Neal Devins is a Professor of Law and a Lecturer in Government at the College of William and Mary School of Law. He is the author, most recently, of Shaping Constitutional Values (1996).Davison M. Douglas, also a Professor of Law at the College of William and Mary Law School, is the author of Reading, Writing, and Race (1995).

Well-informed pieces.

• 1: Davison M. Douglas and Neal Devins: The Pursuit of Equality 2: Kathryn Abrams: Equality and Impasse: Mobilizing Group-Based Perspectives in an Era of Group-Blindness 3: Reva Siegel: Civil Rights Reform in Historical Perspective: Regulating Marital Violence 4: David A. Strauss: The Illusory Distinction Between Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Result 5: Jennifer L. Hochschild: The Word 'American' Ends in 'Can': The Ambiguous Promise of the American Dream 6: Jeremy Rabkin: Racial Divisions and Judicial Obstructions 7: Hugh Davis Graham: The Politics of Clientele Capture: Civil Rights Policy and the Reagan Administration 8: Christine H. Rossell: The Convergence of Black and White Attitudes on School Desegregation Issues 9: Drew S. Days III: Brown Blues: Rethinking the Integrative Ideal 10: Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic: The Social Construction of Brown v. Board of Education: Law Reform and the Reconstructive Paradox 11: Gerald N. Rosenberg: The Irrelevant Court: The Supreme Court's Inability to Influence Popular Beliefs about Equality (or Anything Else) 12: Erwin Chemerinsky: Can Courts Make a Difference? 13: David J. Garrow: The Supreme Court's Pursuit of Equality and Liberty and the Burdens of History 14: Neal Devins: The Judicial Role in Equality Decision-Making