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Jerry L. Mashaw And The Public Law Curriculum, Peter L. Strauss
Jerry L. Mashaw And The Public Law Curriculum, Peter L. Strauss
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Jerry L. Mashaw’s magisterial account of the first one hundred years of Administrative law sharply distinguishes between internal and external administrative law – between those contributions to the regularity and legality of agency behavior that emerge from its own institutions and practices, and the constraints imposed by external actors – legislative, executive, and judicial. The “systems of internal control and audit” he found common to nineteenth-century governance are subordinated, if not suppressed in today’s thinking about administrative law.
In our world of multiple transsubstantive statutes and ubiquitous judicial review, we tend to think of our administrative constitution as a set …
Triumphs Of Commission, Eric L. Talley
Triumphs Of Commission, Eric L. Talley
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Willis L.M. Reese Prize commencement address to the Columbia Law School class of 2017.
Race Liberalism And The Deradicalization Of Racial Reform, Kimberlé W. Crenshaw
Race Liberalism And The Deradicalization Of Racial Reform, Kimberlé W. Crenshaw
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Recent works by neoconservatives and by Critical legal scholars have suggested that civil rights reforms have been an unsuccessful means of achieving racial equality in America. In this Article, Professor Crenshaw considers these critiques and analyzes the continuing role of racism in the subordination of Black Americans. The neoconservative emphasis on formal colorblindness, she argues, fails to recognize the indeterminacy of civil rights laws and the force of lingering racial disparities. The Critical scholars, who emphasize the legitimating role of legal ideology and legal rights rhetoric, are substantially correct, according to Professor Crenshaw, but they fail to appreciate the choices …