| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms |
| Joshua J. Schroeder, J.D. |
AMERICA'S WRITTEN CONSTITUTION: REMEMBERING THE JUDICIAL DUTY TO SAY WHAT THE LAW IS |
43 Capital University Law Review 833 (Fall, 2015) |
Those then who controvert the principle that the constitution is to be considered, in court, as a paramount law, are reduced to the necessity of maintaining that courts must close their eyes on the constitution, and see only the law. This doctrine . . . reduces to nothing what we have deemed the greatest improvement on political institutions - a... |
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| Gilbert Rivera |
ARMED NOT MILITARIZED: ACHIEVING REAL POLICE MILITARIZATION |
20 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 227 (Fall 2015) |
Police Militarization is a hot-button topic. The highly publicized events in Ferguson, after the tragic death of Michael Brown, and the grand jury choosing not to press charges against police officer Darren Wilson, nationally showcased a militarized police response to public protests. Media coverage showed Ferguson police in armored vehicles,... |
2015 |
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| Linda Sheryl Greene |
BEFORE AND AFTER MICHAEL BROWN --TOWARD AN END TO STRUCTURAL AND ACTUAL VIOLENCE |
49 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 1 (2015) |
Prologue--The Kerner Comission. 2 I. Introduction--Before and Beyond Michael Brown. 3 II. Reinterpreting Deadly Force. 3 A. The Benign Dominant Narrative. 3 B. The Insurgent Narrative. 3 C. A History of Racial Violence. 9 D. The Psychological Turn. 16 E. Deadly and Excessive Force and Police Culture. 17 III. A Structure of Violence. 20 A.... |
2015 |
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| 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... |
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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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| Robert J. Smith , Justin D. Levinson , Zoƫ Robinson |
IMPLICIT WHITE FAVORITISM IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM |
66 Alabama Law Review 871 (2015) |
Commentators idealize a racially fair criminal justice system as one without racial derogation. But unjustified racial disparities would persist even if racial derogation disappeared overnight. In this Article, we introduce the concept of implicit white favoritism into criminal law and procedure scholarship, and explain why preferential treatment... |
2015 |
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| Anjana Mebane-Cruz, Farmingdale State College, SUNY |
INCARCERATION BY CATEGORY: RACIAL DESIGNATIONS AND THE BLACK BORDERS OF INDIANNESS |
38 PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 226 (November, 2015) |
Particular problems were created for mixed people in the United States with the development of race categories and ideologies based on hierarchies of color and blood. With whiteness favored above all else, mixed people often self-identified with the more phenotypically European of their ancestors in spite of prohibitive legal sanctions. For the... |
2015 |
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| David L. Gregory , Elizabeth Anne Tippett |
INTRODUCTION |
89 Saint John's Law Review 397 (Summer-Fall 2015) |
On July 2, 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Act) was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. It purportedly took effect the following summer. Two years later, many urban centers were burned to the ground in the race riots throughout the summer of 1967. The Equal Pay Act, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and calling the National Guard... |
2015 |
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| Megan Mason |
JUDGES' ROLE IN CORRECTING THE OVERREPRESENTATION OF MINORITY YOUTH IN THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM |
28 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 719 (Summer, 2015) |
Although we do not foreclose a sentencer's ability to make . judgment, we require it to take into account how children are different. Courts have recognized that children's immaturity, recklessness, and impetuousity place them at a lesser level of culpability than adults in the criminal justice system. These sentiments are the embodiment of the... |
2015 |
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| Amna A. Akbar |
LAW'S EXPOSURE: THE MOVEMENT AND THE LEGAL ACADEMY |
65 Journal of Legal Education 352 (November, 2015) |
Last August, I went to a vigil for Mike Brown in Columbus, Ohio--a couple hundred people huddled under a park pavilion. Naming police violence and poverty, black folks from all walks of life placed the inequality in their communities within the death and deprivation spiraling out of the Atlantic slave trade. Young black organizers absorbed the... |
2015 |
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| Gary Peller |
LEGAL EDUCATION AND THE LEGITIMATION OF RACIAL POWER |
65 Journal of Legal Education 405 (November, 2015) |
Thank you for your invitation to talk with you today about how the recent uproar about police killings of African-Americans in Ferguson, Missouri, and across the country might connect to your experience in elite legal education-- what might Harvard Law School have to do with what is going on? I will talk about the way that racial justice is... |
2015 |
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| Mindy Lawrence |
LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION: THE AGE OF BODY CAMERAS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THE EFFECTS OF IMPLEMENTING BODY CAMERA PROGRAMS IN RURAL COMMUNITIES |
91 North Dakota Law Review 611 (2015) |
There can be little doubt of the rise of civil unrest over the past ten years between law enforcement and the general public. The evening news is consumed by story after story of the tension, whether by covering every angle of Michael Brown's shooting in Fergusson, Missouri, or by covering the movement of Black Lives Matter throughout the nation.... |
2015 |
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| Charles R. Lawrence III , Featuring a Poem Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner |
LOCAL KINE IMPLICIT BIAS: UNCONSCIOUS RACISM REVISITED (YET AGAIN) |
37 University of Hawaii Law Review 457 (Spring, 2015) |
In 1987, I introduced the idea that anti-discrimination law should take cognizance of unconscious bias in an article titled The Id, The Ego and Equal Protection: Reckoning with Unconscious Racism. I argued that the purposeful intent requirement found in Supreme Court equal protection doctrine and in the Court's interpretation of anti-discrimination... |
2015 |
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| Jean R. Sternlight, Andrea Schneider, Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Robert Mnookin, Richard Goldstone, Penelope Andrews |
MAKING PEACE WITH YOUR ENEMY: NELSON MANDELA AND HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO CONFLICT RESOLUTION |
16 Nevada Law Journal 281 (Fall 2015) |
Daniel Hamilton: It's a wonderful day for the Law School and it's a wonderful day to commemorate, celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution. I want to thank our distinguished panelists and I, of course, want to thank Saltman Center's advisory board which just met and includes several of these panelists and also a... |
2015 |
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| Harvey Gee |
NATIONAL INSECURITY: THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT, THE INDEFINITE DETENTION OF AMERICAN CITIZENS, AND A CALL FOR HEIGHTENED JUDICIAL SCRUTINY |
49 John Marshall Law Review 69 (Fall, 2015) |
I. Introduction. 69 II. The Japanese American Internment. 73 III. The NDAA and the War Against Terrorism. 79 A. 2001 Authorization of Use of Military Force. 79 B. National Defense Authorization Act of 2012. 80 C. Hamdi v. Rumsfeld and Establishing the Legal Authority for the NDAA. 83 IV. Hedges v. Obama. 85 V. Learning from History and Avoiding... |
2015 |
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| Edward R. Maguire |
NEW DIRECTIONS IN PROTEST POLICING |
35 Saint Louis University Public Law Review 67 (2015) |
On August 9, 2014, a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri shot and killed an unarmed 18-year-old African-American man named Michael Brown. While the details of the shooting are disputed, for many black residents in the area, the incident represented the culmination of a long line of abusive police practices targeted primarily toward African... |
2015 |
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| Michele Goodwin |
ON THE RUN: FUGUTIVE LIFE IN AN AMERICAN CITY. BY ALICE GOFFMAN. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 2014. 288 PAGES. $25.00. THE ETERNAL CRIMINAL RECORD. BY JAMES B. JACOBS. CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2015. 416 PA |
94 Texas Law Review 353 (December, 2015) |
I know why the caged bird beats his wing Till its blood is red on the cruel bars; For he must fly back to his perch and cling When he fain would be on the bough a-swing; And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars And they pulse again with a keener sting -- I know why he beats his wing! -- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1899) In 2013, Eric Holder, the... |
2015 |
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| Marcia L. McCormick |
OUR UNEASINESS WITH POLICE UNIONS: POWER AND VOICE FOR THE POWERFUL? |
35 Saint Louis University Public Law Review 47 (2015) |
When Michael Brown was shot by Officer Darren Wilson in August of 2014 and people started to talk publicly to tell the story of what happened, to determine whether a crime had occurred, or to protest the shooting or living conditions of African Americans in Ferguson and cities like it, the two people in the best position to talk about what happened... |
2015 |
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| Nancy C. Marcus |
OUT OF BREATH AND DOWN TO THE WIRE: A CALL FOR CONSTITUTION-FOCUSED POLICE REFORM |
59 Howard Law Journal 5 (Fall, 2015) |
INTRODUCTION (THE DEATH OF FREDDIE GRAY). 6 I. A BREATHTAKING SNAPSHOT IN TIME: FROM I CAN'T BREATHE TO FUCK YOUR BREATH AND BEYOND. 12 A. From I Can't Breathe to Fuck Your Breath: The Deaths of Eric Garner and Eric Harris. 12 B. Other Police Killings of Unarmed Black Men (and a Child) Between July 2014 and July 2015. 14 1. The Death of... |
2015 |
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| Charles R. Lawrence III |
PASSING AND TRESPASSING IN THE ACADEMY: ON WHITENESS AS PROPERTY AND RACIAL PERFORMANCE AS POLITICAL SPEECH |
31 Harvard Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice 7 (Spring 2015) |
Cheryl Harris begins her canonical piece, Whiteness as Property, by introducing her grandmother Alma. Fair skinned with straight hair and aquiline features, Alma passes so that she can feed herself and her two daughters. Harris speaks of Alma's daily illegal border crossing into this land reserved for whites. After a day's work, Alma returns home... |
2015 |
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| John Tehranian |
PLAYING COWBOYS AND IRANIANS: SELECTIVE COLORBLINDNESS AND THE LEGAL CONSTRUCTION OF WHITE GEOGRAPHIES |
86 University of Colorado Law Review 1 (Winter 2015) |
This Article examines the selective invocation of colorblindness in legal and political discourse and argues that the trope has served as a powerful vehicle for the creation, perpetuation, and patrolling of white geographies--spaces characterized by an implicit hierarchy privileging white racial identity. After assessing the new rhetoric of race in... |
2015 |
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| Robin G. Steinberg |
POLICE POWER AND THE SCARING OF AMERICA: A PERSONAL JOURNEY |
34 Yale Law and Policy Review 131 (Fall 2015) |
In America today, nearly 900, 000 men and women are granted general arrest powers. These officers are increasingly militarized, possessed of automatic weapons and armored vehicles, their departments sporting their own helicopters and boats-- amounting to a small air force and navy tasked with domestic law enforcement. This vast army of law... |
2015 |
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