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The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a legal icon... This book chronicles and evaluates the remarkable achievements Ruth Bader Ginsburg made over the last half-century.

Critical Race Judgments

By re-writing US Supreme Court opinions that implicate critical dimensions of racial justice, Critical Race Judgments demonstrates that it's possible to be judge and a critical race theorist. 

The Politicization of Trans Identity

Two LGBTQ affirmative US Supreme Court Rulings occurred in the second decade of the twenty-first century: the 2015 Obergefell ruling in support of same sex marriage, and the 2020 Bostock decision ruling that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity is prohibited by Title VII. [Here], Loren Cannon critiques the opinions of the court in both cases. 

The Right to Repair

In recent decades, companies around the world have deployed an arsenal of tools to prevent consumers from fixing the things they own. In The Right to Repair, Aaron Perzanowski analyzes the history of repair to show how we've arrived at this moment, when a battle over repair is being waged - largely unnoticed - in courtrooms, legislatures, and administrative agencies. 

They Don't Want Her There

Chinese American professor Jean Jew M.D. brought a lawsuit against the University of Iowa, alleging a sexually hostile work environment within the university's College of Medicine. After years of being subjected to demoralizing sexual, racial, and ethnic discrimination, finding herself without any higher-up departmental support, and noting her professional progression beginning to suffer by the hands of hate, Jean Jew decided to fight back. Carolyn Chalmers was her lawyer. 

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