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'Simple' Takes On The Supreme Court, Robert Tsai Jan 2013

'Simple' Takes On The Supreme Court, Robert Tsai

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This essay assesses black literature as a medium for working out popular understandings of America’s Constitution and laws. Starting in the 1940s, Langston Hughes’s fictional character, Jesse B. Semple, began appearing in the prominent black newspaper, the Chicago Defender. The figure affectionately known as “Simple” was undereducated, unsophisticated, and plain spoken - certainly to a fault according to prevailing standards of civility, race relations, and professional attainment. Butthese very traits, along with a gritty experience under Jim Crow, made him not only a sympathetic figure but also an armchair legal theorist. In a series of barroom conversations, Simple ably critiqued …


If It Didn't Exist, It Would Have To Be Invented - Reviving The Administrative Conference, Jeffrey Lubbers Jan 1998

If It Didn't Exist, It Would Have To Be Invented - Reviving The Administrative Conference, Jeffrey Lubbers

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The Civil Opinions Of Judge Phyllis A. Kravitch: A Tribute, Stephen Wermiel Jan 1997

The Civil Opinions Of Judge Phyllis A. Kravitch: A Tribute, Stephen Wermiel

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Paperwork Redux: The (Stronger) Paperwork Reduction Act Of 1995, Jeffrey Lubbers Jan 1997

Paperwork Redux: The (Stronger) Paperwork Reduction Act Of 1995, Jeffrey Lubbers

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