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Lawyers For White People?, Jessie Allen
Lawyers For White People?, Jessie Allen
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This article investigates an anomalous legal ethics rule, and in the process exposes how current equal protection doctrine distorts civil rights regulation. When in 2016 the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct finally adopted its first ever rule forbidding discrimination in the practice of law, the rule carried a strange exemption: it does not apply to lawyers’ acceptance or rejection of clients. The exemption for client selection seems wrong. It contradicts the common understanding that in the U.S. today businesses may not refuse service on discriminatory grounds. It sends a message that lawyers enjoy a professional prerogative to discriminate against …
Valuing Identity, Osamudia R. James
What's Left Of Solidarity? Reflections On Law, Race, And Labor History, Martha R. Mahoney
What's Left Of Solidarity? Reflections On Law, Race, And Labor History, Martha R. Mahoney
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A Nation At Prayer, A Nation In Hate: Apartheid In South Africa, Tamara Rice Lave
A Nation At Prayer, A Nation In Hate: Apartheid In South Africa, Tamara Rice Lave
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