Publications and Media
Books
The Crucible of Desegregation
The University of Chicago Press, 2023
The Transformation of Title IX
Brookings Institution Press, 2018
Taking Stock: American Government in the Twentieth Century
Cambridge University Press, 1999
Between the Lines: Interpreting Welfare Rights
Brookings Institution Press, 1994
Regulation and the Courts: The Case of the Clean Air Act
Brookings Institution Press, 1983
Civil Rights State and Desegregation
"Still Essential, Still Elusive: Brown v. Board of Education at 70"
"The Mismeasure of “Enforcement”
"Equal Protection Bars Racial Favoritism"
Title IX
"The Strange Evolution of Title IX"
"The Title IX Spotlight Shifts from the Campus to the Schoolhouse"
"New Title IX Rules Require Hearings, Cross-Examinations in Colleges But Not High Schools"
"Rethinking Federal Regulation of Sexual Harassment"
"Is the Trump Education Department Really “Rolling Back” Civil Rights?"
"From the Classroom to the Bedroom"
Rule by Edict: Shep Melnick on the Power of the Civil Rights State
R. Shep Melnick | Higher Education in Crisis
Shep Melnick – The Crucible of Desegregation
Ep. 290 - May 1, 2023 - The Crucible of Desegregation
The Transformation of Title IX
R. Shep Melnick on the Evolution of Title IX
Has Title IX Gone Too Far? This Professor Makes the Case
Why Title IX Has Become So Controversial? with R. Shep Melnick
Shep Melnick on why school desegregation still matters
74 Interview: Shep Melnick on Brown at 70 and Integration’s Failure in the North