Focus (Forum & Focus)
Aug. 8, 2007
'Brown' Down but Not Out
Forum Column - By Maya Harris - One Berkeley school is demonstrating that this year's Supreme Court decision hasn't ended racial considerations in school placement.
By Maya Harris
During my years in law school, I learned the elementary principle that every law school teaches: Without context, the law is only words on paper. History gives law meaning. To follow the letter of the law without honoring its spirit is to lose the flower of justice in the weeds of formalism.
It's a fundamental lesson that appeared lost in the recent U.S. Suprem...
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