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Progressive Era Race Relations Cases In Their "Traditional" Context, Mark V. Tushnet
Progressive Era Race Relations Cases In Their "Traditional" Context, Mark V. Tushnet
Vanderbilt Law Review
The pioneering African-American historian Rayford Logan called the early years of the Progressive era the "nadir" of race relations in the United States. Historians and political scientists who study the Supreme Court generally agree that Supreme Court decisions are rarely substantially out of line with the kind of sustained national consensus regarding race relations that Logan described. Professors Bernstein and Karman point to popular culture, including the roaring success of D.W. Griffith's epic Birth of a Nation attacking Reconstruction and defending the Ku Klux Klan, and elite opinion such as the flourishing of scientific racism to demonstrate that there was …
The Future Of The World Health Organization: What Role For International Law?, David P. Fidler
The Future Of The World Health Organization: What Role For International Law?, David P. Fidler
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
This Article has tried to provide a comprehensive analysis of the role of international law in WHO's future. Whether WHO realizes it, international law has had and will continue to have effects on international health policy. In the future, WHO has a choice: It can continue to act as if international law plays no role in global public health or it can build the commitment and capacity needed to integrate international law into its endeavors and into the creation of global health jurisprudence. Building such commitment and capacity will not resurrect WHO to its past glories, but they may very …