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The Next Great Challenge: Making Legal Writing Scholarship Count As Legal Scholarship, Kristen K. Tiscione
The Next Great Challenge: Making Legal Writing Scholarship Count As Legal Scholarship, Kristen K. Tiscione
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The Legal Writing Journal published my first article. For that reason alone, it is special to me. As I am sure is true for many legal writing scholars, the Journal helped me find my voice, provided welcome validation, and conferred value on my scholarly effort. I have a copy of each print volume in my office, and like old friends, they are always there when I need them. I miss receiving each new cream and green issue in the mail, devouring it, and adding it to my collection, but the online version is equally pleasing in a different way and …
Toward A Jurisprudence Of The Civil Rights Acts, Robin West
Toward A Jurisprudence Of The Civil Rights Acts, Robin West
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
What is the nature of the “rights,” jurisprudentially, that the 1964 Civil Rights Act legally prescribed? And, more generally, what is a “civil right”? Today, lawyers tend to think of civil rights and particularly those that originated in the 1964 Act, as antidiscrimination rights: our “civil rights,” on this understanding, are our rights not to be discriminated against, by employers, schools, landlords, property vendors, hoteliers, restaurant owners, and providers of public transportation, no less than by states and state actors, on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, age, sexuality or disability. Contemporary civil rights scholarship overwhelmingly reflects the same conception: …