1st Edition
Controversies in Equal Protection Cases in America Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation
Biography
Anne Richardson Oakes is Reader in American Legal Studies in the School of Law Birmingham City University. She holds a BA (Hons) degree in History and Politics and a PhD awarded for her research into the desegregation of the Boston public schools. She is qualified as a solicitor and has a professional legal background and extensive teaching experience in the fields of property law and public law. Her current teaching is U.S. Constitutional Law which she teaches on the LLB program. Her specialist areas of interest include the Equal Protection jurisprudence of US Supreme Court with particular reference to desegregation (special interest: the Boston public schools), the recent affirmative action cases and interdisciplinary perspectives. She also has an interest in judicial ethics. She is Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of American Legal Studies and a member of the Society of Legal Scholars and the Law Society.
"Contributors to Oakes’s volume pursue an empirical and theoretical examination of equal protection in the United States, focusing on the connections between equal protection jurisprudence; discrimination in its contemporary manifestations; the implications of identity politics; and the moral and political conceptualizations of equality."
Law and Social Inquiry Journal
