The Meaning of the Civil Rights Revolution

A symposium of essays on the origins and status of the civil rights project fifty years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, using Bruce Ackerman’s We the People: The Civil Rights Revolution (2014) as a focal point and a foil.

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We the People: Each and Every One

Randy E. Barnett
Jun 1, 2014
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A Revolution at War with Itself? Preserving Employment Preferences from Weber to Ricci

Sophia Z. Lee
Jun 1, 2014
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Ackerman’s Brown

Randall L. Kennedy
Jun 1, 2014
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Ackerman’s Civil Rights Revolution and Modern American Racial Politics

Rogers M. Smith
Jun 1, 2014
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Changing the Wind: Notes Toward a Demosprudence of Law and Social Movements

Lani Guinier & Gerald Torres
Jun 1, 2014
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De-Schooling Constitutional Law

Bruce Ackerman
Jun 1, 2014
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Equal Protection in the Key of Respect

Deborah Hellman
Jun 1, 2014
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Have We Moved Beyond the Civil Rights Revolution?

John D. Skrentny
Jun 1, 2014
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Popular Sovereignty and the United States Constitution: Tensions in the Ackermanian Program

Sanford Levinson
Jun 1, 2014
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Protecting Civil Rights in the Shadows

David A. Super
Jun 1, 2014
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Reactionary Rhetoric and Liberal Legal Academia

Justin Driver
Jun 1, 2014
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Rethinking Rights After the Second Reconstruction

Richard Thompson Ford
Jun 1, 2014
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Separate Spheres

Cary Franklin
Jun 1, 2014
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The Anti-Humiliation Principle and Same-Sex Marriage

Kenji Yoshino
Jun 1, 2014
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The Civil Rights Canon: Above and Below

Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Jun 1, 2014
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The Neo-Hamiltonian Temptation

David A. Strauss
Jun 1, 2014
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Universalism and Civil Rights (with Notes on Voting Rights After Shelby)

Samuel R. Bagenstos
Jun 1, 2014