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Present	Professor, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Texas Southern University
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Education Law, Environmental Law, Property Law and Real Estate, and State and Local Government Law

Property Law, Constitutional Law, Education Law, and Political Theory

Property Law
Environmental Law
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Phone: (713) 313-7355
Email: tkleven@tmslaw.tsu.edu

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Article

SupremeCourtInst'lRacism.doc

Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review (2021)

Thomas Kleven

Brown v. Board of Education was widely viewed as ushering in a new perspective of the Supreme Court on racial ...

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Book

Equitable Sharing: Distributing the Benefits and Detriments of Democratic Society

(2014)

Thomas Kleven

The book argues that a principle of equitable sharing is fundamental to the concept of democracy and to the democratic ...

Unpublished Paper

Equitable Sharing and the Supreme Court

ExpressO (2012)

Thomas Kleven

This article proposes a framework for judicial review based on a principle of equitable sharing that requires that the benefits ...

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Free Speech and the Struggle for Power

New York law School Journal of Human Rights (1992)

Thomas Kleven

This article argues that the regulation of free speech, in addition to being a matter of principle, is an aspect ...

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The Relative Autonomy of the United States Supreme Court

The Yale Journal of Law and Liberation (1989)

Thomas Kleven

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Toward a More Democratic America.pdf

Seattle Journal for Social Justice (2020)

Thomas Kleven

We are at a crucial moment in the history of democracy. Democracy is at risk, as shown by two ominous ...

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Unpublished Paper

A Critique of Libertarianism

(2015)

Thomas Kleven

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Book

Equitable Sharing: Distributing the Benefits and Detriments of Democratic Society

(2014)

Thomas Kleven

The book argues that a principle of equitable sharing is fundamental to the concept of democracy and to the democratic ...

Unpublished Paper

Both-And, Toward Democratic Socialism, and the Communist Ideal

(1995)

Thomas Kleven

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Ideology as Moral Discourse or Struggle for Ppwer

Social Philosophy Today (1993)

Thomas Kleven

This paper argues that moral discourse, the attempt through reasoned analysis and discussion to discover or agree upon moral principles ...

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Equitable Sharing: Distributing the Benefits and Detriments of Democratic Society

(2014)

Thomas Kleven

The book argues that a principle of equitable sharing is fundamental to the concept of democracy and to the democratic ...

Article

Federalizing Public Education

Villanova Law Review (2010)

Thomas Kleven

This article assesses the case for federalizing public education in the United States. The starting point is a conception of ...

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Systemic Classism, Systemic Racism: Are Social and Racial Justice Achievable ...

Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal (2009)

Thomas Kleven

This paper argues that the United States is systemically a highly classist and racist society, that systemic classism and racism ...

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Mandating Public School Attendance: A Proposal for Achieving Racial and ...

Thurgood Marshall Law Review (2008)

Thomas Kleven

The paper argues that big city school districts should consider mandating that all children attend public school as a means ...

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The Democratic Right to Full Bilingual Education

Nevada Law Journal (2007)

Thomas Kleven

The law currently provides no right to bilingual education as such. The state does have a duty to take reasonable ...

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Article

Is Capital Punishment Immoral Even If It Deters Murder?

Santa Clara Law Review (2006)

Thomas Kleven

After years of inconclusive debate, recent studies purport to demonstrate that capital punishment does indeed deter murder, perhaps to the ...

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Brown's Lesson: To Integrate or Separate Is Not the ...

University of Maryland Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class (2005)

Thomas Kleven

By ending official apartheid, Brown v. Board of Education represented a great victory in the struggle for racial justice in ...

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Why International Law Favors Emigration Over Immigration

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review (2002)

Thomas Kleven

The norms of international law currently support the right of people to freely emigrate from their home country more than ...

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Private Property and Democratic Socialism

Legal Studies Forum (1997)

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Constitutional Law (5)

Political Theory (5)

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