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Deflect, Delay, Deny: A Case Study Of Segregation By Law School Faculty, Briana Rosenbaum
Deflect, Delay, Deny: A Case Study Of Segregation By Law School Faculty, Briana Rosenbaum
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Many histories of school desegregation litigation center on the natural protagonists, such as the lawyers and plaintiffs who fought the status quo. Little attention is paid to the role that individual faculty members played in the perpetuation of segregated legal education. When the antagonists in the historiographies do appear, it is usually as anonymous individuals and groups. Thus, “the Board of Regents” refused to change its policy and “the University” denied a person’s application.
But recently discovered and rarely accessed historic documents provide proof of the direct role that some law school faculty members played in the perpetuation of segregation. …
Gut Renovations: Using Critical And Comparative Rhetoric To Remodel How The Law Addresses Privilege And Power, Lucille Jewel
Gut Renovations: Using Critical And Comparative Rhetoric To Remodel How The Law Addresses Privilege And Power, Lucille Jewel
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Death In The Shadows, Lucille Jewel
Death In The Shadows, Lucille Jewel
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This paper is about the law and visual culture. Its centerpiece is Parson Weems’ Fable (1939), a painting by the American artist Grant Wood (1891-1942) that depicts the apocryphal story of George Washington and the cherry tree. At first glance, Wood’s image appears to celebrate an enduring myth of American virtue, namely Washington’s precocious inability to tell a lie. Studying the picture more closely, however, one finds a pair of black figures, presumably two of the Washingtons’ slaves. Stationed beneath dark storm clouds and harvesting cherries from a second tree, these slaves invoke yet another national myth, that of the …
Poverty, Privacy, And Living Out Of Reach [Reviews], Wendy A. Bach
Poverty, Privacy, And Living Out Of Reach [Reviews], Wendy A. Bach
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Minimizing And Addressing Microaggressions In The Workplace: Be Proactive, Part Two, Shamika Dalton
Minimizing And Addressing Microaggressions In The Workplace: Be Proactive, Part Two, Shamika Dalton
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Minimizing And Addressing Implicit Bias In The Workplace: Be Proactive, Part One, Shamika Dalton
Minimizing And Addressing Implicit Bias In The Workplace: Be Proactive, Part One, Shamika Dalton
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Librarians and information professionals cannot hide from bias: a prejudice for or against something, someone, or a group. As human beings, we all have biases. However, implicit biases are ones that affect us in an unconscious manner. Awareness of our implicit biases, and how they can affect our colleagues and work environment, is critical to promoting an inclusive work environment. Part one of this two-part article series will focus on implicit bias: what is implicit bias, how these biases affect the work environment, and best practices for reducing these biases within recruitment, hiring, and retention in the library workplace.
Hope [Reviews], Wendy A. Bach
Navigating Law Librarianship While Black A Week In The Life Of A Black Female Law Librarian, Shamika Dalton
Navigating Law Librarianship While Black A Week In The Life Of A Black Female Law Librarian, Shamika Dalton
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Incorporating Race Into Your Legal Research Class, Shamika Dalton
Incorporating Race Into Your Legal Research Class, Shamika Dalton
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Four Reasons Why Readers Hate Go Set A Watchman (And One Reason Why I Don't), Judy Cornett
Four Reasons Why Readers Hate Go Set A Watchman (And One Reason Why I Don't), Judy Cornett
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Flourishing Rights, Wendy A. Bach
Flourishing Rights, Wendy A. Bach
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Flourishing Rights reviews Clare Huntington’s Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships, recently published by the Oxford University Press. This review explores the way that specific issues at the heart of the relationship between poor families and the state affects Huntington’s thesis and proposals. The review largely applauds the book but concludes that a robust form of rights protection, when combined with the impressive policy arguments Huntington marshals, might actually make real the audacious idea that everyone has a right to flourish.
The Hyperregulatory State: Women, Race, Poverty And Support, Wendy A. Bach
The Hyperregulatory State: Women, Race, Poverty And Support, Wendy A. Bach
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Vulnerability and dependency theory offers a rich and promising vision for those who seek to conceptualize and build a more responsive state. In theorizing a road to a supportive state, however, what would it mean to take up the challenge of intersectionality? What would it mean to center the analysis around key aspects of the relationship between legal institutions and the poor, disproportionately women and families of color who have no choice but to avail themselves of what remains of a shredded social safety net? The Hyperregulatory State argues that, for women who have no choice but to avail themselves …
Merit And Mobility: A Progressive View Of Class, Culture, And The Law, Lucille Jewel
Merit And Mobility: A Progressive View Of Class, Culture, And The Law, Lucille Jewel
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Rising income inequality and financial trauma in the middle class beg the question of whether social mobility, long a part of America’s narrative identity, is truly available to Americans residing in the lower rungs of society. This paper addresses the connection between culture and social mobility, looking particularly at how culture impacts social outcomes in America’s meritocratic educational system. Analyzing culture and cultural capital from a progressive perspective, this paper concludes that culture operates subtly, helping some retain or improve their existing position but interfering with the mobility of others. The rhetoric of individual merit, however, obscures the role that …
Recognizing Race In The American Legal Canon, Fran Ansley
Recognizing Race In The American Legal Canon, Fran Ansley
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Pioneers In The Legal Profession: Some Of The First African-American And Women Lawyers In Tennessee, Dwight Aarons
Pioneers In The Legal Profession: Some Of The First African-American And Women Lawyers In Tennessee, Dwight Aarons
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Classifying Race, Racializing Class, Fran Ansley
Classifying Race, Racializing Class, Fran Ansley
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Disciplinary Differences, Dwight Aarons
Race And The Core Curriculum In Legal Education, Fran Ansley
Race And The Core Curriculum In Legal Education, Fran Ansley
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Preface, Dwight Aarons
Stirring The Ashes: Race Class And The Future Of Civil Rights Scholarship, Fran Ansley
Stirring The Ashes: Race Class And The Future Of Civil Rights Scholarship, Fran Ansley
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Nationwide Preclearance Of Section Five Of The 1965 Voting Rights Act: Implementing The Fifteenth Amendment, Dwight Aarons
Nationwide Preclearance Of Section Five Of The 1965 Voting Rights Act: Implementing The Fifteenth Amendment, Dwight Aarons
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