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Black Police, White Society, Michigan Law Review
Black Police, White Society, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Black Police, White Society by Stephen Leinen
Of Cultural Determinism And The Limits Of Law, Paul R. Dimond, Gene Sperling
Of Cultural Determinism And The Limits Of Law, Paul R. Dimond, Gene Sperling
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality? by Thomas Sowell
The Burden Of Brown: Thirty Years Of School Desegregation, Michigan Law Review
The Burden Of Brown: Thirty Years Of School Desegregation, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Burden of Brown: Thirty Years of School Desegregation by Raymond Wolters
Safeguarding Due Process In A Hostile Environment: Foreign Lawyers In South Africa, David S. Abramowitz
Safeguarding Due Process In A Hostile Environment: Foreign Lawyers In South Africa, David S. Abramowitz
Michigan Journal of International Law
Part I of this note briefly describes the effect of apartheid on human rights in South Africa. It then examines how liberal South African attorneys use procedural due process, as defined by the rule of law, to counter these effects. Part II discusses the methods used by foreign attorneys to support South African human rights lawyers. In particular, this section focuses on the activities of the International Commission of Jurists and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. The note concludes that infusing fair process into the South African legal order is the most significant contribution foreign lawyers can …
Black Innocence And The White Jury, Sheri Lynn Johnson
Black Innocence And The White Jury, Sheri Lynn Johnson
Michigan Law Review
Racial prejudice has come under increasingly close scrutiny during the past thirty years, yet its influence on the decisionmaking of criminal juries remains largely hidden from judicial and critical examination. In this Article, Professor Johnson takes a close look at this neglected area. She first sets forth a large body of social science research that reveals a widespread tendency among whites to convict black defendants in instances in which white defendants would be acquitted. Next, she argues that none of the existing techniques for eliminating the influence of racial bias on criminal trials adequately protects minority-race defendants. She contends that …