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Liz Hollingworth UNINTENDED EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT 12 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 311 (Winter 2009) The rules and regulations of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB or the Act) have not reduced the gap in student academic achievement as much as Congress originally intended. The great promise of NCLB is that, once held accountable, schools will finally focus on the education of low-achieving students, thus reducing the gap in student academic... 2009  
Penelope E. Andrews WHO'S AFRAID OF POLYGAMY? EXPLORING THE BOUNDARIES OF FAMILY, EQUALITY AND CUSTOM IN SOUTH AFRICA 11 Journal of Law and Family Studies 303 (2009) Introduction. 303 I. Competing Narratives of Liberation: African Nationalism and Feminism. 306 II. The Constitution and Traditional Law. 311 III. The Constitution and Gender Equality. 314 IV. The Constitutional Court and Gender Equality. 316 V. Gender Equality and Polygamy. 320 VI. Polygamy and the Recognition of Customary Marriages. 325 VII.... 2009  
Penelope E. Andrews WHO'S AFRAID OF POLYGAMY? EXPLORING THE BOUNDARIES OF FAMILY, EQUALITY AND CUSTOM IN SOUTH AFRICA 2009 Utah Law Review 351 (2009) Introduction. 351 I. Competing Narratives of Liberation: African Nationalism and Feminism. 354 II. The Constitution and Traditional Law. 359 III. The Constitution and Gender Equality. 362 IV. The Constitutional Court and Gender Equality. 364 V. Gender Equality and Polygamy. 368 VI. Polygamy and the Recognition of Customary Marriages. 373 VII.... 2009  
Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb WRITING AT THE MASTER'S TABLE: REFLECTIONS ON THEFT, CRIMINALITY, AND OTHERNESS IN THE LEGAL WRITING PROFESSION 2 Drexel Law Review 41 (Fall 2009) The alert came over the university email one Friday afternoon. There had been a rash of burglaries in the vicinity of the university where I was employed as a legal writing professor. The culprits? Two finely dressed thirty-something women, and a white male in his mid-fifties. These well-heeled bandits gained entrance into various buildings and... 2009  
K.J. Greene "COPYNORMS," BLACK CULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND THE DEBATE OVER AFRICAN-AMERICAN REPARATIONS 25 Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal 1179 (2008) I. African-American Creativity, Invention and innovation in historical context. 1182 A. Racial Subordniation in the Intellectual Property Context. 1183 B. Invisibility of Black Cultural Production in the Intellectual Property Context. 1184 C. The Centrality of African-American Cultural Production to U.S. Culture and Law. 1185 D. Black Creativity in... 2008  
Margaret E. Montoya , Francisco Valdes "LATINAS/OS" AND LATINA/O LEGAL STUDIES: A CRITICAL AND SELF-CRITICAL REVIEW OF LATCRIT THEORY AND LEGAL MODELS OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION 4 FIU Law Review 187 (Fall, 2008) I. Introduction. 188 A. The Promise and the Danger: Latinas/os as a Demographic Surge. 189 B. Within the Legal Academy: The Emergence of Latina/o Legal Studies (LatCrit). 192 C. Meaning and Location: The Emergence of LatCrit as a Coalitional Antisubordination Knowledge-Production Project. 194 II. Knowledge Production Models: A Brief Overview.... 2008  
Margaret E. Montoya , Francisco Valdes "LATINAS/OS" AND THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION: LATCRIT SCHOLARSHIP AND ACADEMIC ACTIVISM AS SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTION 83 Indiana Law Journal 1197 (Fall, 2008) For at least a decade now, drums have beat and trumpets blared heralding the arrival of Latinas/os onto the national policy-and-politics stage of the United States. Pundits have declared seismic political possibilities following from this demographic surge while the 2000 Census confirmed that numerical growth among Latina/o-identified... 2008  
Gregory S. Parks , Shayne E. Jones "NIGGER": A CRITICAL RACE REALIST ANALYSIS OF THE N-WORD WITHIN HATE CRIMES LAW 98 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 1305 (Summer 2008) A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Although the slang epithet nigger may once have been in common usage . . . [it] has become particularly abusive and insulting . .... 2008  
Cynthia Der A CHINESE AMERICAN SEAT AT THE TABLE: EXAMINING RACE IN THE SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT 42 University of San Francisco Law Review 1077 (Spring 2008) RACE HAS ALWAYS BEEN a complicated issue in the K-12 education policy arena. While administrators and policy makers debate topics such as standardized testing, budgets and funding, curriculum development, and achievement gaps, issues concerning race are often forgotten. When race was discussed in the past, much of the discussion focused on the... 2008  
Kevin R. Johnson A HANDICAPPED, NOT "SLEEPING," GIANT: THE DEVASTATING IMPACT OF THE INITIATIVE PROCESS ON LATINA/O AND IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES 96 California Law Review 1259 (October, 2008) Despite being questioned on many grounds, direct democracy remains popular in many states. Calls for reform of the initiative process abound. Consider a few frequently expressed concerns about initiative lawmaking. Some critics contend that direct democracy benefits well-financed interest groups--often derided as special interests--that are able... 2008  
Valerie J. Phillips A PLURALISTIC APPROACH TO OPPRESSION AND LATINO TERRA NULLIUS 20 Saint Thomas Law Review 691 (Spring 2008) We are nations of givers dealing with nations of takers. Anonymous The real battle will be between westernized, assimilated elites within all nations, and those who refuse to assimilate. Hanna Petros I. Introduction. 691 II. Back Alley Abortions. 694 III. Cyber-Love and Getting to Praxis. 700 IV. Everything is up for Discussion . 701 This... 2008  
Mark C. Modak-Truran A PROCESS THEORY OF NATURAL LAW AND THE RULE OF LAW IN CHINA 26 Penn State International Law Review 607 (Winter 2008) Exporting the Rule of Law has been a strong focus of American, British, and European foreign policy since the end of World War II. The post-war constitutions of Germany and Japan followed Western notions of constitutional democracy and the rule of law. The end of the Cold War resulted in many former Eastern-bloc communist countries implementing... 2008  
Brian J. Foley APPLIED LEGAL STORYTELLING, POLITICS, AND FACTUAL REALISM 14 Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute 17 (2008) The first Applied Legal Storytelling conference, Once upon a Legal Time: Developing the Skills of Storytelling in Law, was held in London on July 18-20, 2007. The almost ninety attendees hailed from eleven different countries. Our Programme asked Why This Conference? and answered, The Applied Legal Storytelling conference was imagined and... 2008  
Toby Moore ASSAULT ON "FORT LIBERALISM:" VOTING RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT--AND VOTING RIGHTS ENFORCERS--UNDER THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION 1 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 115 (2008) In late 2006, the Bush Administration fired seven United States Attorneys, some after they appeared to resist pursuing voter fraud cases. The resulting controversy focused new attention on the administration's prior enforcement of minority voting rights. Former Department of Justice attorneys, journalists, and congressional oversight committees... 2008  
Carrie Griffin Basas BACK ROOMS, BOARD ROOMS--REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION AND RESISTANCE UNDER THE ADA 29 Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 59 (2008) Reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) are at the center of the integration of people with disabilities into mainstream work environments. Responses on the part of employers, however, have couched many feasible accommodations as excessive, burdensome, and costly. Employers resist hiring people with disabilities... 2008  
R.A. Lenhardt BEYOND ANALOGY: PEREZ V. SHARP, ANTIMISCEGENATION LAW, AND THE FIGHT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE 96 California Law Review 839 (August, 2008) Conversations about the constitutionality of prohibitions on marriage for same-sex couples invariably reduce to the question of whether a meaningful analogy can be drawn between restrictions on same-sex marriage and antimiscegenation laws. In an effort to refocus this debate, this article considers the California Supreme Court's 1948 decision in... 2008  
Mark C. Modak-Truran BEYOND THEOCRACY AND SECULARISM (PART I): TOWARD A NEW PARADIGM FOR LAW AND RELIGION 27 Mississippi College Law Review 159 (2007-2008) [O]ne of the things a scientific community acquires with a paradigm is a criterion for choosing problems that, while the paradigm is taken for granted, can be assumed to have solutions. To a great extent these are the only problems that the community will admit as scientific or encourage its members to undertake. Other problems, including many that... 2008  
Veronica Nelly Velez CHALLENGING LIES LATCRIT STYLE: A CRITICAL RACE REFLECTION OF AN ALLY TO LATINA/O IMMIGRANT PARENT LEADERS 4 FIU Law Review 119 (Fall, 2008) I was nervous as I looked over my notes, preparing to share some preliminary research about Rose Unified's current schooling dilemmas. As I tried to release some of the tension I felt, I realized that in many ways the information I was about to present, and the forum organized to share it that evening with teachers, school district officials, civic... 2008  
Marc-Tizoc Gonzalez CLUSTER II: TRACING THE CRITICAL EDUCATION TRADITION IN LATCRIT THEORY, PRAXIS & COMMUNITY 4 FIU Law Review 85 (Fall, 2008) I. Introduction. 85 II. LatCrit's Critical Education Tradition. 87 A. Scholars of Education Law and Policy. 92 B. Law Professors Interested in Critical Legal Pedagogy. 95 C. CRT/LatCrit in Education. 97 III. Conclusion. 99 Four Essays constitute the Critical Education cluster of the LatCrit XII symposium, the publication of some of the... 2008  
Angela Onwuachi-Willig , Emily Houh , Mary Campbell CRACKING THE EGG: WHICH CAME FIRST--STIGMA OR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION? 96 California Law Review 1299 (October, 2008) This Article examines the strength of arguments concerning the causal connection between racial stigma and affirmative action. In so doing, this Article reports and analyzes the results of a survey on internal stigma (feelings of dependency, inadequacy, or guilt) and external stigma (the burden of others' resentment or doubt about one's... 2008  
Kirstin T. Eidenbach CRITICAL LEGAL STUDIES AND THE LAWLESS FRONTIER 1 the crit: a Critical Studies Journal 96 (Spring, 2008) I first began thinking about the continuing academic relevance of critical movements after several legal academics assured me that the critical approach was at best passé, at worst dead. It was some time until I realized these commentators were the very people who struggled against critical legal studies' repeated attacks and deconstruction of... 2008  
Tristin K. Green DISCOMFORT AT WORK: WORKPLACE ASSIMILATION DEMANDS AND THE CONTACT HYPOTHESIS 86 North Carolina Law Review 379 (January, 2008) Recent research on the contact hypothesis--the idea that intergroup contact can reduce prejudice--reveals that permitting identification with socially salient categories like race and gender is more likely to translate into reduced prejudice than attempting to eliminate or eclipse entirely those categories. This research has important implications... 2008  
Mitchell F. Crusto ENSLAVED CONSTITUTION: OBSTRUCTING THE FREEDOM TO TRAVEL 70 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 233 (Winter 2008) Does the Constitution protect a citizen's intra-state travel (within a state) from unjustified state prohibition? To date, the Supreme Court has not ruled directly on the issue, and many federal courts believe that the right to intra-state travel is not constitutionally protected. This Article explores the constitutional right of intra-state travel... 2008  
Mario L. Barnes , F. Greg Bowman ENTERING UNPRECEDENTED TERRAIN: CHARTING A METHOD TO REDUCE MADNESS IN POST-9/11 POWER AND RIGHTS CONFLICTS 62 University of Miami Law Review 365 (January, 2008) This project was originally conceived at what we believed to be a unique moment in our nation's history: After September 11, in what we perceived as a period of temporary emergency, we were confronted with a series of governmental actions--primarily executive in nature--that resulted in citizens and noncitizens, persons within the United States and... 2008  
Christine J. Hung FOR THOSE WHO HAD NO VOICE: THE MULTIFACETED FIGHT FOR REDRESS BY AND FOR THE "COMFORT WOMEN" 15 Asian American Law Journal 177 (May, 2008) These days I hum a song, Katusa, putting my own words to the tune: I am so miserable; return my youth to me; apologize . . . . You dragged us off against our own will. You trod on us. Apologize . . . --Lee Yong-soo, former Korean comfort woman, testifying in the U.S. House of Representatives in February 2007 For the Asian women who were... 2008  
Charles R.P. Pouncy FOREWORD: LATCRIT XII--THE CRITICAL LOCALITY AND THE PROCESSES OF COMMUNITY 20 Saint Thomas Law Review 387 (Spring 2008) I. Introduction. 387 II. The Critical Locality and LatCrit Literature. 388 III. The Symposium Clusters. 393 IV. Cluster I--Immigration and Cosmopolitanism. 394 V. Cluster II: Economics Interpersonal, Structural and Political. 402 VI. Cluster III: Regions and Cultures. 417 VII. Cluster IV: Critical Politics and Jurisprudence. 424 VIII. Cluster V:... 2008  
Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic FOREWORD: LATINOS AND THE LAW SYMPOSIUM 83 Indiana Law Journal 1141 (Fall, 2008) To: Ourselves Cc: Interested Readers Re: Our Plans and New Year's Resolutions for Future Scholarship on Latinos The reason for the carbon copy to interested readers is that we have learned, as we have gone through life, that other people may be highly resistant to advice-you really should do this-but highly receptive to gossip-I'm getting ready... 2008  
Angela P. Harris FROM COLOR LINE TO COLOR CHART?: RACISM AND COLORISM IN THE NEW CENTURY 10 Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy 52 (2008) When my sister graduated from college in the mid-1980s with a degree in musical theater she moved to Chicago with her new husband in search of work in television commercials and the performing arts. To her frustration and dismay, however, despite her good looks, acting ability, and musical talent, she was rejected in audition after audition.... 2008  
  FROM PROPOSITION 209 TO PROPOSAL 2: EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF ANTI-AFFIRMATIVE ACTION VOTER INITIATIVES 13 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 461 (Spring 2008) PRIYA BASKARAN: Good morning. Thank you all for braving the winter weather to be with us here today. My name is Priya Baskaran, and I'm one of the symposium coordinators. I would like to welcome you on behalf of the entire Journal of Race & Law to our Symposium today. We have a lot of wonderful panels and speakers, so I won't keep you from them too... 2008  
Brian J. Bilford HARPER'S BAZAAR: THE MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS AND HATE SPEECH IN SCHOOLS 4 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 447 (October, 2008) Introduction. 447 I. Hate Speech and the Marketplace of Ideas . 449 II. The District Court: Hate Speech as Disruptive . 452 A. The Facts. 452 B. The Opinion. 453 C. The Problem: Selective Censorship, Viewpoint Discrimination, and R.A.V.. 454 D. Potential Counterarguments. 455 III. The Ninth Circuit: Hate Speech Violates the Rights of Minority... 2008  
Julie Seaman HATE SPEECH AND IDENTITY POLITICS: A SITUATIONALIST PROPOSAL 36 Florida State University Law Review 99 (Fall, 2008) The scholarly debate over campus hate speech codes is most often characterized as a clash of absolutes, a conflict between two irreconcilable moral and political visions. On one side are the so-called free speech absolutists, who reject hate speech restrictions on campuses and elsewhere based on their incompatibility with fundamental precepts of... 2008  
Kekailoa Perry , Jon Kamakawiwoole Osorio HONORING THE LAW AND RESTORING A NATION 31 University of Hawaii Law Review 331 (Winter 2008) Professor Van Dyke's book is one of those unusual literary works that has all of the elements of good scholarship-solid research, a clear focus, rational and credible theory as well as a compassionate approach to a significant issue for the indigenous people of Hawai'i-and still ends up being a pretty fair disappointment. While acknowledging that... 2008  
Marissa Harris INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A NAPPY-HEADED HO: A PROPOSAL FOR FCC REGULATION OF BROADCAST HATE SPEECH 1 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 189 (2008) My first acquaintance with racism came from the disapproving eyes of my mother as they lingered on my unruly, misshapen mass of kinky curls. I do not think that my mother despaired of my existence, or thought that I was doomed to inferiority. Her frustration and impatience with my natural hair, however, are my earliest memories entertaining the... 2008  
Elizabeth F. Emens INTEGRATING ACCOMMODATION 156 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 839 (April, 2008) Courts and agencies interpreting the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) generally assume that workplace accommodations benefit individual employees with disabilities and impose costs on employers and, at times, coworkers. This belief reflects a failure to recognize a key feature of ADA accommodations: their benefits to third parties. Numerous... 2008  
K.J. Greene INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AT THE INTERSECTION OF RACE AND GENDER: LADY SINGS THE BLUES 16 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 365 (2008) I. The Emergence of Race in Legal Analysis. 367 A. Intellectual Property, Innovation and African-Americans. 368 B. Blacks and Copyright Law. 370 C. Blacks and Trademark Law. 374 II. The Emerging Feminist Critique of Intellecual Property. 378 A. African-American Women and IP. 380 III. Traditional Knowledge/Indigenous Peoples and Intellectual... 2008  
Athena D. Mutua INTRODUCING CLASSCRITS: FROM CLASS BLINDNESS TO A CRITICAL LEGAL ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC INEQUALITY 56 Buffalo Law Review 859 (December, 2008) In 2007, two workshops at the University at Buffalo launched a project bringing together legal scholars interested in exploring the relationship between law and economic inequality. The essays in this collection grew out of the workshops and represent the project's first attempts to think about law and economic inequality, a problem that is growing... 2008  
Charles Lawrence INTRODUCTION 1 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 1 (2008) [W]hat is the role of the word--the spoken word, the preached word, the whispered-in-thenighttime word, the written word, the published word--in the fight for black freedom? Within the Word we find two dimensions, reflection and action, in such radical interaction that if one is sacrificed-even in part--the other immediately suffers. There is no... 2008  
Robert S. Chang , Catherine E. Smith JOHN CALMORE'S AMERICA 86 North Carolina Law Review 739 (March, 2008) In their contribution to this symposium honoring Professor John Calmore, Professors Robert Chang and Catherine Smith analyze the recent school desegregation case, Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, through the lens of Professor Calmore's work. In particular, they locate this case as part of what Professor... 2008  
Elizabeth L. MacDowell LAW ON THE STREET: LEGAL NARRATIVE AND THE STREET LAW CLASSROOM 9 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 285 (2008) Every new and important understanding or insight that I have reached and found a way to articulate in my writing has come from dialogue with my students .. This essay is about the disassociation of law from context--and therefore, from the people it is most directly designed to benefit--that can happen in the classroom, and why that matters. For... 2008  
Rose Ernst LOCALIZING THE "WELFARE QUEEN" TEN YEARS LATER: RACE, GENDER, PLACE, AND WELFARE RIGHTS 11 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 181 (Winter 2008) Mysheda Autry sits on a linoleum floor, watching her three children play with toys from a nearby milk crate. She is pregnant. This photo, featured in The New York Times, marked the tenth anniversary of welfare reform. The caption beneath the photo reads, Today is the 10th anniversary of the law intended to wean poor women off welfare. But Mysheda... 2008  
Nancy E. Dowd MASCULINITIES AND FEMINIST LEGAL THEORY 23 Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society 201 (Fall 2008) Feminist theory has examined men, patriarchy, and masculine characteristics predominantly as sources of power, domination, inequality, and subordination. Various theories of inequality developed by feminists challenge and reveal structures and discourses that reinforce explicitly or implicitly the centrality of men and the male identity of a... 2008  
Phyllis E. Bernard, M.A., J.D. MINORITIES, MEDIATION AND METHOD: THE VIEW FROM ONE COURT-CONNECTED MEDIATION PROGRAM 35 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1 (January, 2008) This Article offers a granular, first-person view of cross-cultural dynamics in small claims court mediations in a metropolitan area with a population of one million people. It presents a four-year qualitative study of mediation processes in 125 cases involving minorities, drawn from studies involving about 300 cases. The study suggests three... 2008  
Diane J. Klein NAMING AND FRAMING THE "SUBJECT" OF ANTEBELLUM SLAVE CONTRACTS: INTRODUCING JULIA, "A CERTAIN NEGRO SLAVE," "A MAN," JOSEPH, ELIZA, AND ALBERT 9 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 243 (2008) There is such perfect union between the spiritual quest for awareness, enlightenment, self-realization, and the struggle of oppressed people, colonized people to change our circumstance, to resist -- to move from object to subject .. -- bell hooks, 1990 [T]oil with him in the field -- sleep with him in the cabin -- feed with him on husks . behold... 2008  
Sylvia R. Lazos Vargas ONLY SKIN DEEP?: THE COST OF PARTISAN POLITICS ON MINORITY DIVERSITY OF THE FEDERAL BENCH 83 Indiana Law Journal 1423 (Fall, 2008) This article explores the difficulties encountered in diversifying the federal bench and why the partisanship of the confirmation process decreases the diversity of viewpoints on the bench. Why care about diversity on the bench? Part I summarizes the arguments. Presidents who have the power to appoint federal judges have realized the powerful... 2008  
Julian Aguon OTHER ARMS: THE POWER OF A DUAL RIGHTS LEGAL STRATEGY FOR THE CHAMORU PEOPLE OF GUAM USING THE DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN U.S. COURTS 31 University of Hawaii Law Review 113 (Winter 2008) In Guam, even the dead are dying again. At the time of this writing, 432 human remains-the bones of the ancestors of the indigenous Chamoru people buried some 1,500 years ago -sit in a private lab owned by the company the Guam Okura Hotel commissioned to do an archeological survey on its premises. Some two hundred of these are set for shipment, via... 2008  
Russell K. Robinson PERCEPTUAL SEGREGATION 108 Columbia Law Review 1093 (June, 2008) This Article argues that outsiders and insiders tend to perceive allegations of discrimination through fundamentally different psychological frameworks. A workplace may be spatially integrated and yet employees who work side by side may perceive an allegation of discrimination through very different lenses because of their disparate racial and... 2008  
Otis B. Grant PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN AND THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY: HARMFUL STEREOTYPING AND GAMES OF CHOICE IN MARKET-ORIENTED POLICY REFORM 25 Thomas M. Cooley Law Review 57 (2008) During United States President Ronald Reagan's state funeral and shortly thereafter, much was made of the absence of mourning and the lack of sadness in the African-American community. While many people in the white community mourned his death and had nothing but praise for Reagan, in the black community, he was not held in such high regard.... 2008  
Anthony V. Alfieri PROSECUTING THE JENA SIX 93 Cornell Law Review 1285 (September, 2008) Introduction. 1285 I. The History of the Jena Six. 1288 A. Jena High School. 1288 B. Legal Proceedings. 1290 C. Political Protest. 1290 II. District Attorney Walters's Colorblind Conception. 1291 A. Practice Traditions. 1292 B. Ethics Rules. 1294 III. Professor Luban's Dignitary Conception. 1296 IV. A Race-Conscious Outsider Conception. 1302 A.... 2008  
Alfred Dennis Mathewson RACE IN ORDINARY COURSE: UTILIZING THE RACIAL BACKGROUND IN ANTITRUST AND CORPORATE LAW COURSES 23 Saint John's Journal of Legal Commentary 667 (Fall 2008) This article is about the discourse in law school classes in which non-white students are in classes with white students. I recall the integration of race in one of my first year law classes. I was one of a handful of Black students in Professor Geoffrey Hazard's Civil Procedure class at Yale Law School. Professor Hazard had supplemented the... 2008  
Shubha Ghosh RACE-SPECIFIC PATENTS, COMMERCIALIZATION, AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY POLICY 56 Buffalo Law Review 409 (May, 2008) Patent reform is at the forefront of current academic and policy debates. Bad press on the quality of issued patents, litigation disruptive to competition and business, and the perceived impact of a seemingly broken system on innovation have each--and in combination--driven the movement to fix the patent system. This Article addresses the... 2008  
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