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Functionally Suspect: Reconceptualizing 'Race' As A Suspect Classification, Lauren Sudeall
Functionally Suspect: Reconceptualizing 'Race' As A Suspect Classification, Lauren Sudeall
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
In the context of equal protection doctrine, race has become untethered from the criteria underlying its demarcation as a classification warranting heightened scrutiny. As a result, it is no longer an effective vehicle for challenging the existing social and political order; instead, its primary purpose under current doctrine is to signal the presence of an impermissible basis for differential treatment. This Symposium Article suggests that, to more effectively serve its underlying normative goals, equal protection should prohibit not discrimination based on race per se, but government actions that implicate the concerns leading to race’s designation as a suspect classification. For …
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
Bar Admissions-The Character Investigation as an Unconstitutional Scheme to Promote Conformity: Comment on "LSCRRC v. Wadmond"
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Civil Rights--Desegregation--HEW is Required to Make a Program-by-Program Finding of Discrimination in Order to Terminate Federal Funds Under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Constitutional Law--Civil Rights-Section 1985(3) Does Not Reach Private Conspiracies
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Constitutional Law--Criminal Procedure--Sixth Amendment Does Not Require Right to Counsel for In-Custody Suspects at Photographic Identifications
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Constitutional Law--Equal Protection--States May Not Require More Than a Simple Majority to Authorize Local Bond Issues and Tax Levies Through Popular Election
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Constitutional Law--Reapportionment--Multi-Member Districts Which Minimize …