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Higher Education Redress Statutes: A Critical Analysis Of States’ Reparations In Higher Education, Christopher L. Mathis Jan 2023

Higher Education Redress Statutes: A Critical Analysis Of States’ Reparations In Higher Education, Christopher L. Mathis

Washington and Lee Law Review

This Article introduces a novel concept, higher education redress statutes (“HERS”), to illustrate efforts that acknowledge and amend past wrongs towards African Americans. More proximally, the Article shines a probing light on the escalation of HERS in southeastern states that serve as a site for state regulation and monitoring. The Author exposes how higher education redress statutes, designed to provide relief or remedy to Black people for states’ higher education’s harm, categorically ignore groups of Black people who rightfully should also be members of the statutorily protected class. This Article queries whether legislators can expand the scope of such statutes …


Slavery, Economic Development And The Law: The Dilemma Of The Southern Political Economists, 1800-1860, Eugene D. Genovese, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Jan 1984

Slavery, Economic Development And The Law: The Dilemma Of The Southern Political Economists, 1800-1860, Eugene D. Genovese, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

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