A New Birth of Freedom (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles L. Black, Jr.
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Current affairs and law
- Setting: The United States
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs
- Subjects: Civil rights, Social action, Freedom, United States or Americans, Politics, 1980’s, Poverty or poor people, Conservatism, Citizenship, Constitutional law, 1990’s
- Locales: United States
In A New Birth of Freedom, Charles L. Black, Jr., attempts to stem the tide of judicial conservatism that has dominated American constitutional law in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Black’s credentials are most impressive. A professor emeritus at Yale Law School and part-time instructor at Columbia Law School, he was part of the team of attorneys that successfully overcame legally mandated school segregation in the case of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which remains a groundbreaking example of judicial activism, an approach to constitutional law that encourages...
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