Race & the Law: Racial Justice Protests

Can crime make our world safer? Crimes are the worst of humanity's wrongs but, oddly, they sometimes "trigger" improvement in our lives.

From the national legal director of the ACLU, a guidebook for anyone seeking to stand up for fundamental civil liberties & rights.

In almost every highly publicized case of police using deadly force & killing unarmed individuals, the person killed was an African American male. These incidents have caused dramatic erosion in public confidence in the justice system & America's promise of equal treatment under the law.

The 1807 Insurrection Act was passed to give the president the ability to deploy federal military forces to fend off lawlessness & rebellion. This book explores the way it is linked to the perceived threat of black American equity.

Provides an account of contemporary jurisprudence, legal theory & legal activism.

Discusses incidents that created national publicity at Amherst, Brown, City University of New York, Evergreen, Lewis & Clark, Michigan, Middlebury, New York University, Reed, Seattle, Yale, UC Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, University of Washington, Vanderbilt & Wesleyan.

Describes the dangers of empowering campus censors to limit speech & enforce orthodoxy.