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Full-Text Articles in Law and Race
Grutter V. Bollinger/Gratz V. Bollinger: View From A Limestone Ledge, Gerald Torres
Grutter V. Bollinger/Gratz V. Bollinger: View From A Limestone Ledge, Gerald Torres
Gerald Torres
No abstract provided.
Grutter V. Bollinger/Gratz V. Bollinger: View From A Limestone Ledge, Gerald Torres
Grutter V. Bollinger/Gratz V. Bollinger: View From A Limestone Ledge, Gerald Torres
Gerald Torres
No abstract provided.
"We Are On The Move", Gerald Torres
"We Are On The Move", Gerald Torres
Gerald Torres
Professor Torres explores the idea of "racial literacy " by working through a series of examples where being able to "read" race mattered. Reading race correctly helped policy makers and advocates understand the real problem and helped craft solutions that were generally beneficial by addressing structural defects not just individual bad actors.
Changing The Wind: Notes Toward A Demosprudence Of Law And Social Movements, Lani Guinier, Gerald Torres
Changing The Wind: Notes Toward A Demosprudence Of Law And Social Movements, Lani Guinier, Gerald Torres
Gerald Torres
This essay was influenced by a class on Law and Social Movements that Professors Guinier and Torres taught at the Yale Law School in 2011. This essay was also informed by numerous conversations with Bruce Ackerman regarding his book that is under review in this Symposium. While we are in fundamental agreement with Professor Ackerman’s project, as well as the claims he makes as to the new constitutional canon, we supplement his analysis with the overlooked impact of the lawmaking potential of social movements. In particular, we focus on those social movements that were critical to the legal changes that …