| Ekow N. Yankah |
COMPULSORY VOTING AND BLACK CITIZENSHIP |
90 Fordham Law Review 639 (November, 2021) |
Introduction. 639 I. The Contestation of Black Franchise. 644 II. Compulsory Voting and Democratic Legitimacy. 652 III. Reinforcing the Legitimacy of Black Voting. 660 IV. Franchise and Citizenship. 666 V. Franchise, Resistance, and Citizenship. 670 Conclusion. 673 |
2021 |
| Adrien K. Wing |
CONCLUSION: TOWARDS RACIAL JUSTICE FOR BLACK IOWA 2021 |
24 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 37 (Spring, 2021) |
I am delighted to write a brief conclusion to this historic issue of the Journal of Gender, Race & Justice. I remember over 25 years ago when the University of Iowa College of Law was considering whether it should approve a fourth student journal in addition to the Iowa Law Review, Journal of Corporation Law, and Transnational Law & Contemporary... |
2021 |
| Samantha Das |
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--BLACK PRISONER DENIED MEDICAL ATTENTION: EIGHTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS VIOLATION versus INHERENT BIASES IN MEDICAL RACISM--SHERMAN v. CORCELLA, 2020 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 125931 (D. CONN. 2020) |
17 Journal of Health & Biomedical Law 295 (2021) |
Under the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution, it is prohibited for a prisoner to experience deliberate indifference to their serious medical needs by any employer or agent of a correctional facility. However, the burden is on the prisoner to show that the alleged deprivation is sufficiently serious and the defendant acted with a... |
2021 |
| Richard C. Boldt |
CONSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE, INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS AND TEXT: REVISITING CHARLES BLACK'S WHITE LECTURES |
54 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 675 (Spring, 2021) |
Fundamental questions about constitutional interpretation and meaning invite a close examination of the complicated origins and the subsequent elaboration of the very structure of federalism. The available records of the Proceedings in the Federal Convention make clear that the Framers entertained two approaches to delineating the powers of the... |
2021 |
| Magdalene Zier |
CRIMES OF OMISSION: STATE-ACTION DOCTRINE AND ANTI-LYNCHING LEGISLATION IN THE JIM CROW ERA |
73 Stanford Law Review 777 (March, 2021) |
After more than a century of failure, Congress now stands closer than ever to making lynching a federal crime. As the pending legislation acknowledges, at least 4,742 people were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968, but Congress continually declined to pass any of the nearly 200 bills introduced during those decades.... |
2021 |
| Jon M. Sands |
DEEP DELTA JUSTICE: A BLACK TEEN, HIS LAWYER, AND THEIR GROUNDBREAKING BATTLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE SOUTH BY MATTHEW VAN METER, LITTLE, BROWN AND CO. (2020) |
45-JUL Champion 53 (July, 2021) |
All Gary Duncan tried to do was stop a fight. Duncan was African American, 19 years old, and on his way home from work when he saw his two young cousins accosted by a several white teenagers. He knew trouble when he saw it. His cousins were attending the newly integrated high school in Plaquemines Parish, on the southeastern tip of Louisiana. It... |
2021 |
| Jordan Brewington |
DISMANTLING THE MASTER'S HOUSE: REPARATIONS ON THE AMERICAN PLANTATION |
130 Yale Law Journal 2160 (June, 2021) |
In southeastern Louisiana, many plantations still stand along River Road, a stretch of the route lining the Mississippi River that connects the former slave ports and present-day cities of New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Black communities along River Road have long experienced these plantations as sites of racialized harm. This Note constructs a... |
2021 |
| Denise Peterson |
DISPOSITIVE MOTIONS IN ARBITRATION: CRACKING OPEN THE BLACK BOX |
58-FEB Houston Lawyer 21 (January/February, 2021) |
Arbitration has the feeling of a black box because of its inherent confidentiality. Motions, pleadings, and arguments go in one side and rulings and orders out the other. What occurs in the middle often feels much like a mystery, especially where dispositive motions are concerned. I would like to crack open that black box to shed some light on the... |
2021 |
| Megan M. Coppa |
DOE v. NESTLE, S.A.: CHOCOLATE AND THE PROHIBITION ON CHILD SLAVERY |
33 Pace International Law Review 261 (Spring, 2021) |
I. Introduction. 262 II. The Alien Tort Statute. 264 A. Claims That are Actionable Under the ATS. 267 B. Corporate Liability Under the ATS. 271 C. Extraterritorial Application of the ATS. 275 III. Scope of Aiding and Abetting Liability for Violations of International Law. 277 A. Actus Reus. 278 B. Mens Rea. 280 IV. Doe v. Nestle, S.A. 281 A. The... |
2021 |
| Corynn Wilson |
DOMESTIC TERRORISM SHOULD BE A CRIME: FIGHTING WHITE SUPREMACIST VIOLENCE LIKE CONGRESS FOUGHT "ANIMAL ENTERPRISE TERRORISM" |
58 Houston Law Review 749 (Winter, 2021) |
White supremacist violence has steadily increased in recent years, leading to hundreds of senseless murders in the United States. The shooting epidemic in the United States has caused cyclical firearm regulation debates and calls to classify the murderers as domestic terrorists. Currently, there is no way to charge mass shooters as domestic... |
2021 |
| Jordan C. Patterson |
ENDING A WAR WAGED BY DEED OF TITLE: HOW TO ACHIEVE DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE FOR BLACK FARMERS |
82 Ohio State Law Journal 301 (2021) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 301 II. The Rise of the Black Farmer in the South. 304 III. A War Waged by Deed of Title: USDA Discrimination and the Black Farmers Cases. 306 A. Racial Discrimination by the USDA and Other Actors. 306 B. The Black Farmers Cases. 309 C. Problems with the Black Farmers Cases. 312 IV. Congress Should Enact a... |
2021 |
| Algernon Austin |
ENDING BLACK AMERICA'S PERMANENT ECONOMIC RECESSION: DIRECT AND INDIRECT JOB CREATION AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ARE NECESSARY |
39 Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality 255 (Summer, 2021) |
Among the economic demands of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was a demand for a federal jobs program that would eliminate unemployment for African Americans. From the 1960s to today, Black Americans have been about twice as likely as White Americans to be unemployed. Consequently, Black people never achieve low unemployment. They... |
2021 |
| Elizabeth C. Tippett |
ENSLAVED AGENTS: BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS NEGOTIATED BY SLAVES IN THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH |
63 Arizona Law Review 923 (Winter 2021) |
This Article explores the law of agency as applied to enslaved workers in the Antebellum South between 1798 and 1863. In particular, I examine legal disputes involving the delegation of agency power to enslaved workers. Southern courts generally accepted that an enslaved worker could serve as business agent for his or her slaveholder, which often... |
2021 |
| James E. Pfander , Elena Joffroy |
EQUAL FOOTING AND THE STATES "NOW EXISTING": SLAVERY AND STATE EQUALITY OVER TIME |
89 Fordham Law Review 1975 (April, 2021) |
This Essay reexamines the question whether the Constitution empowered Congress to ban slavery in the territories. We explore that question by tracking two proposed additions to the Constitution, one that would empower Congress to ban the migration and importation of enslaved persons to all new states and territories and one that would oblige... |
2021 |
| Nia Johnson, MBE, JD |
EXPANDING ACCOUNTABILITY: USING THE NEGLIGENT INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS CLAIM TO COMPENSATE BLACK AMERICAN FAMILIES WHO REMAINED UNHEARD IN MEDICAL CRISIS |
72 Hastings Law Journal 1637 (August, 2021) |
Black Americans have constantly been victims of health disparities and unequal treatment in healthcare facilities. This is not new. However, more attention has been paid to accounts from Black Americans alleging that their providers ignored them or their families in crisis, leading to grave consequences. Though we do have a medical malpractice... |
2021 |
| S M Solaiman |
FIGHTING AGAINST BLACK MONEY BY OFFERING AMNESTY FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN BANGLADESH: A STIGMA CAN NEVER BE A BEAUTY SPOT |
29 University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review 42 (Fall, 2021) |
Black money is a global concern. However, black money has disproportionately affected Bangladesh. To combat the proliferation of black money in the country, successive governments of Bangladesh have offered amnesties to black money holders (BMHs) in contravention of the national Constitution, legislation, and international conventions. Nonetheless,... |
2021 |
| Summer Stephan , Wendy Patrick |
FIGHTING MODERN-DAY SLAVERY |
60 No. 2 Judges' Journal 10 (Spring, 2021) |
It is December 6, 1865, and the headline reads: President Abraham Lincoln Approved the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution Which Provides That Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Tragically, the headline on October 26, 2020, read: Ohio's... |
2021 |
| Avanthi Cole |
FOR THE "WEALTHY AND LEGALLY SAVVY": THE WEAKNESSES OF THE UNIFORM PARTITION OF HEIRS PROPERTY ACT AS APPLIED TO LOW-INCOME BLACK HEIRS PROPERTY OWNERS |
11 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 343 (April, 2021) |
Heirs property is a highly unstable form of land ownership resulting from intestacy that grants full ownership rights to all cotenants, regardless of the size of one's fractional interest. This form of land ownership is particularly vulnerable to partition because any use of the parcel requires consensus among all cotenants, which can be difficult... |
2021 |
| Renee Nicole Allen |
FROM ACADEMIC FREEDOM TO CANCEL CULTURE: SILENCING BLACK WOMEN IN THE LEGAL ACADEMY |
68 UCLA Law Review 364 (August, 2021) |
In 1988, Black women law professors formed the Northeast Corridor Collective of Black Women Law Professors, a network of Black women in the legal academy. They supported one another's scholarship, shared personal experiences of systemic gendered racism, and helped one another navigate the law school white space. A few years later, their stories... |
2021 |
| Christopher Cruz |
FROM DIGITAL DISPARITY TO EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: CLOSING THE OPPORTUNITY AND ACHIEVEMENT GAPS FOR LOWINCOME, BLACK, AND LATINX STUDENTS |
24 Harvard Latinx Law Review 33 (Spring, 2021) |
The health and economic crises brought about by COVID-19 in 2020 sent society into a downward spiral with the most marginalized groups in the United States feeling disproportionate impacts. For low-income, Black, and Latinx students in particular, school shutdowns and the transition to online learning exacerbated pre-existing inequities in access... |
2021 |
| Jack K. Whitehead, Jr. |
GODFREY, ADAMS AND 100 BLACK MEN |
68 Louisiana Bar Journal 266 (December, 2020/January, 2021) |
The organization 100 Black Men of America began in 1963 in New York City amid the civil unrest facing the country. The founders included Jackie Robinson, former NYC Mayor David Dinkins and leading African-American businessmen. The 100 mission is grounded on four pillars--1) mentoring; 2) education; 3) economic empowerment; and 4) health and... |
2021 |
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Habeas Corpus Reform and Black Lives Matter: A Historical Perspective |
57 NO 5 Criminal Law Bulletin ART 3 (2021) |
J.D., Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, 2021. Thank you to Professor Valena Beety for her guidance and encouragement in creating this Article. Thank you also to the editors of the Criminal Law Bulletin for their careful editing and thoughtful suggestions. |
2021 |
| Ndjuoh MehChu |
HELP ME TO FIND MY CHILDREN: A THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT CHALLENGE TO FAMILY SEPARATION |
17 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 133 (February, 2021) |
The Trump Administration's forced separation of migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border is an international fault line in the global human rights framework. The scope, severity, and urgency of the issue speak clearly to the need for a diversity of strategies to protect migrant groups. With that in mind, this Article draws attention to a thus-far... |
2021 |
| Leland Bertrand |
HIGGINS v. KENTUCKY SPORTS RADIO, LLC: THE SIXTH CIRCUIT DRAWS BLACK AND WHITE LINES BY DISTINGUISHING REFEREES AS PUBLIC FIGURES AND AFFIRMS FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTIONS TO RADIO PERSONALITIES DISCUSSING THEM |
28 Sports Lawyers Journal 219 (Spring, 2021) |
I. Overview. 219 II. Background. 222 A. The Supreme Court Values Public Concern for First Amendment Protection. 222 B. Courts Hesitant to Rule Unspecified Encouragement as Incitement of Imminent Lawlessness. 225 III. Court's Decision. 228 IV. Analysis. 230 V. Conclusion. 232 |
2021 |
| Jennifer M. Smith , Elliot O. Jackson |
HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: A MODEL FOR AMERICAN EDUCATION |
14 Florida A & M University Law Review 103 (Winter, 2021) |
The whole world opened to me when I learned to read. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune Hungry for freedom and knowledge, enslaved Blacks engaged in a massive general strike against slavery by transferring their labor from the Confederate planter to the Northern invader, and this decided the Civil War. In 1865, the North conquered the South, and slavery... |
2021 |
| Matt Reynolds |
HOW JIM CROW-ERA LAWS STILL TEAR FAMILIES FROM THEIR HOMES |
107-MAR ABA Journal 52 (February/March, 2021) |
Back in the late 1990s, Thomas Mitchell was an LLM student at the University of Wisconsin Law School researching land law policy when almost by accident, he stumbled across a little-known legal loophole that had stripped generations of Americans of their land. Mitchell was volunteering for a legal organization and observing a meeting of Black... |
2021 |
| Maya Itah |
HOW THE GUN CONTROL ACT DISARMS BLACK FIREARM OWNERS |
96 Washington Law Review 1191 (October, 2021) |
Through 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), the Gun Control Act (GCA) outlaws the possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The statute's language is broad, and federal courts have interpreted it expansively. By giving prosecutors wide discretion in charging individuals with § 924(c) violations, the language enables the... |
2021 |
| Connie Hassett-Walker |
HOW YOU START IS HOW YOU FINISH? THE SLAVE PATROL AND JIM CROW ORIGINS OF U.S. POLICING |
46 Human Rights 6 (2021) |
Before the summer of 2020 #BlackLivesMatter demonstrations nationwide following the death in May of George Floyd from a Minneapolis police officer kneeling on his neck; before the 2015 Baltimore, Maryland, protests after the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody; and before the Ferguson, Missouri, protests after the 2014 shooting death of... |
2021 |
| Travis D. Jones |
HUMANS LONG IGNORED: REVISITING NEPA'S DEFINITION OF "HUMAN ENVIRONMENT" IN THE ERA OF BLACK LIVES MATTER |
32 Villanova Environmental Law Journal 1 (2021) |
In 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement brought state-sanctioned violence against African Americans to the forefront of public discourse. In the wake of the horrific killing of George Floyd, highly charged protests exploded around the country, from Washington D.C. to Dallas to Portland. Across the internet, social media timelines and profile... |
2021 |
| Kyra Hudson |
HURRICANE KATRINA AND COVID-19: TAX LEGISLATION WHEN THE PRIMARY VICTIM IS POOR AND BLACK |
24-JAN NBA National Bar Association Magazine 34 (January, 2021) |
The wind isn't racist, and the rain doesn't target the poor. But when hurricanes strike and cities flood, people who were already disadvantaged tend to suffer the most. On August 29th, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made its appearance in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. Within hours, the category four hurricane left eighty percent of the city... |
2021 |
| Miles J. LeBlanc , Moderated |
IN THEIR OWN WORDS |
84 Texas Bar Journal 142 (February, 2021) |
Of the 10 accredited law schools in Texas, three of them currently have Black deans. They are: (1) Leonard M. Baynes, University of Houston Law Center; (2) Joan R.M. Bullock, Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law; and (3) Felecia Epps, UNT Dallas College of Law. Not only is this an unprecedented development in legal education in... |
2021 |
| Maria Antonia Tigre, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School |
INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES OF THE LHAKA HONHAT (OUR LAND) ASSOCIATION v. ARGENTINA. MERITS, REPARATIONS, AND COSTS, JUDGMENT. AT HTTPS:// WWW.CORTEIDH.OR.CR/DOCS/CASOS/ARTICULOS/SERIEC_400_ING.PDF. INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS, FEBRUARY 6, 2020 |
115 American Journal of International Law 706 (October, 2021) |
On February 6, 2020, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Court) declared in Lhaka Honhat Association v. Argentina that Argentina violated Indigenous groups' rights to communal property, a healthy environment, cultural identity, food, and water. For the first time in a contentious case, the Court analyzed these rights autonomously based on... |
2021 |
| Seun Matiluko |
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW AND BLACK LIVES MATTER: WHY WE SHOULD VIEW LIBERATION THROUGH THE LENS OF THE RIGHT TO LIFE |
44 Fordham International Law Journal 1207 (May, 2021) |
Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter is a claim that the humanity of Black people, people of sub-Saharan African descent, should be valued and respected. The phrase, Black Lives Matter, was coined by Patrisse Cullors in 2013 after the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by a white vigilante. Together with friends and allies, Opal Tometi and... |
2021 |
| Mikah K. Thompson |
JUST ANOTHER FAST GIRL: EXPLORING SLAVERY'S CONTINUED IMPACT ON THE LOSS OF BLACK GIRLHOOD |
44 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 57 (Winter, 2021) |
Introduction. 58 I. The Stereotypic Connection between Blackness and Promiscuity. 59 A. Black Hypersexuality as a Justification for Sexual Violence During Slavery. 60 B. The Persistence of Stereotypes Concerning Black Sexuality in Post-Civil War America. 64 C. Modern-Day Perceptions of Black Sexuality. 66 D. Black Sexuality and the Law of Statutory... |
2021 |
| Bruno Lima, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, doi:10.1093/ajlh/njab012, Advance Access Publication Date: 20 September 2021 |
KEILA GRINBERG, A BLACK JURIST IN A SLAVE SOCIETY: ANTONIO PEREIRA REBOUÇAS AND THE TRIALS OF BRAZILIAN CITIZENSHIP (CHAPEL HILL: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS, 2019) PP 226. GBP 18.00 (PAPERBACK). ISBN 978-1-4696-5277-1 |
61 American Journal of Legal History 276 (June, 2021) |
Originally published in 2002, the doctoral thesis of Keila Grinberg, Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, has recently appeared in English for the first time. Nearly two decades separate the Portuguese and English versions of A Black Jurist in a Slave Society. Pointing out the time gap between the original and the translated... |
2021 |
| Samuel Vincent Jones |
LAW SCHOOLS, CULTURAL COMPETENCY, AND ANTI-BLACK RACISM: THE LIBERTY OF DISCRIMINATION |
21 Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy 84 (2021) |
Introduction. 84 I. Do Law Schools Have Liberty to Discriminate Against Black Law Students?. 86 A. The Black Law Student Experience. 87 B. Law Schools and the Liberty to Foster Anti-Black Racism. 90 II. Should Law Schools Require Cultural Competency Instruction as a Means to Curtail Anti-Black Racial Discrimination?. 96 A. Cultural Competency... |
2021 |
| Hannah Harris, Justine Nolan |
LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE: COMPARING LEGAL APPROACHES TO FOREIGN BRIBERY AND MODERN SLAVERY |
4 Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review 603 (Winter, 2021) |
Corruption and human rights abuses are intrinsically linked, and the power and influence of corporate actors is a primary facilitator of this relationship. Despite this connection, efforts to combat corruption and human rights abuses have taken diverse legal approaches. This article explores the criminal law framework for tackling foreign bribery... |
2021 |
| Kevin E. Davis |
LEGAL RESPONSES TO BLACK SUBORDINATION, GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES |
134 Harvard Law Review Forum 359 (6/1/2021) |
[I]n order to win and bring as many people with us along the way, we must move beyond the narrow nationalism that is all too prevalent in Black communities. --Black Lives Matter Around the world, people of African descent (Afro-descendants)--to use one of the broadest possible definitions of Blackness--are overrepresented among the poor and... |
2021 |
| Mirko Bagaric , Peter Isham , Jennifer Svilar , Theo Alexander |
LESS PRISON TIME MATTERS: A ROADMAP TO REDUCING THE DISCRIMINATORY IMPACT OF THE SENTENCING SYSTEM AGAINST AFRICAN AMERICANS AND INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS |
37 Georgia State University Law Review 1405 (Summer, 2021) |
The criminal justice system discriminates against African Americans. There are a number of stages of the criminal justice process. Sentencing is the sharp end of the system because this is where the community acts in its most coercive manner by intentionally inflecting hardships on offenders. African Americans comprise approximately 40% of the... |
2021 |
| Sarah J. Schendel |
LISTEN!: AMPLIFYING THE EXPERIENCES OF BLACK LAW SCHOOL GRADUATES IN 2020 |
100 Nebraska Law Review 73 (2021) |
C1-2TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction. 74 II. The Survey. 79 A. Methodology. 79 B. Survey Questions. 80 III. An Overview of Responses. 81 A. A Grief Gap: The Mental, Physical, and Emotional Toll of COVID-19. 81 B. The Mental, Physical, and Emotional Impact of Racism. 83 C. The Impact of Changes to the Bar Exam. 87 1. Postponement. 87 2.... |
2021 |
| Antje du Bois-Pedain |
MASS INCARCERATION, PENAL MODERATION, AND BLACK PRISONERS SERVING VERY LONG SENTENCES: THE CASE FOR A TARGETED CLEMENCY PROGRAM |
24 New Criminal Law Review 655 (Fall, 2021) |
The prevalent criminal justice practices in the U.S. have produced levels and patterns of incarceration that fewer and fewer politicians, scholars, and citizens care to support. There seems to be widespread consensus that the system is indicted as unjust by its outcomes no matter how these outcomes came about. But if that is so, how can it be... |
2021 |
| Eva Jellison |
MASSACHUSETTS APPELLATE COURTS MUST DO MORE TO PROTECT YOUNG BLACK PEOPLE FROM UNREASONABLE POLICE INTRUSION |
65-FALL Boston Bar Journal 11 (Fall, 2021) |
No Massachusetts case has explicitly incorporated the combined effects of the race and age of a juvenile in its legal analysis. There are some cases that recognize the impact of a defendant's youth and others that recognize the effects of societal racism. See, e.g., Commonwealth v. Perez, 480 Mass. 562 (2018) (non-homicide youth sentencing);... |
2021 |
| John Mikhail |
MCCULLOCH v. MARYLAND, SLAVERY, THE PREAMBLE, AND THE SWEEPING CLAUSE: THE SPIRIT OF THE CONSTITUTION: JOHN MARSHALL AND THE 200-YEAR ODYSSEY OF MCCULLOCH v. MARYLAND. BY DAVID S. SCHWARTZ. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. 2019. PP. 328. $34.95 (CLOTH) |
36 Constitutional Commentary 131 (Spring, 2021) |
Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consist with the letter and spirit of the constitution, are constitutional. This famous passage in McCulloch v. Maryland can be read in at least two different ways. On... |
2021 |
| Marshall B. Kapp |
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE LITIGATION: HOW IT WORKS, WHY TORT REFORM HASN'T HELPED, BY BERNARD S. BLACK, ET AL. |
95-OCT Florida Bar Journal 47 (September/October, 2021) |
Over the last year especially, public policy makers have been reminded continually about their obligation to follow the science. In crafting legislation and regulation, other considerations often make it difficult to adhere to this admonition. One arena in which different participants' conflicting emotional, political, and economic interests... |
2021 |
| Colleen Campbell |
MEDICAL VIOLENCE, OBSTETRIC RACISM, AND THE LIMITS OF INFORMED CONSENT FOR BLACK WOMEN |
26 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 47 (Winter, 2021) |
This Essay critically examines how medicine actively engages in the reproductive subordination of Black women. In obstetrics, particularly, Black women must contend with both gender and race subordination. Early American gynecology treated Black women as expendable clinical material for its institutional needs. This medical violence was animated by... |
2021 |
| Alexis Yeboah-Kodie |
MEDITATIONS ON JOY FULL LEADERSHIP AND BLACK LIBERATION |
37 Harvard Blackletter Law Journal 65 (Spring, 2021) |
This is a gift. The kind that when you see it, your eyes widen, you rush to rip the paper open, and then the gift-giver urges you to take your time unwrapping it. I am giving this gift to myself and to the people who participated in its creation. We all have poured so much love into this. Both the process and the finished product highlight the... |
2021 |
| Marisa Rodriguez, Ryan Gormley, Mary Bacon, (CITY OF NORTH LAS VEGAS), (WEINBERG, WHEELER, HUDGINS, GUNN & DIAL, LLC), (SPENCER FANE LLP) |
MEET BRITTNIE WATKINS: FIRST BLACK WOMAN ELECTED TO STATE BAR OF NEVADA'S BOARD OF GOVERNORS |
29-FEB Nevada Lawyer 21 (February, 2021) |
Last year, Nevada recognized an important first--the first Black woman was elected to the State Bar of Nevada's Board of Governors. That trailblazing woman was Brittnie Watkins. While her election may be the first time she made history in our state, it likely will not be the last. When we sat down with Watkins over brunch, she already had a full... |
2021 |
| Sheree Luo , Sara Wedgwood , Legal Counsel, Fujitsu Australia Limited, Corporate Counsel, Fujitsu Australia Limited |
MODERN SLAVERY REPORTING--A CASE STUDY OF FUJITSU |
9/27/2021 ACC Docket 1 (9/27/2021) |
The Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth) (the Act) came into effect on 1 January 2019 as part of the Australian government's response to eliminating modern slavery. The Act seeks to mitigate modern slavery practices throughout supply chains of goods and services in the Australian market. Building on existing instruments aimed at protecting human rights... |
2021 |
| Kaitlyn Alger |
MORE THAN WHAT MEETS THE EAR: SPEECH TRANSCRIPTION AS A BARRIER TO JUSTICE FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN VERNACULAR ENGLISH SPEAKERS |
13 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 87 (Winter, 2021) |
C1-3Table of Contents R1-2Introduction . L388 I. Overview of AAVE and its Relationship to the Criminal Justice System. 89 A. AAVE and the Criminal Justice System. 89 B. Origins and Linguistic Features of AAVE. 90 C. Linguistic Bias. 92 II. Court Reporting and the Significance of the Verbatim Record. 92 A. Court Reporter Duties and the Importance of... |
2021 |
| Brooke Simone |
MUNICIPAL REPARATIONS: CONSIDERATIONS AND CONSTITUTIONALITY |
120 Michigan Law Review 345 (November, 2021) |
Demands for racial justice are resounding, and in turn, various localities have considered issuing reparations to Black residents. Municipalities may be effective venues in the struggle for reparations, but they face a variety of questions when crafting legislation. This Note walks through key considerations using proposed and enacted reparations... |
2021 |