How can egalitarian ideals be put into action? This ground-breaking book sets out a new
interdisciplinary model for equality studies. Integrating normative questions about the ideal …

2002 Term has shattered entrenched images of the Rehnquist Court. If in its early years the
Rehnquist Court was commonly tasked for its excessive deference to" majoritarian" …

T he relationship between equal protection and facially neutral practices with discriminatory
effects has been the subject of two rounds of legal questions. In the first round, the issue was …

The Supreme Court's decision in Ricci v. DeStefano foregrounded the question of whether
Title VII's disparate impact standard conflicts with equal protection. This Article shows that …

Affirmative action policy is even more divisive and unsettled today than at its inception more
than thirty years ago. This is a remarkable socio-political fact. I know of no other public policy …

Increasingly, we Americans are" bowling alone."'So says Professor Robert Putnam, for
whom the forlorn image of the solitary bowler is emblematic of a disturbing erosion of civic …

This Article is a critique of class-based affirmative action. It begins by observing that many
professed politically conservative individuals have championed class-based affirmative …

In America law is king,'and lawyers are members of a governing class, 2 constituting an
aristocracy and enjoying an elevated social and cultural status. One might expect that as …

America is the first society in history to make ethno-racial diversity an affirmative social ideal
rather than viewing it as a fearful menace, as almost all other societies still do. Since the …

To its critics, one of the flaws of race-based affirmative action is that its main beneficiaries
are economically privileged members of the eligible minority groups. 1 Supporters of race …