Faculty Bibliography
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Madiba K. Dennie argues that “originalism deliberately entombs historically marginalized groups’ legal claims to liberation.”
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The author of a monumental biography of Muhammad Ali uses new material to flesh out the civil rights giant.
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault’s ‘My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives’ offers a survey of turbulent times and those who made history throughout them
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The Harvard affirmative action case being heard by the Supreme Court in two weeks embodies a growing solidarity movement between the AAPI and African American communities, accelerated by the events of the summer of 2020.
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Book review of Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America by Keisha N. Blain.
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“Race and colonial law” is the theme of a seminar which aimed to stimulate reflection on the concept of “race”, and the way in which the latter would be likely to enrich the understanding of French law, in particular racial discrimination.
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This preface to a special issue on Race and the Law of La Revue des Droits de l’Homme, presents a genealogy of Critical Race Theory, framed in light of the tendency in France to avoid fulsome scholarly discussions of racial identity, racial inequality and racial attitudes. The preface also frames its genealogy in light of political attacks on CRT that have been launched both in the United States and elsewhere in the world. Its genealogy frames the origins of CRT in the context of increased scholarly interest in race as a social construction during the 1980s and 1990s, and in the additional context of 1970s, 80s, and 90s scholarship that questioned universalizing and colorblind legal regimes of nations that purported to guarantee equality without regard to race. It also locates CRT within the larger universe of Critical Theory, including Critical Legal Studies, and examines concepts such as social construction, intersectionality, whiteness, structural racism and identity performance.
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Akhil Reed Amar celebrates the debates that led to revolt, the Constitution and U.S. law.
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The civil rights era shows that taking a stand also helps the bottom line.
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During the past half-decade, law school student demands for changes in legal education to address issues of diversity and inclusion have both proliferated and grown insistent. Although the demands are somewhat varied, they have sometimes stretched far beyond the admission and hiring of more students and faculty from minority groups. Students have advocated for basic changes in the way that law schools operate in order to make them more inclusive of groups that have been historically marginalized within these institutions.
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This paper responds to Risa Goluboff's review of the author's book, Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer, and argues that civil rights history, and legal history more generally, has developed to the point where one may usefully distinguish between older approaches to socio-legal history that became mainstream in the late 1980s and 1990s, and newer approaches to the field that have developed in the succeeding years. Approaches to legal history that examine law, lawyers and legal consciousness as a mediating force between the formal legal system and the larger society have become so common in the field that they have lost their novelty. This paper frames Representing the Race as part of a newer corpus of writing that diverges somewhat from the core concerns of this older scholarship, and offers some observations on the future direction of legal history.
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Dissenting Voices in American Society: The Role of Judges, Lawyers, and Citizens explores the status of dissent in the work and lives of judges, lawyers, and citizens, and in our institutions and culture.
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This paper argues that Barack Obama's election as President of the Harvard Law Review in 1990 provides an important view of the qualities that led to his rise in national politics following his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
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Since the milestone election of Barack Hussein Obama on November 4, 2008, some have wondered whether the United States can now be considered a post-racial nation. According to this book's contributors, a more nuanced and contemporary analysis and measurement of racial attitudes undercuts this assumption. Despite the election of the first black President and rise of his family as perhaps the most widely recognized family in the world, race remains a salient issue—particularly in the United States. Looking beyond public behaviors and how people describe their own attitudes, the contributors draw from the latest research to show how, despite the Obama family's rapid rise to national prominence, many Americans continue to harbor unconscious, anti-black biases. Nonetheless, the prominence of the Obamas on the world stage and the image they project may hasten the day when America is indeed post-racial, even at the implicit level.
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This paper uses a review of Nancy MacLean's FREEDOM IS NOT ENOUGH: THE OPENING OF THE AMERICAN WORKPLACE (2008), to challenge historians to re-integrate law and legal institutions into the civil rights history. It critiques recent work in the social history of the civil rights movement for ignoring litigation and legal institutions, and/or regarding them as an impediment to social movement organization. Recent political-science inspired work that examines civil rights history, by contrast, has focused on the Supreme Court rather than social movement organization. The paper argues that recent work by Risa Goluboff, David Engstrom, Sophia Lee, Paul Frymer, and Kenneth Mack points the way for scholars in reorienting the legal history of the civil rights movement away from the NAACP's school desegregation campaign and toward the struggle for economic citizenship. As such, the paper argues, such work provides a model for re-integrating law into the social history of the civil rights movement.
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Kenneth W. Mack, The Role of Law in the Making of Racial Identity: The Case of Harrisburg's W. Justin Carter, 18 Widener L.J. 1 (2008).
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