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Why Is This Rights Talk Different from All Other Rights Talk? Demoting the Court and Reimagining the Constitution
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This article is published in Stanford Law Review.The article was published on 1994-07-01. It has received 11 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Constitution.read more
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The Borders of Citizenship: The Politics of Race and Metropolitan Space in Silicon Valley
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Courting Social Justice: Courts and Socioeconomic Rights in India
TL;DR: In the last two decades, the higher judiciary in India transformed non-justiciable economic and social rights such as basic education, health, food, shelter, speedy trial, privacy, anti-child labor, and equal wages for equal work into legally enforceable rights as discussed by the authors.
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The Tangled Roots of Affirmative Action
TL;DR: The authors traced the origins of affirmative action in post-New Deal liberalism and their critics used rights discourse to shape their demands for equality and security, and the result was an impasse that continues to shape the debate over affirmative action.
The Declaration and the Promise of a Democratic Culture
TL;DR: In the United States of America, our country sprang forth from a revolution in political and social structure as discussed by the authors, and it is the eventual redemption in history of the principles of our founding document.
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A Right to Housing in the Suburbs: James v. Valtierra and the Campaign against Economic Discrimination
TL;DR: In the landmark 1971 case of James v. Valtierra, the Supreme Court ruled that municipalities could block housing for the poor, bolstering a trend toward exclusionary zoning and economic segregation as mentioned in this paper.