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Less Is More: Procedural Efficacy In Vindicating Civil Rights, Jennifer Bennett Shinall
Less Is More: Procedural Efficacy In Vindicating Civil Rights, Jennifer Bennett Shinall
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Eradicating discrimination is a lofty goal, and since the second half of the twentieth century, the United States has largely relied upon the legal system to achieve this goal. Yet a great deal of scholarship suggests that the legal system may not always do a credible job. Scholars have documented multiple instances of discrimination laws' inaccessibility to discrimination victims individually and inability to improve the labor market prospects of victims as a whole. Still missing from the literature, however, is an assessment of what separates effective discrimination laws from ineffective ones. This Article fills this gap, using both qualitative and …