Invidious Deliberation: The Problem of Congressional Bias in Federal Hate Crime Legislation

The intersection of power and prejudice can control the shape of statutory law, and yet a dearth of legal scholarship investigates it. Invidious Deliberation addresses that deficit. It tackles the problem of prejudice in Congressional deliberations at a particularly critical point: when Congress dec...

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Autor principal: Rankin, Sara (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Libro
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Publicado: 2014
En:Año: 2014
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