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Gerald Torres

Gerald Torres is Bryant Smith Chair in Law at the University of Texas. He coauthored The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy with Lani Guinier.

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Don't Go It Alone Michael Dawson makes a compelling argument that the devastating conditions facing people at the bottom of today’s economic pyramid can only be changed by a healthier form of...
Gerald Torres, Lani Guinier

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