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Annie Get Your Gun ‘Cause Help Ain’T Comin’: The Need For Constitutional Protection From Peer Abuse In Public Schools, Adam Michael Greenfield Dec 1993

Annie Get Your Gun ‘Cause Help Ain’T Comin’: The Need For Constitutional Protection From Peer Abuse In Public Schools, Adam Michael Greenfield

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.


An Empirical And Constitutional Analysis Of Racial Ceilings And Public Schools, Michael Heise Jan 1993

An Empirical And Constitutional Analysis Of Racial Ceilings And Public Schools, Michael Heise

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


The Constitutional Ghetto, Robert L. Hayman, Nancy Levit Jan 1993

The Constitutional Ghetto, Robert L. Hayman, Nancy Levit

Nancy Levit

The goal of this Article is to assess two Supreme Court desegregation decisions. It is our view that Board of Education v. Dowell and Freeman v. Pitts are, by almost every measure, seriously flawed decisions. The opinions of the Court rest on epistemic premises - reductionist views of race and racism, and an absurdly formalistic conception of equality - that are by turns either anachronistic, cramped and inauthentic, or demonstrably wrong. Worse, they promote a vision of American society - fragmented, hierarchical, and shamelessly individualistic - that is fundamentally inconsistent both with the egalitarian norms embodied in the Fourteenth Amendment …


The Constitutional Ghetto, Robert L. Hayman, Nancy Levit Jan 1993

The Constitutional Ghetto, Robert L. Hayman, Nancy Levit

Faculty Works

The goal of this Article is to assess two Supreme Court desegregation decisions. It is our view that Board of Education v. Dowell and Freeman v. Pitts are, by almost every measure, seriously flawed decisions. The opinions of the Court rest on epistemic premises - reductionist views of race and racism, and an absurdly formalistic conception of equality - that are by turns either anachronistic, cramped and inauthentic, or demonstrably wrong. Worse, they promote a vision of American society - fragmented, hierarchical, and shamelessly individualistic - that is fundamentally inconsistent both with the egalitarian norms embodied in the Fourteenth Amendment …