| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms |
| Michael Conklin |
PEAK WOKENESS IN LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF RECENT TRENDS IN PROGRESSIVE TOPICS |
61 California Western Law Review 381 (Spring, 2025) |
C1-3Table of Contents I. Introduction. 382 A. What is Woke?. 384 B. Evidence of Peak Wokeness. 389 II. Methodology. 398 III. Results. 399 IV. Discussion. 400 V. Conclusion. 404 |
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| Jonathon J. Booth |
POLICING AFTER SLAVERY: RACE, CRIME, AND RESISTANCE IN ATLANTA |
96 University of Colorado Law Review 1 (2025) |
This Article places the birth and growth of the Atlanta police in context by exploring the full scope of Atlanta's criminal legal system during the four decades after the end of slavery. To do so, it analyzes the connections Atlantans made between race and crime, the adjudication and punishment of minor offenses, and the variety of Black protests... |
2025 |
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| Sunita Patel |
POLICING CAMPUS PROTEST |
125 Columbia Law Review 1277 (June, 2025) |
College campuses across the country celebrate their legacies of creating free speech guarantees following student protests from the mid-1960s to early 1970s, even though colleges had minimal tolerance of such protests at the time. As part of the New Left's vision for a different society, students, sometimes joined by faculty, demanded an end to the... |
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| G. Alex Sinha |
POLICING'S FREE-SPEECH PROBLEM |
2025 Utah Law Review 453 (2025) |
The central claim of this Article is that a significant share of typical policing activity is wildly and egregiously unconstitutional. More precisely, police regularly, predictably, and systematically violate the hardest, most settled core of free-speech law under the First Amendment. We have grown to tolerate these violations--we have not even... |
2025 |
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| David S. Ardia |
POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY AND A RIGHT TO KNOW ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT |
67 Arizona Law Review 1 (Spring, 2025) |
Imagine that a future U.S. President, upset about negative press coverage and plummeting approval ratings, issues an executive order instructing all federal agencies to henceforth provide no public access to executive branch records and meetings. Imagine further that the President's party controls both chambers of Congress, which rescinds all... |
2025 |
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| Vanessa Miller |
PRIVATE CAMPUS POLICE AND THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT |
102 Denver Law Review 1031 (Summer, 2025) |
The rise and expansion of private campus police forces raises critical concerns about the interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment. As state legislatures continue to authorize private police to act as state law enforcement officers and extend their jurisdiction beyond campus boundaries, resembling traditional public law enforcement agencies, the... |
2025 |
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| Erin Sheley |
PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION AND DIGITAL DEMOCRACY |
113 Kentucky Law Journal 71 (2024-2025) |
Introduction. 72 I. Two Case Studies in Discretion and Public Opinion. 70 A. #MeToo in Theory and Practice. 77 B. Corporate Homicide. 82 i. The Sparse History of Corporate Homicide. 83 ii. Corporate Homicide and Popular Morality. 89 II. Public Mandate and Government Officials. 93 A. Public Opinion and Public Officials Generally. 93 B. Public... |
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| Timothy Zick |
PUBLIC PROTEST AND CIVIL UNREST |
67 Arizona Law Review 459 (Summer, 2025) |
Governments and officials must respond to protest-related civil unrest. How they do so is both an index of official respect for dissent and a measure of how committed governments are to democratic accountability. This Article examines official responses to civil unrest in connection with several recent high-profile demonstrations. In general, it... |
2025 |
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| Katheryn Russell-Brown , Vanessa Miller |
RACE CENTERS AS CRITICAL CURRICULUM SPACES IN U.S. LAW SCHOOLS |
76 Mercer Law Review 609 (April, 2025) |
This piece aims to amplify the role of law school race centers. In fact, these centers are central curriculum spaces for student teaching and learning about race. The discussion highlights the role of race centers in law schools, explores the scholarly potential of race centers, and proposes strategies for sustaining race centers. The piece... |
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| Vania Blaiklock |
RACE WITHOUT RACISM: RELIGIOUS SCHOOL CURRICULA AND THE RACE-NEUTRAL LEGACY OF BROWN |
66 William and Mary Law Review 883 (March, 2025) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 884 I. Brown's Colorblind Conversion. 888 II. Abeka Case Study--Narratives of Race Without Racism. 900 A. African Slave Trade & American Slavery. 902 B. Reconstruction. 906 C. The Civil Rights Movement. 908 D. Oppression in the Twenty-First Century. 911 Conclusion. 914 |
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| E. Tendayi Achiume |
RACE, REPARATIONS, AND INTERNATIONAL LAW |
119 American Journal of International Law 397 (July, 2025) |
C1-3Table of Contents I. Introduction. 397 II. Reparations, Worldmaking, and Structures of Historical Injustice. 401 A. Race, Racism, and Colonial Worldmaking. 403 B. Race/Racism and the Structural Reproduction of Colonial Domination. 404 C. The Global Governance of Race/Racism and Reparative Anti-colonial Worldmaking. 407 III. The Legal... |
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| Kanome' Jones |
REHABILITATING THE NONPROFIT ARTS SECTOR: HEALTHY BOARD GOVERNANCE AS A CONDITION TO FEDERAL TAX EXEMPTION |
15 UC Irvine Law Review 1097 (October, 2025) |
Americans celebrate the arts and how they increase our economic and collective well - being. Nonprofit arts and culture organizations are the primary vehicle by which individuals create art, attend events, and support millions of jobs in the industry. This has led to a perception that arts organizations have an effective framework for productivity... |
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| Calvin Morrill, Michael Musheno , University of California, Berkeley, USA and University of Oregon and Arizona State University, USA |
REINVENTING "YOUTH" IN SOCIO-LEGAL STUDIES |
50 Law and Social Inquiry 893 (August, 2025) |
Kathryn Abrams. Open Hand, Close Fist: Practices of Undocumented Organizing in a Hostile State. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022. Pp. xiv + 286. James S Coleman. The Adolescent Society: The Social Life of the Teenager and Its Impact on Education. New York: Free Press of Glencoe, 1961. Pp. xvi + 368. Nikki Jones. Between Good and... |
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| Cynthia D. Bond |
REPRESENTATIONS OF LAW AND RACE REVISITED: AN UPDATED SURVEY OF RECENT AMERICAN FILM |
30 University of Denver Sports and Entertainment Law Journal 51 (Spring, 2025) |
This article revisits the author's Laws of Race/Laws of Representation: The Construction of Race and Law in Contemporary American Film, 11 Univ. Tex. Rev. of Sports and Ent. L. 219 (2010), surveying recent developments in mainstream films' depiction of the interrelated narratives of law and race. This article applies to current film the 2010... |
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| Aaron Hernandez , Danielle R. Gershen |
ROLL THE REEL: THE EVOLUTION OF RACIAL ISSUES IN SPORTS LAW |
35 Marquette Sports Law Review 313 (Spring, 2025) |
In 2024, the National Sports Law Institute (NSLI) at Marquette University Law School celebrated its 35th anniversary. The NSLI has been an unquestioned leader in sports law during that time, helping provide a centralized platform to discuss and advance sports law as a field. This article helps to celebrate this milestone by looking at one of the... |
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| Philip Lee |
SFFA v. HARVARD: RACIAL TRIANGULATION AND THE INVIDIOUS MYTH OF COLORBLINDNESS |
84 Maryland Law Review 249 (2025) |
Introduction. 250 I. The Evolution of the Diversity Rationale. 251 A. Bakke. 251 B. Grutter and Gratz. 258 C. Fisher I and II. 260 II. Racial Triangulation and The Model Minority. 262 A. SFFA and Racial Triangulation. 262 B. SFFA and the Model Minority. 263 III. SFFA v. Harvard and the Myth of Colorblindness. 267 A. The Majority Opinion and... |
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| Stavros Gadinis |
SOCIAL BUSINESS JUDGMENT |
80 Business Lawyer 1035 (Fall, 2025) |
Corporate America confronts an era of deepening social fissures. Progressive advocates demand stronger action on climate change, workplace equity, and social justice, while conservative groups launch coordinated campaigns against corporate social initiatives. States restrict pension funds from considering ESG factors in investment decisions, courts... |
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| Matthew W. Finkin |
SOCIAL MEDIA, SOCIAL SENSIBILITIES, AND THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP |
27 Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 1 (2025) |
Who watches his mouth guards his own life, who cracks open his lips knows disaster. Prov. 13:3 C1-3Table of Contents I. Introduction. 1 II. Two Facets of Free Speech. 4 III. The Messenger and the Media in the Currents of Social and Technological Change. 7 A. The Messenger: From Other Direction to Narcissism. 7 B. The Media. 11 IV. Caught in the... |
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| Abre' Conner |
SPEAKING UP TO STOP THE CLIMATE CRISIS: HOW THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND EQUAL PROTECTION PROVISIONS CAN AMPLIFY ADVOCACY FOR FRONTLINE COMMUNITIES |
72 Drake Law Review 277 (2025) |
This Article explores the need for an interdisciplinary approach to climate advocacy. Frontline communities in the United States watch as court decisions erode their legal protections, and they bear the burden of disproportionate pollution. Environmental justice activists are speaking out, and these advocates are also educating the public of their... |
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| Mark Conrad |
STOPPING THE SPREAD OF THE WORLD'S OLDEST HATRED - WHAT U.S. SPORTS STAKEHOLDERS CAN DO TO COMBAT ANTISEMITISM |
35 Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law 392 Journal(Winter, 2025) |
The consistent rise in reported acts of antisemitism in the United States over the last decade has prompted debate about strategies to combat this age-old menace. The Hamas attack on Israel and the subsequent Israeli military response in Gaza has exacerbated this trend. Many have debated ways to confront the issue, including informing the public... |
2025 |
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| Noah Smith-Drelich |
THE ANTI-DISCRIMINATORY RIGHT TO TRAVEL |
100 Indiana Law Journal 1063 (Spring, 2025) |
Travel rights and travel restrictions shape nearly every part of society, moderating where and how we go about our daily lives. Yet a central aspect of travel has gone largely unnoticed in the legal literature. Oppressive governments have routinely restricted free movement as a principal means of effectuating discrimination. And travel rights, as a... |
2025 |
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| Nadia B. Ahmad |
THE IMPERCEPTIBILITY OF MUSLIM IDENTITY |
28 CUNY Law Review 169 (Winter, 2025) |
This article examines the challenges facing Muslim Americans, particularly Muslim women, as they confront systemic bias, intersectional oppression, and the racialization of religion in the United States. Through personal narrative and critical legal scholarship, it explores the pervasive nature of Islamophobia in political, academic, and societal... |
2025 |
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| Julia Alicia Mendoza |
THE LANGUAGE OF MASS INCARCERATION AND ORGANIZED ABANDONMENT |
21 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 43 (May, 2025) |
Our capacity to see and understand the extent of carceral violence is thwarted by the language and narratives employed by the judicial system. As evidenced by the Supreme Court's historicization of the factual record in Johnson v. California and other ancillary prison law cases, the judicial system mobilizes a language of mass incarceration: a... |
2025 |
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| Elaine M. Chiu |
THE MODEL MINORITY VICTIM |
65 Santa Clara Law Review 451 (2024-2025) |
The rise in xenophobia, hate and violence against AAPI Americans inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic was an opportunity to assess the effectiveness of the criminal legal system as a tool of anti-racism. This Article traces the legal aftermath when Asian New Yorkers reported 276 possible hate crimes to the police in 2021. The analysis takes an... |
2025 |
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| Brian R. Cheffins |
THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF CORPORATE PURPOSE |
48 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law 387 (2025) |
Corporate purpose is currently hotly debated amidst much speculation that American public companies are forsaking shareholder centrality in favor of a wider set of priorities. Despite this speculation, systematic analysis of the future of corporate purpose is lacking. This Article correspondingly offers predictions on the trajectory of corporate... |
2025 |
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| Karla McKanders |
THE RACIALIZED RETALIATORY STATE: WEAPONIZING IMMIGRATION LAW TO CRIMINALIZE DISSENT |
32 William and Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice 63 (Fall, 2025) |
Just days before his ICE arrest in February 2019, 21 Savage, birth name-- She'yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph--a British-born American rapper of Caribbean descent--performed a song on The Tonight Show that included lyrics critical of family separations at the United States-Mexico border and other injustices: The gas was off, so we had to boil up the... |
2025 |
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| Michael Conklin |
THE ROLE OF RACE IN HOWARD LAW SCHOOL'S RANKING |
56 Saint Mary's Law Journal 225 (2025) |
I. Introduction. 226 II. Law School Rankings. 229 III. Criticism of the Rankings. 232 IV. Howard University School of Law's Overall and Peer Law School Rankings. 237 V. Potential Explanations for Howard's Rankings Disparity. 239 A. Law School Location. 240 B. Exceptional Law Review. 241 C. Political Ideology Preference. 244 D. Promotional... |
2025 |
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| Shayna Swanson |
THE STATE OF THE POLICE IN MODERNITY: THE CONVERGENCE OF TWO FORMS OF PUNISHMENT |
17 Washington University Jurisprudence Review 407 (2025) |
The profound influence of French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault reverberates across various fields of study, notably in law and the social sciences. One of his most prominent works is Discipline and Punish, a genealogical study outlining the development of the punitive state. In the book, Foucault discusses two eras of punishment: the... |
2025 |
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| Jade A. Craig |
THE TRAFFICANTE ROUTE: FAIR HOUSING LAW AND THE ROAD TO RACIAL RECONCILIATION |
60 Wake Forest Law Review 821 (2025) |
This Article draws on the story of Trafficante v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., one of the earliest cases in which the U.S. Supreme Court interpreted the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Paul Trafficante, one of the plaintiffs, was a white tenant of a large apartment complex in San Francisco who discovered that the landlord was engaging in systematic... |
2025 |
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| Ronald C. Den Otter |
THE UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF STUDENT DRESS CODES |
50 Vermont Law Review 109 (Fall, 2025) |
Introduction. 110 I. Theoretical and Historical Background. 112 A. Student Free Speech Rights. 112 B. Judicial Decisions. 113 II. Expressive Conduct. 116 A. The Law. 116 B. Marginalized Students. 122 C. Young Women. 124 III. Self-Development and Individuality. 126 A. The Place of Autonomy in American Constitutional Law. 126 B. Millian... |
2025 |
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| Erin Cranor, Dane Thorley |
THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS--MAYBE: TESTING THE APPLICATION AND BOUNDARIES OF THE "FIGHTING WORDS" DOCTRINE USING A RANDOMIZED SURVEY EXPERIMENT |
50 Brigham Young University Law Review 1667 (2025) |
Advanced note to readers: The survey experiment in this Article depicts acts of verbal violence, including the use of race-and gender-based epithets. Some of the relevant caselaw also includes offensive or harmful language. As one of only a handful of exceptions to the First Amendment's bar on laws proscribing speech, fighting words are defined... |
2025 |
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| Alia Nahra |
THIS IS WHAT TRANSPARENCY LOOKS LIKE: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF NYPD MISCONDUCT AFTER THE REPEAL OF 50-A |
125 Columbia Law Review 2035 (November, 2025) |
This Note presents the first empirical study of the implications of the repeal of Civil Rights Law section 50-a (50-a), which made public New York Police Department (NYPD) personnel records, including disciplinary investigations. These data demonstrate the limited potential of transparency reforms, which are lauded as an important step toward... |
2025 |
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| Adam Gaudet |
THREE-STRIPE LIFE: HOW ADIDAS CAN ACT AS A MODEL IN TRADEMARK DISPUTES BY PROMOTING INTERNAL ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTIONS |
26 Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution 495 (Summer, 2025) |
Adidas has a storied history as one of the largest producers of shoes and athletic wear worldwide. Along with this history comes no shortage of intellectual property disputes between Adidas and other creators over Adidas's three-stripe trademark. Since 2008, Adidas has filed more than 90 lawsuits against other designers and has settled more than... |
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| Arianna Kiaei |
UNDER THE INFLUENCE: DUTIES, DECEPTION, DISCLOSURES, AND DUE DILIGENCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS |
82 Washington and Lee Law Review 365 (Winter, 2025) |
The encroachment of social media into the daily lives of society reflects a major shift in consumer behavior. As social media moves from providing platforms of narrow connectivity among friends and family to social connection beyond one's personal network, novel channels are being formed for consumers to absorb and share information. It opens... |
2025 |
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| Melissa Redmon |
UNDERMINING LOCAL AUTONOMY: STATE-LEVEL LEGISLATIVE INTERFERENCE IN PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION |
55 Stetson Law Review 363 (Winter 2025) |
On August 9, 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suspended from office Monique Worrell, State Attorney for the Ninth Judicial Circuit of Florida, stating that her practices and policies of avoiding mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes and drug trafficking, as well as her handling of juvenile cases, amounted to a neglect of duty and... |
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| Meagan R. Hurley |
USING BIG DATA TO DISMANTLE SYSTEMIC BARRIERS: HOW TRACKING OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT CAN FOSTER JUSTICE AND INCREASE ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM |
38 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 455 (Summer, 2025) |
The U.S. criminal legal system is a vast and complex machine, long subject to public and scholarly scrutiny. The U.S. incarcerates more people than any other nation, holding an astonishing 1.9 million individuals behind bars. Of them, approximately eighty percent are indigent, and over sixty percent are racial minorities, despite these groups... |
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| Brockton D. Hunter |
VETERANS, VIOLENT EXTREMISM, AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: HISTORICAL PATTERNS, CAUSAL FACTORS, AND INTERVENTION OPPORTUNITIES |
21 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 10 (Winter, 2025) |
This article is dedicated in the memory of Dr. Evan R. Seamone, a warrior, scholar, and tireless advocate for his fellow veterans. In May and June of 2020, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer--and the protests and riots that followed--members of the Boogaloo Movement, an anti-government extremist group--many of... |
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| S. David Mitchell |
WHOSE RIGHT(S)?: CIVIL RIGHTS IMPACT OF CULTURAL CONFLICTS IN THE CURRICULUM |
37 Journal of Civil Rights & Economic Development 251 (Summer, 2025) |
To point out merely the defects as they appear today will be of little benefit to the present and future generations. These things must be viewed in their historic setting. The conditions of today have been determined by what has taken place in the past, and in a careful study of this history we may see more clearly the great theatre of events in... |
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| Irina D. Manta , Kavita D. Balchand |
WHY JACK DANIEL'S CAN'T STOP #WESTELMCALEB, AND WHAT NOW? |
33 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 653 (March, 2025) |
Introduction. 654 I. Trademark Law and Brand Protection. 656 A. Overview. 656 B. Proving Trademark Infringement and Dilution. 657 II. Social Media and Brand Promotion. 660 A. The Rise of Social Media. 661 1. The Emergence of Hashtags on Social Media. 662 2. The Proliferation of Hashtags Involving Brands on Social Media. 663 3. Federal Registration... |
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| Peggie Smith , Marion Crain |
WOKE-WASHING AT WORK |
102 Washington University Law Review 1509 (2025) |
In the modern era, corporate marketing and branding processes frequently encompass a public commitment to progressive social causes favored by a firm's base of both consumers and workers. So-called woke capitalism, or values-based branding, is designed to build a relationship between the firm and its stakeholders that will yield brand loyalty and... |
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| Prof. Angela D. Minor, Esq. |
BLACK LIVES STILL MATTER: THE UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE REASONABLENESS STANDARD IN THE DOCTRINE OF QUALIFIED IMMUNITY |
27 University of the District of Columbia Law Review 71 (Spring, 2024) |
Legislative history serves as a tool of argumentation that offers preliminary insight as to why a particular law has been codified, passed, and implemented in society. It is designed to provide extensive background knowledge of the true intentions of the codification of a statute. An examination of the legislative history of the Civil Rights Acts... |
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| Renee Nicole Allen |
CONTEXTUALIZING THE TRIGGERING EVENT: COLONIAL WHITE SUPREMACY, ANTI-BLACKNESS, AND BLACK LIVES MATTER IN ITALY AND THE UNITED STATES |
33 Minnesota Journal of International Law 1 (Spring, 2024) |
In the summer of 2020, spurred by George Floyd's murder and amid a worldwide pandemic, Black Lives Matter demonstrations peaked in the United States. The viral nature of the police violence that caused Floyd's death was a triggering event for transnational Black Lives Matter protests. Around the world, millions took to the streets to demand... |
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| Patience A. Crowder , Tom I. Romero, II |
EMBEDDING RACIAL JUSTICE IN THE WORK OF ENVIRONMENTAL NON-PROFITS |
22 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 803 (Spring, 2024) |
A shift is occurring as social justice activists are leveraging the climate emergency to address social justice and climate activists are leveraging Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and other social justice movements to motivate climate action. -Jennie Stevens In response to the national and worldwide protests against racial violence and the health... |
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| Melanie Reid |
GOOD POLICING PRACTICES ARE DIFFICULT, EVEN FOR THE AVENGERS |
72 Cleveland State Law Review 563 (2024) |
Policing, as a topic, is complicated. Many have strong views as to what police should or should not be doing and how effectively they are doing it. Too often policing has become polarized with various perspectives disagreeing as to the future of policing. Black Lives Matter, Defund the Police, and Policing Abolition movements are on one spectrum... |
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| Kenneth Williams |
IF BLACK LIVES REALLY MATTER, WE MUST END TRAFFIC STOPS! |
30 William and Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice 309 (Winter, 2024) |
I. My Personal Experience II. Examples of Fatal Traffic Stops A. Patrick Lyoya B. Philando Castile C. Walter Scott D. Daunte Wright E. Jayland Walker III. Purposes of Traffic Stops A. Public Safety B. Revenue Source C. Pretextual Stops and Racial Profiling 1. Ferguson 2. Minneapolis D. Veil of Darkness E. Searches IV. Scotus, Pretextual Stops and... |
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| Michael A. Hardy |
INTRODUCTION |
52 Urban Lawyer 471 (2024) |
The United States finds itself at a crossroad when it comes to issues of equity and fairness in criminal justice matters and particularly policing in 21st-century America. The rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and the explosion of wrongful deaths in civilian and police encounters have turned the nation's attention to look more closely at the... |
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| Emily Sunflower Thompson |
JUSTICE, A PHOTO SERIES |
35 UC Law SF Journal on Gender and Justice 119 (May, 2024) |
The following two photos were shot as part of a photo series at a Black Lives Matter protest in Long Beach, California circa 2018. These photos were shot on black and white film with a vintage 35mm Rangefinder. A Young Child No Justice, No Peace |
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| Ny'esha Young |
LIKE, COMMENT, AND FOLLOW: HOW TO AMEND COPYRIGHT LAW TO PROTECT BLACK TIKTOKERS |
10 Texas A&M Journal of Property Law 411 (18-Apr-24) |
The Black community has long suffered through a cycle of trauma and pain, with history repeating itself throughout generations. From the civil rights movement to the Black Lives Matter movement, this cycle persists, showing up again in the experiences of Black TikTokers. Despite looking race-neutral on its face, copyright law's lack of... |
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| Julian M. Hill, Dr. Jill Humphries |
SUMMER NY 2020--BLACK LEGAL OBSERVERS, BLACK SOLIDARITY |
49 Harbinger 24 (4-Mar-24) |
Leading up to the summer of 2020's historic mobilizations in the name of protecting Black lives, Black community organizers in New York City frequently lamented the relative absence of a critical stakeholder: the Black legal observer. Like other legal observers, Black legal observers are legal workers and others invited to protests and direct... |
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| Simona Grossi |
THE CLAIM AND THE RELIEF: REVEALING MISCONCEPTIONS AND MISSTEPS IN THE U.S. SUPREME COURT'S JURISPRUDENCE FOR ยง1983 ACTIONS AND BLACK LIVES MATTER |
14 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 930 (July, 2024) |
This article explores the persistent challenges in addressing police brutality through civil rights litigation, focusing on the limitations imposed by federal jurisdiction and justiciability doctrines post-Lyons. It argues that the Supreme Court's approach, which conflates jurisdictional inquiries with procedural or remedial ones, has significantly... |
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