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When Honesty Is "Simply…Impractical" For The Supreme Court: How The Constitution Came To Require Busing For School Racial Balance, Lino A. Graglia

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Swann's Way: The School Busing Case and the Supreme Court by Bernard Schwartz

The Illegality Of The Constitution, Richard Kay

Faculty Articles and Papers

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The Constitution And The Consequences Of The Social History Of Racism, Robert A. Sedler

Law Faculty Research Publications

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Reformas En La Corte Suprema, Horacio M. Lynch, Silvana Stanga

Horacio M. LYNCH

Investigación realizada con el auspicio de la Fundación Antorchas. Se trata de un trabajo único en su género que estudió el trabajo de un mes de la CSN argentina (más de 400 fallos) para determinar su funcionamiento, con pautas y sugerencias en el orden institucional, y funcional (v. comentario del diario La Nación).

Will The Constitution Survive Into The Twenty-First Century - Some Reflections On The Bicentennial Of The United States Constitution, 21 J. Marshall L. Rev. 79 (1987), Michael P. Seng

UIC Law Review

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The Elwood Case: Vindicating The Educational Rights Of The Disabled, A. Wayne Mackay

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

The guarantees of the Charter of Rights affect the definition of education for the disabled. The case of Elwood v. Halifax County - Bedford District School Board, a landmark case in educational rights of disabled children in Canada, has major implications for educational practice.

One of the earliest and most controversial Charter of Rights challenges to the existing educational structure has come from parents of disabled children. Disabled children and their parents are blazing a trail to define educational rights in Canada, and the process is giving some shape to the the elusive concept of equality enshrined in the …

Teaching Tolerance, Robert F. Nagel

Publications

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Taking Liberties: Privacy, Private Choice, And Social Contract Theory, Anita L. Allen

All Faculty Scholarship

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Adjudication Is Not Interpretation: Some Reservations About The Law-As-Literature Movement, Robin West

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Among other achievements, the modern law-as-literature movement has prompted increasing numbers of legal scholars to embrace the claim that adjudication is interpretation, and more specifically, that constitutional adjudication is interpretation of the Constitution. That adjudication is interpretation -- that an adjudicative act is an interpretive act -- more than any other central commitment, unifies the otherwise diverse strands of the legal and constitutional theory of the late twentieth century.

In this article, I will argue in this article against both modern forms of interpretivism. The analogue of law to literature, on which much of modern interpretivism is based, although fruitful, …