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In the second in a series of five topical discussions designed to inform the public of major 2004 campaign issues, Howard Gillman and Mary Dudziak discuss the rulings and political composition of the United States Supreme Court.
Gillman (pictured) is a professor in the USC College’s political science department. He studies Constitutional law, the U.S. Supreme Court, judicial politics, American political development, contemporary jurisprudence, and American philosophical pragmatism.
Dudziak is a legal historian in the USC Law School who is interested in the relationship between international affairs and domestic law and politics, and in comparative constitutional history. She has written extensively about the impact of foreign affairs on U.S. civil rights policy during the Cold War. Her current work is on Thurgood Marshall's role in writing the Kenya Independence Constitution, constitutional politics in Kenya in the early 1960s, and September 11 as a moment in history. Her publications include “Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy” "Desegregation as a Cold War Imperative," "The Little Rock Crisis: Race, Resistance, and the Image of American Democracy," "The Supreme Court and Racial Equality During World War II" and "Josephine Baker, Racial Protest and the Cold War."
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