the larger struggle for political and civil rights.
Ua21 Wku Affirmative Action Plan, Volume Vi, Wku Office Of Equal Opportunity / 504 / Ada Compliance
Ua21 Wku Affirmative Action Plan, Volume Vi, Wku Office Of Equal Opportunity / 504 / Ada Compliance
WKU Archives Records
This volume contains the Report to the President for 1984-85, and the workforce analyses, availability rates, goals and timetables for the 1985-86 academic year by departmental units. the ultimate goals are scheduled for 1987.
Black Innocence And The White Jury, Sheri Lynn Johnson
Black Innocence And The White Jury, Sheri Lynn Johnson
Michigan Law Review
Racial prejudice has come under increasingly close scrutiny during the past thirty years, yet its influence on the decisionmaking of criminal juries remains largely hidden from judicial and critical examination. In this Article, Professor Johnson takes a close look at this neglected area. She first sets forth a large body of social science research that reveals a widespread tendency among whites to convict black defendants in instances in which white defendants would be acquitted. Next, she argues that none of the existing techniques for eliminating the influence of racial bias on criminal trials adequately protects minority-race defendants. She contends that …