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The Emerging Section 1983 Private Party Defense, Sheldon Nahmod Jan 2004

The Emerging Section 1983 Private Party Defense, Sheldon Nahmod

Sheldon Nahmod

No abstract provided.


Correspondence: The Politics Of Inmate Litigation, Margo Schlanger Jan 2004

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 Jan 2004

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 Jan 2004

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 …