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Kevin Perteet Boens MARCH ON THE COURTROOM PART I: BACKGROUND ON AFRICAN AMERICAN LAWYERS AND THE QUESTION OF IDENTITY 37 DCBA Brief 30 (September/October, 2024) The late Justice Thurgood Marshall believed that [a] man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes; that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks. It is by this standard this article will be reviewing the dichotomy between the education system before and after Brown v. Board of Education. This article shall provide an... 2024
John Parsi MEDICAL CONSENSUS ON GENDER AFFIRMING CARE'S CRITICAL IMPACT ON INCARCERATED BLACK TRANSGENDER WOMEN 38 Journal of Law and Health 66 (########) Abstract: In Kosilek v. Spencer the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit adopted The World Professional Association of Transgender Health Standards of Care (WPATH SOC) as medical consensus on gender affirming care and held that Michelle Kosilek could access gender affirming care but that she did not meet the criteria for gender affirming... 2024
Harvey Gee MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER: ASIAN AMERICANS AND ALLYSHIP IN A NON-BLACK-AND-WHITE AMERICA 58 University of San Francisco Law Review 172 (2024) Last term, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned four decades of precedent when it effectively ended the use of affirmative action in the historical decision Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (SFFA v. Harvard). A 6-3 conservative supermajority held that the admissions programs used by Harvard College and the... 2024
Paul Finkelman, Robert F. Boden Visiting Professor, Marquette University Law School; President William McKinley Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, Albany Law School, USA, paul.finkelman@yahoo.com ONCE WE WERE SLAVES: THE EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY OF A MULTIRACIAL JEWISH FAMILY. BY LAURA ARNOLD LEIBMAN. NEW YORK: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2021. PP. 291. $30.99 (CLOTH); $14.99 (DIGITAL). ISBN: 9780197530474 39 Journal of Law and Religion 135 (January, 2024) While not essentially about law, Laura Leibman's Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family illuminates the intersection of law, religion, race, and ethnicity in the early United States and the British Caribbean. Leibman, a historian at Reed College, documents the complicated racial history of some important early... 2024
Mark C. Grafenreed OPEN HUNTING SEASON: BLACK BODIES AS A THREATENED SPECIES 30 Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice 341 (Winter, 2024) . about one white person in two believes police provide very good protection . for Negroes, the figure is one in five. Tracing the Endangered Species Act of 1973 provides striking parallels with the historical, legal, and cultural aspects of bondage mapped upon Black bodies. The United States Congress promulgated the Endangered Species Act to... 2024
William J. Gaspard, Jr. PLOWING BEYOND PREJUDICE: WHERE FAUST FUMBLED BLACK FARMER DEBT RELIEF 51 Southern University Law Review 241 (Spring, 2024) If we imagine that somehow we're now all on a level playing field, and we only now start treating everyone equally and fairly, [to] think[] that would fix the problem of allysm, we are really misguided. Sitting on your grandparents' front porch, listening to the elders in your family tell stories about their upbringing, evokes a sense of... 2024
Brian L. Owsley PROTESTING WHILE BLACK 15 Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review 1 (2023-2024) I. Protesters Around the Country Have Been Killed or Injured in Attacks.. 8 II. Several State Legislatures Enacted Statutes Targeting African American Protesters.. 12 III. Alabama's Targeted Legislation Focused on a Single Community Against a Single African American Organization.. 17 IV. The First Amendment Provides Protections for Everyone,... 2024
Vinay Harpalani RACE-CONSCIOUSNESS AND BLACK HUMANITY: REINTERPRETING THE BROWN FOOTNOTE 11 DOLL STUDIES 104 Boston University Law Review 1251 (September, 2024) Introduction. 1253 I. Racial Stigma and Plessy's Dual Conundrum. 1257 II. From the Dual Conundrum to the Doll Studies. 1260 III. The Doll Studies and Their Discontents. 1265 IV. Reinterpreting the Doll Studies Through a Developmental Lens. 1271 V. The Transformation of the Harm in Brown. 1279 VI. Race-Consciousness Affirmed and Abrogated. 1285... 2024
Andrew J. Lanham RADICAL VISIONS FOR THE LAW OF PEACE: HOW W.E.B. DU BOIS AND THE BLACK ANTIWAR MOVEMENT REIMAGINED CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE LAWS OF WAR AND PEACE 99 Washington Law Review 433 (June, 2024) Abstract: This Article reconstructs the history of Black antiwar activism in the twentieth-century United States and argues that Black antiwar activists played a significant but largely forgotten role in the development of both modern civil rights law and the international law of war and peace. The Article focuses on the career of W.E.B. Du Bois,... 2024
Hailey Clawson ROSE COLORED FLAGS 35 UC Law SF Journal on Gender and Justice 183 (May, 2024)   2024
Peyton Farley , Lynne Marie Kohm , copyright 2024 STRATEGIC USE OF TRUSTS TO DISMANTLE RACISM: BUILDING TRUST THROUGH TRUSTS TO PRESERVE AND EMPOWER BLACK WEALTH 48 Thurgood Marshall Law Review 269 (Spring, 2024) How can the use of a trust be an intentional tool of antiracism? Could the strategic use of a trust for wealth preservation be a significant avenue to dismantling racial prejudice? This article attempts to answer those questions by proffering that the strategic use of trusts could and should be a key aspect of wealth preservation and transfer for... 2024
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... 2024
Nicholas E. Armstrong SWEAT EQUITY: A CONTEMPORARY ANALYSIS OF LAND DISPOSSESSION OF BLACK FARMERS IN THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES 73 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 408 (2024) Black rural land ownership is not what it was once was and Black rural landowners own far less than what they could and should own. Upwards of ninety percent of Black rural landowners have been dispossessed of their land due to government agency failure, systemic discrimination, and private prejudice that has shaped the legal landscaped since... 2024
Tiffany Williams Brewer TAKING OUR POSITION: REPAIRING THE BREACH IN THE PIPELINE TO THE LEGAL PROFESSION BY TRANSFORMING THE IMPACT OF BIAS AGAINST BLACK GIRLS IN STUDENT DISCIPLINE 11 Belmont Law Review 306 (Spring, 2024) This Article implores the legal profession to intervene in promoting accountability in remediating implicit bias and discrimination in school discipline decisions disproportionately impacting Black girls' educational outcomes, given their significant impact in disrupting the pipeline to the legal profession. The lack of accountability for disparate... 2024
Katherine “Yenny” Wu, Esq., MPH TELEHEALTH SOLUTIONS FOR BLACK MATERNAL HEALTH 33 Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences 145 (Winter, 2024) Serena Williams is one of the most recognizable athletes in the world. She dominated tennis for years, amassing a huge fan base, fame, and wealth. However, despite having access to the best medical care in the country, she almost died when giving birth to her daughter, Olympia. A day after giving birth via C-section in 2017, Serena Williams told... 2024
Aysha S. Ames, rev'r TELLING UNTOLD STORIES: THE 272: THE FAMILIES WHO WERE ENSLAVED AND SOLD TO BUILD THE AMERICAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, RACHEL L. SWARNS (PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE 2023), 320 PAGES 21 Legal Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD 149 (Fall, 2024) In April 2016, I read an article in The New York Times in which journalist Rachel Swarns described that on June 19, 1838, the Maryland Society of Jesus (Jesuits), a Catholic religious order, and Georgetown College (now Georgetown University) sold more than 272 enslaved people from Jesuit-owned plantations in southern Maryland to plantation owners... 2024
Anthony Puntasecca THE AKWESASNE BLACK HOLE: AMERICA'S HIDDEN BORDER CRISIS 56 University of Miami Inter-American Law Review 73 (Fall, 2024) I. Introduction. 74 II. Background. 76 A. History of Broken Promises and Land Appropriation. 76 B. Life on an International Border. 77 III. Summary of Relevant Law. 81 A. Early Treaties. 81 B. Dealing with Uncle Sam. 82 i. The Supreme Law of the Land. 83 ii. Between Sovereign Entities. 85 C. Constitutional Monarchy. 88 IV. Analysis. 90 A. War on... 2024
Dane D. Norvell II THE APPROPRIATION OF BLACK POSTMORTEM RIGHTS OF PUBLICITY IN THE AGE OF POLICE BRUTALITY 93 Mississippi Law Journal 1223 (2024) Introduction. 1224 II. The Right of Publicity. 1226 A. From Private to Economic: The Development of a Right of Publicity. 1226 B. In Death It Shall Not Part: The Postmortem Extension of Publicity Rights. 1230 C. Jurisdictional Free for All. 1233 III. The Need for Expansion. 1237 A. A Lack of State Uniformity Necessitates Federal Intervention. 1238... 2024
María Ximena González-Serrano , Human Rights Institute “Gregorio Peces-Barba”, University Carlos III of Madrid, Madrid, Spain THE ATRATO RIVER AS A BEARER AND CO-CREATOR OF RIGHTS: UNVEILING BLACK PEOPLE'S LEGAL MOBILIZATION PROCESSES IN COLOMBIA 49 Law and Social Inquiry 2493 (November, 2024) (Received 23 September 2022; revised 01 October 2023; accepted 14 June 2024; first published online 19 September 2024) In 2016, Colombia's Constitutional Court recognized the Atrato River as the first water body in Latin America to have its own rights. This article interrogates the historical roots of the judicial decision declaring the river a... 2024
Brian J. Connolly THE BLACK BOX OF SINGLE-FAMILY ZONING REFORM 65 Boston College Law Review 2327 (October, 2024) Introduction. 2328 I. The Ambiguous Case for Single-Family Zoning Reform. 2338 A. The Zoning Reform Consensus. 2341 1. The Economists. 2341 2. The Social Justice School. 2343 3. The Environmentalists. 2346 4. The Fiscal School. 2347 B. Critiques of the Case for Zoning Reform. 2348 C. No Clear Diagnosis and No Clear Cure. 2350 II. The Revolt Against... 2024
Taylor Todd THE CASE FOR APPLYING COMCAST'S CAUSAL CANON TO THE PREGNANT WORKERS FAIRNESS ACT 89 Missouri Law Review 1055 (Summer, 2024) For as long as there have been employer-employee relationships, there has been the potential for problems in those relationships--some of which are rooted in discrimination. In an ideal world, employees and prospective employees would not face adverse decisions based on protected characteristics. Unfortunately, the world is not always ideal and... 2024
Simona Grossi THE CLAIM AND THE RELIEF: REVEALING MISCONCEPTIONS AND MISSTEPS IN THE U.S. SUPREME COURT'S JURISPRUDENCE FOR §1983 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... 2024
Ciji Dodds THE EXIGENCIES OF BLACK EXISTENCE: THE BLUE GAZE, THE STATE OF EXCEPTION, & RACIALIZED POLICING IN CARCERAL INTERNAL COLONIES 104 Boston University Law Review 233 (February, 2024) I. The Blue Gaze. 241 II. The Racialized State of Exception. 245 III. Carceral Internal Colonies. 255 A. Legal Black Holes. 256 B. The Carceral Space: Residential Segregation & Hypersegregation. 257 C. Racialized Policing as Governance. 262 1. Anomic Violence. 263 2. Status-Oriented Violence. 264 3. Juridical Violence. 265 4. The Absence of... 2024
Thomas Ward Frampton THE FIRST BLACK JURORS AND THE INTEGRATION OF THE AMERICAN JURY 99 New York University Law Review 515 (May, 2024) Supreme Court opinions involving race and the jury invariably open with the Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil Rights Act of 1875, or landmark cases like Strauder v. West Virginia (1880). Legal scholars and historians unanimously report that free people of color did not serve as jurors, in either the North or South, until 1860. In fact, this Article... 2024
Miranda Guedes THE GHOST OF JIM CROW: THE HUMAN RIGHT TO HOUSING, GENERATIONAL WEALTH, THE NEIGHBORHOOD HOMES INVESTMENT ACT, AND THE AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEM 14 University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review 165 (Spring, 2024) To have a decent place to live is a basic human right. - Jimmy Carter The U.N. Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights provides the following framework when defining the human right to housing: (1) security of tenure; (2) availability of services; (3) affordability; (4) habitability; (5) accessibility; (6) location; and (7) cultural... 2024
Spencer Overton, Catherine Powell THE IMPLICATIONS OF SECTION 230 FOR BLACK COMMUNITIES 66 William and Mary Law Review 107 (October, 2024) Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act generally immunizes online platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Amazon, and Uber from liability for third-party user content (for example, posts, comments, and videos) and for moderation of that content. This Article addresses an important issue overlooked by both defenders and critics of Section 230:... 2024
Vivian D. Wesson THE INVERTED 'V' PROBLEM--AFTER THE OUTRAGE OVER POLICE BRUTALITY AGAINST BLACK VICTIMS, WHERE ARE THE REFORMS? 96-FEB New York State Bar Journal 27 (January/February, 2024) Rodney King. Amadou Diallo. Michael Brown. Eric Garner. Breonna Taylor. Over the past 30 years, instances of police use of force against Black people have sparked public outrage and triggered discussions about racial discrimination, justice and police reform. Following each incident, an immediacy to act, to change and to redress was featured... 2024
Dominique Fontenette Davillier THE RAP-TO-PRISON PIPELINE AND THE ERASURE OF BLACK RAPPERS 40-SPG Entertainment and Sports Lawyer 18 (Spring, 2024) The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible is a quotation by Toni Bambara. However, advocating for any type of revolution can be dangerous. So, who protects the artist and their art? Essentially, that is the role of the lawyer to protect the artist and their art, as well as to actively listen to their needs and advocate... 2024
Gabrielle E. Stanfield THE ROLE OF BLACK ARTISTS IN THE RECONCEPTUALIZATION OF U.S. RESALE ROYALTY RIGHTS 47 Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts 287 (2024) In the past few years, Black artists have been at the forefront of advocacy on the issue of resale royalties for visual artists in the United States. These efforts have occurred in conjunction with a significant uptick in the value of pieces on the resale market and growing appreciation specifically for Black art. In 2022, global auction houses set... 2024
Philip Butler THINKING OF A MASTER PLAN: DATA CITIZENSHIP/OWNERSHIP AS A PORTAL TO AN UNFETTERED BLACK UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME 112 Georgetown Law Journal 1343 (June, 2024) C1-3Table of Contents L1-2Introduction . L31343 I. A Black Technosphere. 1347 II. Evidence of Black Posthumanism in the Story. 1352 III. DAOs, Ownership, and Citizenship. 1354 2024
Ty Parks UNIONS, BLACK WORKERS, AND CRIMINAL RECORDS: RECKONING WITH THE LABOR MOVEMENT'S HISTORY OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION SHOULD LEAD IT INTO THE FUTURE 27 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change 71 (2024) Since the 1970s, the Labor Movement has been debilitated by a dramatic decline in union membership. However, in recent years, public approval of unions and unionization rates have increased, indicating the potential for Labor's resurgence. Ironically, the same demographic of workers that unions have historically excluded are the workers leading... 2024
Joshua Goslee UNMASKING INEQUITY: THE UNDERFUNDING OF HISTORICALLY BLACK INSTITUTIONS AND THE JUDICIAL RESPONSE 48 Thurgood Marshall Law Review 299 (Spring, 2024) In recent years, a wave of legal challenges has emerged, shaking the foundations of higher education as Historically Black Land Grant Institutions and other Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) find themselves at the center of legal debate. Allegations of systemic underfunding, exacerbated by the allowance of program duplication... 2024
Thomas R. Prible WALKING ON HOT COALS: USING THE INTER-AMERICAN HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEM TO PROTECT BLACK COMMUNITIES' RIGHT TO A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT 34 Indiana International & Comparative Law Review 379 (2024) Franky. Julia Gillespie. Cyrus. Twenty-four people with recorded names, and 152 listed simply as Female age 8 or Male age 50. They range from one to sixty years old, and they represent the known enslaved persons associated with Philip Henry Pitts and his brothers, who were cotton planters in the Black Belt region of Alabama. One of his estates,... 2024
Dr. David Wilk 'WALKING THROUGH THE DOOR AGAIN' 42 Delaware Lawyer 14 (2024) It all began with a serendipitous phone call in early January 2012 from The Hon. Joshua W. Martin III (who also happens to be one of my favorite people in life!). He was calling to see if I might be willing to provide some real estate insights to a group of community volunteers who were trying to save the Hockessin Colored School #107c from... 2024
Patrick Maley WARDLOW AFTER BLACK LIVES MATTER: USING A PROTEST MOVEMENT TO ESTABLISH A COLORABLE EQUAL PROTECTION CHALLENGE TO SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT 54 Seton Hall Law Review 1437 (2024) In the war against drugs, the justification of one questionable search as the basis for the next questionable search, and the next one, is slowly leading to the erosion of our Fourth Amendment protections. This process occurs almost imperceptibly in much the same way that light fades into dusk and dusk into darkness. It is in this twilight period... 2024
Ion Meyn WHITE-ON-BLACK CRIME: REVISITING THE CONVICT LEASING NARRATIVE 2024 Wisconsin Law Review 533 (2024) Between 1880 and 1915, the Southern criminal legal system enslaved and re-enslaved legally emancipated Black persons. Under the conventional account of this period, the law facilitated and legitimatized these practices, however odious and racially discriminatory. This view--one that critiques as it accepts the legality of the system--provides an... 2024
Breanna Madison WHOSE CHILD ARE YOU? PROTECTING BLACK CHILDREN AND FAMILIES PREDISPOSED TO THE HARMS OF THE FAMILY REGULATION SYSTEM 67 Howard Law Journal 155 (2023-2024) Children have their sorrows as well as men and women; and it would be well to remember this in our dealings with them. [Black] children are children and prove no exceptions to the general rule. -Frederick Douglass Preserving the traditional structure of the nuclear family has long been embraced by the Supreme Court because familial... 2024
Nathan Siegel WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE, BLACK SUFFRAGE, AND LESSONS FOR TODAY: A SIDE-BY-SIDE COMPARISON OF BOTH SUFFRAGE MOVEMENTS AND THE LESSONS THEY PROVIDE FOR CURRENT SUFFRAGE MOVEMENTS 71 UCLA Law Review 196 (January, 2024) Recent elections in the United States have commanded national and international attention with voting rights becoming a leading concern for Americans. Though the American public and the judicial and political institutions that represent the American people understand the importance of voting to the health of a democracy, the voting rate among... 2024
Erica Preston-Roedder, Occidental College, eroedder@oxy.edu YOU AREN'T REALLY BLACK, YOU AREN'T REALLY WHITE 27 Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy 34 (March, 2024) Multiracial persons, e.g., people with parents of multiple races, are a significant demographic group within the US. Nevertheless, philosophical work on race has largely, and problematically, elided this group: we have ignored their distinctive racial experiences, and we have failed to deeply engage with the philosophical issues raised by... 2024
Daniel Backman "A VAST LABOR BUREAU": THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF COUNTERVAILING BLACK LABOR POWER 40 Yale Journal on Regulation 837 (Summer, 2023) For a few short years starting in 1865, the Freedmen's Bureau exercised regulatory power over labor markets in a fashion unprecedented in ambition, scope, and reach in U.S. history up to that point--and, arguably, since. The Bureau used its broad authority to construct, regulate, and coordinate labor in the post-slavery South according to a... 2023
Paul A. Gowder 2023 ENLUND SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE LECTURE: THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMBITION OF BLACK LIBERATION 17 DePaul Journal for Social Justice 1 (Winter, 2023) The following essay is taken from the Enlund Scholar-in-Residence Lecture presented in April 2023 by Professor Paul Gowder. The Enlund Scholar-in-Residence Lecture, held yearly at the DePaul University College of Law, is named after the late E. Stanley Enlund, who established the program through a generous donation. Today, thirty-five years later,... 2023
Lauren Kingsbeck A HISTORY OF EXCLUSION: "FOR CAUSE" CHALLENGES AND BLACK JURORS 19 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 654 (Spring, 2023) In the fall of 2021, many Americans were shocked to learn that the Georgia jury for the trial of three white men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a young Black man, consisted of eleven white jurors and only one Black juror. Even more shocking was the judge's admission that there appeared to be intentional discrimination in the panel after the... 2023
Natalie Kenny A MODERN JIM CROW: FELON DISENFRANCHISEMENT IN FLORIDA 54 Seton Hall Law Review 311 (2023) John Boyd Rivers eagerly cast his ballot in the 2020 presidential election for Donald Trump. His excitement was later squashed when he was arrested for voter fraud on the grounds that he was ineligible to vote. The 2020 presidential election was the first time that Rivers voted since the age of eighteen due to Florida's lifetime felon... 2023
Simone Drake , Katrina Lee , Kevin Passino , Hugo Gonzalez Villasanti A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO IMPROVING POLICE INTERACTIONS WITH BLACK CIVILIANS 38 Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution 717 (2023) I. Introduction II. Historical Overview A. Race and Policing B. Police Training III. Project Design A. Informed by a Multidisciplinary Team B. Software Development IV. Future Directions V. Conclusion Over-use of force by law enforcement officers in the United States persists, along with a resulting state of crisis in Black communities. Massive... 2023
Farhan Ahmed A PAIR OF GRANDPARENTS: A BLACK AND WHITE RELATIONSHIP WITH MY PATERNAL GRANDFATHER 47 Harbinger 53 (2/1/2023) In this piece, Ahmed describes his relationship with his paternal grandfather. I stepped inside the G train in downtown, Manhattan. The door shut behind me and, after a backward sway, the train took off. As the train left the station and entered into an obsidian tunnel, I glanced at an older couple and a toddler a few seats away. Extending his arms... 2023
Regina Ponder , National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc., Phoenix Metropolitan Chapter, Phoenix, AZ, USA, Email: research.ejd@gmail.com A PROTECTED CLASS, AN UNPROTECTED CONDITION, AND A BIOMARKER--A METHOD/FORMULA FOR INCREASED DIVERSITY IN CLINICAL TRIALS FOR THE AFRICAN AMERICAN SUBJECT WITH BENIGN ETHNIC NEUTROPENIA (BEN) 49 American Journal of Law & Medicine 41 (2023) Expanding on previous industry guidance relative to increased clinical trial diversity, while honing more exacting treatments and better ways to fight diseases that have often disproportionately impacted people of color, is a topic being discussed by multidisciplinary public health experts across the nation. This writing draws attention to the... 2023
Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler ABORTION RIGHTS AND THE CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM: HOW DOBBS EXACERBATES EXISTING RACIAL INEQUITIES AND FURTHER TRAUMATIZES BLACK FAMILIES 51 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 575 (Fall, 2023) Keywords: Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, Abortion Bans, Child Welfare System, Racial Inequities Abstract: This article explores how abortion bans in states with large Black populations will exacerbate existing racial inequities in those states' child welfare systems. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the Supreme Court returned to... 2023
Rick Shrum ACBA'S BLACK HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION TO BE HELD FEB. 28 25 Lawyers Journal 3 (2/10/2023) For the first time in three years, the Allegheny County Bar Association (ACBA) will go live with its Black History Month Celebration. The event, coordinated by the ACBA Homer S. Brown Division (HSBD), will begin at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 28, at Olive or Twist restaurant in downtown Pittsburgh. We're back in person, said Kellie Ware, ACBA's... 2023
Kira Eidson ADDRESSING THE BLACK MORTALITY CRISIS IN THE WAKE OF DOBBS: A REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE POLICY FRAMEWORK 24 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 929 (Spring, 2023) Black people who can become pregnant and give birth were dying from pregnancy-related causes at rates more than double the national average before the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, and the Dobbs decision is expected to make America's maternal mortality crisis worse. This Note discusses the expected effects of abortion... 2023
Hala Baradi ADVOCATING FOR ABOLITION IN HEALTH LAW: A THEORY AND PRAXIS TO LIBERATE BLACK INCARCERATED WOMEN 51 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 196 (Spring, 2023) Keywords: Health Law, Health Justice, Abolition, Reproductive Justice, Structural Determinant of Health Abstract: The prison-industrial complex has historically operated as a mechanism for social control generally and as a tool to restrict women's reproductive capacities specifically. Reproductive justice is a domain within the practice of health... 2023
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