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Polarized Voting And The Political Process: The Transformation Of Voting Rights Jurisprudence, Samuel Issacharoff
Polarized Voting And The Political Process: The Transformation Of Voting Rights Jurisprudence, Samuel Issacharoff
Michigan Law Review
This article attempts to provide an analytic framework for the evolved voting rights law as it confronts the persistent effects of racial factionalism in the electoral arena. Insight into the corrosiveness of racially polarized voting and its frustration of minority electoral opportunity has organized and guided the new voting rights jurisprudence. This article will argue that the combination of process distortions from majority domination of electoral outcomes and substantive deprivation from minority exclusion defines this area of law and protects it against challenge from currently fashionable academic currents. The central insights gathered from the focus on polarized voting, I will …
Remedies For Environmental Racism: A View From The Field, Luke W. Cole
Remedies For Environmental Racism: A View From The Field, Luke W. Cole
Michigan Law Review
The Michigan Law Review's recent Note, Remedying Environmental Racism, is an important and timely analysis of a civil rights law-based approach to environmental justice work - one of the first to emerge from legal academia. It correctly points out the high hurdles that toxic racism's victims must overcome to successfully pursue such a strategy. Godsil's piece will hopefully spur more academic and on-the-ground work in this nascent legal field, which I call "environmental poverty law" - that is, representing low-income communities (often, in this field, communities of color) facing environmental hazards. As a practitioner of environmental poverty law …
Illiberal Education: The Politics Of Race And Sex On Campus, Bruce Goldner
Illiberal Education: The Politics Of Race And Sex On Campus, Bruce Goldner
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus by Dinesh D'Souza
Whose World And How?, Milner S. Ball
Whose World And How?, Milner S. Ball
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Rethinking the American Race Problem by Roy L. Brooks
Murdering The Spirit: Racism, Rights, And Commerce, Robin West
Murdering The Spirit: Racism, Rights, And Commerce, Robin West
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Alchemy of Race and Rights: The Diary of a Law Professor by Patricia L. Williams