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57 Vand. L. Rev. 1975 (2004)
Brown, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Silent Litigation Revolution

handle is hein.journals/vanlr57 and id is 1989 raw text is: VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW VOLUME 57 NOVEMBER 2004 NUMBER 6 Brown, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Silent Litigation Revolution Stephen C. Yeazell * I. INTRODU CTION ................................................................... 1975 II. BROWN AND THE CULTURE OF LAWYERS ............................ 1977 III. BROWN AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE BAR ......................... 1985 A. Deregulation as a Child of Brown .......................... 1985 B. The Reconstitution of the Plaintiffs' Bar ................ 1991 IV. IMPLICATIONS: SOCIAL CHANGE AND THE POLITICS OF ORDINARY LITIGATION .................................................. 2000 I. INTRODUCTION One doubts that Robert Carter, Thurgood Marshall, Spottswood Robinson, Jack Greenberg and the rest of the legal team that argued Brown v. Board of Education1 spent much time thinking about mass torts. Nonetheless, it is entirely appropriate that a commemoration of their achievements include not only that topic but also international human rights and health care, as well as the more expected ones of education and social welfare. Brown was part of a revolution, and revolutions often have collateral effects as important as their immediate consequences. The civil rights movement followed the same pattern. * David G. Price & Dallas P. Price Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law. I am grateful both for the opportunity afforded by the VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW to think about these themes and for the comments by the symposium participants and by my colleagues, Richard Abel, Stuart Ban- ner, Kenneth L. Karst, William Rubenstein, and Clyde Spillenger. 1. 347 U.S. 483 (1954) (Brown 1); 349 U.S. 294 (1955) (Brown II). 1975

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