Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Law Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Series

1996

Civil rights

Faculty Scholarship

Articles 1 - 2 of 2

Full-Text Articles in Law

The Impact Of The Proposed California Civil Rights Initiative, Erwin Chemerinsky Jan 1996

The Impact Of The Proposed California Civil Rights Initiative, Erwin Chemerinsky

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


What Does A White Woman Look Like? Racing And Erasing In Law, Katherine M. Franke Jan 1996

What Does A White Woman Look Like? Racing And Erasing In Law, Katherine M. Franke

Faculty Scholarship

In significant ways, legal texts produce a narrative of national identity. They weave stories about who we are, what we are committed to, and what we expect of one another, individually and collectively. The concept of justiciability can be understood as a set of rules determining what stories courts are allowed to tell about who we are and who we can be. In this sense, Ronald Dworkin's account of judging as writing ongoing chapters in a chain novel provides a compelling conception of law as both describing where we have been and directing where we are going. If the salience …