A religious studies professor has collected and edited the letters of Jackie Robinson in a new book that reveals how the baseball legend sought to use his fame to further the civil rights cause.
An Elizabethtown College professor has written a textbook to introduce students to the current global social problems they may face.
James D. Anderson, noted historian of education, examines issues of equality and diversity in the context of the Fourteenth Amendment and in light of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision prohibiting race-conscious school assignment. His article, Race-Conscious Educational Policies Versus a "Color-Blind Constitution": A Historical Perspective, appears in the current issue of Educational Researcher.
The Campaign for Educational Equity, based at Teachers College, Columbia University, has denounced today's decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court in the school diversity cases, Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education (Louisville, KY.) and Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District.
If you're sitting underneath a tree and a branch falls on your head, do you burn the tree? Most people wouldn't take the time to ponder this question, but for those involved in the criminal prosecution of white-collar crime, it's the critical argument.
June 12 marks the 40th anniversary of the landmark Loving v. Virginia U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which overturned a ban in Virginia that had prohibited whites from marrying non-whites. The ruling invalidated similar bans in more than a dozen other states. Four Indiana University scholars with expertise in the family, history and law, discuss the continuing impact of the ruling on American society.
In a major article examining the strength of legal arguments to protect private e-mail expression, a University of Arkansas law professor concludes that, based on the historical common law, today's Federal Copyright Act does not protect someone from copying and distributing another person's private expression, which means that forwarding e-mail without permission of the sender may be against the law.
Two experts from the University of New Hampshire are available to discuss New Hampshire's proposed civil union's law, HB437. On Thursday, April 26, 2007, the New Hampshire Senate is expected to pass the bill, and Gov. John Lynch has said he will sign it. New Hampshire would become only the fourth state to permit civil unions and the second to do so voluntarily.
New research in the Department of Sociology at the University of Haifa found that the gender and ethnicity of judges, defendants and victims effect court rulings and prison terms.
Maya leaders will announce the filing of claims by the two villages in the Supreme Court against the government of Belize for its failure to recognize, protect and respect Maya customary land rights.
Experts say the anniversary should be an opportunity for deep national reflection on enduring issues of race and justice.
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