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Teacher’S Manual To Accompany Jurisprudence: Classical And Contemporary: From Natural Law To Postmodernism, Robert Hayman, Nancy Levit, Richard Delgado Mar 2012

Teacher’S Manual To Accompany Jurisprudence: Classical And Contemporary: From Natural Law To Postmodernism, Robert Hayman, Nancy Levit, Richard Delgado

Richard Delgado

No abstract provided.


Jurisprudence: Classical And Contemporary: From Natural Law To Postmodernism, Robert Hayman, Nancy Levit, Richard Delgado Mar 2012

Jurisprudence: Classical And Contemporary: From Natural Law To Postmodernism, Robert Hayman, Nancy Levit, Richard Delgado

Richard Delgado

No abstract provided.


Who Cares? Why Bother?: What Jeff Powell And Mark Tushnet Have To Say To Each Other, William S. Brewbaker Nov 2002

Who Cares? Why Bother?: What Jeff Powell And Mark Tushnet Have To Say To Each Other, William S. Brewbaker

William S. Brewbaker III

This essay reviews Michael W. McConnell, Robert F. Cochran, Jr., and Angela Carmella's Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought (Yale 2001). In doing so, it argues that Christian legal scholarship ought to be of interest to legal scholars generally and evaluates the book's efforts to assist scholars in recovering Christian traditions of political and jurisprudential reflection.


Scientific Narratives In Law: An Introduction, David Caudill Jul 2002

Scientific Narratives In Law: An Introduction, David Caudill

David S Caudill

No abstract provided.


Progressive Race Blindness: Individual Identity, Group Politics, And Reform, Darren Hutchinson May 2002

Progressive Race Blindness: Individual Identity, Group Politics, And Reform, Darren Hutchinson

Darren L Hutchinson

Critical Race Theorists advance race consciousness as a positive instrument for political and legal reform. A growing body of works by left-identified scholars, however, challenges this traditional progressive stance toward race consciousness.

After summarizing the contours of this budding literature, this Article criticizes the "progressive race blindness" scholarship on several grounds and offers an alternative approach to race consciousness that balances skepticism towards the naturalness of race with a healthy appreciation of the realities of racial subjugation and identity.


The Aesthetics Of American Law, Pierre Schlag Feb 2002

The Aesthetics Of American Law, Pierre Schlag

Pierre Schlag

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Theorizing The Connections Among Systems Of Subordination, Nancy Levit Jan 2002

Theorizing The Connections Among Systems Of Subordination, Nancy Levit

Nancy Levit

Theorizing the Connections Among Systems of Subordination introduces a symposium that addresses issues on the leading edge of identity theory, race theory, and critical social theory. It explains the concepts of anti-essentialism, intersectionality, multiple consciousness, multi-dimensionality, and post-intersectionality. It investigates the ways specific types of oppression - such as racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia - support and feed off of one another. It explores the dynamics of subordination that make different forms of subordination connected to each other - the mechanisms by which subordinating systems buttress each other. Where one sees sexism, one frequently can find racism; where classism exists, …


Random Vs. Suspicion-Based Drug Testing In The Public Schools -- A Surprising Civil Liberties Dilemma, Martin H. Belsky Jan 2002

Random Vs. Suspicion-Based Drug Testing In The Public Schools -- A Surprising Civil Liberties Dilemma, Martin H. Belsky

Martin H. Belsky

The Tecumseh School District had a policy that all students who wished to participate in extracurricular activities that involved some sort of competition had to agree to drug testing before the competition and then randomly thereafter. ... Those selected for accusatory drug testing might be perceived to be wearing a "badge of shame" and be subject to the arbitrary whim of an administrator. ... Vernonia involved a rule requiring drug testing as a condition for participation in extracurricular competitive sports. ... In Earls, the Tecumseh School District adopted a "Student Activities Drug Testing Policy" that required all students who wished …


Teacher’S Manual To Accompany Jurisprudence: Classical And Contemporary: From Natural Law To Postmodernism, Robert Hayman, Nancy Levit, Richard Delgado Dec 2001

Teacher’S Manual To Accompany Jurisprudence: Classical And Contemporary: From Natural Law To Postmodernism, Robert Hayman, Nancy Levit, Richard Delgado

Robert L. Hayman

No abstract provided.


Jurisprudence: Classical And Contemporary: From Natural Law To Postmodernism, Robert Hayman, Nancy Levit, Richard Delgado Dec 2001

Jurisprudence: Classical And Contemporary: From Natural Law To Postmodernism, Robert Hayman, Nancy Levit, Richard Delgado

Robert L. Hayman

No abstract provided.


New Complexity Theories: From Theoretical Innovation To Doctrinal Reform, Darren Hutchinson Dec 2001

New Complexity Theories: From Theoretical Innovation To Doctrinal Reform, Darren Hutchinson

Darren L Hutchinson

No abstract provided.


Un-Natural Things: Constructions Of Race, Gender, And Disability, Robert Hayman, Nancy Levit Dec 2001

Un-Natural Things: Constructions Of Race, Gender, And Disability, Robert Hayman, Nancy Levit

Robert L. Hayman

No abstract provided.