Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1991
Keywords
Intent standard in racial discrimination cases, Washington v. Davis, Intent claims, Empirical legal studies, Legal standards, Fourteenth Amendment, Strauder v. West Virginia, Yick Wo v. Hopkins, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Griggs v. Duke Power Co., Palmer v. Thompson, Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp., McCleskey v. Kemp, Race-based decisionmaking
Disciplines
Applied Statistics | Civil Rights and Discrimination | Constitutional Law
Abstract
No one knows how the intent standard works in racial discrimination cases, though many have speculated. To test the speculation, this study examines how the intent standard actually operates. Its findings cast doubt on whether we really know how any legal standard functions.
Recommended Citation
Eisenberg, Theodore and Johnson, Sheri Lynn, "The Effects of Intent: Do We Know How Legal Standards Work?" (1991). Cornell Law Faculty Publications. 409.
https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/409
Publication Citation
Published in: Cornell Law Review, vol. 76, no. 6 (September 1991).
Included in
Applied Statistics Commons, Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, Constitutional Law Commons