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| | Books-on-Law: Book Reviews - JURIST: The Law Professors' Network |
 | | David Richards, an NYU Law School professor and director of its program in law, philosophy and social theory, aspires to a new interpretive model for the Reconstruction Amendments. |
 | | In contrast to current equal protection law, which examines whether the right being curtailed is central to the concept of ordered liberty, or whether the group in question exhibits such characteristics as a history of discrimination or political powerlessness, Richards brings to the project a more specifically cultural lens. |
 | | Updating and expanding an earlier law review article, May documents that presidents have, with increasing frequency since the mid-1970s, claimed the power simply to ignore any law that, in their view, is unconstitutional. |
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