New Book Announcement: Civil Rights Stories

Civil Rights Stories, a new volume in the Law Stories Series by Foundation Press, is now available.   The editors, Risa L. Goluboff and Myriam E. Gilles, did a fabulous job editing the volume.  Many prominent Section 1983 cases - including Monroe v. Pape, DeShaney v. Winnebago County, and City of Los Angeles v. Lyons - are featured in this volume. 

Here is the Table of Contents:

Chapter 1:  Shelley v. Kraemer:  Racial Liberalism and the U.S. Supreme Court  by Wendell E. Pritchett

Chapter 2:  Brown v. Board of Education and the Lost Promise of Civil Rights by Risa L. Goluboff

Chapter 3:  Police, Race, and Crime in 1950s Chicago:  Monroe v. Pape as Legal Noir by Myriam E. Gilles

Chapter 4:  Hadnott v. Amos:  Unleashing the Second Reconstruction by Sheryll Cashin

Chapter 5:  San Antonio v. Rodqriguez and the Legal Geography of School Finance Reform by Richard Schragger

Chapter 6:  Civil Rights in Private School:  The Surprising Story of Runyon v. McCrary by George Rutherglen

Chapter 7:  The Story of City of Los Angeles v. Lyons:  Closing the Federal Courthouse Doors by Erwin Chemerinsky

Chapter 8:  The Crime Against Nature on Trial:  Bowers v. Hardwick, 1986 by William H. Eskridge, Jr.

Chapter 9:  DeShaney v. Winnebago County:  Governmental Neglect and the "Blessings of Liberty" by Lynda G. Dodd

Chapter 10:  International Union, U.A.W. v. Johnson Controls:  The History of Litigation Alliances and Mobilization to Challenge Fetal Protection Policies by Carline Bettinger-Lopez and Susan Sturm

Chapter 11:  Missouri v. Jenkins:  Why District Courts and Local Politics Matter by Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Chapter 12:  United States v. Virginia:  The Virginia Military Institute, Where the Men are Men and So are the Women by Cornelia T.L. Pillard

Chapter 13:  Civil Rights on Both Sides:  Reproductive Rights and Free Speech in Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network of Western New York by Serena Mayeri

Chapter 14:  US Airways v. Barnett and the Limits of Disability Accommodation by Samuel R. Bagenstos

Chapter 15:  The Constitution and the Klan:  Understanding the Burning Cross in Virginia v. Barry Black by Thomas B. Metzloff

- L.D. ldodd@wcl.american.edu