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A 6-3 Supreme Court Could Allow The Government To Openly Discriminate In Its Policies, Katherine A. Shaw, Leah Litman
A 6-3 Supreme Court Could Allow The Government To Openly Discriminate In Its Policies, Katherine A. Shaw, Leah Litman
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Over the past few days, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear challenges to hot-button Trump administration policies involving the border wall, an attempt to exclude noncitizens from the census breakdown used for allocating seats in Congress and limits on who can apply for asylum from Mexico.
Redressing Hiv/Aids Discrimination In Nigeria: The Implications Of The Anti-Discrimination Act Of 2015, Ngozi Okidegbe
Redressing Hiv/Aids Discrimination In Nigeria: The Implications Of The Anti-Discrimination Act Of 2015, Ngozi Okidegbe
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Immutability And Innateness Arguments About Lesbian, Gay, And Bisexual Rights, Edward Stein
Immutability And Innateness Arguments About Lesbian, Gay, And Bisexual Rights, Edward Stein
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Is Integration A Discriminatory Purpose?, Michelle Adams
Is Integration A Discriminatory Purpose?, Michelle Adams
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Is integration a form of discrimination? Remarkably, recent Supreme Court doctrine suggests that the answer to this question may well be yes. In Ricci v. DeStefano, the Court characterizes - for the very first time - government action taken to avoid disparate-impact liability and to integrate the workplace as "race-based," and then invalidates that action under a heightened level of judicial review. Consequently, Ricci suggests that the Court is open to the "equivalence doctrine," which posits that laws intended to racially integrate are morally and constitutionally equivalent to laws intended to racially separate. Under the equivalence doctrine, integration is simply …
Intergroup Rivalry, Anti-Competitive Conduct And Affirmative Action, Michelle Adams
Intergroup Rivalry, Anti-Competitive Conduct And Affirmative Action, Michelle Adams
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Significant research in social science describes racial inequality as grounded in notions of group identity and group conflict. Sociologists and social psychologists who study discrimination and prejudice have moved away from theories that explain prejudice solely as a problem of individual perception, and toward theories that view individual cognitive processes as related to group membership. While present social science yields no consensus view, there is a striking emphasis in the current literature on group identity theories as "powerful determinants of behavior." These theories, which stress the importance of prejudice as a group-based phenomenon and focus on "social-structural theories of group …
It Is Lawyers We Are Funding: A Constitutional Challenge To The 1996 Restrictions On The Legal Services Corporation, Jessica A. Roth
It Is Lawyers We Are Funding: A Constitutional Challenge To The 1996 Restrictions On The Legal Services Corporation, Jessica A. Roth
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Minority Protection In Residential Private Governments, Stewart E. Sterk
Minority Protection In Residential Private Governments, Stewart E. Sterk
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United States Ratification Of The Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination Against Women, Malvina Halberstam
United States Ratification Of The Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination Against Women, Malvina Halberstam
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The Hermeneutic Of Acceptance And The Discourse Of The Grotesque, With A Classroom Exercise On Vichy Law, Richard H. Weisberg
The Hermeneutic Of Acceptance And The Discourse Of The Grotesque, With A Classroom Exercise On Vichy Law, Richard H. Weisberg
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