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The Shape of the Michigan River as Viewed from the Land of Sweatt v. Painter and Hopwood

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Thomas D. Russell
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If general ideas and theories about what's going on in society are going to be anything other than moonshine, they have to be rooted in hard-bought knowledge of what in fact is happening in people's lives.

—J. Willard Hurst (1910-96)

There are 5 African Americans among the 433 students in The University of Texas School of Law's class of 2000. There are 7 in the class of 2001, and 7 in the class of 2002. With 1,387 students, the UT School of Law is big. The 19 African American students comprise 1.4% of the total.

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“From The Trenches and Towers”
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , Spring 2000 , pp. 507 - 519
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2000 

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