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Civil rights

University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

2006

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Poisoning The Well: Law & Economics And Racial Inequality, Robert E. Suggs Feb 2006

Poisoning The Well: Law & Economics And Racial Inequality, Robert E. Suggs

Faculty Scholarship

The standard Law & Economics analysis of racial discrimination has stunted our thinking about race. Its early conclusion, that laws prohibiting racial discrimination were unnecessary and wasteful, discredited economic analysis of racial phenomena within the civil rights community. As a consequence we know little about the impact of racial discrimination on commercial transactions between business firms. Laws do not prohibit racial discrimination in transactions between business firms, and the disparity in business revenues between racial minorities and the white mainstream dwarfs disparities in income by orders of magnitude. This disparity in business revenues is a major factor in the persistence …


Renewing The Temporary Provisions Of The Voting Rights Act: Legislative Options After Lulac V. Perry, Sherrilyn A. Ifill Jan 2006

Renewing The Temporary Provisions Of The Voting Rights Act: Legislative Options After Lulac V. Perry, Sherrilyn A. Ifill

Congressional Testimony

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