• Series Foreword


• Chapter 1. The Dramatic Clarification of Segregation and Diversity Law


• Chapter 2. Determining the Legitimacy of Laws that Use Racial/Ethnic Classifications


• Chapter 3. Legal Rationales Relating to School Segregation and Diversity


• Chapter 4. Empirical Assessments of Legal Doctrine Responding to School Segregation and Diversity


• Chapter 5. Empirical Assessments of the Implementation of Laws Addressing School Segregation and Diversity


• Chapter 6. Lessons from the Law and Empirical Research Addressing School Segregation and Diversity


• References


• About the Author


• Index

Roger J.R. Levesque, JD, PhD, is a professor of criminal justice in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University and professor of law at Maurer School of Law. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Youth and Adolescence as well as Adolescent Research Review. He is an award winning author of over a dozen books, most recently Adolescents, Discrimination, and the Law and Adolescence, Privacy, and the Law: A Developmental Science Perspective.

The Science and Law of School Segregation and Diversity examines the sources of the disconnect between scientific findings on school segregation and how the U.S. legal system addresses it; evaluates these sources' empirical and legal foundations; explains why they persist; and reveals what can be done about them.