Students must prepare one civil rights research paper worth 15 %. This is a short paper (7-8 pages, typed) that identifies a contemporary civil rights policy and analyzes how ‘harm’ is being defined by decision makers. For example, a paper might compare the ‘Guidance Letters’ from the Obama and Trump administrations for Title IX on college campuses. A second example is to evaluate the effects on minority voting rights following the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County, AL v. Holder (2012).
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