Product Description: Challenging recent trends both in historical scholarship and in Supreme Court decisions on civil rights, J. Morgan Kousser criticizes the Court's "postmodern equal protection" and demonstrates that legislative and judicial history still matter for public policy...read more

Product Description: Challenging recent trends both in historical scholarship and in Supreme Court decisions on civil rights, J. Morgan Kousser criticizes the Court's "postmodern equal protection" and demonstrates that legislative and judicial history still matter for public policy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume was delivered as an Inaugural Lecture at the University of Oxford in February, 1985. Professor Kousser examines the development of the laws pertaining to racial segregation in American schools during the 19th-century...read more