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The Emerging Section 1983 Private Party Defense, Sheldon Nahmod
The Emerging Section 1983 Private Party Defense, Sheldon Nahmod
Sheldon Nahmod
No abstract provided.
Correspondence: The Politics Of Inmate Litigation, Margo Schlanger
Correspondence: The Politics Of Inmate Litigation, Margo Schlanger
Margo Schlanger
No abstract provided.
Determinants Of Civil Rights Filings In Federal District Court By Jail And Prison Inmates, Margo Schlanger, Anne Morrison Piehl
Determinants Of Civil Rights Filings In Federal District Court By Jail And Prison Inmates, Margo Schlanger, Anne Morrison Piehl
Margo Schlanger
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Taking Conservatives Seriously: A Moral Justification For Affirmative Action And Reparations, Kim Forde-Mazrui
Taking Conservatives Seriously: A Moral Justification For Affirmative Action And Reparations, Kim Forde-Mazrui
Kim Forde-Mazrui
Underlying the debate over affirmative action and reparations for black Americans is a dispute about the extent to which American society is responsible for present effects of past racial discrimination. Although much has been written on the subject, the scholarship too often sheds more heat than light, and tends to be dominated by extreme positions incapable of taking opposing claims seriously. This Article weighs in on this debate in a novel and constructive manner. The Article defends a societal obligation to remedy past discrimination by accepting, rather than dismissing, principles of conservatives who oppose affirmative action and reparations. Taking conservatives …