• CR-CL Presents a Colloquium, “The Right to Comprehensive Educational Opportunity.”

    CR-CL Presents a Colloquium, “The Right to Comprehensive Educational Opportunity.”

    October 7, 2011 2:49 pm

    THE RIGHT TO COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY  By Michael A. Rebell               Raising academic standards and eliminating achievement gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged students are America’s prime national educational goals.  Current federal and state policies, however, largely ignore the fact that the childhood poverty rate in [...]

     
  • CR-CL Presents a Colloquium, “The Case for Local Constitutional Enforcement.”

    CR-CL Presents a Colloquium, “The Case for Local Constitutional Enforcement.”

    September 14, 2011 9:06 am

    THE CASE FOR LOCAL CONSTITUTIONAL ENFORCEMENT Kathleen S. Morris 47 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2012). ABSTRACT. This Article calls for the overruling of Hunter v. Pittsburgh (1907) on Erie grounds. Hunter announced as a matter of federal law that local governments are powerless instrumentalities of state governments. Legal [...]

     
  • CR-CL Presents a Colloquium, “Gay Rights and Lefts: Rights Critique and the Distributive Analysis.”

    September 2, 2011 12:12 pm

    Gay Rights and Lefts:   Rights Critique and Distributive Analysis for Real Law Reform   Libby Adler†   I. Introduction   A common rebuke against critical legal work is that it has a tendency to undermine without substituting.[i]  It might seem outrageous then, for a critic to persist, obdurately, in [...]