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What Has Twenty-Five Years Of Racial Gerrymandering Doctrine Achieved?, Michael J. Pitts
What Has Twenty-Five Years Of Racial Gerrymandering Doctrine Achieved?, Michael J. Pitts
UC Irvine Law Review
In 1993, Shaw v. Reno created a doctrine of racial gerrymandering that has now been in existence for twenty-five years. This Article examines the doctrine’s impact over that time—whether it has achieved the goals the Court set out for the doctrine in Shaw and whether it has had other consequences. This Article examines the doctrine’s impact through the lens of the place where the doctrine first took root and has been most heavily litigated over the last twenty-five years—North Carolina’s congressional districts. This Article also draws upon the existing empirical literature in its assessment of the doctrine’s impact. In so …