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Volume 24 (Spring 2008)
1 Introduction
Kevin D. Brown

 
3 Lessons Learned from Comparing the Application of Constitutional Law and Federal Anti-Discrimination Law to African-Americans in the U.S. and Dalits in India in the Context of Higher Education (Article)
Kevin D. Brown and Vinay Sitapati

 
61 Race Across Borders: The U.S. and ICERD
Hadar Harris

 
69 The Right to the City
Ngai Pindell

 

73

The South African Constitution as a Role Model for the United States
Adrien Katherine Wing

 
81  
117 My Isaac Royall Legacy
Janet Halley

133

“Together at the Table of Brotherhood”: Voluntary Student Assignment Plans and the Supreme Court
Craig R. Heeren

 
189  
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Volume 23 (Spring 2007)

NAVIGATING DIVERSITY

Introduction

1

Katrina: Spiritual Medicine for Political Complacency and for Social Activists Who Are Sleepwalking
David Hall

 

On the Supreme Court:

 
9 An Open Letter from Heaven to Justice Samuel Alito
Michael Higginbotham

23

A Renewed Call for Diversity Among Supreme Court Clerks: How a Diverse Body of Clerks Can Aid the High Court as an Institution
Christopher R. Benson

 

On the Ground:

 
55 Irrational Basis: The Supreme Court, Inner Cities, and the New “Manifest Destiny”
Dean Allen Floyd II

81

Five Myths About Sprawl (Book Review)
Michael Lewyn

 

In School:

107 Justifying Affirmative Action in K–12 Private Schools
Sharon Hsin-Yi Lee

  Editorial Staff
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Volume 22 (Spring 2006)

Articles

1

Why Civil Rights Lawyers Should Study Tax
Stephen Cohen and Laura Sager

 

25

Confronting Racists at the Bar: Matthew Hale, Moral Character, and Regulating the Marketplace of Ideas
Jason O. Billy

 

53

The Consistency of Felon Disenfranchisement with Citizenship Theory
Jason Schall

 

95

A Tribute to Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.*
Angela Davis
Arthur Leavens
Michele Roberts
Eugene N. Hamilton
Randy Hertz
Emma Coleman Jordan
Verna L. Williams
Eric J. Miller
Roger A. Fairfax, Jr.
Alfred Brophy
Eric Yamamoto
Derrick Bell
R. A. Lenhardt
Robert L. Carter

 
  Editorial Staff  
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Volume 21 (Spring 2005)

Articles

1

Grutter v. Bollinger, Clarence Thomas, Affirmative Action and the Treachery of Originalism: "The Sun Don't Shine Here in This Part of Town"
andré douglas pond cummings

 

75

The Enigma of the Stigma: A Case Study on the Validity of the Stigma Arguments Made in Opposition to Affirmative Action Programs in Higher Education
Ashley M. Hibbett

 

109

Restructuring the Framework for Legal Analyses of Gay Parenting
Lauren Schwartzreich

 

129

Unmasking the Predatory Loan in Sheep's Clothing: A Legislative Proposal
Debra Pogrund Stark

 

163

The Ghost of Wards Cove: The Supreme Court, the Bush Administration, and the Ideology Undermining Title VII
Amos N. Jones and D. Alexander Ewing

 

 

Editorial Staff

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Volume 20 (Spring 2004)

50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education

1

Excerpt from All Deliberate Speed: "The Significance of Brown" (see also footnotes)
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.

Reparations Symposium

17

Norms, Law, and Reparations: The Case of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Oklahoma
Alfred L. Brophy

49

Documenting the Costs of Slavery, Segregation, and Contemporary Discrimination: Are Reparations in Order for African Americans?
Joe R. Feagin

83

Excerpt from Riot on Greenwood: The Oklahoma Commission To Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
Eddie Faye Gates

91

Representing the Race: Standing to Sue in Reparations Lawsuits
Eric J. Miller

115

Excerpt from All Deliberate Speed: "Addressing the Racial Divide: Reparations" (see also footnotes)
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.

Articles

137

The Political Delinquent: Crime, Deviance, and Resistance in Black America
Trevor Gardner II

163

Transracial Adoption: The Pros and Cons and the Parents’ Perspective
Andrew Morrison

 

Editorial Staff

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Volume 19 (Spring 2003)

Articles
Law and Education: Affirmative Action Under Attack

1

The Struggle for Access from Sweatt to Grutter: A History of African American, Latino, and American Indian Law School Admissions, 1950–2000
William C. Kidder

43

Integrating Elite Law Schools and the Legal Profession: A View from the Black Law Students Associations of Harvard, Stanford, and Yale Law Schools
Danielle C. Gray and Travis LeBlanc

55

Brief of the Harvard Black Law Students Association, Stanford Black Law Students Association, and Yale Black Law Students Association Supporting Respondents As Amici Curiae of the United States Supreme Court, Grutter v. Bollinger

93

Restoring Brown’s Promise of Equality After Alexander v. Sandoval: Why We Can’t Wait
Sam Spital

Criminal Law: Pursuing New Visions of Justice

127

Neither Intent nor Impact: A Critique of the Racially Based Selective Prosecution Jurisprudence and a Reform Proposal
Yoav Sapir

181

The Constructed Identities of Asian and African Americans: A Story of Two Races and the Criminal Justice System
Sheila Bedi

Book Review

201

Current Perspectives on Interracial Intimacies
Dana King

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Volume 18 (Spring, 2002)

Articles

1

Critical Race Theory: New Strategies for Civil Rights in the New Millennium?
Bernie D. Jones, Ph.D. candidate, History Department, University of Virginia

91

The Rhetoric of Resistance: Islamism, Modernity, and Globalization
Aliya Haider, J.D. candidate, Harvard Law School, 2003

129

The Reality of Political Prisoners in the United States: What September 11 Taught Us About Defending Them
J. Soffiyah Elijah, Harvard Law School

139

Dialogic Fidelity: The Fourteenth Amendment, Historical Meaning, and Appropriate Scrutiny for Sex Discrimination
Ben Glassman, J.D., Harvard Law School, 2000

185

"Sounding Black" in the Courtroom: Court-Sanctioned Racial Stereotyping
Lis Wiehl, University of Washington School of Law

211

A Discovery of Sorts: Reexaming the Origins of the Federal Indian Housing Obligation
Virginia Davis, J.D., Harvard Law School, 2002

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Volume 17 (Spring 2001)

In Memoriam: David A. Charny

3

In Memoriam
Peter J. Keith

7

In Memoriam
Sharon Dolovich

13

Interactions at Work: Remembering David Charny
Devon W. Carbado and Mitu Gulati

Symposium: Border People and Antidiscrimination Law

23

Introduction
R. Richard Banks

33

American Mixed Race: The U.S. 2000 Census and Related Issues
Naomi Zack

47

The Mixed Promise of Multiracialism
Rachel F. Moran

57

Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, Adoption
Randall Kennedy

85

Boundaries of the Racial State: Two Faces of Racist Exclusion in United States Law
Kim Benita Furumoto and David Theo Goldberg

113

Reconsidering Epistemology and Ontology in Status Identity Discourse: Make-Believe and Reality in Race, Sex, and Sexual Orientation
Zachary Potter and C. J. Summers

197

The Reconstitution of Customary Law in South Africa: Method and Discourse
Jill Zimmerman

Volume 16 (Spring, 2000)

In Memoriam: A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.

Remembering Leon
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University

A Man for All Seasons
F. Michael Higginbotham, University of Baltimore School of Law

The Complicated Ingredients of Wisdom and Leadership
Michael A. Fitts, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Keeping Thurgood Marshall's Promise-A Venerable Voice for Equal Justice
Clifford Scott Green, Senior Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Stephanie L. Franklin-Suber, Chief of Staff to the Honorable John F. Street

Articles

The Chinese American Challenge to Court-Mandated Quotas in San Francisco's Public Schools: Notes from a (Partisan) Participant-Observer
David I. Levine, University of California, Hastings College of the Law

Life After Bakke Where Whites and Blacks Agree: Public Support for Fairness in Educational Opportunities
Carol M. Swain, Vanderbilt University Law School
Robert R. Rodgers, Ph.D. candidate, Politics Department, Princeton University
Bernard W. Silverman, University of Bristol

Essays

Resisting Essentialism and Hierarchy: A Critique of Work/Family Strategies for Women Lawyers
Nancy E. Dowd, University of Florida Levin College of Law

DNA and the Slave-Descendant Nexus: A Theoretical Challenge to Traditional Notions of Heirship Jurisprudence
Helen B. Jenkins, South Texas College of Law

Book Review

The Hate Within Ourselves: Criminal Law's Attempt to Overcome Bias
Sarah Vincent, J.D. Harvard Law School 2000 (reviewing Punishing Hate by F.M. Lawrence)

Volume 15 (Spring, 1999)

In Memoriam: Spottswood W. Robinson, III

Stephen L. Carter
Carol Chomsky
Chief Judge Harry T. Edwards
Oliver W. Hill
Judge Patricia M. Wald
Judge Abner J. Mikva

Articles: The Categories of Difference

Foreword: Categorical Exclusivity
Ben Glassman

Implementing Antiessentialism: How Gender Wars Turn into Race and Class Conflict
Joan Williams

Back to the Future: Forrest Gump and The Birth of a Nation
Ruth Elizabeth Burks

The Demise of the Ongwehoweh and the Rise of the Native Americans: Redressing the Genocidal Act of Forcing American Citizenship upon Indigenous Peoples
Robert B. Porter

Essay

Three Paths to Justice: New Approaches to Minority-Instituted Tobacco Litigation
Danny David

Book Review

Roberts vs. Texaco: A True Story of Race and Corporate America by Bari-Ellen Roberts with Jack E. White
Reviewed by Angela Onwuachi-Willig

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