On the Limits of the Law: The Ironic Legacy of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights ACT

by Stephen C. Halpern and Professor Stephen C. Halpern

On the Limits of the Law is Stephen Halpern's compelling examination of the legal struggle to control the enforcement of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act -- the historic provision prohibiting... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801848970
• ISBN13: 9780801848971
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The law of unintended consequences, explained

Contemporary scholars of law and the social sciences have awoken to an understanding of the law of unintended consequences. This law states, roughly, that the most important consequences of any law, regulation, or policy, will be those that none of its advocates desired.Examples are too numerous for recitation here. But one of the most poignant fields for the operation of this law is the whole issue of race relations in America, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its progeny. Halpern shows, with exacting scholarship, just how the effects of these acts differ from the intention, and how people in the US of all races have to rethink their most firmly held convictions, to square them with the observed (however unintended) consequences of the actions recent generations have taken, acting on just such convictions.

Intelligent commentary on Civil Rights

This book was exactly what I was looking for my College term paper. It is clear that the book is impecably researched, finely crafted and tweaked to perfection. Perfect for anybody studying the civil rights movement. BRAVO messr Halpern