| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Relevancy |
| Aleatra P. Williams |
BENEATH THE STAINS OF TIME: THE BANALITY OF RACE, THE HOUSING AND FORECLOSURE CRISIS, AND THE FINANCIAL GENOCIDE OF MINORITIES |
24 Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 247 (Summer 2015) |
I. Introduction. 247 II. The Conceptualization of Race & Socially Accepted Racial Hierarchies. 251 III. Homeownership in the U.S.. 257 IV. Lending discrimination during the housing and foreclosure crisis. 262 A. Lending Discrimination Laws and Enforcement Agencies. 264 B. Left Behind: Minorities During the Housing and Foreclosure Crisis. 271 V. The... |
2015 |
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| Kim D. Chanbonpin |
BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE: THE COLORING OF ASIAN AMERICANS |
14 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 637 (2015) |
While reporting on the civil unrest that followed the police killing of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri last August, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly became enraged when his guest Megyn Kelly suggested that race-based privilege shields White people from police violence while it simultaneously subordinates Black people. After the brief on-air debate,... |
2015 |
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| Mike Lillis |
Black Dems warn of erosion of civil rights |
2015 The Hill 5566203 (September 15, 2015) |
Leading black Democrats warned Tuesday that the civil rights victories of the last 50 years are under threat. |
2015 |
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| Mike Lillis |
Black lawmakers back disruptions of Sanders, Democrats' events |
2015 The Hill 4758582 (August 13, 2015) |
Black lawmakers on Capitol Hill are defending the young activists using confrontation to press top Democratic presidential candidates to tackle the nation's protracted problems of racial injustice. |
2015 |
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| Vickie Casanova Willis, Standish E. Willis |
BLACK PEOPLE AGAINST POLICE TORTURE: THE IMPORTANCE OF BUILDING A PEOPLE-CENTERED HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT |
21 Public Interest Law Reporter 235 (Symposium, 2015) |
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. - Thurgood Marshall That power concedes nothing without a demand is an oft-quoted concept. When Frederick Douglass made this declaration in 1857 as part of his West India Emancipation speech, he also foretold the Chicago Police Torture saga in stating Who would be free, themselves must strike... |
2015 |
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| Laura Merkey |
BUILDING TRUST AND BREAKING DOWN THE WALL: THE USE OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE TO REPAIR POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONSHIPS |
80 Missouri Law Review 1133 (Fall, 2015) |
The town of Ferguson, Missouri, captured national attention when a grand jury failed to indict Darren Wilson, a white police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, three months prior. Similar citizen deaths involving police in both New York City and Cleveland have magnified the tensions felt across the country, and in... |
2015 |
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| Sarah Rivkin Smoler |
CENTRIC CHARTER SCHOOLS: WHEN SEPARATE MAY BE EQUAL |
10 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 319 (Spring, 2015) |
Introduction. 320 I. Brown And Its Progeny. 324 II. Charter Schools: What They Are And The Development Of Centric Charter Schools. 328 A. What are Charter Schools?. 329 B. Charter Schools in Chicago and the Emergence of Centric Charter Schools. 332 III. Why Centric Charter Schools Are Constitutional Despite Segregation Between Majority And Minority... |
2015 |
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| Eric J. Miller |
CHALLENGING POLICE DISCRETION |
58 Howard Law Journal 521 (Winter, 2015) |
Law enforcement officials have tremendous discretion to determine the amount and style of policing that occurs in their jurisdiction. They decide which crimes or suspects to pursue, which communities or locations to target for policing, the best methods to prevent or respond to crime, and how best to balance prevention and detection. These policy... |
2015 |
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CHAPTER FOUR CONSIDERING POLICE BODY CAMERAS |
128 Harvard Law Review 1794 (April, 2015) |
One evening in early December 2014, thousands of people gathered on the historic Boston Common, not to view the annual Christmas-tree lighting, but to add their voices to a growing movement. They carried with them signs inscribed with the mantras of that movement--phrases like Hands Up, Don't Shoot and Black Lives Matter--and they joined... |
2015 |
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| Austin Spillar |
CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE REFORM: IS CHICAGO MAKING THE GRADE? |
21 Public Interest Law Reporter 67 (Fall 2015) |
Civil asset forfeiture allows police to seize a person's cash and property without charging or convicting them of a crime, or even without making an arrest. The police simply just have to suspect that the assets are tied to an illegal activity. This leads some to call it legal robbery, while law enforcement sees it as a tool to fight crime and... |
2015 |
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| Michael L. Perlin , Catherine Barreda , Katherine Davies, Mehgan Gallagher, Nicole Israel, Stephanie Mendelsohn |
CREATING A "BUILDING A DISABILITY RIGHTS INFORMATION CENTER FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC CLINIC": OF PEDAGOGY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE |
17 Marquette Benefits & Social Welfare Law Review 1 (Fall 2015) |
This article describes the work done by the lead author and his students in the creation of the Disability Rights Information Center for Asia and the Pacific (DRICAP), as part of the work the lead author has been doing with colleagues (especially Yoshikazu Ikehara, Esq., director of the Tokyo Advocacy Law Office) for several years to create a... |
2015 |
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| Mario L. Barnes |
CRIMINAL JUSTICE FOR THOSE (STILL) AT THE MARGINS--ADDRESSING HIDDEN FORMS OF BIAS AND THE POLITICS OF WHICH LIVES MATTER |
5 UC Irvine Law Review 711 (November, 2015) |
Americans believe in the reality of race as a defined, indubitable feature of the natural world. Racism--the need to ascribe bone-deep features to people and then humiliate, reduce, and destroy them--inevitably follows from this inalterable condition. In this way, racism is rendered as the innocent daughter of Mother Nature, and one is left to... |
2015 |
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| Anna Stolley Persky |
DAMAGING SPEECH |
101-NOV ABA Journal 15 (November, 2015) |
Michigan State University student Duncan Tarr knew he could face criminal trespass charges when he decided to protest the construction of a pipeline that would transport crude oil known as tar sands from Canada through Michigan. Tarr and Dylan Ochala-Gorka, a carpenter, put U-locks around their necks and connected themselves to a truck to block... |
2015 |
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| Rukiya Mohamed |
DEATH BY COP: THE LESSONS OF FERGUSON PROVE THE NEED FOR SPECIAL PROSECUTORS |
59 Howard Law Journal 271 (Fall, 2015) |
INTRODUCTION. 272 I. MECHANISMS FOR STATE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR APPOINTMENTS. 275 A. What is a Special Prosecutor?. 276 B. Ferguson is an Example of How the States' Current Mechanisms Fail to Appoint a Special Prosecutor When He is Most Needed. 277 1. The Different Approach McCulloch Took in Wilson's Prosecution. 278 2. Why McCulloch was not Removed.... |
2015 |
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| Tabatha Abu El-Haj |
DEFINING PEACEABLY: POLICING THE LINE BETWEEN CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED PROTEST AND UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY |
80 Missouri Law Review 961 (Fall, 2015) |
The current wave of civil rights demonstrations in response to police killings began on August 9, 2014, after Darren Wilson, a white police officer, fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American eighteen-year-old, in Ferguson, Missouri. Outraged by the incident and by the fact that the body was left on the street for four-and-a-half... |
2015 |
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| Sarah Ricciardi |
DO YOU KNOW WHY I STOPPED YOU?: THE FUTURE OF TRAFFIC STOPS IN A POST-HEIEN WORLD |
47 Connecticut Law Review 1075 (May, 2015) |
Nearly twenty years after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision upholding pretextual traffic stops in Whren v. United States, racial animosity between white police officers and black civilians is as pervasive as ever. Reports of unarmed black men killed at the hands of white law enforcement officers are becoming disturbingly common. Despite the... |
2015 |
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| Justice Robert Thomas |
DUPAGE COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION |
27 DCBA Brief 5 (February, 2015) |
Recently I was asked by President Lynn Cavallo to contribute a President's Page during her year, which I am honored and happy to do. I was already at work on the project when I heard Justice Thomas' Supreme Court dinner keynote address at the ISBA/IJA Joint Midyear Meeting in Chicago on December 12. It occurred to me that all DuPage County Bar... |
2015 |
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| Martha T. McCluskey |
FACING THE GHOST OF CRUIKSHANK IN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW |
65 Journal of Legal Education 278 (November, 2015) |
Teaching constitutional law to make Black Lives Matter requires confronting the race-based violence institutionalized in American law. In Ferguson and beyond, news reports of suspicious deaths of unarmed African-Americans at the hands of race-conscious state authority persist as a predictable reality smoothly coinciding with a constitutional... |
2015 |
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| Dianne Post |
FEED YOUR JUSTICE APPETITE |
51-AUG Arizona Attorney 76 (July/August, 2015) |
Lawyers are as diverse as the population in general, and many of us entered the legal profession because we had a very strong sense that American democracy requires a strong and vital system of fair and equal justice. For many, the practice of law is a calling because it satisfies our need to contribute to the greater justice in the world. How... |
2015 |
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| Justin Hansford, Meena Jagannath |
FERGUSON TO GENEVA: USING THE HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK TO PUSH FORWARD A VISION FOR RACIAL JUSTICE IN THE UNITED STATES AFTER FERGUSON |
12 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 121 (Summer, 2015) |
We believe that our problem is one not a violation of civil rights but a violation of human rights. Not only are we denied the right to be a citizen in the United States, we are denied the right to be a human being. - Malcolm X, January 5, 1965. The United States has long touted itself in the international community as having an exemplary human... |
2015 |
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| S. David Mitchell |
FERGUSON: FOOTNOTE OR TRANSFORMATIVE EVENT? |
80 Missouri Law Review 943 (Fall, 2015) |
Hands to the Heavens, no man, no weapon Formed against, yes glory is destined Every day women and men become legends Sins that go against our skin become blessings The movement is a rhythm to us Freedom is like religion to us Justice is juxtaposition in us Justice for all just ain't specific enough One son died, his spirit is revisitin' us Truant... |
2015 |
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| Robert J. Smith |
FORGETTING FURMAN |
100 Iowa Law Review 1149 (March, 2015) |
ABSTRACT: Furman v. Georgia is the darling of death penalty scholars and defense lawyers. Indeed, a fair characterization of the bulk of capital punishment scholarship and litigation is that it seeks to establish that the concerns that motivated the Court to strike down the death penalty in 1972-- namely, arbitrariness and discrimination in the... |
2015 |
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| Alan Mills |
GUEST FEATURE ARTICLE LAWYERS REPRESENT CLIENTS . . . OR DO THEY? |
21 Public Interest Law Reporter 1 (Fall 2015) |
In most cases, lawyers file cases on behalf of clients. However, lawyers do not get to make substantive decisions about the cases we work on; our clients do. Illinois Rule of Professional Conduct 1.2 makes this clear: [A] lawyer shall abide by a client's decisions concerning the objectives of representation and ... Shall consult with the client as... |
2015 |
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| David Stovall |
GUEST FEATURE ARTICLE THE FIGHT THAT MUST BE FOUGHT: REFLECTIONS ON RACE, SCHOOL, STRUGGLE AND SACRIFICE ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO |
21 Public Interest Law Reporter 78 (Fall 2015) |
The following paragraphs are centered in the realities of life in a hyper-segregated city that moves to displace, marginalize and isolate certain members of its population while making space for new investments in housing and other infrastructure. The story is layered and multi-pronged, while deeply imbued in the politics of race, class, and... |
2015 |
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| Leigh Goodmark |
HANDS UP AT HOME: MILITARIZED MASCULINITY AND POLICE OFFICERS WHO COMMIT INTIMATE PARTNER ABUSE |
2015 Brigham Young University Law Review 1183 (2015) |
The deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner and the almost daily news stories about abusive and violent police conduct are currently prompting questions about the appropriate use of force by police officers. Moreover, the history of police brutality directed towards women is well-documented. Most of that literature, however, captures the violence... |
2015 |
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| Stephen F. Smith |
HAS THE "MACHINERY OF DEATH" BECOME A CLUNKER? |
49 University of Richmond Law Review 845 (March, 2015) |
In 1994, Justice Blackmun famously announced that he would no longer tinker with the machinery of death. The timing of that announcement said as much about the state of America's death penalty on the eve of the new millennium as it did about how he wished to be remembered when he retired from the Supreme Court of the United States later that same... |
2015 |
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| Matt Leighninger, Tina Nabatchi |
HOW CAN WE QUANTIFY DEMOCRACY? |
22 Dispute Resolution Magazine 24 (Fall, 2015) |
What kinds of numbers are helpful for measuring democracy? Traditionally, political scientists have looked at voter turnout and other easily quantifiable indicators of indirect, republican political participation. Those numbers generally paint a dismal picture, showing declines in the number of people who vote, trust government, believe the... |
2015 |
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| Arneta Rogers |
HOW POLICE BRUTALITY HARMS MOTHERS: LINKING POLICE VIOLENCE TO THE REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE MOVEMENT |
12 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 205 (Summer, 2015) |
Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a White mother's son--we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens. -Ella Baker The recent and highly publicized killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old African American and the subsequent grand jury decision... |
2015 |
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| Barbara Stark |
HOW THE AGE OF RIGHTS BECAME THE NEW GILDED AGE: FROM INTERNATIONAL ANTIDISCRIMINATION LAW TO GLOBAL INEQUALITY |
47 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 151 (Fall, 2015) |
Antidiscrimination law is an American invention that has spread all around the world. During the American civil rights movement of the 1960s, antidiscrimination law promised radical social transformations towards equality for women and minorities in the workplace, in politics, and in education. --AALS Workshop on Transnational Perspectives on... |
2015 |
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| Judith Butler |
HUMAN SHIELDS |
3 London Review of International Law 223 (September, 2015) |
This article considers the notion of human shields' to interrogate how the political use of the law of armed conflict involves a wager over whether or not civilian deaths will be regarded as war crimes. Such calculations constitute a form of lawfare on the military field. The treatment of domestic protesters as enemy combatants by local US police... |
2015 |
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