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Robert L. Tsai

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Description:A path-breaking account of how Americans have used innovative legal measures to overcome injustice―and an indispensable guide to pursuing equality in our time. Equality is easy to grasp in theory but often hard to achieve in reality. In this accessible and wide-ranging work, American University law professor Robert L. Tsai offers a stirring account of how legal ideas that aren’t necessarily about equality at all―ensuring fair play, behaving reasonably, avoiding cruelty, and protecting free speech―have often been used to overcome resistance to justice and remain vital today. Practical Equality is an original and compelling book on the intersection of law and society. Tsai, a leading expert on constitutional law who has written widely in the popular press, traces challenges to equality throughout American history: from the oppression of emancipated slaves after the Civil War to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II to President Trump’s ban on Muslim travelers. He applies lessons from these and other past struggles to such pressing contemporary issues as the rights of sexual minorities and the homeless, racism in the criminal justice system, police brutality, voting restrictions, oppressive measures against migrants, and more. Deeply researched and well argued, Practical Equality offers a sense of optimism and a guide to pursuing equality for activists, lawyers, public officials, and concerned citizens.“The gap between intuition and argument—between outrage and the best response to that outrage—is the subject of Robert Tsai’s Practical Equality. Tsai, a constitutional litigator, is intimately familiar with how arguments about equality have unfolded in the courts. Often, he writes, the moral magnetism of the equality backfires.”—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker“Robert’s words and his book are so important.”—Joe Scarborough, Morning Joe“Tsai has done an important service by clarifying the intimate connections between equality, at least understood in a certain way, and related normative concepts. By asking why equality matters, he invites a more searching inquiry into a social and legal norm that is recklessly invoked and rarely explicated with care or good faith.”— Aziz Huq, Michigan Law ReviewWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Practical Equality: Forging Justice in a Divided Nation. To get started finding Practical Equality: Forging Justice in a Divided Nation, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: A path-breaking account of how Americans have used innovative legal measures to overcome injustice―and an indispensable guide to pursuing equality in our time. Equality is easy to grasp in theory but often hard to achieve in reality. In this accessible and wide-ranging work, American University law professor Robert L. Tsai offers a stirring account of how legal ideas that aren’t necessarily about equality at all―ensuring fair play, behaving reasonably, avoiding cruelty, and protecting free speech―have often been used to overcome resistance to justice and remain vital today. Practical Equality is an original and compelling book on the intersection of law and society. Tsai, a leading expert on constitutional law who has written widely in the popular press, traces challenges to equality throughout American history: from the oppression of emancipated slaves after the Civil War to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II to President Trump’s ban on Muslim travelers. He applies lessons from these and other past struggles to such pressing contemporary issues as the rights of sexual minorities and the homeless, racism in the criminal justice system, police brutality, voting restrictions, oppressive measures against migrants, and more. Deeply researched and well argued, Practical Equality offers a sense of optimism and a guide to pursuing equality for activists, lawyers, public officials, and concerned citizens.“The gap between intuition and argument—between outrage and the best response to that outrage—is the subject of Robert Tsai’s Practical Equality. Tsai, a constitutional litigator, is intimately familiar with how arguments about equality have unfolded in the courts. Often, he writes, the moral magnetism of the equality backfires.”—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker“Robert’s words and his book are so important.”—Joe Scarborough, Morning Joe“Tsai has done an important service by clarifying the intimate connections between equality, at least understood in a certain way, and related normative concepts. By asking why equality matters, he invites a more searching inquiry into a social and legal norm that is recklessly invoked and rarely explicated with care or good faith.”— Aziz Huq, Michigan Law ReviewWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Practical Equality: Forging Justice in a Divided Nation. To get started finding Practical Equality: Forging Justice in a Divided Nation, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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