My
Georgetown Law colleague
Stephen B. Cohen has posted
“Seg Academies,” Taxes, and Judge Ginsburg, which is forthcoming in
The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, ed. Scott Dodson (Cambridge University Press, 2015):
This essay recounts the historical, political, and legal context in which Judge Ginsburg’s ruling in the Wright case arose. This context explains the importance of her decision to the battle against segregated education and highlights as well the repeated efforts of powerful political forces, including the Reagan administration and congressional conservatives, to cripple efforts to prohibit racially discriminatory private schools from receiving federal subsidies through the tax system. This essay also aims to highlight Wright’s place in the modern doctrine of educational discrimination.
Cambridge writes of the collection:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a legal icon. In more than four decades as a
lawyer, professor, appellate judge, and associate justice of the U.S.
Supreme Court, Ginsburg has influenced the law and society in real and
permanent ways.
This book chronicles and evaluates the remarkable achievements Ruth
Bader Ginsburg has made over the past half century. Including chapters
written by prominent court watchers and leading scholars from law,
political science, and history, it offers diverse perspectives on an
array of doctrinal areas and on different time periods in Ginsburg's
career. Together, these perspectives document the impressive legacy of
one of the most important figures in modern law.
The TOC is
here.
