The New Imperialism: Violence, Norms, and the "Rule of Law" Page 1 THE NEW IMPERIALISM:
VIOLENCE, NORMS, AND THE "RULE OF LAW" Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks* TABLE OF CONTENTS …

What is called the" law of federal courts" has been established through a process that filters,
purifies, redesigns, and largely erases decisive historical phenomena-social conflict, politics …

Reinforcing Representation: Congressional Power to Enforce the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments in the Rehnquist and Waite Co Page 1 REINFORCING REPRESENTATION …

This Article makes three contributions. First, it represents the first sustained effort to identify
and trace the origins of the legal category of civil rights in American constitutional …

According to conventional accounts, the state action doctrine is dichot-omous. When the
government acts, constitutional limits take hold and the government action is invalid if those …

Everyone knows that the Equal Protection Clause applies only to state action. What is not
generally appreciated is that Congress seemingly repealed this requirement in the Civil …

In the aftermath of the Civil War, American intellectuals saw the war itself as a force of
transcendent lawmaking. They viewed it as a historical catalyst that had forged the United …

This article reconsiders the conventional wisdom that the Supreme Court definitively
abandoned the freedmen to their former masters through the “state action” decisions of the …

" The Civil Rights Act of 1866 created civil rights as we know them today: as rights to
participate in public life free of discrimination. It was the first civil rights act in our nation's …

T he Supreme Court has inspired mountains of commentary with recent decisions in two
separate areas of Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence. On the one hand, the Court has …