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Hon. Bernice Bouie Donald WHEN THE RULE OF LAW BREAKS DOWN: IMPLICATIONS OF THE 1866 MEMPHIS MASSACRE FOR THE PASSAGE OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT 98 Boston University Law Review 1607 (December, 2018) Scholars typically discuss the rule of law as an abstract concept, rather than a practical reality susceptible to failure. The Memphis Massacre of 1866 provides a valuable case study in the failure of foundational principles of the rule of law. After the Civil War, in Memphis, Tennessee, there was a massive influx of former slaves, coterminous with... 2018  
Demetria Frank , Daniel Kiel WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE: MEMPHIS AND THE LEGACY OF DR. KING'S UNFINISHED WORK 49 University of Memphis Law Review 1 (Fall, 2018) I. Introduction. 1 A. The Symbols. 2 B. The Reality. 4 II. The Topics. 6 A. Political Participation. 6 B. Education. 9 C. Criminal Justice. 13 D. Public Health and Housing. 19 III. Contemporary Activism in Memphis. 22 IV. Closing. 26 2018  
Darren Lenard Hutchinson WHO LOCKED US UP? EXAMINING THE SOCIAL MEANING OF BLACK PUNITIVENESS: LOCKING UP OUR OWN: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN BLACK AMERICA: BY JAMES FORMAN, JR. FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX, 2017 127 Yale Law Journal 2388 (June, 2018) Mass incarceration has received extensive analysis in scholarly and political debates. Beginning in the 1970s, states and the federal government adopted tougher sentencing and police practices that responded to rising punitive sentiment among the general public. Many scholars have argued that U.S. criminal law and enforcement subordinate people of... 2018  
Alice E. Marwick WHY DO PEOPLE SHARE FAKE NEWS? A SOCIOTECHNICAL MODEL OF MEDIA EFFECTS 2 Georgetown Law Technology Review 474 (Spring, 2018) In 2017, Peter Daou launched Verrit, a partisan news site targeted to Democratic voters disappointed with the results of the 2016 election. The site consists of single quotations, facts, and statistics, each formatted as a graphic and labeled with a unique identification code to indicate authenticity and accuracy. For instance, a Verrit article... 2018  
Katheryn Russell-Brown CRITICAL BLACK PROTECTIONISM, BLACK LIVES MATTER, AND SOCIAL MEDIA: BUILDING A BRIDGE TO SOCIAL JUSTICE 60 Howard Law Journal 367 (Winter, 2017) INTRODUCTION. 368 I. THE DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION OF BLACK PROTECTIONISM: AN OVERVIEW. 372 II. HOW BLACK PROTECTIONISM OPERATES. 376 III. CONTEMPORARY CASES. 384 A. Hey, Hey, Hey: The Cosby Cases. 386 B. Ray Rice. 390 C. Adrian Peterson. 392 D. Jameis Winston. 392 E. Chris Brown (& Rihanna). 394 F. Michael Vick. 395 G. Analysis and Application... 2017 Most Relevant
Katheryn Russell-Brown CRITICAL BLACK PROTECTIONISM, BLACK LIVES MATTER, AND SOCIAL MEDIA: BUILDING A BRIDGE TO SOCIAL JUSTICE 60 Howard Law Journal 367 (Winter, 2017) INTRODUCTION. 368 I. THE DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION OF BLACK PROTECTIONISM: AN OVERVIEW. 372 II. HOW BLACK PROTECTIONISM OPERATES. 376 III. CONTEMPORARY CASES. 384 A. Hey, Hey, Hey: The Cosby Cases. 386 B. Ray Rice. 390 C. Adrian Peterson. 392 D. Jameis Winston. 392 E. Chris Brown (& Rihanna). 394 F. Michael Vick. 395 G. Analysis and Application... 2017 Most Relevant
Kathleen Kapusta, J.D. DISCRIMINATION-RACE-D.S.C.: WHITE EMPLOYEE FIRED AFTER 'DISCUSSION' OF BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTEST CAN'T ADVANCE RACE BIAS CLAIM 2017 Wolters Kluwer Employment Law Daily 3187483 (July 27, 2017) Although the evidence tended to show a hotel's explanation for terminating a white employee was pretextualshe was purportedly fired for being rude, disrespectful, and insubordinate to three African-American superiors during a conversation about a Black Lives Matter protest that had just taken place in the hotelit did not support more than a... 2017 Most Relevant
Kathleen Kapusta, J.D. DISCRIMINATION-RACE-D.S.C.: WHITE EMPLOYEE FIRED AFTER 'DISCUSSION' OF BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTEST CAN'T ADVANCE RACE BIAS CLAIM 2017 Wolters Kluwer Employment Law Daily 3187483 (July 27, 2017) Although the evidence tended to show a hotel's explanation for terminating a white employee was pretextualshe was purportedly fired for being rude, disrespectful, and insubordinate to three African-American superiors during a conversation about a Black Lives Matter protest that had just taken place in the hotelit did not support more than a... 2017 Most Relevant
Valecia J. Battle DROP THE PHONE AND STEP AWAY FROM THE WEAPON: THE FIRST AMENDMENT, THE CAMERA PHONE, AND THE MOVEMENT FOR BLACK LIVES 60 Howard Law Journal 531 (Winter, 2017) INTRODUCTION. 532 I. THE CRIMINALIZATION OF BLACKNESS. 534 A. The American Enslavement of African People: Caste Creation. 534 B. Reconstruction and Jim Crow. 537 C. Law & Order, The New Jim Crow, and the Prison Industrial Complex. 541 II. WIRETAPPING & EAVESDROPPING LAWS. 543 III. QUALIFIED IMMUNITY & THE WELL-ESTABLISHED RIGHT. 546 IV. WHY DO OUR... 2017 Most Relevant
Valecia J. Battle DROP THE PHONE AND STEP AWAY FROM THE WEAPON: THE FIRST AMENDMENT, THE CAMERA PHONE, AND THE MOVEMENT FOR BLACK LIVES 60 Howard Law Journal 531 (Winter, 2017) INTRODUCTION. 532 I. THE CRIMINALIZATION OF BLACKNESS. 534 A. The American Enslavement of African People: Caste Creation. 534 B. Reconstruction and Jim Crow. 537 C. Law & Order, The New Jim Crow, and the Prison Industrial Complex. 541 II. WIRETAPPING & EAVESDROPPING LAWS. 543 III. QUALIFIED IMMUNITY & THE WELL-ESTABLISHED RIGHT. 546 IV. WHY DO OUR... 2017 Most Relevant
Jessica Watters PINK HATS AND BLACK FISTS: THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT 24 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 199 (Fall, 2017) I. Origins and Critiques of the Women's March II. True Intersectional Feminism Must Be Continuously Demonstrated by Allies III. The Collective Power of (White) Women Conclusion On January 21, 2017, nearly five hundred thousand people, many adorned in pink, cat-eared pussyhats, descended on Washington, D.C.--the flagship location for the official... 2017 Most Relevant
Jessica Watters PINK HATS AND BLACK FISTS: THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT 24 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 199 (Fall, 2017) I. Origins and Critiques of the Women's March II. True Intersectional Feminism Must Be Continuously Demonstrated by Allies III. The Collective Power of (White) Women Conclusion On January 21, 2017, nearly five hundred thousand people, many adorned in pink, cat-eared pussyhats, descended on Washington, D.C.--the flagship location for the official... 2017 Most Relevant
Elizabeth Esther Berenguer THE COLOR OF FEAR: A COGNITIVE-RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF HOW FLORIDA'S SUBJECTIVE FEAR STANDARD IN STAND YOUR GROUND CASES RATIFIES RACISM 76 Maryland Law Review 726 (2017) It must be remembered that the visibility of race was used as a tool to consolidate domination, to seize land, and to recruit and extract mass labor. All this is still going on today. The racism of the past is still active in the present. Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Cullors created #BlackLivesMatter movement as a response to the anti-... 2017 Most Relevant
Breanne J. Palmer THE CROSSROADS: BEING BLACK, IMMIGRANT, AND UNDOCUMENTED IN THE ERA OF #BLACKLIVESMATTER 9 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 99 (Spring, 2017) This paper discusses the detrimental, intersectional effects of immigration law and criminal law on Black immigrants, both with and without documentation. Anti-Black racism, deeply embedded in America's criminal law system, funnels Black immigrants into the criminal justice system, and subsequently into removal or other punitive immigration... 2017 Most Relevant
Kristine Ruhl "AN ALARMING TREND": THE DANGERS OF RECENTLY PROPOSED ANTI-PROTEST LEGISLATION 22 Public Interest Law Reporter 95 (Spring, 2017) From the Black Lives Matter Movement, to the Dakota pipeline protests, to the record-breaking Women's Marches, to the various anti-Trump and anti-Trump legislation protests, America has experienced a rebirth of civil disobedience in recent years. However, the emergence of this new wave of activism has brought with it a torrent of proposed... 2017  
Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb "BURN THIS BITCH DOWN!": MIKE BROWN, EMMETT TILL, AND THE GENDERED POLITICS OF BLACK PARENTHOOD 17 Nevada Law Journal 619 (Summer, 2017) C1-2Table of Contents Black Parenthood As Lethal. 622 Pathologizing Black Parenthood. 627 Politicizing Black Parenthood. 630 Black Motherhood in the Cause for Civil Rights. 639 Black Fatherhood in the Age of Black Lives Matter. 643 Burn This Bitch Down!. 648 2017  
Benjamin Brafman, Esq. , Darren Stakey, Esq. "FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS": PROTECTING DUE PROCESS FROM VIRULENT PUBLICITY 33 Touro Law Review 441 (2017) C1-2TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction II. The Rise of Modern Media and its Implications A. Press Influence in the Age of the Printed Word - Dr. Sam Sheppard B. United States Supreme Court's Response to Ever-Evolving Tensions Among the Amendments C. News Media Treatment of the First and Last Trials of the [Twentieth] Century D. Media Expansion in... 2017  
Joseph Russomanno "FALSEHOOD AND FALLACIES": BRANDEIS, FREE SPEECH AND TRUMPISM 22 Communication Law and Policy 155 (Spring, 2017) Donald Trump's campaign for the presidency in 2016 was unique, noted for a number of attributes that rarely, if ever, had been witnessed, including the candidate's propensity to freely express his views, unfiltered. Debates surfaced, including some within his own party and campaign team, whether to let Trump be Trump. In other words, there was... 2017  
Daniel I. Morales "ILLEGAL" MIGRATION IS SPEECH 92 Indiana Law Journal 735 (Spring, 2017) Noncitizens must comply with immigration laws just because citizens say so. The citizenry takes for granted its monopoly on immigration control, but the legitimacy of this arrangement has been called into question by cuttingedge political theorists. One prominent theorist argues, for example, that basic democratic principles require that... 2017  
Gregory S. Parks "LIFTING AS WE CLIMB": THE AMERICAN COUNCIL ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE QUEST FOR CIVIL RIGHTS 25 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 261 (2017) The narrative of African Americans' quest for racial equality and social justice in the Twentieth Century is typically construed in the context of main-line civil rights organizations--e.g., NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, and the like. However, for decades, black fraternal networks had been helping to lay the groundwork for the major civil rights campaigns... 2017  
Dayna Nadine Scott, Adrian A. Smith "Sacrifice Zones" in the Green Energy Economy: Toward an Environmental Justice Framework 62 McGill Law Journal 861 (March, 2017) The environmental justice movement validates the grassroots struggles of residents of places which Steve Lerner refers to as sacrifice zones: low-income and racialized communities shouldering more than their fair share of environmental harms related to pollution, contamination, toxic waste, and heavy industry. On this account, disparities in... 2017  
David Schlussel "THE MELLOW POT-SMOKER": WHITE INDIVIDUALISM IN MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION CAMPAIGNS 105 California Law Review 885 (June, 2017) Recreational marijuana is now legal in several states as a result of ballot initiative campaigns. A number of campaigns have framed marijuana legalization using what this Note calls white individualism. They have put forth messages and images to implicitly suggest that white, hardworking, middle-class marijuana consumers are deserving... 2017  
Jessica O. Laurin "TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET": TEACHERS, FREE SPEECH, AND MATTERS OF PUBLIC CONCERN IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD 92 Indiana Law Journal 1615 (Fall, 2017) A complete and utter jerk in all ways. Although academically ok, your child has no other redeeming qualities. Natalie Munroe, a Pennsylvania public school teacher, blogged this comment as an example of what she would like to write on some of her students' report cards. Although her blog was not password protected, Munroe claimed that her blog was... 2017  
Stacey B. Steinberg #ADVOCACY: SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVISM'S POWER TO TRANSFORM LAW 105 Kentucky Law Journal 413 (2016-2017) Attorneys influence the actions of legislators, courts, and community leaders by working alongside social movements. Together, these advocates seek to challenge the status quo by setting precedent that will ensure equality and justice for all individuals. While social movements often use social media to convey their message or to gather support for... 2017  
Loren F. Selznick , Carolyn LaMacchia #MALL RUCKUS TONIGHT: SHOULD MALL OWNERS BE FORCED TO PROVIDE A STAGE FOR EXPRESSION IN THE VIRTUAL AGE? 53 Willamette Law Review 239 (Spring, 2017) L1-3TABLE OF CONTENTS I. December 2015 Mall of America Protest. 240 II. Expressive Rights of Protesters. 243 A. Right to Demonstrate on Public Property. 243 B. Private Property: Shopping Malls as the New Town Square. 245 III. Courts, Malls, and Free Speech. 251 A. The First Amendment and Shopping Malls. 252 B. State Constitutions. 254 1. Majority... 2017  
Caroline M. Moos #PROTESTERSRIGHTSMATTER: THE CASE AGAINST INCREASED CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR PROTESTERS BLOCKING ROADWAYS 38 Mitchell Hamline Law Journal of Public Policy and Practice 1 (2017) With the increased prevalence of protests involving roadway blocks, some have called for stronger penalties for protesters who engage in this disruption. Director of the Rudin Center for Transportation at New York University, Mitchell Moss, opined that, political protest today is now almost totally focused on transportation systems, whether it's a... 2017  
Paul J. Hofer, Policy Analyst, Sentencing Resource Counsel of the Federal Public and Community Defenders Senior Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences A CHANGE ELECTION 2017 Federal Sentencing Reporter 1041180 (December 1, 2016-February 1, 2017) All elections matter, but some more than others. In terms of federal sentencing policy, the 2016 election has potential to change the momentum from reform to retrenchment. Before the election, a bipartisan movement had emerged to reform the largest drivers of federal prison population growthmandatory minimum penalties for drug trafficking and... 2017  
Mikah K. Thompson A CULTURE OF SILENCE: EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF THE HISTORICALLY CONTENTIOUS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND THE POLICE 85 UMKC Law Review 697 (Spring, 2017) A legacy of biased police discretionary decision-making persists beyond the demise of de jure racial discrimination, perpetuating a relationship between the police and racial minorities that is primarily authoritarian, regulatory, and punitive in character. Further, contemporary policy decisions at the federal, state, and local levels continue to... 2017  
Jon B. Gould , Kenneth Sebastian Leon A CULTURE THAT IS HARD TO DEFEND: EXTRALEGAL FACTORS IN FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY CASES 107 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 643 (Fall, 2017) Empirical research has exposed a troubling pattern of capital punishment in the United States, with extralegal factors such as race, class, and gender strongly correlated with the probability of a death sentence. Capital sentencing also shows significant geographic disparities, although existing research tends to be more descriptive than... 2017  
L. Darnell Weeden A GROWING CONSENSUS: STATE SPONSORSHIP OF CONFEDERATE SYMBOLS IS AN INJURY-IN-FACT AS A RESULT OF DYLANN ROOF'S KILLING BLACKS IN CHURCH AT A BIBLE STUDY 32 BYU Journal of Public Law 113 (2017) The current debates over Confederate symbols were ignited by Dylann Roof's murder of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C. in 2015. The racially motivated killings produced new opposition to Confederate icons in public spaces. As New Orleans officials eliminated the statue of Louisiana native son and Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard on... 2017  
E. Christi Cunningham A HOPELESS CASE?: ESCAPING THE PROOF PITFALL IN POWER-DEPENDENT PARADIGMS 20 CUNY Law Review 481 (Spring, 2017) I. Introduction. 481 II. Power-dependent Relationships. 484 A. The Illusion of Co-dependence. 485 B. The Perpetuation of Engagement. 488 III. An Exit Strategy. 490 2017  
Felicia A. Reid A MATTER OF DUE REGARD: POLICE MISCONDUCT, THE NEW YORK STATE COURTS, AND THE EMPTINESS OF THEORETICAL JUSTICE 80 Albany Law Review 1103 (2016-2017) Whether across front pages and television screens, or in conversations and confrontations, concerns about law enforcement's use of force are at the forefront of national consciousness. Anxieties about police authority and abuse are neither novel nor new. They trace to the Framers' unease toward standing armies in peacetime; the context giving rise... 2017  
Yxta Maya Murray A MODEST MEMO 22 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 187 (Spring, 2017) A Modest Memo is a satire in the form of a legal memo written for President-Elect Donald Trump circa November 2016. It counsels Mr. Trump to obtain Mexican funding for a United States-Mexico Wall via United Nations Security Council sanctions. These sanctions would freeze remittances (that is, hold them hostage) until Mexican President Enrique... 2017  
Blake Emerson AFFIRMATIVELY FURTHERING EQUAL PROTECTION: CONSTITUTIONAL MEANING IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF FAIR HOUSING 65 Buffalo Law Review 163 (January, 2017) The meaning of equal protection is intimately linked with administrative practice. The Fourteenth Amendment was passed in part to further the interventions and ensure the constitutionality of the Freedmen's Bureau, which provided public services and legal protection for emancipated African Americans in the Southern states in the wake of the Civil... 2017  
Trina Jones , Kimberly Jade Norwood AGGRESSIVE ENCOUNTERS & WHITE FRAGILITY: DECONSTRUCTING THE TROPE OF THE ANGRY BLACK WOMAN 102 Iowa Law Review 2017 (July, 2017) ABSTRACT: Black women in the United States are the frequent targets of bias-filled interactions in which aggressors: (1) denigrate Black women; and (2) blame those women who elect to challenge the aggressor's acts and the bias that fuels them. This Article seeks to raise awareness of these aggressive encounters and to challenge a prevailing... 2017  
Natsu Taylor Saito ALL PEOPLES HAVE A RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION: HENRY J. RICHARDSON III'S LIBERATORY PERSPECTIVE ON RACIAL JUSTICE 31 Temple International and Comparative Law Journal 69 (Spring, 2017) Notwithstanding [] oppression . subordinated peoples can have a jurisprudence on which they act without a dominating people or group's permission. Henry J. Richardson III Professor Henry J. Richardson III has always told us that Black lives and Black resistance matters. The phrase Black Lives Matter emerged in 2013 in conjunction with the... 2017  
Richard Delgado ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION: A CRITICAL RECONSIDERATION 70 SMU Law Review 595 (Summer, 2017) IN 1985, in the pages of Wisconsin Law Review, four co-authors and I warned that alternative dispute resolution (ADR), then a relatively young movement undergoing explosive growth, was likely to disadvantage minorities, women, and members of other disempowered groups, particularly when their adversary was a corporation, a white person, or an... 2017  
R. Danielle Burnette AMERICAN HYPOCRISY: HOW THE UNITED STATES' SYSTEM OF MASS INCARCERATION AND POLICE BRUTALITY FAIL TO COMPLY WITH ITS OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION 45 Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 571 (Spring, 2017) C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 573 II. The Shooting of Michael Brown and Racial Discrimination in the Criminal Justice System. 575 A. Mike Brown + Police Brutality. 575 B. Racial Discrimination. 578 1. Racial Profiling. 578 2. Disparate Incarceration and Sentencing. 580 C. Failure to Indict Police. 582 III. International and Domestic Law.... 2017  
Todd J. Clark AN INHERENT CONTRADICTION: CORPORATE DISCRETION IN MORALS CLAUSE ENFORCEMENT 78 Louisiana Law Review 1 (Fall, 2017) C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 1 I. Morals Clauses. 10 II. Historical Development of the Implied Obligation of Good Faith. 22 A. Bad Faith in Contract Negotiation and Formation. 27 B. Bad Faith in Raising and Resolving Contract Disputes. 28 C. Bad Faith in taking Remedial Action. 28 D. Bad Faith in Performance and Enforcement. 29 III.... 2017  
Ashish Joshi AN INTERVIEW WITH ALAN DERSHOWITZ 43 Litigation 29 (Summer, 2017) May you live in interesting times, says an ancient Chinese curse that masquerades as a blessing. Alan Dershowitz has indeed lived an interesting, if often controversial, life. A professor at Harvard Law School since the age of 28, he has represented movers and shakers of Hollywood, politics, law, sports, and business, including Bill Clinton,... 2017  
Josh Bowers ANNOY NO COP 166 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 129 (December, 2017) The objective of the legality principle is to promote autonomy by providing individuals with opportunities to plan courses of conduct free from state intrusion. If precise rules are not prescribed in advance, individuals may lack notice of what is prohibited and may be subjected to arbitrary treatment. Thus, the Constitution commands that legal... 2017  
  Around the Nation 19 Student Discipline Law Bulletin 4 (December 1, 2017) Officials at Fort Meyers High School discovered a gun on the campus. A sophomore at the high school was arrested as a result. According to a message from the principal, the gun was not displayed by the student, but was discovered during a search. Principal Dave LaRosa said the gun was discovered during a search related to another matter. LaRosa... 2017  
Harvey Gee ASIAN AMERICANS AND THE LAW: SHARING A PROGRESSIVE CIVIL RIGHTS AGENDA DURING UNCERTAIN TIMES 10 DePaul Journal for Social Justice 1 (Summer, 2017) The November election of Donald J. Trump as the 45 U.S. President heightened ever-growing concerns about a retrenchment of civil rights for Americans, limiting voting rights, invoking tougher criminal penalties, keeping Guantanamo Bay prison open and returning to aggressive interrogation techniques, mass deportations and stricter immigration laws.... 2017  
Catherine J. Ross ASSAULTIVE WORDS AND CONSTITUTIONAL NORMS 66 Journal of Legal Education 739 (Summer, 2017) On college campuses across the nation people have sought to silence words that wound. They strive to ban expression they blame for contributing to a rape culture. Some students demand that colleges censor student speech that appears to denigrate individuals or groups. The question I tackle here is what--if anything--the Constitution permits... 2017  
Jocelyn Simonson BAIL NULLIFICATION 115 Michigan Law Review 585 (March, 2017) This Article explores the possibility of community nullification beyond the jury by analyzing the growing and unstudied phenomenon of community bail funds, which post bail for strangers based on broader beliefs regarding the overuse of pretrial detention. When a community bail fund posts bail, it can serve the function of nullifying a judge's... 2017  
Gerald S. Kerska BALANCING FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS WITH AN INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT ON PUBLIC UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES 101 Minnesota Law Review 1791 (May, 2017) How should public universities strike a balance between First Amendment values and their mission to establish a diverse and inclusive environment? Recent events from the University of Minnesota bring this question into focus. In the spring of 2015, just a few months after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, a group of University of Minnesota professors set... 2017  
Charles Dempsey BEATING MENTAL ILLNESS: CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAM TRAINING AND LAW ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE TRENDS 26 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 323 (Spring, 2017) The management of a mental health crisis begins in the field and can either escalate or de-escalate based on the management of the crisis by first responders, which is influenced by the training those first responders received. Law enforcement has known for a long time that there has been a paradigm shift in which law enforcement has become the... 2017  
Allegra M. McLeod BEYOND THE CARCERAL STATE CAUGHT: THE PRISON STATE AND THE LOCKDOWN OF AMERICAN POLITICS. BY MARIE GOTTSCHALK. PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2015. 502 PAGES. $35.00 95 Texas Law Review 651 (February, 2017) The vast expansion of carceral control in the United States is the subject of a compelling body of scholarship, but efforts to decarcerate have received relatively little attention. One of the few studies to focus in depth on the prospects of carceral reform, political scientist Marie Gottschalk's brilliant and unsettling book, Caught: The Prison... 2017  
Vida B. Johnson BIAS IN BLUE: INSTRUCTING JURORS TO CONSIDER THE TESTIMONY OF POLICE OFFICER WITNESSES WITH CAUTION 44 Pepperdine Law Review 245 (2017) Jurors in criminal trials are instructed by the judge that they are to treat the testimony of a police officer just like the testimony of any other witness. Fact-finders are told that they should not give police officer testimony greater or lesser weight than any other witness they will hear from at trial. Jurors are to accept that police are no... 2017  
Blanche Bong Cook BIASED AND BROKEN BODIES OF PROOF: WHITE HETEROPATRIARCHY, THE GRAND JURY PROCESS, AND PERFORMANCE ON UNARMED BLACK FLESH 85 UMKC Law Review 567 (Spring, 2017) The intention in torture of humans is . to silence the other's voice by wrecking his or her body; it is to make the tortured speak the torturer's words instead of his own. Margaret A. Farley Although scholars have theorized about systemic racialized police violence, less attention has been given to systemic practices in the investigations and grand... 2017  
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