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The Bar Exam Essay Maze: A Roadmap Through The Tangle, Bevery Mcqueary Smith Oct 2013

The Bar Exam Essay Maze: A Roadmap Through The Tangle, Bevery Mcqueary Smith

Beverly McQueary Smith

No abstract provided.


Linguistic Minorities, Migration And The Nation State, Henri Jeanjean, Lidia Bilbatua, Gaetano Rando, Antonio Simoes Da Silva Jul 2013

Linguistic Minorities, Migration And The Nation State, Henri Jeanjean, Lidia Bilbatua, Gaetano Rando, Antonio Simoes Da Silva

Tony Simoes da Silva

The last thirty or so years have seen the influx of millions of people from Africa, the former Soviet Union, the Indian sub-continent, middle and far east into EU countries leading to the formation of new culturally, linguistic and religiously diverse minorities in the areas where they have settled. This paper proposes to address the question of how established minorities react to this inflow of other minorities, and specifically how linguistic minorities face this new situation by taking as a specific case study the centuries- old Occitan, Catalan and Corsican minorities in their diverse sociohistorical and political contexts that range …


Raising Politics Up: Minority Political Participation And Section 2 Of The Voting Rights Act, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Raising Politics Up: Minority Political Participation And Section 2 Of The Voting Rights Act, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

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Raising Politics Up: Minority Political Participation And Section 2 Of The Voting Rights Act, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Raising Politics Up: Minority Political Participation And Section 2 Of The Voting Rights Act, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

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Race, Crime, And Institutional Design, Erik Luna Jan 2013

Race, Crime, And Institutional Design, Erik Luna

Erik Luna

Minorities are gravely overrepresented in every stage of the criminal process--from pedestrian and automobile stops, to searches and seizures, to arrests and convictions, to incarceration and capital punishment. While racial data can provide a snapshot of the current state of affairs, such information rarely satisfies questions of causation, and usually only sets the scene for normative theory.