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Intersections Of Race, Ethnicity, And The Law, Valerie P. Hans, Ramiro Martinez Jr.
Intersections Of Race, Ethnicity, And The Law, Valerie P. Hans, Ramiro Martinez Jr.
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The development of law is inextricably linked to matters of race and ethnicity. The stories of minority citizens--the texture of their lives, the prejudices they have endured, and their struggles for fair treatment--have been documented in the pages of legal opinions, as judges over the years have wrestled with fundamental questions of racial bias and inequality. Studying race, ethnicity, and the law is challenging for many reasons, not the least of which is the prime difficulty of defining what we mean by race. Even the choice of words used to identify minority individuals has social and political ramifications. How law …
The Deceptive Nature Of Rules, Larry Alexander, Emily Sherwin
The Deceptive Nature Of Rules, Larry Alexander, Emily Sherwin
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
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Representing In-Between: Law, Anthropology, And The Rhetoric Of Interdisciplinarity, Annelise Riles
Representing In-Between: Law, Anthropology, And The Rhetoric Of Interdisciplinarity, Annelise Riles
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
This article considers how lawyers and nonlawyers discuss the contribution of interdisciplinary scholarship to the law as a means of rethinking the relationship between these differences. The article first examines the arguments of the nineteenth-century lawyer Henry Maine and of the twentieth-century anthropologist Edmund Leach on the subject, and notes the difference between Maine's emphasis on "movement" from one theoretical discovery to another and Leach's emphasis on creating relationships between disciplines by exploiting a "space in between" the two. Then, turning to contemporary scholarship in legal anthropology, "Law and Society," and the sociology of law, the article critiques the rigid …
Delivery Of Legal Services To Ordinary Americans, Roger C. Cramton
Delivery Of Legal Services To Ordinary Americans, Roger C. Cramton
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
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