Nicole Stelle Garnett
“To Help, Not To Hurt”: Justice Thomas’s Equality Canon
In his twenty-five years on the Supreme Court, Justice Clarence Thomas has earned the (sometimes grudging) respect of legal scholars and commentators, including many who disagree with him, for his careful, principled, analytic approach to many areas of law. Race is not among them. Justice Thomas’s opinions reflect, first and foremost, his conviction that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause,...
A Winn for Educational Pluralism
**This Essay is part of a new Yale Law Journal Online series called "Summary Judgment," featuring short commentaries on recent Supreme Court cases.** Over the past decade, scholarship tax credit programs, like the one at issue in Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn, have emerged as a popular education policy tool. While details vary by state, scholarship tax credit...
Unbundling Homeownership: Regional Reforms from the Inside Out
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Save the Cities, Stop the Suburbs?
116 Yale L.J. 598 (2006) Sprawl: A Compact History BY ROBERT BRUEGMANN CHICAGO: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 2005. PP. 306. $27.50 The City: A Global History BY JOEL KOTKIN NEW YORK: MODERN LIBRARY CHRONICLES, 2005. PP. 256. $21.95