| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Steven L. Nelson , Ray Orlando Williams |
From Slave Codes to Educational Racism: Urban Education Policy in the United States as the Dispossession, Containment, Dehumanization, and Disenfranchisement of Black Peoples |
19 Journal of Law in Society 82 (Spring, 2019) |
In 2016, Margalynne J. Armstrong considered the following question in the Santa Clara kaw Review: Are we nearing the end of impunity for taking Black lives? She framed her response to this question around issues of police brutality, and she related issues of police brutality to the consistent and persistent racial subjugation of Black peoples in... |
2019 |
| Gregory S. Parks , E. Bahati Mutisya |
Hazing, Black Sororities, and Organizational Dynamics |
43 Law & Psychology Review 25 (2018-2019) |
Abstract: Hazing is a legal problem that is seemingly intractable. In this article, the authors consider this problem in the context of black sororities. We explore the ways in which a set of organizational dynamics help perpetuate hazing within these groups. Specifically, we explore three things. First, we investigate why leaders matter to... |
2019 |
| William B. Gould IV |
How Five Young Men Channeled Nine Old Men: Janus and the High Court's Anti-labor Policymaking |
53 University of San Francisco Law Review 209 (2019) |
The great lives are lived against the perceived current of their times. GOVERNANCE OF OUR SOCIETY IS BASED ON MAJORITY RULE, with constitutional limits to protect civil liberties. If citizens could readily opt out of paying taxes for police protection by local government because they prefer private provision of security services, the municipality... |
2019 |
| Aleena Aspervil |
If the Feds Watching: the Fbi's Use of a "Black Identity Extremist" Domestic Terrorism Designation to Target Black Activists & Violate Equal Protection |
62 Howard Law Journal 907 (Spring, 2019) |
INTRODUCTION. 908 I. THE FBI'S REPRESSIVE HISTORY AND ITS GOVERNING GUIDELINES. 911 A. The FBI Has a History of Targeting and Using Harsher Methods for Black Dissent. 911 1. COINTELPRO - White Hate Group. 912 2. COINTELPRO - Black Nationalist/Hate Group. 914 B. The FBI's Governing Guidelines. 916 1. Attorney General Guidelines. 917 II. DOMESTIC... |
2019 |
| Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb |
In Search of the Common Law Inside the Black Female Body |
114 Northwestern University Law Review Online 187 (12/18/2019) |
Introduction. 187 I. The Contradiction of Enslavement and Condoned Self-Regard. 189 II. Black Women and the Endless Quest for Negative Liberty. 190 III. Equal Rights Under the Law, But Not in the Black Female Body. 193 Conclusion. 193 |
2019 |
| Marja K. Plater, Esq. |
In Spite of the Odds: Achieving Educational Stability for Maryland's African American Foster Youth |
39 Children's Legal Rights Journal 88 (2019) |
Access to appropriate public education in the United States has been an ongoing societal issue since its inception. The inherent racial inequalities in public education have been brought to light repeatedly over the years and are highlighted in Brown v. Board of Education. The policy shift in viewing education as a civil right, and thus an issue of... |
2019 |
| Derrick A. Carter |
Introduction to Tracey Maclin's Article, "Black and Blue Encounters"-- Some Preliminary Thoughts about Fourth Amendment Seizures: Should Race Matter? |
53 Valparaiso University Law Review 1041 (Summer, 2019) |
An enduring article identifies creative perceptions of unresolved truths. Race and criminal injustice are one of America's premier Fourth Amendment truths. In Black and Blue Encounters--Some Preliminary Thoughts about Fourth Amendment Seizures, Professor Tracey Maclin argues that when assessing whether a police encounter constitutes a seizure... |
2019 |
| Gabriel Reyes , Henry Holt and Co. (2018) |
Invisible the Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took down America's Most Powerful Mobster by Stephen L. Carter |
43-FEB Champion 55 (January/February, 2019) |
In Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down Americas Most Powerful Mobster, Stephen L. Carter sets out to explore his grandmother's career and contributions to one of the most prolific criminal prosecutions of the 20th century. Ostensibly, his work is meant to highlight Eunice Hunton Carter's work on New York Special... |
2019 |
| Bettina Ng'weno , L. Obura Aloo |
Irony of Citizenship: Descent, National Belonging, and Constitutions in the Postcolonial African State |
53 Law and Society Review 141 (March, 2019) |
In 2010, like many African countries since the 1990s, Kenya passed a new constitution. This constitution aimed to get rid of many past issues including the definition of citizenship. Globally, two general principles govern the acquisition of citizenship, descent from a citizen (jus sanguinis), and the fact of birth within a state territory (jus... |
2019 |
| Mehrsa Baradaran |
Jim Crow Credit |
9 UC Irvine Law Review 887 (May, 2019) |
The New Deal for White America. 888 The Transformation of Consumer Credit. 894 Title I of the National Housing Act of 1934. 894 Changes to Banking Regulation. 900 Civil Rights Protests Against Credit Markets. 901 The Poor Pay More. 907 Black Capitalism. 917 Two Policies for Two Americas: The Community Reinvestment Act and the Community Development... |
2019 |
| R. Jannell Granger |
Justice for All: the Sixth Amendment Mandates Purging All Racial Prejudice from the Black Box |
63 Howard Law Journal 57 (Fall, 2019) |
Pena-Rodriguez v. Colorado provided, where a juror makes a clear statement that indicates he or she relied on racial stereotypes or animus to convict a criminal defendant, the Sixth Amendment requires that the no-impeachment rule [codified in Federal Rules of Evidence 606(b)] give way in order to permit the trial court to consider the evidence of... |
2019 |
| Allison Madar, University of Oregon |
Kimberly M. Welch, Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Pp. 328. $39.95 Hardcover (Isbn 9781469636436); $29.99 E-book (Isbn 9781469636450) |
37 Law and History Review 977 (November, 2019) |
Kimberly Welch's Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South is a careful examination of the ways in which people of color in the Natchez district of Louisiana and Mississippi participated in and shaped legal processes in their communities (8). Welch's study of the lower courts of several parishes and counties along the Mississippi River... |
2019 |
| James Davis III |
Law, Prison, and Double-double Consciousness: a Phenomenological View of the Black Prisoner's Experience |
128 Yale Law Journal Forum 1126 (4/30/2019) |
abstract. This Essay introduces double-double consciousness as a new way of conceptualizing the psychological ramifications of being a black prisoner. It begins by revisiting W.E.B. DuBois's theory of double consciousness. It then offers a phenomenological exposition of double-double consciousness--the double consciousness that the black prisoner... |
2019 |
| Paul Butler |
Locking up My Own: Reflections of a Black (Recovering) Prosecutor |
107 California Law Review 1983 (December, 2019) |
I. The Past: Locking Up My Own. 1983 II. No Equal Protection; No Equal Justice. 1985 III. The Present: New Politics, Same Old Cages. 1987 IV. The Future: Way Beyond Reform. 1989 |
2019 |
| Helen E. White |
Making Black Lives Matter: Properly Valuing the Rights of the Marginalized in Constitutional Torts |
128 Yale Law Journal 1742 (April, 2019) |
Black lives are systematically undervalued by constitutional enforcement remedies. Section 1983 adopts, wholesale, the damages scheme from torts, which not only permits, but encourages, the consideration of race and gender to calculate actuarially accurate damages figures. Given that Blacks earn seventy-five percent of what white men earn on... |
2019 |
| Laura Lane-Steele |
My Brother's Keeper, My Sister's Neglector: a Critique and Explanation of Single-sex Initiatives for Black Boys |
39 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 60 (Fall, 2019) |
The urgent problems facing Black boys and young men have triggered the proliferation of single-sex initiatives aimed at tackling these obstacles, namely public single-sex schools and programs inspired by President Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative. Black girls have largely been left out of these initiatives despite facing many of the same... |
2019 |
| Raymond Audain |
Not Yet Forgiven for Being Black: Haiti's Tps, Ldf, and the Protean Struggle for Racial Justice |
52 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 409 (2019) |
In November 2017, the Trump administration announced its intention to terminate Temporary Protected Status for Haitians in the United States. This Article considers the termination and the lawsuits it prompted, which are helping to define the state of the plenary power doctrine, the breadth of the Fifth Amendment's equal protection guarantee, and... |
2019 |
| Courtney Lauren Anderson |
Opioids Are the New Black |
69 DePaul Law Review 55 (Fall, 2019) |
C1-2Contents Introduction. 56 I. The Opioid Crisis. 57 A. Timeline and Overview. 57 B. Demographics. 59 C. Focus on Treatment. 62 II. Cocaine and crack. 64 A. Cocaine. 64 B. Crack vs. Cocaine. 68 1. Crack Down: Imagery in Media. 69 2. White-Nosed Privilege: From Wall Street to the Suburbs. 71 III. Perspectives: Crack, Cocaine, and Opioids. 76 IV.... |
2019 |
| Leah Wisser |
Pandora's Algorithmic Black Box: the Challenges of Using Algorithmic Risk Assessments in Sentencing |
56 American Criminal Law Review 1811 (Fall, 2019) |
It is the year 2050. Sarah has been convicted for driving the getaway vehicle in a robbery. Sarah is a good kid, she just got in with the wrong crowd. As she walks into the courtroom for sentencing, she vows to herself to never commit another crime. She wants to turn her life around. Sarah looks around the courtroom. She is alone. A screen sits... |
2019 |
| Danielle Wingfield-Smith |
Pardon Me Please: Cyntoia Brown and the Justice System's Contempt for the Rights of Black People |
35 Harvard Blackletter Law Journal 85 (Spring, 2019) |
The outcry that precipitated Cyntoia Brown's pending release on August 7, 2019 is a resonating reverberation of the voices of counter-resistance, which continue to echo in the halls of American injustice. From the social media platforms for social justice to the chambers of the Supreme Court, the pleas for pardon are nothing new. Pardon me for... |
2019 |
| Stephen D. Hayden |
Parking While Black: Pretextual Stops, Racism, Parking, and an Alternative Approach |
44 Southern Illinois University Law Journal 105 (Fall, 2019) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 107 II. A BRIEF HISTORY ON PRETEXTUAL STOP JURISPRUDENCE PRIOR TO, AND AFTER, THE WHREN DECISION. 111 A. The Importance of Terry to Pretextual Analysis. 112 B. The Competing Legal Tests Prior to Whren. 113 1. The Could Have Test. 113 2. The Would Have Test. 115 C. State and Locality Response to Pretextual Stops Prior To, and... |
2019 |
| Kathleen Wills |
Patenting an Invention as a Free Black Man in the Nineteenth Century |
101 Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society 206 (2019) |
L1-2Contents L1Introduction. L2207 L1I. Where & How Patent Law and Citizenship Meet. L2208 A. Evolution of Patent Law and Differing Perspectives. 208 1. Tension of Patent Rights as Privileges, Grants, and Monopolies. 210 B. Tension among Patents and Citizenship and Status. 212 1. Foreshadowing for Dred Scott from Prigg v. Pennsylvania. 213 2.... |
2019 |
| Brie McLemore |
Procedural Justice, Legal Estrangement, and the Black People's Grand Jury |
105 Virginia Law Review 371 (April, 2019) |
Introduction. 371 I. Procedural Justice and Policing. 375 II. Legal Estrangement and the Limitations of Procedural Justice. 377 III. The Role of Courts in Legal Estrangement. 380 A. Community Responses to the Death of Michael Brown. 383 IV. The Black People's Grand Jury. 387 V. Recommendations. 393 Conclusion. 395 |
2019 |
| Eduardo R.C. Capulong, Andrew King-Ries, Monte Mills |
'Race, Racism, and American Law': a Seminar from the Indigenous, Black, and Immigrant Legal Perspectives |
21 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice Just. 1 (2019) |
Introduction. 2 I. Our Approach: Themes, Goals, and Collaboration. 9 A. Common Threads and Themes. 9 B. Self-Disclosure, Objectivity, and Reflective Practice. 12 C. Collaboration. 17 D. Lawyering Skills. 19 II. The Class: Objectives, Schedule, and Assessments. 20 III. How the Class Unfolded: Issues and Related Events. 26 IV. Lessons Learned. 28... |
2019 |
| Melissa Milewski |
Reframing Black Southerners' Experiences in the Courts, 1865-1950 |
44 Law and Social Inquiry 1113 (November, 2019) |
In civil cases that took place in southern courts from the end of the Civil War to the mid-twentieth century, black men and women frequently chose to bring litigation and then negotiated the white-dominated legal system to shape their cases and assert rights. In some ways, these civil cases were diametrically opposite from the criminal cases of... |
2019 |
| Jaime Amparo Alves, CEAF/Universidad Icesi and UC Santa Barbara |
Refusing to Be Governed: Urban Policing, Gang Violence, and the Politics of Evilness in an Afro-colombian Shantytown |
42 PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 21 (May, 2019) |
What is the role of policing within urban contexts marked by economic dispossession, crime, and gang violence? This article grapples with this question by examining both policing practices and the strategies of resistance embraced by residents of El Guayacán, a predominantly black neighborhood in the outskirts of Call, Colombia. I argue that... |
2019 |
| Alexander Tsesis |
Remembering Charlottesville 2017 and Engaging Black-jewish Alliances |
105 Virginia Law Review Online 149 (November, 2019) |
To the Editor: In September 2018, the Virginia Law Review co-hosted a symposium entitled One Year After Charlottesville: Replacing the Resurgence of Racism with Reconciliation. The event convened scholars to reflect upon and move past the Unite the Right rally, the act of domestic terrorism that shook Charlottesville, Virginia on August 11 and... |
2019 |
| Sarah Sherman-Stokes |
Reparations for Central American Refugees |
96 Denver Law Review 585 (Spring, 2019) |
In the midst of vicious and unrelenting attacks on Central American asylum seekers in the United States, this Article seeks to understand historic and present-day patterns of animus and discrimination facing this group of refugees, and to propose solutions. This Article begins by examining decades of prejudice faced by Central American asylum... |
2019 |
| Jill C. Morrison |
Resuscitating the Black Body: Reproductive Justice as Resistance to the State's Property Interest in Black Women's Reproductive Capacity |
31 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 35 (2019) |
Abstract: 2019 marks 400 years since the first Africans were brought to the Virginia colony as captives, and deemed not human beings but rather the property of others. Black women have endured reproductive oppression since our arrival in the United States. This Article argues that current methods of reproductive oppression attempt to restore the... |
2019 |
| Neveen Hammad |
Shackled to Economic Appeal: How Prison Labor Facilitates Modern Slavery While Perpetuating Poverty in Black Communities |
26 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 65 (Summer, 2019) |
Introduction. 66 I. The Black Codes. 67 II. Convict Leasing. 68 III. Chain Gangs. 70 IV. Mass Incarceration. 71 V. Modern Prison Labor. 76 VI. The Prison-Industrial Complex. 78 VII. Arguments Surrounding Prison Labor. 81 A. Building Work Skills but Nowhere to Work: California's Inmate-Firefighters. 82 B. Poor Workplace Conditions: The Poultry... |
2019 |
| Steven L. Nelson, J.D., Ph.D. |
Special Education, Overrepresentation, and End-running Education Federalism: Theorizing Towards a Federally Protected Right to Education for Black Students |
20 Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law 205 (Spring, 2019) |
INTRODUCTION AND STATEMENT OF POSITIONALITY I. Summarizing the Fight for a Federal Right to Education II. A Critical Race Perspective on the Foundations of Overrepresentation of Black Students in Special Education Programs A. Examining the Racial Roots of Racial Disproportionality in Special Education B. Implementing Special Education in Urban... |
2019 |
| Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb |
Still Writing at the Master's Table: Decolonizing Rhetoric in Legal Writing for a "Woke" Legal Academy |
21 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice 255 (2019) |
I. Western Thought & Inventio and Dispositio As Barriers to Social Justice. 258 A. Mississippi History: Conflict and Change. 261 B. Loewen v. John Turnipseed & the Mississippi State Textbook Purchasing Board. 266 C. Litigation, Legal Education, & the Dominance of the Western Rhetorical Canon. 269 II. From Canonicity to Centering Oppositional... |
2019 |
| Linda S. Greene, Lolita Buckner Inniss, Bridget J. Crawford , Mehrsa Baradaran, Noa Ben-Asher, I. Bennett Capers, Osamudia R. James, Keisha Lindsay |
Talking about Black Lives Matter and #Metoo |
34 Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society 109 (Fall, 2019) |
Nobody's free until everybody's free. -Fannie Lou Hamer Introduction. 110 Discussion. 117 1. Do you view the Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo movements as autonomous phenomena or as outgrowths, evolutions, extensions, or departures from prior social or legal movements?. 117 2. What are the goals of these movements? What are the assumptions of... |
2019 |
| Kathryn Schumaker, University of Oklahoma |
Tera Eva Agyepong, the Criminalization of Black Children: Race, Gender, and Delinquency in Chicago's Juvenile Justice System, 1899-1945, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Pp. 180. $90.00 Hardcover (Isbn 9781469638652); $24.95 Paperbac |
37 Law and History Review 319 (February, 2019) |
Even before the Great Migration got underway, when the black population constituted a tiny percentage of Chicago residents, black children were overrepresented in the city's juvenile justice system. The disproportionate presence of African Americans in juvenile courts and institutions and the percentage of black children identified as delinquent... |
2019 |
| Tamika Y. Nunley, Oberlin College |
Tera W. Hunter, Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017). Pp. 416. $29.95 (Hardcover). Isbn 9780674045712 |
59 American Journal of Legal History 143 (March, 2019) |
In the spring of 1866, Congress enacted civil rights legislation that extended the right to contract to all formerly enslaved people. The implications of this measure reverberated well into the twentieth century. Indeed, nearly one hundred years later, Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan issued a report on the state of African... |
2019 |
| Victoria Bell |
The "White" to Bear Arms: How Immunity Provisions in Stand Your Ground Statutes Lead to an Unequal Application of the Law for Black Gun Owners |
46 Fordham Urban Law Journal 902 (June, 2019) |
Twenty-five states across the country have enacted some form of Stand Your Ground (SYG) laws, undercutting the traditional notion of a duty to retreat when faced with a perceived threat. Proponents of SYG argue that these laws derive from a fundamental right of self-defense and are intended to safeguard all citizens from imminent threats of... |
2019 |
| Jonathan Kahn, J.D., Ph.D. |
The 911 Covenant: Policing Black Bodies in White Spaces and the Limits of Implicit Bias as a Tool of Racial Justice |
15 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 1 (February, 2019) |
Introduction. 1 I. The Narrative of Implicit Bias. 3 A. What is Implicit Bias?. 4 B. Implicit Bias is Everyone's Problem. 7 C. Implicit Bias Marginalizes Racism. 8 D. Implicit Bias Consigns Racism to the Dustbin of History. 9 II. A Social Inflection Point?. 12 III. A Legal Inflection Point. 15 A. Revisiting and Revising Jody Armour's Reasonable... |
2019 |
| Shontavia Jackson Johnson |
The Colorblind Patent System and Black Inventors |
11 No. 4 Landslide 16 (March/April, 2019) |
Innovation and inventing have been critical to America's progress since its birth. These concepts were so important that the Founding Fathers wrote them into the first Article of the U.S. Constitution, authorizing Congress to give inventors exclusive rights to their inventions for a limited time. The Patent Act was one of the first pieces of... |
2019 |
| Kate Stith, Claire Blumenthal |
The Dartmouth College Case and the Founding of Historically Black Colleges |
18 University of New Hampshire Law Review 27 (November, 2019) |
I. FORGING THE CONCEPT OF A PRIVATE CHARITABLE CORPORATION. 28 II. JUSTICE STORY'S EXPANSIVE UNDERSTANDING OF CORPORATE CIVIL RIGHTS. 31 III. PUBLIC EDUCATION AND AFRICAN-AMERICANS AFTER THE CIVIL WAR. 35 IV. THE FOUNDING OF BLACK COLLEGES. 37 |
2019 |
| Jada L. Moss |
The Forgotten Victims of Missing White Woman Syndrome: an Examination of Legal Measures That Contribute to the Lack of Search and Recovery of Missing Black Girls and Women |
25 William and Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice 737 (Spring, 2019) |
Introduction I. Background A. Missing Persons Statistics Generally B. Defining Missing White Woman Syndrome C. Racial Disparity and Representation in Crime Data II. Legislative Remedies and Organizational Advocacy A. The Evolution of Missing Persons Law and Remedies B. Issues With Existing Tailored Remedies and Legislation for Missing Persons Cases... |
2019 |
| Gabrielle T. Wynn |
The Impact of Racism on Maternal Health Outcomes for Black Women |
10 University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review 85 (Fall, 2019) |
I. Introduction. 86 II. The Role of Racism on Maternal Health Disparities. 88 A. Serena, Shalon, and Kira. 90 B. Racial Disparities in Quality of Care. 91 III. This Isn't New: A History of Mistreatment in Accessing Medical Care. 95 A. Stereotypes Affect Social Ideas of Black Women. 97 IV. Adopting A Human Rights Framework to Combat Maternal... |
2019 |
| Aaron N. Taylor |
The Marginalization of Black Aspiring Lawyers |
13 FIU Law Review 489 (Spring, 2019) |
Introduction. 489 I. What Is Marginalization?. 491 A. Defining Terms and Framing Concepts. 492 1. Marginality and Exclusion. 494 2. Marginality as Adverse Incorporation. 494 3. Marginality as Incomplete Assimilation. 495 II. Marginalization and Exclusion in the Admission Process. 496 A. Racial Stratification. 499 III. Marginalization and... |
2019 |
| Fleur G. Oké |
The Minority Report: How the Use of Data in Law Enforcement Breeds Privacy Concerns among African Americans |
63 Howard Law Journal 87 (Fall, 2019) |
C1-2TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION. 87 I. PREDICTIVE CRIMINAL JUSTICE. 91 A. Policing and Surveillance Enhanced with Technology. 91 II. SIDE EFFECT: SUSCEPTIBILITY OF PREDICTIVE CRIMINAL JUSTICE TO DISCRIMINATION. 100 A. Past History. 100 B. Predictive Criminal Justice Perpetuates Past Discrimination. 102 III. LEGAL CHALLENGES. 106 A. Side Effect:... |
2019 |
| Deborah N. Archer |
The New Housing Segregation: the Jim Crow Effects of Crime-free Housing Ordinances |
118 Michigan Law Review 173 (November, 2019) |
America is profoundly segregated along racial lines. We attend separate schools, live in separate neighborhoods, attend different churches, and shop at different stores. This rigid racial segregation results in social, economic, and resource inequality, with White communities of opportunity on the one hand and many communities of color without... |
2019 |
| Katie R. Eyer |
The New Jim Crow Is the Old Jim Crow |
128 Yale Law Journal 1002 (February, 2019) |
Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy BY ELIZABETH GILLESPIE MCRAE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2018 A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History BY JEANNE THEOHARIS BEACON PRESS, 2018 A vast divide exists in the national imagination between the racial struggles of the... |
2019 |
| Jacqueline C. Rivers |
The Paradox of the Black Church and Religious Freedom |
15 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 676 (Spring, 2019) |
Considerable attention has been paid to religious freedom claims and the laws that protect those freedoms; less attention has been paid to how religious freedom is used. African Americans, from the time of slavery, have been greatly impacted by how whites enacted their religious freedoms, and even more by how blacks themselves did so. The Civil... |
2019 |
| Megan Ming Francis |
The Price of Civil Rights: Black Lives, White Funding, and Movement Capture |
53 Law and Society Review 275 (March, 2019) |
What influence do funders have on the development of civil rights legal mobilization? Fundraising is critical to the creation, operation, and survival of rights organizations. Yet, despite the importance of funding, there is little systematic attention in the law and social movements and cause lawyering literatures on the relationship between... |
2019 |
| Timothy Webster |
The Price of Settlement: World War Ii Reparations in China, Japan and Korea |
51 New York University Journal of International Law & Politics 301 (Winter, 2019) |
World War II litigation has roiled East Asia for the past quarter century. Asian victims of Japanese military aggression--from Taiwanese comfort women to Korean forced laborers to Chinese subjects of medical experimentation--filed more than one hundred lawsuits against the government of Japan, and dozens of large Japanese corporations. The Japanese... |
2019 |
| Kerry L. Shipman, MPA, J.D. |
The Reasonable Black Person Standard in Criminal Law: Impartiality, Justice and the Social Sciences |
13 Southern Journal of Policy and Justice 74 (Fall, 2019) |
The American judicial system ostensibly provides equal treatment of all citizens. The unfortunate reality is that African-Americans regularly face the possibility of false arrests, unfounded suspicion, biased juries, lengthy prison sentences, and other discriminatory practices; as a result, they have learned to fear the justice system rather than... |
2019 |
| Christy E. Lopez |
The Reasonable Latinx: a Response to Professor Henning's the Reasonable Black Child: Race, Adolescence, and the Fourth Amendment |
68 American University Law Review Forum 55 (April, 2019) |
In her article, The Reasonable Black Child: Race, Adolescence, and the Fourth Amendment, Professor Kristin Henning makes a compelling argument for reconceptualizing that Amendment's reasonable person standard to better protect black youth. Professor Henning shows how the reasonable person standard has long been artificially narrow and selectively... |
2019 |