Download This PaperThe Social Construction of Brown v. Board of Education: Law Reform and the Reconstructive Paradox
25 Pages Posted: 21 Mar 2014
Date Written: 1995
Abstract
Why have Brown and other celebrated law-reform cases done so little good in the long run? This article names and illustrates a “reconstructive paradox” to explain why legal reform is so difficult to bring about and why, after it arrives, the gains tend to slip away.
Keywords: law reform, constitutional law, social reform, reconstructive paradox
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Delgado, Richard and Stefancic, Jean, The Social Construction of Brown v. Board of Education: Law Reform and the Reconstructive Paradox (1995). William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 36, 1995, U of Alabama Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2411635, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2411635
Jean Stefancic
Seattle University School of Law ( email )
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