Category: Law

  • Why Affirmative Action Remains Essential in the Age of Obama Campbell Law Review Volume 31, Issue 3 (2009) pages 503-533 Reginald T. Shuford, Senior Staff Attorney, Racial Justice Program American Civil Liberties Union Foundation With the election of Barack Obama to the most powerful position in the world, the presidency of the United States of…

  • Lawsuit Challenging Obama’s Qualifications Is Tossed Out In Federal Court AlaskaPublic.org 2012-09-12 Matt Miller, KTOO – Juneau An Alaska-based federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama’s qualifications to appear as a candidate on the November general election ballot. Gordon Warren Epperly of Juneau claims that Obama does not have the political…

  • Elections division turns aside Obama nomination challenge KTOO News: Public Radio at 104.3 Juneau, Alaska 2012-03-06 Matt Miller The state Division of Elections has turned down a challenge of President Barack Obama’s qualifications to be on the election ballot in Alaska. The challenge was filed by a Juneau resident who says the Democratic candidate is…

  • Making The Application Valley Spirit Franklin County, Virginia 1867-10-02 page 1, column 8 Source: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library Relates a ficticious story about a conversation between two white men, one Republican the other Democrat, in which the consequences of black suffrage are discussed. Several days ago a…

  • Cameron reshuffle brings critic of legal aid cuts into ministry of justice The Guardian 2012-09-05 Owen Bowcott, Legal Affairs Correspondent New Conservative minister Helen Grant criticised coalition policy on Guardian website last year One of the new ministerial appointees to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has previously been highly critical of the government’s key policy…

  • The Aborigines Act, 1911 [Australia] 1911-12-07 Number 1048 Source: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies An Act to make provision for the better Protection and Control of the Aboriginal and Half-caste Inhabitants of the State of South Australia. This Act may be cited as ‘‘ The Aborigines Act, 1911.” The Ordinance No.…

  • Brazil Enacts Affirmative Action Law for Universities The New York Times 2012-08-30 Simon Romero, Brazil Bureau Chief RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s government has enacted one of the Western Hemisphere’s most sweeping affirmative action laws, requiring public universities to reserve half of their admission spots for the largely poor students in the nation’s public schools…

  • Law and the Boundaries of Place and Race in Interracial Marriage: Interstate Comity, Racial Identity, and Miscegenation Laws in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, 1860s-1960s Akron Law Review Volume 32, Number 3 (1999) pages 557-575 Peter Wallenstein, Professor of History Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University In North Carolina in 1869, Wesley Hairston, a…

  • Disentangling “Race” and Indigenous Status: The Role of Ethnicity Queen’s Law Journal Volume 33, Issue 2 (Spring 2008) pages 487 Sébastien Grammond, Dean and Associate Professor of Law University of Ottawa The notion of “race” is a social construction, discredited today by scientists as factually unsound. Individuals cannot be organized into discrete groups of people based solely…

  • Pink and Blue in Black and White: Why Binary, Prescriptive Approaches to Human Categorization Still Won’t Yield the Desired Result IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law Honors Scholars Program 2010 23 pages Karlyn Meyer INTRODUCTION: SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND MISCEGENATION A Texas court asked “can a physician change the gender of a person with a scalpel, drugs…