Ethnography is an exceptionally difficult subject to teach and learn in a classroom setting. This article, written by an ethnography professor and five graduate ethnography students, reflects on how a short-term and collectively executed fieldwork study can help alleviate this problem. Within three months, we logged over 100 hours of observations…

The latest episode in the long-running struggle for control of the Constitution, and the political power that goes with it, is playing out in the federal courts in California. The contending philosophies are originalism, which holds that the Constitution should be read as it was originally understood by the framers and ratifiers, and the congeries…

First Amendment students were unhappy to see Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retire because his voting record demonstrated a favorable attitude toward freedom of speech and press. His replacement, Sandra Day O'Connor, was predicted to be a conservative or moderate who probably would vote consistently with Stewart in other areas, but her…

Researchers interviewed 83 social scientists, 70 attorneys, and 10 federal district judges to discover their views on the use of expert social science testimony in school desegregation litigation. Selected from 17 desegregation cases adjudicated in federal district courts since 1970, the interviewees were asked about their roles in the litigation;…

The United States Supreme Court's attitude toward school integration is analyzed in this paper. The liberal rulings of the Court under Justice Earl Warren are traced through 1974. The Court's consideration during this racist period and the disproportionate impact of school board policies in producing segregated schooling is detailed. The reversal…