In 1971, Fred Bosselman and David Callies famously described a" quiet revolution" in land-
use law.'Prodded by the nascent environmental movement, states were fettering local …

A critical issue in any racial vote-dilution case is the proportionality (or lack thereof) of a
minority group's representation: how well (or poorly) minority voters are represented relative …

A generation ago, the Supreme Court upended the voting rights world. In the breakthrough
case of Thornburg v. Gingles, the Court held that minority groups that are residentially …

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Ever since the Warren Court constitutionalized the right to vote, judges have recognized that
an electoral system in which every adult citizen votes without hindrance may nonetheless be …

Debates over racial voting, and over policies to combat vote dilution, turn on the extent to
which groups' voting preferences differ and vary across geography. We present the first …

Two generations ago, in the wake of rioting that scarred dozens of American cities, the
Kerner Commission issued its landmark report on urban unrest.'The report warned darkly of …

Capitalizing on recent advances in algorithmic sampling, The Race-Blind Future of Voting
Rights explores the implications of the long-standing conservative dream of certified race …

Concepts are the building blocks of legal doctrine. All legal rules and standards, in fact, are
formed by combining concepts in different ways. But despite their centrality, legal concepts …

The constitutionally mandated decennial enumeration of the US population is indispensable
to the equitable distribution of political and economic resources. As we approach the 2020 …