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Devon W. Carbado BLACK RIGHTS, GAY RIGHTS, CIVIL RIGHTS 47 UCLA Law Review 1467 (August, 2000) Over the past few years, an extensive body of literature has questioned the constitutional and political legitimacy of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. Yet, the public discourses about this policy have received virtually no scholarly attention. In this Article, Professor Devon W. Carbado focuses on two such discourses: black antiracist and gay... 2000  
John A. Scanlan CALL AND RESPONSE: THE PARTICULAR AND THE GENERAL 2000 University of Illinois Law Review 639 (2000) The year is 1980. The setting is Liberty City, on the western edge of downtown Miami, a few blocks from the Orange Bowl. A few months later, flames ignited by the worst race riot in the city's history will singe the palm trees and storefronts flanking the street where I walk. I enter a building with concrete walls. My host from the INS greets me... 2000  
Antony Anghie CIVILIZATION AND COMMERCE: THE CONCEPT OF GOVERNANCE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 45 Villanova Law Review 887 (2000) THE broad topic of this conference, the relationship between international law, race and colonialism, raises questions of the first importance to the discipline of international law, and I am very honored to be a part of this event. Perhaps one of the most notable aspects of the complex relationship between race and international law is the extent... 2000  
E. Dana Neacsu CLS STANDS FOR CRITICAL LEGAL STUDIES, IF ANYONE REMEMBERS 8 Journal of Law & Policy 415 (2000) Critical Legal Studies (CLS), which started as a Left movement within legal academia, has undergone so many changes, that one may liken it to products of pop culture, such as the television cartoon show, South Park. South Park features a character named Kenny, totally unlike any other cartoon hero, tragic or otherwise. Like Kenny, who is an... 2000  
Reviewed by Sylvia R. Lazos Vargas CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY: CAN A POPULAR "HYBRID" GENRE REACH ACROSS THE RACIAL DIVIDE? 18 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 419 (Summer 2000) In recent years, the university presses have increasingly welcomed personal narratives that interweave race topics. Patricia J. Williams's The Alchemy of Race and Rights is among the most successful of such crossover books. Like Williams's book, the three works reviewed herein can be viewed as forming part of the burgeoning corpus of critical... 2000  
Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol , Sharon Elizabeth Rush CULTURE, NATIONHOOD, AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS IDEAL 33 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 233 (Spring 2000) This Symposium on Culture, Nation, and LatCrit Theory continues the exciting work of a very young but productive branch of critical movements. LatCrit is a theoretical movement initiated as a distinct discourse within critical legal theory. Its origins are traceable to the first colloquium organized with the purpose of having Latina/o law... 2000  
Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol , Sharon Elizabeth Rush CULTURE, NATIONHOOD, AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS IDEAL 5 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 817 (Summer 2000) This Symposium on Culture, Nation, and LatCrit Theory continues the exciting work of a very young but productive branch of critical movements. LatCrit is a theoretical movement initiated as a distinct discourse within critical legal theory. Its origins are traceable to the first colloquium organized with the purpose of having Latina/o law... 2000  
Eli Denard Oates CURETON V. NCAA: THE RECOGNITION OF PROPOSITION 16'S MISPLACED USE OF STANDARDIZED TESTS IN THE CONTEXT OF COLLEGIATE ATHLETICS AS A BARRIER TO EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR MINORITIES 35 Wake Forest Law Review 445 (Summer 2000) Kevin Ross attended and played basketball for Creighton University from 1978 to 1982. After leaving Creighton, he mastered the fundamental concept of reading after joining a third grade class in Chicago, Illinois. Dexter Manley graduated from Oklahoma State University and became an All-Pro lineman for the Washington Redskins in the National... 2000  
Richard Delgado DERRICK BELL'S TOOLKIT--FIT TO DISMANTLE THAT FAMOUS HOUSE? 75 New York University Law Review 283 (May, 2000) Does United States antidiscrimination law embrace a black/white binary paradigm of race, in which other, nonblack minority groups must compare their treatment to that of African Americans in order to gain redress? In this Derrick Bell Lecture, Professor Richard Delgado argues that it does, and that other minorities also fall from time to time into... 2000  
Ian Ayres, Fredrick E. Vars DETERMINANTS OF CITATIONS TO ARTICLES IN ELITE LAW REVIEWS 29 Journal of Legal Studies 427 (January, 2000) This article analyzes the determinants of citations to pieces published from 1980 to 1995 in Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and The Yale Law Journal. We also rank articles by number of citations using regressions controlling for time since publication, journal, and subject area. To summarize a few of our results: citations per year peak... 2000  
Angela P. Harris EQUALITY TROUBLE: SAMENESS AND DIFFERENCE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY RACE LAW 88 California Law Review 1923 (December, 2000) Introduction. 1925 I. The First Reconstruction: Prelude to the Twentieth Century. 1930 A. The Legal Structure of the First Reconstruction. 1931 B. Dismantling Reconstruction: The Southern Redemption. 1936 II. Race Law in the Age Of Difference. 1937 A. Civilization and Self-Determination: The Increasing Importance of Race. 1938 B. Race Law and... 2000  
Margaret Chon ERASING RACE?: A CRITICAL RACE FEMINIST VIEW OF INTERNET IDENTITY-SHIFTING 3 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 439 (Spring 2000) Algo de mi se ha perdido Something of mine is lost Entre tu casa y mi casa Between your house and mine Será el calor que no abrasa It's the heat that doesn't singe No es de gozo Not from joy No es de ira Not from anger Como tampoco es mentira Nor is it a lie Que algo de ti se ha escondido That something of yours is hidden If race signifies and... 2000  
Elizabeth M. Iglesias , Francisco Valdes EXPANDING DIRECTIONS, EXPLODING PARAMETERS: CULTURE AND NATION IN LATCRIT COALITIONAL IMAGINATION 5 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 787 (Summer 2000) We have to believe in the power of imagination because it is all we have, and ours is stronger than theirs. The real war is between our imagination and theirs, what we can see and what they are blinded to. Do not despair. None of them can see far enough, and so long as we do not let them violate our imagination we will survive. In Imagining... 2000  
Robert Westley FIRST-TIME ENCOUNTERS: "PASSING" REVISITED AND DEMYSTIFICATION AS A CRITICAL PRACTICE 18 Yale Law and Policy Review 297 (2000) I hope the reader will indulge me in my use of the terms white, black, mulatto, and Negro. Admittedly, they are very loose and laden with powerful emotional charges. But most who read this book will know their weaknesses and recognize their strengths as necessary symbols in talking about these subjects. -- Joel Williamson Robert Green filed... 2000  
Christopher Tomlins FRAMING THE FIELD OF LAW'S DISCIPLINARY ENCOUNTERS: A HISTORICAL NARRATIVE 34 Law and Society Review 911 (2000) In this article I address the historical interrelationship of law and social science. I explore the separation of law and social science during the later 19th century, examine their relationship over the next 50 years, and finally take up their more elaborate post-World War II interaction, culminating in the birth and development of the law and... 2000  
Timothy A. Canova GLOBAL FINANCE AND THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND'S NEOLIBERAL AGENDA: THE THREAT TO THE EMPLOYMENT, ETHNIC IDENTITY, AND CULTURAL PLURALISM OF LATINA/O COMMUNITIES 33 U.C. Davis Law Review 1547 (Summer, 2000) Critical legal scholarship can be seen as a slowly evolving movement of inclusion, a movement that has expanded in scope and vision to include voices previously excluded from elite academic discourse. For instance, LatCrit emerged in recent years as a movement that speaks for those who were not just subordinated by legal structures and processes,... 2000  
Penelope E. Andrews GLOBALIZATION, HUMAN RIGHTS AND CRITICAL RACE FEMINISM: VOICES FROM THE MARGINS 3 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 373 (Spring 2000) I. Introduction II. Violence Against Women in South Africa and Aboriginal Women in Australia A. South Africa B. Australia III. Globalization and Feminist Intervention A. Our Global Neighborhood?: The Phenomenon of Globalization B. Hierarchies of Human Rights C. Women and Globalization D. Feminist Interventions in International Human Rights... 2000  
Dan Subotnik GOODBYE TO THE SAT, LSAT? HELLO TO EQUITY BY LOTTERY? EVALUATING LANI GUINIER'S PLAN FOR ENDING RACE CONSCIOUSNESS 43 Howard Law Journal 141 (Winter 2000) What destiny awaits us if nearly 80 percent of our youngsters in Denver fail the fourth grade reading tests, as they did last year? Hugh Price The more books you read, the more stupid you become. Mao Zedong Two beggars are standing across from the university in pre-World War II Berlin. The atmosphere is repressive, even hateful, though not yet... 2000  
Kenneth A. Sprang HOLISTIC JURISPRUDENCE: LAW SHAPED BY PEOPLE OF FAITH 74 Saint John's Law Review 753 (Summer 2000) He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God. To be a lawyer and at the same time to be a faithful Christian or other person of faith is difficult--some would say impossible. Some resolve the crisis by tossing in the towel and leaving the... 2000  
Michael A. Olivas IMMIGRATION LAW TEACHING AND SCHOLARSHIP IN THE IVORY TOWER: A RESPONSE TO RACE MATTERS 2000 University of Illinois Law Review 613 (2000) Why does one write? Why does one respond to another's writing? What sources does one consult and cite as influences? In Race Matters: Immigration Law and Policy Scholarship, Law in the Ivory Tower, and the Legal Indifference of the Race Critique, Professor Kevin Johnson offers an interesting and provocative response to these and other key questions... 2000  
Larry Cata Backer INSCRIBING JUDICIAL PREFERENCES INTO OUR FUNDAMENTAL LAW: ON THE EUROPEAN PRINCIPLE OF MARGINS OF APPRECIATION AS CONSTITUTIONAL JURISPRUDENCE IN THE U.S. 7 Tulsa Journal of Comparative & International Law 327 (Spring 2000) The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is in fact - and must be regarded by the judges as - a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body. The recent constitutional jurisprudence of... 2000  
Ian F. Haney López INSTITUTIONAL RACISM: JUDICIAL CONDUCT AND A NEW THEORY OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION 109 Yale Law Journal 1717 (June, 2000) I. Introduction. 1721 II. Discrimination in the Selection of Los Angeles County Grand Jurors. 1730 A. Discretion Codified. 1730 B. Judicial Practice: Friends and Neighbors. 1732 C. Inside the Circle. 1735 D. Outside the Circle. 1737 E. Extraracial Discrimination. 1740 F. Discrimination by the Numbers. 1741 G. Jury Discrimination and the... 2000  
Elizabeth M. Iglesias INSTITUTIONALIZING ECONOMIC JUSTICE: A LATCRIT PERSPECTIVE ON THE IMPERATIVES OF LINKING THE RECONSTRUCTION OF 'COMMUNITY' TO THE TRANSFORMATION OF LEGAL STRUCTURES THAT INSTITUTIONALIZE THE DEPOLITICIZATION AND FRAGMENTATION OF LABOR/COMMUNITY SOLIDARITY 2 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law 773 (Spring 2000) The long and unwieldy title of this essay reflects the complex range of issues implicated in any project designed to promote the effective participation of labor/community coalitions in the process of progressive social transformation. The decision of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law to organize a unique gathering... 2000  
Robert S. Chang, Natasha Fuller INTRODUCTION 33 U.C. Davis Law Review 1277 (Summer, 2000) Borrowing from Eric Yamamoto's definition of race praxis, we understand LatCrit praxis to be a critical pragmatic process of race theory generation and translation, practical engagement, material change, and reflection . [[which] integrate[s] conceptual inquiries into power and representation with frontline struggles for racial justice,... 2000  
Sylvia R. Lazos Vargas INTRODUCTION 33 U.C. Davis Law Review 1429 (Summer, 2000) The fifth and final cluster of this LatCrit IV Symposium, International Linkages and Domestic Engagement, includes five important contributions to LatCrit IV's focus on global issues by Professors Timothy Canova, Gil Gott, Tayyab Mahmud, Ediberto Roman, and Chantal Thomas. Since the inception of the LatCrit movement, LatCrit scholars have been... 2000  
Francisco Valdes INTRODUCTION 33 U.C. Davis Law Review 897 (Summer, 2000) The wonderful quartet of essays that follows this Introduction is emblematic of LatCrit efforts to practice some of the guideposts made explicit or suggested in early LatCrit works. In the following essays' critiques of religion, class, gender, and race as complex webs of power that mark and oftentimes threaten Latinas/os and other people of... 2000  
Rev. Robert John Araujo, S.J. JUSTICE AS RIGHT RELATIONSHIP: A PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION 27 Pepperdine Law Review 377 (April, 2000) Justice, and only justice, you shall pursue. [C]ease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice .. For justice, we must go to Don Corleone. Justice. Lawyers, judges, law students, and many members of the public often use the term. Its meaning is generally understood throughout the legal profession, the bench, and the lay communityor so it... 2000  
Ioannis S. Papadopoulos & Mark Tushnet LEGAL HERMENEUTICS AT A CROSSROADS: GIUSEPPE ZACCARIA'S QUESTIONI DI INTERPRETAZIONE (1996) 8 Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law 261 (Summer 2000) Fourteen years ago Giuseppe Zaccaria published two volumes that proved to be quite influential in European legal philosophy. Zaccaria is a continental legal philosopher with a background in the Padova school of jurisprudence and is a student of the prominent German legal philosopher and proceduralist Josef Esser. Zaccaria introduced to the Italian... 2000  
Pedro A. Malavet LITERATURE AND THE ARTS AS ANTISUBORDINATION PRAXIS: LATCRIT THEORY AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION: THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ACCIDENTAL CRIT 33 U.C. Davis Law Review 1293 (Summer, 2000) Nuestra pobre America, que comenzo a rezar cuando ya eran prehistoria los viejos testamentos . cuando la historia estaba llena de guerreros, el alma llena de misticos, el pensamiento lleno de filosofos, la belleza llena de artistas, y la ciencia llena de sabios .. Todo lo que cruzaba el mar era mejor y, cuando no teniamos salvacion, aparecio lo... 2000  
Larry Catá Backer MEASURING THE PENETRATION OF OUTSIDER SCHOLARSHIP INTO THE COURTS: INDIFFERENCE, HOSTILITY, ENGAGEMENT 33 U.C. Davis Law Review 1173 (Summer, 2000) Many people have complained lately about the increasing irrelevance of legal scholarship. More often than not, emerging schools of legal scholarship are the specific targets of these complaints. [P]ostmodern jurisprudence is characterized by an enormous disjunction between theory and practice, between the legal academy and the judiciary. But... 2000  
Elizabeth E. Joh NARRATING PAIN: THE PROBLEM WITH VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENTS 10 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 17 (Fall 2000) [Not being allowed to make a victim impact statement] was the most crushing feeling in the world. It was feeling like a secondhand citizen, like a piece of evidence. -- Roberta Roper, mother of a murder victim Q: Could you tell the Court, Mrs. Johnson, how the loss of Daralyn Johnson has affected you personally? A: I would say probably... 2000  
Leland Ware PEOPLE OF COLOR IN THE ACADEMY: PATTERNS OF DISCRIMINATION IN FACULTY HIRING AND RETENTION 20 Boston College Third World Law Journal 55 (Winter, 2000) On March 25-28, 1999, a group of more than one hundred minority law professors met at John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois. Regional conferences of this sort have been held annually since 1990, but the Chicago event was the first time that the various conferences gathered at a single meeting. The First National Meeting of the Regional... 2000  
Pedro A. Malavet PUERTO RICO:CULTURAL NATION, AMERICAN COLONY 6 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 1 (Fall 2000) INTRODUCTION. 2 I. Historical Development of the Legal Relationship between Puerto Rico and the Estados Unidos de Norteamérica (U.S.A.). 11 A. Historical Antecedents: The First Colony. 12 B. The Second Colony: Development of the United States-Puerto Rico Legal Regime. 21 1. Booty of the Spanish-American War. 21 2. Legal Consequences of the New... 2000  
Laurie Rose Kepros QUEER THEORY: WEED OR SEED IN THE GARDEN OF LEGAL THEORY? 9 Law and Sexuality: A Review of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Legal Issues 279 (1999-2000) I. Introduction: We're Here, We're Queer . . . Now What?. 279 II. What Is Queer Theory?. 280 A. On the Q.T.: A Definition?. 280 B. Hystory. 284 C. No Mo' Po-Mo Homo! Queer Theory & Identity Politics. 289 III. Queer Theory as a Legal Theory. 293 A. Strike a Pose: Strategies for Queer Legal Theory. 293 B. Queer Theory in the Legal Academy: If Paris... 2000  
George A. Martínez RACE AND IMMIGRATION LAW: A PARADIGM SHIFT? 2000 University of Illinois Law Review 517 (2000) For many years, controversies impacting many areas of legal scholarship have left the field of immigration law virtually untouched. Thus, although other areas of law have felt the critique advanced by critical scholars, immigration law has proceeded as a virtually self-contained unit. In doing so, immigration law has developed a paradigm for legal... 2000  
Reginald Leamon Robinson RACE CONSCIOUSNESS: CAN THICK, LEGAL CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS ASSIST POOR, LOW-STATUS WORKERS OVERCOME DISCRIMINATORY HURDLES IN THE FAST FOOD INDUSTRY? A REPLY TO REGINA AUSTIN 34 John Marshall Law Review 245 (Fall 2000) Racists are people who are afraid. [T]he general effect of the dominance-subjection relation is to destroy both parties, each by the other, and each in a specific manner. Though the corrosive suffering of the victim is wholly incommensurate with and overshadows the psychic deformation of the victimizer, one nevertheless does not transform oneself... 2000  
Kevin R. Johnson RACE MATTERS: IMMIGRATION LAW AND POLICY SCHOLARSHIP, LAW IN THE IVORY TOWER, AND THE LEGAL INDIFFERENCE OF THE RACE CRITIQUE 2000 University of Illinois Law Review 525 (2000) After the elimination of the discriminatory national origins quota system in 1965, the United States experienced a dramatic change in the demographics of immigration. Many more immigrants of color from developing nations have come to this country since the revolutionary reform. Over the decades following the elimination of the quota system, public... 2000  
Francisco Valdes RACE, ETHNICITY, AND HISPANISMO IN A TRIANGULAR PERSPECTIVE: THE "ESSENTIAL LATINA/O" AND LATCRIT THEORY 48 UCLA Law Review 305 (December, 2000) The central theme of this Article is the questionable character and consequences of Hispanismo, a racial and ethnic ideology that prevails among Latina/o communities worldwide and that is promoted directly by Spain despite its problematic nature. Hispanismo is problematic for at least two reasons: first, because it perpetuates colonial-era... 2000  
Joan Fitzpatrick RACE, IMMIGRATION, AND LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP: A RESPONSE TO KEVIN JOHNSON 2000 University of Illinois Law Review 603 (2000) The harshest measures of contemporary American immigration law disproportionately affect persons of color. At the same time, persons of color have become the primary subjects of migration to the United States and are thus the main beneficiaries of the substantial benefits the U.S. immigration system offers. The extent to which racism, conscious or... 2000  
Sherrilyn A. Ifill RACIAL DIVERSITY ON THE BENCH: BEYOND ROLE MODELS AND PUBLIC CONFIDENCE 57 Washington and Lee Law Review 405 (Spring, 2000) The lack of racial diversity on our nation's courts threatens both the quality and legitimacy of judicial decision-making. Traditional arguments emphasizing the role model value of black judges and the need for black judges to help promote public confidence in the justice system have turned our attention away from the most important... 2000  
Linda R. Crane REFLECTIONS FROM THE CHAIR--THE ROAD TAKEN: HONORING THE DECADE OF SCHOLARSHIP BY LAW PROFESSORS OF COLOR IN U.S. LAW SCHOOLS AND THE PEOPLE OF COLOR MOVEMENT (1989-1999) 20 Boston College Third World Law Journal 13 (Winter, 2000) The first national meeting of the six regional People of Color (POC) Legal Scholarship Conferences was the result of a planning process that began in March, 1997, during the eighth annual meeting of the Midwestern People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference (Midwestern Region) at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois. The Midwestern... 2000  
Hope Lewis REFLECTIONS ON 'BLACKCRIT THEORY': HUMAN RIGHTS 45 Villanova Law Review 1075 (2000) The Colorline Belts the World. -- W.E.B. Du Bois[T]he left-liberal approach to globalization has yet to generate an adequate account of the connections between racial power and political economy in the New World Order. -- Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, Kendall Thomas AS the United Nations World Conference Against Racism... 2000  
James Thuo Gathii REJOINDER: TWAILING INTERNATIONAL LAW 98 Michigan Law Review 2066 (May, 2000) Brad Roth's response to my Review of his book seeks to privilege his approach to international law as the most defensible. His response does not engage one of the central claims of my Review--that present within international legal scholarship and praxis is a simultaneous and dialectical coexistence of the dominant conservative/liberal approach... 2000  
Adrien Katherine Wing RENO v. AMERICAN-ARAB ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE: A CRITICAL RACE PERSPECTIVE 31 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 561 (Summer, 2000) On January 26, 1987, life changed forever for Michel Shehadeh, a Palestinian who had immigrated to the United States in 1975. [He] and his 3-year old son, Ibrahim, were sleeping at home in Long Beach, Calif., when Shehadeh heard a loud knock. He opened the front door to a man and woman in grey suits. Shehadeh had just applied for naturalization and... 2000  
Chris K. Iijima SEPARATING SUPPORT FROM BETRAYAL: EXAMINING THE INTERSECTIONS OF RACIALIZED LEGAL PEDAGOGY, ACADEMIC SUPPORT, AND SUBORDINATION 33 Indiana Law Review 737 (2000) If we have learned anything at all, it has to be that power and politics are not separate or different from teaching. They are at the heart of it. When I was a beginning instructor in the New York University School of Law's Lawyering Program, its renowned Director, Professor Anthony Amsterdam, periodically gave teaching workshops to the entire... 2000  
William C. Kidder SITUATING ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICANS IN THE LAW SCHOOL AFFIRMATIVE ACTION DEBATE: EMPIRICAL FACTS ABOUT THERNSTROM'S RHETORICAL ACTS 7 Asian Law Journal 29 (December, 2000) I. L2-3,T3Introduction 30 II. L2-3,T3APAs and the Political Discourse on Affirmative Action 33 A. Historical Background. 33 B. Treatment of APAs by the Political Right and Left. 34 III. L2-3,T3Racial Mascotting: The Real and Imagined Impact of Prop. 209 and SP-1 at University of California Law Schools 36 A. A Review of the Aggregate Data. 38 B.... 2000  
Devon W. Carbado STRAIGHT OUT OF THE CLOSET 15 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 76 (2000) Prologue: Privileged Perpetrators. 77 I. Introduction. 79 II. Male Feminist or Oxymoron?. 84 A. Men are Not Where Women Are: A Starting Point for Male Feminism. 85 B. Gender Identity/Feminist Ideology. 87 III. Black Men and Black Feminism. 88 A. Authenticity and Dominance. 88 B. Identity Authenticity vs. Politics. 90 C. Summary. 92 IV. Rethinking... 2000  
Binny Miller TELLING STORIES ABOUT CASES AND CLIENTS: THE ETHICS OF NARRATIVE 14 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 1 (Fall, 2000) In recent years, narrative has achieved great prominence in legal scholarship and in much other academic work, although the concept is not new. The legal realists always have emphasized the importance of stories; as long ago as 1941, Karl Llewellyn published case studies of the Cheyenne and their dispute settlement practices. In step with the... 2000  
David I. Levine THE CHINESE AMERICAN CHALLENGE TO COURT-MANDATED QUOTAS IN SAN FRANCISCO'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS: NOTES FROM A (PARTISAN) PARTICIPANT-OBSERVER 16 Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal 39 (Spring, 2000) Since 1994, I have been involved in a high-profile lawsuit, Ho v. San Francisco Unified School District. This suit challenges the constitutionality of a 1983 consent decree mandating quotas on the assignment of children to all public schools in San Francisco on the basis of their race or ethnicity. As one of the first suits brought by Asian... 2000  
Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr. THE DISSENT OF THE GOVERNED: A MEDITATION ON LAW, RELIGION, AND LOYALTY. BY STEPHEN L. CARTER. CAMBRIDGE: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS. 1998. PP. XI, 167. CLOTH, $20.50; PAPER, $12.95. 98 Michigan Law Review 1613 (May, 2000) Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. Since the Warren Court's expansive construction of the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, there has been no shortage of legal scholarship aimed at justifying the... 2000  
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