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RADTALKS: WHAT COULD BE POSSIBLE IF THE LAW REALLY STOOD FOR BLACK LIVES? |
19 CUNY Law Review 91 (Winter 2015) |
I. Introduction: Purvi Shah. 91 II. Colette Pichon Battle. 95 III. Vincent Warren. 103 IV. Alicia Garza. 107 V. Elle Hearns. 111 VI. Carl Williams. 113 VII. Norris Henderson. 117 VIII. Umi Selah. 121 IX. Maurice Moe Mitchell. 126 |
2015 |
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| Charles R. Lawrence III |
THE FIRE THIS TIME: BLACK LIVES MATTER, ABOLITIONIST PEDAGOGY AND THE LAW |
65 Journal of Legal Education 381 (November, 2015) |
It seems as if I have been teaching Ferguson all of my adult life. In the fall of 1964 I applied to Yale Law School, and the admissions office encouraged me to supplement my written application with an interview. As I rode a Greyhound bus to New Haven I read James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time, a paperback copy purchased for seventy-five cents... |
2015 |
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| Charles R. Lawrence III |
THE FIRE THIS TIME: BLACK LIVES MATTER, ABOLITIONIST PEDAGOGY AND THE LAW |
65 Journal of Legal Education 381 (November, 2015) |
It seems as if I have been teaching Ferguson all of my adult life. In the fall of 1964 I applied to Yale Law School, and the admissions office encouraged me to supplement my written application with an interview. As I rode a Greyhound bus to New Haven I read James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time, a paperback copy purchased for seventy-five cents... |
2015 |
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| Laverne Lewis Gaskins |
JUSTICE DEMANDS THAT BLACK LIVES MATTER |
19-DEC NBA National Bar Association Magazine 26 (December, 2014) |
On December 13, 2014, the call for justice and demand for society's recognition of all its people was heard across the nation, and the world, in the collective voices of thousands who participated in the March on Washington and declared, Black Lives Matter! President Meanes was one of the featured speakers. During her address, President Meanes... |
2014 |
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| Laverne Lewis Gaskins |
JUSTICE DEMANDS THAT BLACK LIVES MATTER |
19-DEC NBA National Bar Association Magazine 26 (December, 2014) |
On December 13, 2014, the call for justice and demand for society's recognition of all its people was heard across the nation, and the world, in the collective voices of thousands who participated in the March on Washington and declared, Black Lives Matter! President Meanes was one of the featured speakers. During her address, President Meanes... |
2014 |
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| Professor Vernellia R. Randall |
INEQUALITY IS KILLING US! WHAT PRESIDENT OBAMA MUST DO TO SAVE BLACK LIVES |
18-DEC NBA National Bar Association Magazine 20 (August-December, 2011) |
Inequality is killing us! Blacks are sicker than white Americans; they are dying at a significantly higher percentage. These are undeniable facts. Black men live on average 6 years less than white men. Black men have shorter life spans than men in Chile, Barbados, Bahamas or Jamaica. Black women live on average years 4 less than white women. Black... |
2011 |
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| Professor Vernellia R. Randall |
INEQUALITY IS KILLING US! WHAT PRESIDENT OBAMA MUST DO TO SAVE BLACK LIVES |
18-DEC NBA National Bar Association Magazine 20 (August-December, 2011) |
Inequality is killing us! Blacks are sicker than white Americans; they are dying at a significantly higher percentage. These are undeniable facts. Black men live on average 6 years less than white men. Black men have shorter life spans than men in Chile, Barbados, Bahamas or Jamaica. Black women live on average years 4 less than white women. Black... |
2011 |
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| Mackenzie Boyer |
"I CAN'T BREATHE": HOW RECORDING THE POLICE CAN SAVE A LIFE AND THE JUSTICE SYSTEM |
29 Widener Law Review 241 (2023) |
9 minutes, and 29 seconds--the excruciating length of time during which George Floyd cried out I can't breathe twenty-eight times as he was slowly dying at the hands, or knees rather, of law enforcement. I can't breathe-- George Floyd's last three words, each cry for help more faint than the last, as he gradually lost consciousness, and... |
2023 |
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| Jackson Whetsel, Esq. |
(UN)CONSTITUTIONAL CARRY: HOW DRUG AND GUN LAWS CONSPIRE IN STAND YOUR GROUND STATES TO CREATE A DISARMED, SUBMISSIVE CLASS BASED ON RACE |
53 University of Memphis Law Review 571 (Spring, 2023) |
Introduction. 572 I. Tennessee's Form of Constitutional Carry. 577 A. The Tennessee Law Creates an Exception to an Existing Prohibition. 578 B. The Tennessee Law Does Not Remove Any Existing Firearm Prohibitions. 580 C. The Tennessee Law Applies to The Intent to Go Armed. 584 II. How Did We Get Here? DC v. Heller and the Constitutional Basis... |
2023 |
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| Mark A. Rothstein, Charles B. Craver, L. Camille Hébert, Orly Lobel, S. Elizabeth Malloy, Marcia L. McCormick, Sandra F. Sperino, Rafael Gely, Susan E. Cancelosi, D. Wendy Greene |
§ 5:11. Freedom of expression |
EMPLOYLAW § 5:11 (2023) |
Employers have long been interested in regulating what employees say, where they say it, and to whom they say it. Where there is a legitimate basis for the employers' concerns, such as trade secret disclosures, the law has sanctioned employer regulation of employee expression. Where the employers' interests are less direct, however, the law has... |
2023 |
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§ 5104 Facts Judicially Noticeable; Indisputability |
FPP § 5104 (2023) |
Once a court has completed the laborious process of determining that the fact to be judicially noticed is an adjudicative fact under Rule 201(a), it must turn to Rule 201(b) to determine whether the fact can be noticed under the Rule. Rule 201(b) requires that a fact be indisputable, then provides two routes to that goal. This section... |
2023 |
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§ 9:1. Artists, art practice and the art community |
ARTARCHLAW § 9:1 (2023) |
Artists are subject to the demands of [their] imagination." This Chapter on Artist Rights was written in the 1990s and updated in parts during the last twenty years. In those two decades |
2023 |
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¶ 233.10 IN GENERAL |
Employment Practices Guide 3338804 (2023) |
An African-American employee's race bias claim failed because he did not establish a prima facie case; the evidence clearly indicated that he was not qualified for the position and he failed to accurately answer questions during his interview. Prescott v Higgins (1stCir 2008) 91 EPD ¶ 43,301 A Black teacher was unable to show that he had been... |
2023 |
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¶ 33,041 STATUTORY RIGHTS OF PLAYERS AT ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS (STUDENT-ATHLETES) |
NLRB Case Handling Manual (CCH) P 33041 (2023) |
In memorandum GC 21-08, issued September 29, 2021, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo provides updated guidance on her prosecutorial position that certain student athletes are employees under the National Labor Relations Act, and, as such, are afforded all statutory protections. Although her memo is directed to Regional Directors,... |
2023 |
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¶ 47,178 SAVANNAH KINZER, HALEY EVANS, AND CHRISTOPHER MICHNO, PLAINTIFFS V WHOLE FOODS MARKET, INC., DEFENDANT. |
Employment Practices Guide 233.10 (2023) |
Savannah Kinzer, Haley Evans, and Christopher Michno, Plaintiffs v Whole Foods Market, Inc., Defendant. 107 EPD ¶ 47,178. U.S. District Court, D. Massachusetts. Civil Action No. 20-cv-11358-ADB. 2023 US Dist LEXIS 11311. January 23, 2023. Burroughs, District Judge: Savannah Kinzer (Kinzer), Haley Evans (Evans), and Christopher Michno (Michno,... |
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¶ 47,204 DAVID LEFFLER, PLAINTIFF V ANN & ROBERT H. LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO, DEFENDANT. |
Employment Practices Guide 47178 (2023) |
Race discrimination Sexual orientation discrimination Employee displayed offensive political decals Dismissing a white heterosexual maintenance engineers Title VII claims alleging his hospital employer discriminated against him through its choice to take [a] position in support of a specific race (African American) over others by permitting... |
2023 |
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| Alexandra Darraby |
A CONSTITUTIONAL RESET ON CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS, CIVIL RIGHTS AND CULTURAL ICONS: HOW NAMING RIGHTS, TRADEMARKS, AND PUBLIC STATUARY SHAPE SOCIAL JUSTICE |
39-SPG Entertainment and Sports Lawyer 55 (Spring, 2023) |
This is written to memorialize the names of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Homer Plessy, Linda Brown, and Rosa Parks who stood--and sat--and died for equal justice--and the many others, named and unnamed. The author was in Brunswick during the Arbery shooting, attended the Town Halls convened by the Mayor of Brunswick and provided... |
2023 |
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| Aya Gruber |
A TALE OF TWO ME TOOS |
2023 University of Illinois Law Review 1675 (2023) |
What is #MeToo's legacy? The conventional account currently being indelibly forged into our collective memory is that #MeToo was an unconditional progressive victory. It was a reckoning of the disempowered against the powerful that profoundly challenged sexist culture. This Article complicates and even counters that narrative by shining a light on... |
2023 |
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| Madeline Johl |
ACTIVISM OR DOMESTIC TERRORISM? HOW THE TERRORISM ENHANCEMENT IS USED TO PUNISH ACTS OF POLITICAL PROTEST |
50 Fordham Urban Law Journal 465 (March, 2023) |
Introduction. 466 I. Political Origins of the Terrorism Enhancement. 470 A. Enactment of the Terrorism Enhancement. 471 B. The Role of the Sentencing Judge. 474 C. Expansion of the Terrorism Enhancement's Scope. 476 II. The Terrorism Enhancement in Use. 480 A. Issues of Scope: A Politicized Sanction's Use (and Misuse). 480 1. Overly Broad... |
2023 |
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| Caroline L. Ferguson |
ACTUALIZING JUSTICE: PRIVATE PROSECUTION REGIMES FOR MODERN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS |
56 Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 557 (Summer, 2023) |
The modern state enjoys a near monopoly over the prosecutorial system. Public officials, including local district attorneys, state attorneys general, and career prosecutors, enjoy enormous discretionary powers to decide who to charge, to determine what charges to bring, to make particular bail recommendations, to set the terms of plea bargains, and... |
2023 |
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| Neena Albarus |
AN OVERVIEW OF THE ONGOING LEGACIES OF COLONIALISM IN CONTEMPORARY LEGAL SYSTEMS IN THE BLACK DIASPORA |
23 Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy 15 (2023) |
This perspective paper explores the ongoing legacies of colonialism in contemporary legal systems and policies in the Black Diaspora. Drawing on examples from Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States, this paper argues that colonial legal systems and policies continue to shape the legal and political landscape of these regions,... |
2023 |
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| Danny Y. Li |
ANTISUBORDINATING THE SECOND AMENDMENT |
132 Yale Law Journal 1821 (April, 2023) |
After over a decade of silence, and fourteen years since its landmark decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court has fundamentally expanded and reshaped Second Amendment protection once again in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n v. Bruen. In light of the Court's decision in Bruen--and the role of race-based arguments in its... |
2023 |
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| Walter T. Champion, Jr. |
Appendix 57. Memo GC 21-08, NLRB General Counsel |
Fundamentals of Sports Law P 57 (2023) |
On January 31, 2017, the Office of the General Counsel issued GC 17-01, which addressed various issues regarding the statutory rights of university faculty and/or students under the National Labor Relations Act (the Act or NLRA). That memo summarized pertinent representation case decisions and was intended to serve as a guide for employers,... |
2023 |
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Around the Nation |
25 Student Discipline Law Bulletin 4 (4/1/2023) |
A judge dismissed a case, for now, against an Effingham County school district claiming the school district applied its dress code in a racially discriminatory manner. The lawyers who were representing Black students in the case requested the dismissal in order to review and file a new version of the complaint in the future. The complaint alleged... |
2023 |
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| Allison M. Freedman |
ARRESTING ASSEMBLY: AN ARGUMENT AGAINST EXPANDING CRIMINALLY PUNISHABLE PROTEST |
68 Villanova Law Review 171 (2023) |
In recent years, public protests have shed light on societal inequities that had previously gone unheard. Yet instead of responding to protesters' concerns, many state legislators are attempting to silence disenfranchised groups by introducing hundreds of anti-protest bills. This is a recent phenomenon and one that is accelerating--the largest... |
2023 |
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| Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol |
AWAKENING THE LAW: KATE STONEMAN--AN AWAKENED WOMAN: BASED UPON ALBANY LAW SCHOOL'S KATE STONEMAN CELEBRATION SPEECH |
86 Albany Law Review 231 (2022-2023) |
Like all Stoneman award recipients, I am grateful to Kate Stoneman for paving the way to an awakened life in which seeking justice is a non-negotiable aspiration. I will explain the title of this Essay--Kate Stoneman, an Awakened Woman--in the next section. But before engaging Stoneman's exceptional life and contributions, I take the liberty to... |
2023 |
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| Peter Conti-Brown , Brian D. Feinstein |
BANKING ON A CURVE: HOW TO RESTORE THE COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT ACT |
13 Harvard Business Law Review 335 (Spring, 2023) |
The federal government's primary financial-regulatory tool for combating wealth inequality is broken. Intended to push banks towards deeper engagement with lower-income and minority communities, the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) of 1977 has failed to meaningfully reduce the prevalence of banking deserts across lower-income communities or to... |
2023 |
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| Meera E. Deo, JD, PhD |
BETTER THAN BIPOC |
41 Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality 71 (Winter, 2023) |
Race and racism evolve over time, as does the language of antiracism. Yet nascent terms of resistance are not always better than originals. Without the deep investment of community engagement and review, new labels--like BIPOC--run the risk of causing more harm than good. This Article argues that using BIPOC (which stands for Black, Indigenous,... |
2023 |
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| Dorothea Endres , Luisa Hedler , Kebene Wodajo |
BIAS IN SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT MANAGEMENT: WHAT DO HUMAN RIGHTS HAVE TO DO WITH IT? |
117 AJIL Unbound 139 (2023) |
In a global context where political campaigning, social movements, and public discourse increasingly take place online, questions regarding the regulation of speech by social media platforms become ever more relevant. Companies like Facebook moderate content posted by users on their platforms through a mixture of automated decision making and human... |
2023 |
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| Michael Z. Green |
BLACK AND BLUE POLICE ARBITRATION REFORMS |
84 Ohio State Law Journal 243 (2023) |
The racial justice protests that engulfed the country after seeing a video of the appalling killing of a Black male, George Floyd, by a Minnesota police officer in 2020 has led to a tremendous number of questions about dealing with racial issues in policing. Similar concerns arose a little more than fifty years ago when police unions gained power... |
2023 |
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