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| Bruce Miller |
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--DO BLACK LIVES MATTER TO THE CONSTITUTION? |
40 Western New England Law Review 459 (2018) |
The question is, of course, a provocation. If read rhetorically, it lends itself (too) easily to equally categorical, opposing answers: of course black lives don't matter to the Constitution's infamous three-fifths clause, its protection of property interests in escaped enslaved people, and its recognition of the states' power to control... |
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| Bruce Miller |
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--DO BLACK LIVES MATTER TO THE CONSTITUTION? |
40 Western New England Law Review 459 (2018) |
The question is, of course, a provocation. If read rhetorically, it lends itself (too) easily to equally categorical, opposing answers: of course black lives don't matter to the Constitution's infamous three-fifths clause, its protection of property interests in escaped enslaved people, and its recognition of the states' power to control... |
2018 |
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| Marjorie Johnson, J.D. |
DISCRIMINATION-RACE-S.D. IND.: WHITE MANAGER FIRED AFTER CRITICAL 'BLACK LIVES MATTER' FACEBOOK POST CAN PURSUE RACE DISCRIMINATION AND REPRISAL CLAIMS |
2018 Wolters Kluwer Employment Law Daily 2015993 (May 1, 2018) |
A white bank manager who was demoted and then fired after posting a message on his Facebook feed that was critical of the Black Lives Matter movement plausibly alleged Title VII claims of race discrimination and retaliation, held a federal district court in Indiana, given his purported exemplary work performance and the fact that African-American... |
2018 |
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| Marjorie Johnson, J.D. |
DISCRIMINATION-RACE-S.D. IND.: WHITE MANAGER FIRED AFTER CRITICAL 'BLACK LIVES MATTER' FACEBOOK POST CAN PURSUE RACE DISCRIMINATION AND REPRISAL CLAIMS |
2018 Wolters Kluwer Employment Law Daily 2015993 (May 1, 2018) |
A white bank manager who was demoted and then fired after posting a message on his Facebook feed that was critical of the Black Lives Matter movement plausibly alleged Title VII claims of race discrimination and retaliation, held a federal district court in Indiana, given his purported exemplary work performance and the fact that African-American... |
2018 |
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| Marjorie Johnson, J.D. |
DISCRIMINATION-RACE-W.D.N.C.: EMPLOYEE CALLED 'RACIST' AFTER FACEBOOK RANT ABOUT BLACK LIVES MATTER CAN'T ADVANCE RACE, DEFAMATION CLAIMS |
2018 Wolters Kluwer Employment Law Daily 948039 (February 20, 2018) |
Coworkers' comments calling an airline employee racist following her controversial Facebook posts regarding the Black Lives Matter movement did not create an actionable hostile work environment since they were neither race-based nor sufficiently severe or pervasive. Granting the defendants' partial motion to dismiss, a federal court in North... |
2018 |
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| Marjorie Johnson, J.D. |
DISCRIMINATION-RACE-W.D.N.C.: EMPLOYEE CALLED 'RACIST' AFTER FACEBOOK RANT ABOUT BLACK LIVES MATTER CAN'T ADVANCE RACE, DEFAMATION CLAIMS |
2018 Wolters Kluwer Employment Law Daily 948039 (February 20, 2018) |
Coworkers' comments calling an airline employee racist following her controversial Facebook posts regarding the Black Lives Matter movement did not create an actionable hostile work environment since they were neither race-based nor sufficiently severe or pervasive. Granting the defendants' partial motion to dismiss, a federal court in North... |
2018 |
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| Harris Freeman |
FOREWORD--POLICE MISCONDUCT AND KIBBE v. CITY OF SPRINGFIELD |
40 Western New England Law Review 393 (2018) |
The Law Review's 2017 symposium, Perspectives on Racial Justice in the Era of #BlackLivesMatter, appropriately opened with a panel that addressed the ongoing challenge of combatting police misconduct, as seen through the lens of Kibbe v. City of Springfield, a civil rights case that unfolded in Western Massachusetts and reached the United States... |
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| Megan Keller |
Sessions in Chicago: If you want more shootings, listen to ACLU, Antifa, Black Lives Matter |
2018 The Hill 4491438 (September 19, 2018) |
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Wednesday that groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, Antifa and Black Lives Matter are responsible for an increase in violence in Chicago. |
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| Megan Keller |
Sessions in Chicago: If you want more shootings, listen to ACLU, Antifa, Black Lives Matter |
2018 The Hill 4491438 (September 19, 2018) |
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Wednesday that groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, Antifa and Black Lives Matter are responsible for an increase in violence in Chicago. |
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| Philip Lee |
STUDENT PROTESTS AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN AN AGE OF #BLACKLIVESMATTER |
79 Ohio State Law Journal 223 (2018) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 224 II. The Historical Context of Racial Exclusion on American College Campuses. 229 III. The Constitutional Standard of Student Academic Freedom. 237 A. Tension Between Academic Freedom of Students and Institutions. 242 B. Tension Between Academic Freedom of Students and Professors. 245 IV. Toward a New... |
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| Carlton Edward Williams |
SYMPOSIUM--THE MORE WE FIGHT, THE MORE WE WIN: MOVEMENT LAWYERING IN THE ERA OF #BLACKLIVESMATTER |
40 Western New England Law Review 403 (2018) |
I work for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (ACLU) in Boston, and my work focuses solely on issues of racial justice, so you can imagine that's a very specific and very narrow thing. It isn't though--because racial justice reflects on issues of police brutality, police killings, police murders committed against, specifically,... |
2018 |
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| Garrett Chase |
THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT, AND THE IMPLICATIONS THEREOF |
18 Nevada Law Journal 1091 (Spring, 2018) |
From quarterbacks to hashtags, from mall demonstrations to community vigils, and from the streets of New York to the courts of Texas, the Black Lives Matter movement undisputedly has made its mark on America's consciousness. But what is this movement? Where did it come from? Does Black Lives Matter stand for civil rights, or human rights? What... |
2018 |
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| Garrett Chase |
THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT, AND THE IMPLICATIONS THEREOF |
18 Nevada Law Journal 1091 (Spring, 2018) |
From quarterbacks to hashtags, from mall demonstrations to community vigils, and from the streets of New York to the courts of Texas, the Black Lives Matter movement undisputedly has made its mark on America's consciousness. But what is this movement? Where did it come from? Does Black Lives Matter stand for civil rights, or human rights? What... |
2018 |
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| Kimberly A. Yuracko , Ronen Avraham |
VALUING BLACK LIVES: A CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE TO THE USE OF RACE-BASED TABLES IN CALCULATING TORT DAMAGES |
106 California Law Review 325 (April, 2018) |
This Article challenges a practice in tort law that is ubiquitous, yet little noticed--namely the use of race-based wage, life expectancy, and work-life expectancy tables when calculating damage awards. The practice results in damage awards that are significantly lower for black victims than for white victims and creates an incentive for potential... |
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| Kimberly A. Yuracko , Ronen Avraham |
VALUING BLACK LIVES: A CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE TO THE USE OF RACE-BASED TABLES IN CALCULATING TORT DAMAGES |
106 California Law Review 325 (April, 2018) |
This Article challenges a practice in tort law that is ubiquitous, yet little noticed--namely the use of race-based wage, life expectancy, and work-life expectancy tables when calculating damage awards. The practice results in damage awards that are significantly lower for black victims than for white victims and creates an incentive for potential... |
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| Laura Goolsby |
WHY INTERNATIONAL LAW SHOULD MATTER TO BLACK LIVES MATTER: A DRAFT PETITION TO THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ON BEHALF OF THE FAMILY OF ERIC GARNER |
21 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change 29 (2018) |
The United States consistently fails to provide effective remedies to victims of unlawful force perpetrated by police departments around the country. Efforts to address this impunity and underlying systemic racism have met with limited success. Recently, activists and scholars have begun calling for international review of these practices. This... |
2018 |
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| Laura Goolsby |
WHY INTERNATIONAL LAW SHOULD MATTER TO BLACK LIVES MATTER: A DRAFT PETITION TO THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ON BEHALF OF THE FAMILY OF ERIC GARNER |
21 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change 29 (2018) |
The United States consistently fails to provide effective remedies to victims of unlawful force perpetrated by police departments around the country. Efforts to address this impunity and underlying systemic racism have met with limited success. Recently, activists and scholars have begun calling for international review of these practices. This... |
2018 |
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| Chiraag Bains |
"A FEW BAD APPLES": HOW THE NARRATIVE OF ISOLATED MISCONDUCT DISTORTS CIVIL RIGHTS DOCTRINE |
93 Indiana Law Journal 29 (Winter, 2018) |
Viral videos of fatal police force used against unarmed or nondangerous individuals, many of them black men, are driving a conversation about race and policing in America. The names are familiar by now, part of a macabre roll of modern American tragedy. Eric Garner was choked to death in Staten Island, repeating I can't breathe before he died.... |
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| Sara Mayeux |
"AN HONEST BUT FEARLESS FIGHTER": THE ADVERSARIAL IDEAL OF PUBLIC DEFENDERS IN 1930S AND 1940S LOS ANGELES |
36 Law and History Review 619 (August, 2018) |
Early one Sunday in 1948, Frederic Vercoe set out from his home in San Marino, California, for a speaking engagement in downtown Los Angeles. Perhaps he took the Arroyo Seco Parkway, which had opened for drivers 8 years before, linking the city more tightly with its vast agglomerate of suburbs. Although the roads may have changed, Vercoe had been... |
2018 |
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| Kenneth B. Nunn |
"ESSENTIALLY BLACK": LEGAL THEORY AND THE MORALITY OF CONSCIOUS RACIAL IDENTITY |
97 Nebraska Law Review 287 (2018) |
In philosophy, essentialism involves the claim that everything that exists has a fundamental character or core set of features that makes it what it is. Although this idea developed out of Platonic notions of ideal forms, it has spread beyond philosophy into the social sciences and hard scientific disciplines like mathematics and biology. Since the... |
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| Monique T. Curry |
"GET THAT SON OF A * OFF THE FIELD": REGULATING STUDENT-ATHLETE PROTEST SPEECH IN PUBLIC UNIVERSITY SPORTS FACILITIES |
61 Howard Law Journal 669 (Spring, 2018) |
INTRODUCTION. 669 I. PUBLIC FORUM DOCTRINE AND THE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY. 673 II. PROTEST SPEECH AS PROTECTED EXPRESSIVE CONDUCT. 687 III. STUDENT-ATHLETE PROTEST SPEECH IS WORTHY OF FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTION. 693 CONCLUSION. 697 |
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| Spencer K. Beall |
"LOCK HER UP!" HOW WOMEN HAVE BECOME THE FASTEST-GROWING POPULATION IN THE AMERICAN CARCERAL STATE |
23 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 1 (Spring, 2018) |
The majority of discourse on American mass incarceration attempts to explain the outsize populations in jails and prisons as the result of a political war against a specific group of people (e.g. against a certain race, against the poor), rather than against crime itself. Less attention has been paid to women, even though they are the... |
2018 |
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| Christina A. Zawisza |
"MLK 50: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?": TEACHING THE MEMPHIS CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT THROUGH A THERAPEUTIC JURISPRUDENCE LENS |
6 Belmont Law Review 175 (2018) |
We walk on sacred and honorable ground. As the nation pauses to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, it is imperative that we study the epic civil rights history of Memphis which preceded this dreadful event, especially in the legal academy. Therapeutic... |
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| Samuel Walker |
"NOT DEAD YET": THE NATIONAL POLICE CRISIS, A NEW CONVERSATION ABOUT POLICING, AND THE PROSPECTS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY-RELATED POLICE REFORM |
2018 University of Illinois Law Review 1777 (2018) |
This Article argues that, despite the actions of the Trump Administration in cancelling two Justice Department accountability-related police reform programs, the prospects for continued police reform efforts in the immediate future remain alive. This argument is based on several factors, both in the broader social and political environment and... |
2018 |
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| Russell K. Robinson, David M. Frost |
"PLAYING IT SAFE" WITH EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE: SELECTIVE USE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE IN SUPREME COURT CASES ABOUT RACIAL JUSTICE AND MARRIAGE EQUALITY |
112 Northwestern University Law Review 1565 (2018) |
Abstract--This Essay seeks to draw connections between race, sexual orientation, and social science in Supreme Court litigation. In some respects, advocates for racial minorities and sexual minorities face divergent trajectories. Among those asserting civil rights claims, LGBT rights claimants have been uniquely successful at the Court ever since... |
2018 |
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| Elizabeth J. Upton |
"SOME KIND OF NOTICE" IS NO KIND OF STANDARD: THE NEED FOR JUDICIAL INTERVENTION AND CLARITY IN DUE PROCESS PROTECTIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS |
86 George Washington Law Review 655 (March, 2018) |
Public backlash over zero tolerance policies that funnel public school students to jail through the school to prison pipeline has unveiled the systemic issues associated with discriminatory application and the detrimental effects of exclusionary discipline. What remains unaddressed and largely ignored is the lack of procedural safeguards afforded... |
2018 |
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| Arturo Peña Miranda |
"WHERE THERE IS A RIGHT (AGAINST EXCESSIVE FORCE), THERE IS ALSO A REMEDY": REDRESS FOR POLICE VIOLENCE UNDER THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE |
65 UCLA Law Review 1678 (September, 2018) |
This Comment argues that the Equal Protection Clause compels the federal courts to create an implied damages remedy in excessive force cases. Implied constitutional remedies are disfavored today. Jurists believe that as tribunals of limited jurisdiction, federal courts may only issue a damages remedy when Congress so provides in the constitutional... |
2018 |
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| Sofia Yakren |
"WRONGFUL BIRTH" CLAIMS AND THE PARADOX OF PARENTING A CHILD WITH A DISABILITY |
87 Fordham Law Review 583 (November, 2018) |
Wrongful birth is a controversial medical malpractice claim raised by the mother of a child born with a disability against a medical professional whose failure to provide adequate prenatal information denied her the chance to abort. Plaintiff-mothers are required to testify that, but for the defendant's negligence, they would have terminated... |
2018 |
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| Janos Marton |
#CLOSERIKERS: THE CAMPAIGN TO TRANSFORM NEW YORK CITY'S CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM |
45 Fordham Urban Law Journal 499 (February, 2018) |
Introduction. 500 I. Rikers Island: A History of Racism, Violence, and Corruption. 503 A. Richard Riker. 504 B. Creating the Rikers Island Jail Complex. 505 C. Problems Arise: Rikers Island Jail Complex from 1935-1980. 507 D. Closing Rikers Island: The First Attempt. 510 E. Violence Rises During the 1990s and 2000s. 512 F. Modern Reform Failures.... |
2018 |
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| Renee Nicole Allen, Deshun Harris |
#SOCIALJUSTICE: COMBATTING IMPLICIT BIAS IN AN AGE OF MILLENNIALS, COLORBLINDNESS & MICROAGGRESSIONS |
18 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 1 (Spring, 2018) |
Law schools, in an effort to produce practice-ready graduates, are in an opportune position to take the lead in confronting social justice. Many schools are shifting from traditional classroom instruction to more experiential learning environments which place students early in their academic pursuits in contact with clients and legal problems.... |
2018 |
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| K. Sabeel Rahman |
(RE)CONSTRUCTING DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS |
65 UCLA Law Review 1552 (September, 2018) |
Contemporary concerns about democratic backsliding in the United States and elsewhere have produced an important new literature on democratic crisis and the ways in which political actors can undermine institutions and norms of constitutional democracy. This Article complements the democratic backsliding discourse by focusing on another set of... |
2018 |
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| Theresa Zhen, Vinuta Naik |
A CLEAN SLATE CASE STUDY OF COMMUNITY LAWYERING |
106 California Law Review 557 (April, 2018) |
Between 1990 and 2005, a new prison opened in the United States every ten days. Prison growth and the resulting prison-industrial complex--the business interests that capitalize on prison construction--made imprisonment so profitable that millions of dollars were spent lobbying state legislators to keep expanding the use of incarceration to... |
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| Jenny B. Davis |
A GREAT RESPONSIBILITY |
104-NOV ABA Journal 12 (November, 2018) |
RAMSEY CLARK'S career defies categorization. Those who came of age in the 1960s know Ramsey Clark for his leadership in the Department of Justice, where he worked with President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy and became attorney general under President Lyndon B. Johnson. A key player in the civil rights movement, the... |
2018 |
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| Magda Boutros |
A MULTIDIMENSIONAL VIEW OF LEGAL CYNICISM: PERCEPTIONS OF THE POLICE AMONG ANTI-HARASSMENT TEAMS IN EGYPT |
52 Law and Society Review 368 (June, 2018) |
In Egypt in 2012, several anti-harassment groups were established to respond to an increase in sexual violence in public spaces and to the failure of the state to tackle the issue. Anti-harassment groups organized patrol-type intervention teams that operated during demonstrations or public celebrations to stop sexual assaults. This article examines... |
2018 |
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| Susan D. Carle , Scott L. Cummings |
A REFLECTION ON THE ETHICS OF MOVEMENT LAWYERING |
31 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 447 (Summer, 2018) |
This essay takes a new look at legal ethics issues salient to movement lawyers who maintain a sustained commitment to social movement goals and collaborate with social movement organizations over time to achieve them. The essay provides a historical overview of movement lawyering, tracing its development to current practice in which movement... |
2018 |
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| Katherine A. Macfarlane |
ACCELERATED CIVIL RIGHTS SETTLEMENTS IN THE SHADOW OF SECTION 1983 |
2018 Utah Law Review 639 (2018) |
The families of Eric Garner, Laquan McDonald, Freddie Gray, and Walter Scott have obtained multimillion dollar settlements from the cities in which their family members lost their lives. This Article identifies and labels these settlements as a legal response unique to high-profile police-involved deaths: accelerated civil rights settlement. It... |
2018 |
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| Ellen E. Deason , Michael Z. Green , Donna Shestowsky , Rory Van Loo , Ellen Waldman |
ADR AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE: CURRENT PERSPECTIVES |
33 Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution 303 (2018) |
Ellen Deason: Welcome to the 2018 AALS Annual Meeting Alternative Dispute Resolution Section program. We thank the Litigation Section for their co-sponsorship of this presentation. I will introduce the panelists by name and school and then they will each provide a more substantive introduction in a minute. At the far end is Michael Green from Texas... |
2018 |
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| Beth Shane |
AFTER "KNOWING EXPOSURE": FIRST AND FOURTH AMENDMENT DIMENSIONS OF DRONE REGULATION |
73 New York University Annual Survey of American Law 323 (2018) |
C1-3TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction. 324 II. First Amendment Rights in the National Airspace System. 329 A. Background on the Drone Rule and Newsgathering by Drones. 331 B. The First Amendment Right to Record. 333 C. Preserving the Fourth Amendment by Protecting the First. 336 D. Forum Analysis of the National Airspace System. 338 E. Alternative... |
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| Ashley E. Russo |
AN ANALYSIS OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT THROUGH THE LENS OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: HOW APPLE'S LATEST IPHONE PATENT CAN CHANGE THE WAY WE RISE |
18 Journal of High Technology Law 331 (2018) |
Every day, all across the world, billions of people use their iPhone as a vital source for communicating, gathering information, listening to music, and capturing photos and videos. With the swipe of a finger or the touch of a button, billions of people worldwide have the technology in the palm of their hands to capture any moment that they... |
2018 |
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| Becky Monroe |
AN ATTACK ON AMERICA'S PEACEMAKERS IS AN ATTACK ON ALL OF US: ON THE IMPORTANCE OF EMBRACING THE POWER OF COMMUNITIES AND REJECTING THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S ATTEMPT TO ELIMINATE THE COMMUNITY RELATIONS SERVICE |
37 Yale Law and Policy Review 299 (Fall, 2018) |
As images of neo-Nazis marching through our streets fill our screens, and reports of a growing number of hate crimes sweep the country, how can the Community Relations Service (CRS), a small component of the U.S. Department of Justice created by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, help preserve democracy? What is at stake when the Trump Administration... |
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45 School Law Bulletin 4 (February 10, 2018) |
In March 2017, Kenda Miller, a former principal, had her principals teaching certificate suspended by the Oklahoma State Board of Education (OSBE) after failing to report claims of alleged molestation. Miller appealed this decision to the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, and her appeal was denied. The court upheld the OSBEs suspension, showing... |
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Around the Nation |
20 Student Discipline Law Bulletin 5 (February 1, 2018) |
San Jose school police officers got notice recently that their job is not to serve as school disciplinarians. A memo from the police department informed campus police officers that their job is to ensure safety, not to discipline students. School police are encouraged to find solutions to problems like truancy by working with educators, but they... |
2018 |
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| Cindy Cohn |
BAD FACTS MAKE BAD LAW: HOW PLATFORM CENSORSHIP HAS FAILED SO FAR AND HOW TO ENSURE THAT THE RESPONSE TO NEO-NAZIS DOESN'T MAKE IT WORSE |
2 Georgetown Law Technology Review 432 (Spring, 2018) |
From Cloudflare's headline-making takedown of the Daily Stormer to YouTube's summer restrictions on LGBTQ content, 2017 was a banner year for platform censorship. Companies--under pressure from lawmakers, shareholders, the press, and some members of the public--ramped up restrictions on speech by adding new rules, adjusting their still-hidden... |
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| Stacy L. Hawkins |
BATSON FOR JUDGES, POLICE OFFICERS & TEACHERS: LESSONS IN DEMOCRACY FROM THE JURY BOX |
23 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 1 (2017-2018) |
In our representative democracy we guarantee equal participation for all, but we fall short of this promise in so many domains of our civic life. From the schoolhouse, to the jailhouse, to the courthouse, racial minorities are underrepresented among key public decision-makers, such as judges, police officers, and teachers. This gap between our... |
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Battle over Trump court pick to be most expensive ever |
(June 29, 2018) |
The fight to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy is expected to be the most expensive Supreme Court confirmation battle in history. |
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| Charles W. McKinney, Jr. |
BEYOND DREAMS AND MOUNTAINS: MARTIN KING'S CHALLENGE TO THE ARC OF HISTORY |
49 University of Memphis Law Review 263 (Fall, 2018) |
I. Introduction: The Master Narrative of the Civil Rights Movement. 263 II. Dr. King's Renowned Influence on the Movement. 267 A. The Celebrated and Well-Known Message. 267 B. A King's Memorial and Perception. 269 C. Heeding Dr. King's Message. 272 III. The Forgotten Narrative of Today's Struggles. 272 A. Activists in an Ongoing Battle. 273 B.... |
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| Emmanuel Mauleón |
BLACK TWICE: POLICING BLACK MUSLIM IDENTITIES |
65 UCLA Law Review 1326 (June, 2018) |
In a political moment that includes various iterations of a Muslim Ban, and a resurgent mainstreaming of white nationalism, race and religion clearly remain hotly contested in American life. And yet, in much of the recent scholarship and public debate on these issues, the intersecting experiences of Black Muslims are often elided, if not entirely... |
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BLOG TRACKER-NOTEWORTHY BLOG POSTS AND OTHER COMMENTARY |
2018 Wolters Kluwer Intellectual Property Law Daily 773847 (February 8, 2018) |
The week's most insightful, intriguing, or entertaining blog posts regarding intellectual property issues: Giga Law, Bitcoin Domain Names Become Popular And Attract Disputes, by Doug Isenberg IPWatchdog, Letter to President Trump on China IP Probe is Latest Sign of Conservative Support for Private IP Rights, by Steve Brachmann Kluwer Patent... |
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Boston police monitored social media for years without City Council knowing |
(February 13, 2018) |
The Boston Police Department used social media surveillance software to scan citizens' social media accounts for criminal or terrorist activity from 2014 through 2016 without alerting the City Council, a civil liberties group says. |
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| Christine C. Washington |
BRAND NAMES . MATTER! THE FIRST AMENDMENT TRUMPS TRADEMARK LAW AS OFFENSIVE BRANDS ARE DEEMED FREE SPEECH AMIDST BACKDROP OF HATE AND CULTURAL BRAND MARGINALIZATION |
23-APR NBA National Bar Association Magazine 20 (April, 2018) |
Ev'rybody shout this trademark, ev'rybody sing this tune: a watermelon, razor, a chicken and a coon! From The Coon's Trademark composed by Tom Logan and performed by Bert Williams & George Walker, pictured below circa 1898. Intellectual property (IP) is usually viewed as an objective body of established, albeit evolving, law. As a general rule,... |
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