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Minority Law Teachers Conference, Beverly I. Moran

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The 1990 Minority Law Teachers Conference was dedicated to expanding the number of minorities in law teaching. To this end, the volume addresses a wide variety of concerns for new and veteran teachers including: teaching, scholarship, service, diversity and recruitment. The volume remains one of the most comprehensive statements of minority law professors about their role in the academy.

Stargazing: The Alternative Minimum Tax For Individuals And Future Tax Reform, Beverly I. Moran

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The article uses the provisions of the Alternative Minimum Tax in an attempt to predict the course of future tax reform.

Race And Economic Opportunity, Robert L. Woodson

Vanderbilt Law Review

The true character of a nation can be judged in part by the way it treats its weakest or most vulnerable members. In the past decades, no-where has this test been more evident than in the quest for civil rights by black Americans. Civil rights has also become the leading indicator of the moral health of the Nation.

With the passage of civil rights laws, one-third of black Americans-those prepared by family status, education, or economic circumstance-walked through the doors of opportunity once they were opened. For unprepared blacks, removing racial barriers did not enable them to join the mainstream …

Welcome To The Funhouse: The Incredible Maze Of Modern Divorce Taxation, Beverly I. Moran

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

Using legislative histories the article shows how the incidence of taxation began to fall more heavily on women in the context of divorce as women's social and political status rose during World War II and that this trend continued through several sets of divorce tax reform.

Redefining Race In Saint Francis College V. Al-Khazraji And Shaare Tefila Congregation V. Cobb: Using Dictionaries Instead Of The Thirteenth Amendment, Jennifer G. Redmond

Vanderbilt Law Review

In 1987 the Supreme Court unanimously extended the protections of 42 U.S.C. sections 19811 and 19822 to ethnic groups, citing "Runyon v. McCrary. Runyon reinterpreted the legislative history of section 1981 to create a cause of action for blacks against both public and private discrimination in the making and enforcement of contracts. One year later a sharply divided Supreme Court ordered the parties in Patterson v. McLean Credit Union, a case in which the Court already had heard argument, to brief the Court anew and make arguments on an issue that none of the parties had raised--whether to overrule Runyonv. …

Foreword, James W. Ely, Terry Calvani

Vanderbilt Law Review

In the hope of giving some direction for a regional approach to the legal past of the South, Vanderbilt Law School, with the generous assistance of the University Research Council, sponsored a two-day Symposium on this important topic in the spring of 1978 and invited leading scholars to participate. Principal papers by Richard Maxwell Brown, Maxwell H. Bloomfield, Robert M. Ireland, A. E. Keir Nash, and Robert J. Haws and Michael V. Namorato discussed diverse aspects of southern legal history.