Oxford University Press Redefining Equality

Product Description This book brings together essays from a distinguished group of scholars, presenting an array of views about the meaning of equality and providing perspectives on the on-going debates about it. By bringing together essays from prominent writers in America in law, history, and social science, the collection presents a range of opinions and insights that speak to America's ability to define and deal with the politics of equality. Review A very strong collection of essays....[These are] good summaries of positions that the book's readers ought to know about. They provide a fine overview of contemporary civil rights issues.--Mark V. Tushnet, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law, Georgetown University Redefining Equality is a collection of well-written essays by prominent scholars on hot problems concerning judicial review and equality. [The book] neatly pinpoints many of the complex issues of legal equality that have arisen in the 1990s and presents readers with a variety of perspectives on those questions.--Mark Graber, Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park The essays are interesting and helpful in presenting some of the major perspectives on equality....this book should prove useful to scholars, graduate students, and law students interested in exploring equlity issues.-- The Law and Politics Book Review Review Well-informed pieces. ― Brymnor Thomas, Cambrian law Review About the Author Neal Devins is a Professor of Law and a Lecturer in Government at the College of William and Mary School of Law. He is the author, most recently, of Shaping Constitutional Values (1996). Davison M. Douglas, also a Professor of Law at the College of William and Mary Law School, is the author of Reading, Writing, and Race (1995).