Title
The Social Construction of Brown v. Board of Education: Law Reform and the Reconstructive Paradox
Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
3-21-2014
SSRN Discipline
Legal Scholarship Network; Social Insurance Research Network; Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies; Law & Society eJournals; Law & Society: Public Law eJournals; LSN Subject Matter eJournals; Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence & Legal Philosophy eJournals; Political Science Network
Abstract
Why have Brown and other celebrated lawreform 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
Recommended Citation
Jean Stefancic & Richard Delgado,
The Social Construction of Brown v. Board of Education: Law Reform and the Reconstructive Paradox,
(2014).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_working_papers/67