Sheldon Bernard Lyke

Publications

• Institutional Timidity: Reading Len Rubinowitz Toward a Structural Theory of Civil Rights Enforcement
  21 NW. J. L. & SOC. POL'Y 316 (2026) · Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy · 2026
• Toward a Perpetual Practice of Affirmative Action
  120 NW. U. L. REV. 75 (2025) · Northwestern University Law Review · 2025
• Defense Against the Dark Arts: The Diversity Rationale and the Failed Affirmative Defense of Affirmative Action
  80 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 1873 (2024) · Washington and Lee Law Review · 2024

• Is Resistance to Foreign Law Rooted in Racism?
  109 NW. U. L. REV. (2014) · Northwestern University Law Review · 2014
• Catch TwentyWu The Oral Argument in Fisher v. University of Texas and the Obfuscation of Critical Mass
  Northwestern University Law Review · 2013
• Brown Abroad: An Empirical Analysis of Foreign Judicial Citation and the Metaphor of Cosmopolitan Conversation
  45 VAND. J. TRANSNAT'L L. 83 (2012) · Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law · 2012

• Lawrence as an Eighth Amendment Case: Sodomy and the Evolving Standards of Decency
  15 WM. & MARY J. RACE GENDER & SOC. JUST. 633 (2009) · William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice · 2009