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The Impact Of The Proposed California Civil Rights Initiative, Erwin Chemerinsky
The Impact Of The Proposed California Civil Rights Initiative, Erwin Chemerinsky
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What Does A White Woman Look Like? Racing And Erasing In Law, Katherine M. Franke
What Does A White Woman Look Like? Racing And Erasing In Law, Katherine M. Franke
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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 …