Anne Richardson Oakes is Reader in American Legal Studies in the School of Law Birmingham City University. She holds a BA (Hons) degree in History and Politics and a PhD awarded for her research into the desegregation of the Boston public schools. She is qualified as a solicitor and has a professional legal background and extensive teaching experience in the fields of property law and public law. Her current teaching is U.S. Constitutional Law which she teaches on the LLB program. Her specialist areas of interest include the Equal Protection jurisprudence of US Supreme Court with particular reference to desegregation (special interest: the Boston public schools), the recent affirmative action cases and interdisciplinary perspectives. She also has an interest in judicial ethics. She is Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of American Legal Studies and a member of the Society of Legal Scholars and the Law Society.

• Chapter 1 Introduction, Anne Richardson Oakes; Part I Equality and the Dead End of Equal Protection; Chapter 2 Original Sins, Continuing Wrongs, Francisco Valdes; Chapter 3 Equal Protection’s Dead End, or the Slave’s Undying Claim, Sora Han; Part II The Formulae for Stasis; Chapter 4 Equal Protection as Intentional Blindness, Ian F. Haney López; Chapter 5 Judging Opportunity Lost, Mario L. Barnes, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Erwin Chemerinsky; Chapter 6 The Troubled Adolescence of City of Boerne v. Flores, William D. Araiza; Part III Racial Justice in Education; Chapter 7 Racial Liberalism and School Desegregation Jurisprudence, Michael Paris; Chapter 8 Supreme Court Opinions on Equal Protection in Education and Their Use of Social Science Research, Janet W. Schofield, Pat K. Chew; Chapter 9 The State’s Compelling Interest in Substantive Equality, Jennifer S. Hendricks; Part IV The Possibilities of Equal Protection; Chapter 10 Ball of Con(stitutional)Fusion, John G. Culhane; Chapter 11 Unequal Protection for Sex and Gender Nonconformists, Julie A. Greenberg; Chapter 12 Bringing Equal Protection Out of the Tax Closet, Anthony C. Infanti; Part V Pushing the Boundaries; Chapter 13 Equal Protection and the Immigrant, Laura A. Hernández; Chapter 14 Applying an Equal Protection Methodology to Speech and Religion Cases, Patrick M. Garry; Chapter 15 Equal Protection and Environmental Justice, Haydn Davies; Part VI Afterword; Afterword, Martha Albertson Fineman;

'This book is a must read for anyone who wants to understand the central debates in American equal protection law. A brilliant survey in which some of the leading scholars in the field weigh in on both the current status of the law and where it might still need to go to fulfil its promise of equality.' Devon Carbado, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, and author of Acting White? Rethinking Race in ’Post-Racial’ America