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    Taking Back the Workers’ Law: How to Fight the Assault on Labor Rights

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    [Excerpt] This book focuses on unions and on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) – the agency and the law created to promote unionization and collective bargaining. This is not a story of mourning. Rather, this book advocates borrowing from and building on the methods the civil rights movement, and in particular, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, used to recaptured union power. They teach us that a litigation and activist strategy can overturn unjust judicial decisions, even those by the Supreme Court. More recently, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is proving that a targeted litigation strategy can still be used to “amend” the law

    A Contractual Approach to Due Process

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    This Article reinterprets and expands upon the basic Rehnquist approach by means of standard contract law analysis. While some due process contexts, such as those involving claims of prisoners, welfare recipients, or, arguably, public school students, are, at best, no more easily resolved through a contract law analysis, other, at least equally important and frequently litigated cases, including those involving the procedural rights of college students and government employees, are most easily and convincingly resolved along lines suggested by the private law of contracts and con- tract defenses

    The Cycles of Constitutional Theory

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    Friedman presents information on the cyclical nature of constitutional theory. Because constitutional theory is a reaction to the current developments of constitutional law, it is interesting to view constitutional issues through the framework of different historical circumstances
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