Law Unbound!

This book offers the best and most influential writings of Richard Delgado, one of the founding figures of the critical race theory movement and one of the earliest scholars to address the harms of hate speech. With excerpts from his classic law review articles, conversations with his famous alter ego Rodrigo Crenshaw, and comments on the vicissitudes of academic life, this book spans topics such as hate speech, affirmative action, the war on terror, the endangered status of black men, and the place of Latinos in the civil rights equation.

Part I Narrative and Legal Storytelling; Chapter 1 Storytelling for Oppositionists and Others; Chapter 2 Rodrigo's Chronicle; Chapter 3 Rodrigo's Third Chronicle; Chapter 4 Rodrigo's Final Chronicle; Chapter 5 Rodrigo's Eleventh Chronicle; Part II Critical Theory; Chapter 6 The Racial Double Helix; Chapter 7 Rodrigo's Fourth Chronicle; Chapter 8 Rodrigo's Eighth Chronicle; Chapter 9 Rodrigo's Ninth Chronicle; Chapter 10 Linking Arms; Part III Law, Legal Education, and the Legal Profession; Chapter 11 The Imperial Scholar; Chapter 12 Rodrigo's Thirteenth Chronicle; Chapter 13 Official Elitism or Institutional Self-Interest?; Part IV Hate Speech; Chapter 14 Words that Wound; Chapter 15 The "More Speech" Solution; Chapter 16 Campus Antiracism Rules; Chapter 17 Toward a Legal Realist View of the First Amendment; Part V Law Reform; Chapter 18 The Social Construction of Brown v. Board of Education; Chapter 19 Joseph Sax, the Public Trust Theory of Environmental Protection, and Some Dark Thoughts on the Possibility of Law Reform; Chapter 20 On Taking Back Our Civil Rights Promises; Chapter 21 Rodrigo's Sixth Chronicle; Part VI Latinos and Other Nonblack Minorities; Chapter 22 Rodrigo's Fifteenth Chronicle; Chapter 23 Derrick Bell's Toolkit; Part VII Politics and Critique; Chapter 24 Shadowboxing; Chapter 25 Rodrigo's Seventh Chronicle; Chapter 26 Rodrigo's Remonstrance; Chapter 27 Rodrigo's Roadmap; Chapter 28 Zero-Based Racial Politics; Part VIII Affirmative Action; Chapter 29 1998 Hugo L. Black Lecture; Chapter 30 Rodrigo's Tenth Chronicle;