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Full-Text Articles in Law and Race
Teaching Slavery In American Constitutional Law, Paul Finkelman
Teaching Slavery In American Constitutional Law, Paul Finkelman
Akron Law Review
From 1787 until the Civil War, slavery was probably the single most important economic institution in the United States. On the eve of the Civil War, slave property was worth at least two billion dollars. In the aggregate, the value of all the slaves in the United States exceeded the total value of all the nations railroads or all its factories. Slavery led to two major political compromises of the antebellum period, as well as to the most politically divisive Supreme Court decision in our history. Vast amounts of political and legal energy went into dealing with the institution. It …
Moving From Carolene To The Commerce Clause: A New Approach To Race For The New American Future, Nareissa L. Smith
Moving From Carolene To The Commerce Clause: A New Approach To Race For The New American Future, Nareissa L. Smith
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Civil Rights Of Sexually Exploited Youth In Foster Care, Dale Margolin Cecka
The Civil Rights Of Sexually Exploited Youth In Foster Care, Dale Margolin Cecka
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
An Analysis Of The Legal And Practical Implications Of The Potential Increased Participation In Jury Service By Racial Minorities In The U.S. Criminal Justice System, Brian Keith Leonard
An Analysis Of The Legal And Practical Implications Of The Potential Increased Participation In Jury Service By Racial Minorities In The U.S. Criminal Justice System, Brian Keith Leonard
West Virginia Law Review
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Marital Supremacy And The Constitution Of The Nonmarital Family, Serena Mayeri
Marital Supremacy And The Constitution Of The Nonmarital Family, Serena Mayeri
All Faculty Scholarship
Despite a transformative half century of social change, marital status still matters. The marriage equality movement has drawn attention to the many benefits conferred in law by marriage at a time when the “marriage gap” between affluent and poor Americans widens and rates of nonmarital childbearing soar. This Essay explores the contested history of marital supremacy—the legal privileging of marriage—through the lens of the “illegitimacy” cases of the 1960s and 1970s. Often remembered as a triumph for nonmarital families, these decisions defined the constitutional harm of illegitimacy classifications as the unjust punishment of innocent children for the “sins” of their …