Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
1-9-2016
SSRN Discipline
Legal Scholarship Network; PRN Subject Matter eJournals; Philosophy Research Network; Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies; LSN Subject Matter eJournals; Humanities Network; Political Science Network
Abstract
Computer assisted legal research is enabling civil rights scholars to document inequality in particular sectors with great accuracy Inequality between African Americans and whites or men and women in wages for example can be made to stand out as boldly and clearly as figures carved in a mountainside What has been law's response to this development This article points out that civil rights law has responded mainly by doctrinal retrenchment making recovery for most forms of race and sexbased discrimination ever more difficult The net result is zero or even less than zero The article concludes that civil rights law is on a collision course with itself
Recommended Citation
Richard Delgado,
On Taking Back Our Civil Rights Promises: When Equality Doesn't Compute,
(2016).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_working_papers/444