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| Josh Lens |
THE WNBA'S 2020 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT: A SLAM DUNK FOR WORKING WOMEN AND MOTHERS |
110 Kentucky Law Journal 333 (2021-2022) |
Table of Contents. 333 Abstract. 333 Introduction. 334 I. The WNBA and its Extensive History of Social Activism. 337 A. WNBA History. 337 B. The WNBA's Involvement with Social Issues. 340 II. WNBA Collective Bargaining History that Culminated in the 2020 CBA. 343 A. Collective Bargaining Under Labor Law and the National Labor Relations Act. 344 B.... |
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| Deborah L. Brake |
THEORY MATTERS--AND TEN MORE THINGS I LEARNED FROM MARTHA CHAMALLAS ABOUT FEMINISM, LAW, AND GENDER |
83 Ohio State Law Journal 435 (2022) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 435 II. Feminism Is Plural. 437 III. Gender Is Intersectional. 442 IV. Gender Is Constructed and Gender Constructs. 444 V. Everything Old Becomes New Again. 446 VI. Nothing Is as Easy as It Seems. 450 VII. Gender Hides in Plain Sight. 457 VIII. It's the Institution, Stupid!. 459 IX. Mind the Gap. 462 X. Take... |
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| Frank D. LoMonte , Paola Fiku |
THINKING OUTSIDE THE DOX: THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND THE RIGHT TO DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION |
91 UMKC Law Review 1 (Fall, 2022) |
During a hard-fought 2021 mayoral race in New York City, an unanticipated issue fixated the attention of local journalists and threatened to derail the frontrunning campaign of Democrat Eric Adams: it was not clear that Adams actually lived in New York. Reporters used publicly available records to sleuth out indicators that Adams' primary residence... |
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| Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw |
THIS IS NOT A DRILL: THE WAR AGAINST ANTIRACIST TEACHING IN AMERICA |
68 UCLA Law Review 1702 (February, 2022) |
On January 5, 2022, Professor Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw received the 2021 Triennial Award for Lifetime Service to Legal Education and the Legal Profession from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). In this modified acceptance speech delivered at the 2022 AALS Awards Ceremony, she reflects on the path that brought her to this moment and... |
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| Dalila E. A. Haden |
TIKTOK ON THE CLOCK: THE PRESSING NEED FOR EQUITABLE SOLUTIONS TO SOLVE SOCIAL MEDIA COPYRIGHT INJUSTICES COMMITTED AGAINST MINORITY CREATORS |
24 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 51 (2022) |
Dance creators on TikTok--many of whom are Black and people of color--are asking to be properly recognized for viral dances that the most popular TikTokers appropriate and monetize. Now, many of these original creators are directly addressing the issue. They point out that proper crediting is important because dances are not simply a frivolous... |
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| Brian L. Porto |
TIME TO TINKER: A NEW STANDARD FOR PROTECTING THE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS OF COLLEGE ATHLETES |
13 Harvard Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law 301 (Summer, 2022) |
As winter gave way to spring and summer in 2021, longstanding practices in the relations between college athletes and their respective institutions yielded to the shifting winds of dramatic, even historic, change. In April of 2021, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) approved a rule change that enables athletes in all sports who... |
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| Katherine Grace Graham |
TO TRUST OR NOT TO TRUST: NATIVE AMERICAN HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT IN THE SUPREME COURT'S HANDS |
56 Georgia Law Review 1281 (Summer, 2022) |
The United States federal government's relationship with Native American tribes has long been tenuous. Despite years of unjust and inhumane treatment of Native Americans by the government, Congress has attempted to rectify or limit the government's harm to Native American people but has fallen short of upholding all agreements intended to improve... |
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| Khrystan Nicole Policarpio, Grecia Orozco |
TOGETHER BUT UNEQUAL: HOW THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC EXACERBATED THE INEQUITIES HARMING MINORITY LAW STUDENTS |
55 U.C. Davis Law Review Online 91 (May, 2022) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 93 I. The Law School Institutional Structure. 95 A. Law School Admissions Have Numerous Structural Hurdles for Minority Law Students. 96 1. LSAT. 96 2. Law School Rankings. 99 B. Law Schools Continue to Uphold White Supremacy in the Classroom. 101 C. Minority Law School Graduates Continue to Face Structural... |
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TRANSCRIPT OF VIDEO FILE: PANEL 5 - THE FUTURE OF EMPLOYMENT LAW |
30 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 191 (2022) |
FACILITATOR: All right everyone, welcome to our last panel, The Future of Employment Law. I want to quickly introduce our moderator, Karla Gilbride, the co-director of the Access to Justice Project. Karla, you can take it away. KARLA GILBRIDE: Thank you so much. Thanks to the American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy, & the Law, and... |
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| Allison Schwach |
TRANSPARENCY BREEDS ACCOUNTABILITY, ACCOUNTABILITY BREEDS TRUST: WHERE IOWA LAW STANDS ON THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF POLICE MISCONDUCT RECORDS |
70 Drake Law Review 521 (2022) |
Over the last decade, highly publicized and heartbreaking displays of law enforcement officers using force, abusing force, and exhibiting blatant misconduct have plagued the United States. The widespread news coverage of these tragedies has justifiably unleashed outrage. Importantly, however, the coverage has also served to bring necessary... |
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| Teri Dobbins Baxter |
TRAUMATIC JUSTICE |
56 University of Richmond Law Review 331 (Winter, 2022) |
In the recent past, allegations of police misconduct have periodically led to widespread community protests, but usually only when the incident is sufficiently high-profile and the harm is severe, such as when a police officer beats or kills an unarmed Black person. More often the spotlight and outrage have faded quickly, as victims were... |
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| C. Scott Holmes , Amelia O'Rourke-Owens |
TRESPASSING ON WHITE SUPREMACY: THE LEGACY OF ESTABLISHMENT WHITE SUPREMACY IN NORTH CAROLINA |
100 North Carolina Law Review Forum 149 (2022) |
White supremacy offers a unifying framework for understanding the legal history of North Carolina, the current legal regime of the state, and the actions of the state in responding to protests demanding redress from that insidious history. We provide a history of the First Reconstruction in the state, the leading role of white lawyers in the... |
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| Dana Khabbaz |
UNMANNED STAKEOUTS: POLE-CAMERA SURVEILLANCE AND PRIVACY AFTER THE TUGGLE CERT DENIAL |
132 Yale Law Journal Forum 105 (10/10/2022) |
abstract. This Essay analyzes the implications of the Supreme Court's denial of certiorari in Tuggle v. United States, a Seventh Circuit opinion upholding law enforcement's warrantless, eighteen-month pole-camera surveillance of a criminal suspect's home. By declining to take up the case, the Supreme Court missed an opportunity to update its... |
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| Alexandra L. Raleigh |
WE CAN'T BREATHE: REIMAGINING EQUAL PROTECTION AS A COLLECTIVE RIGHT |
72 Case Western Reserve Law Review 785 (Spring, 2022) |
George Floyd couldn't breathe. We can't either. We live in fear. Fear of walking outside. Wearing a hoodie. Going for a jog. Sleeping in our own home. Existing. Every day, a new hashtag. Every hour, a new injustice. Every second, more pain. We don't deserve to live like this--and we continue to fight until white supremacy no longer permeates every... |
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| Barry Friedman |
WHAT IS PUBLIC SAFETY? |
102 Boston University Law Review 725 (April, 2022) |
For hundreds of years, political leaders and thinkers have deemed public safety the first duty of government. But they have defined public safety rather narrowly, primarily in terms of the protection function--protecting individuals from violent harm to person or property from third parties (and also from natural elements). As the first duty, the... |
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| Trace C. Vardsveen , Richard L. Wiener |
WHAT'S REASONABLE? AN EXPERIMENTAL TEST OF THE REASONABLE OFFICER STANDARD |
28 Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 573 (November, 2022) |
Under the U.S. Supreme Court's legal standard for determining civil liability in Fourth Amendment excessive force cases, jurors must judge the reasonableness of an officer's use of force from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene by considering factors like a suspect's threat and resistance levels. However, despite a growing body... |
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| Osamudia James |
WHITE INJURY AND INNOCENCE: ON THE LEGAL FUTURE OF ANTIRACISM EDUCATION |
108 Virginia Law Review 1689 (December, 2022) |
In the wake of the racial reckoning of 2020, antiracism education attracted intense attention and prompted renewed educator commitments to teach more explicitly about the function, operation, and harm of racism in the United States. The increased visibility of antiracism education engendered sustained critique and opposition, resulting in... |
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| Brandon Hasbrouck |
WHO CAN PROTECT BLACK PROTEST? |
170 University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online 39 (2022) |
Police violence both as the cause of and response to the racial justice protests following George Floyd's murder called fresh attention to the need for legal remedies to hold police officers accountable. In addition to the well-publicized issue of qualified immunity, the differential regimes for asserting civil rights claims against state and... |
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| Cedric Merlin Powell |
WOKE? |
25 Green Bag 123 (Winter, 2022) |
Conflating the whitelash against anti-racist activism and policy advocacy with a reverse racism conceit ripe with the fervor of a new religion, John McWhorter, Columbia University linguist and social commentator, unearths a new Black pathology-- Woke Racism--a religion of wokeness that threatens to betray Black America. America is in the looking... |
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| Kathleen Kersh , Matthew N. Currie |
WORKING FOR JUSTICE IN AN UNJUST SYSTEM; MOVING BEYOND THE LEGAL SYSTEM |
55 UIC Law Review 251 (Summer, 2022) |
I. Introduction. 251 II. Background. 257 A. Moving beyond the legal system to promote community empowerment. 257 B. Cole's Framework for Community Lawyering. 259 III. Case Studies. 262 A. Case Study 1: Surveillance Technology Oversight Ordinance. 262 1. Building the Coalition. 262 2. Advocating for Police Accountability. 265 3. Supporting Community... |
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| Xenna K. Davis |
YOUR SHIRT OR YOUR VOTE: WHY TEXAS'S ELECTIONEERING LAW UNCONSTITUTIONALLY INFRINGES VOTERS' FREEDOM OF SPEECH |
54 Texas Tech Law Review 279 (Winter, 2022) |
I. Introduction. 280 II. A Retrospect of the Freedom of Speech. 282 A. The First Amendment's Free Speech Clause. 282 B. Unprotected Speech v. Protected Speech. 283 C. Expressive Conduct and Expressive Association. 284 1. Expressive Conduct. 285 2. Expressive Association in the Context of NAACP and BLM. 286 D. Three Types of Government-Controlled... |
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| Amanda Pulido |
ZERO TO HERO: THE UNAVAILABILITY OF BIVENS AND WHY CONGRESS SHOULD INTERVENE |
16 FIU Law Review 807 (Spring, 2022) |
In Bivens, the Supreme Court held that although 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is silent as to its application to federal agents, the plaintiff had an implied cause of action against federal agents for violation of his constitutional rights. Since this decision, the Court has heavily narrowed the implied Bivens cause of action and punted the decision to Congress... |
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| Sky Leah Ross |
"A SPACE FOR YOU" |
32 Hastings Women's L.J. 109 [Hastings Women's Law Journal] (Winter, 2021) |
This poem was written in remembrance of all the innocent Black lives lost, and in solidarity with the movements that continue the battle for systemic change. A Space for You --Sky Leah Ross I see your anger & frustration, all of the agony you've been through; Lay it down here, let me make a space for you. For all of the pain, all of the hurt, all... |
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| Michael Heise, Jason P. Nance |
"DEFUND THE (SCHOOL) POLICE"? BRINGING DATA TO KEY SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE CLAIMS |
111 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 717 [Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology] (Summer, 2021) |
Nationwide calls to Defund the Police, largely attributable to the resurgent Black Lives Matter demonstrations, have motivated derivative calls for public school districts to consider defunding (or modifying) school resource officer (SRO/police) programs. To be sure, a school's SRO/police presence-- and the size of that presence--may... |
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| Phyllis W. Cheng, Ann M. Noel, and Susan Saylor, Ann M. Noel |
§ 14:3. Ralph Act jury instructions |
TRG-CAFAIR § 14:3 [California Fair Housing and Public Accommodations] (2021) |
California courts have adopted the elements of proof as set out in the California Jury Instructions. (CACI 3064; Black Lives Matter-Stockton Chapter v. San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office, 398 F. Supp. 3d 660, 678-679 (E.D. Cal. 2019); Austin B. v. Escondido Union School Dist., 149 Cal. App. 4th 860, 57 Cal. Rptr. 3d 454, 471, 219 Ed. Law Rep. 91... |
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| Shannon Thyme Klinger and Teresa T. Bonder |
§ 39:8.50. The case for creating an organized D&I program-D&I in light of the Black Lives Matter movement |
SPARTNER § 39:8.50 [Successful Partnering Between Inside and Outside Counsel] (2021) |
In the weeks and months following the killings of George Floyd, Breona Taylor, and Rayshard Brooks (among others), tens of millions of people across the United States took to the streets in protest. These demonstrations, aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement, called for an end to racist policing and other systems of power that perpetuate... |
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¶ 37,587 HOME DEPOT ALLEGEDLY DISCRIMINATED AGAINST EMPLOYEE WHO RAISED RACIAL HARASSMENT ISSUES, WORE BLM SLOGAN - NLRB NEWS |
Labor & Empl. L. P 37587 [Labor & Employment Law] (2021) |
By WK Editorial Staff On August 12, the NLRB's Region 18Minneapolis office issued a complaint against Home Depot USA, Inc., alleging that the national home improvement chain discriminated against an employee in a Minneapolis store for raising issues of racial harassment with coworkers and managers and displaying a Black Lives Matter slogan on his... |
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¶ 37,587 HOME DEPOT ALLEGEDLY DISCRIMINATED AGAINST EMPLOYEE WHO RAISED RACIAL HARASSMENT ISSUES, WORE BLM SLOGAN - NLRB NEWS |
Labor & Empl. L. P 37587 [Labor & Employment Law] (2021) |
By WK Editorial Staff On August 12, the NLRB's Region 18Minneapolis office issued a complaint against Home Depot USA, Inc., alleging that the national home improvement chain discriminated against an employee in a Minneapolis store for raising issues of racial harassment with coworkers and managers and displaying a Black Lives Matter slogan on his... |
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| Rebecca Beitsch |
Acting attorney general says DOJ will enforce law |
The Hill (1/6/2021) |
Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen condemned the rioters who forced their way into the Capitol Wednesday, saying the Department of Justice (DOJ) would enforce the laws of our land.",...frequently criticized left-leaning protestors. He was particularly vocal as Black Lives Matter protests spread across the country in May and June |
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48 No. 1 Quinlan, School Law Bulletin NL 6 [School Law Bulletin] (1/10/2021) |
Jeff Davis Elementary in the Biloxi School District (BSD) has renamed to Back Bay Elementary in an effort to be more racially conscious. Discussions of racial injustice which were bolstered by the Black Lives Matter movement have inspired many communities across the country to reconsider the public display of Confederate monuments and to update... |
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48 No. 14 Quinlan, School Law Bulletin NL 4 [School Law Bulletin] (7/25/2021) |
East Penn School District (EPSD) is being sued by Maureen and Christopher Brophy, the Christian parents of children in the district. They claim that their children should be exempt from lessons concerning the Black Lives Matter movement that involve lessons about race because it goes against their religious teachings. According to the lawsuit, the... |
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| Joseph Pileri |
ASKING THE HARD QUESTIONS: TRUTH, RECONCILIATION, AND CORPORATE AMERICA |
18 Berkeley Bus. L.J. 157 [Berkeley Business Law Journal] (2021) |
In the wake of the murder of George Floyd, many American companies issued public statements to support the Black Lives Matter movement and promised steps to address internal racial inequality and systemic racism. Telling Black Americans that their lives matter, Apple CEO Tim Cook promised to bring critical resources and technology to underserved... |
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| Joseph Pileri |
ASKING THE HARD QUESTIONS: TRUTH, RECONCILIATION, AND CORPORATE AMERICA |
18 Berkeley Bus. L.J. 157 [Berkeley Business Law Journal] (2021) |
In the wake of the murder of George Floyd, many American companies issued public statements to support the Black Lives Matter movement and promised steps to address internal racial inequality and systemic racism. Telling Black Americans that their lives matter, Apple CEO Tim Cook promised to bring critical resources and technology to underserved... |
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| Nathalie Martin |
BAD APPLES OR A ROTTEN TREE: AMELIORATING THE DOUBLE PANDEMIC OF COVID-19 AND RACIAL ECONOMIC INEQUALITY |
82 Mont. L. Rev. 105 [Montana Law Review] (Winter, 2021) |
Black Lives Matter signs pepper our rural, middle class neighborhood. Like many of the neighborhoods in my town, there are few Black Americans living nearby. The signs are a symbol of the desire to do something, finally, about systemic racism. There are other subtle shifts occurring as well. More books on racism top bestsellers lists and more ads... |
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| Alex Gangitano |
Biden criticizes Putin's 'ridiculous comparison' between Capitol rioters and critics |
The Hill (6/16/2021) |
President Biden on Wednesday called Russian President Vladimir Putins comparison of the Black Lives Matter movement and arrests of Jan. 6 rioters to the treatment of pro-democracy protestors in Russia as ridiculous. |
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Biden says there was double standard in treatment of Capitol mob, BLM protesters |
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President-elect Joe Biden said the treatment of the rioters at the Capitol insurrection on Wednesday and of Black Lives Matter protesters last year revealed a blatant double standard in how law enforcement responded to the two groups. |
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| Samy Abdallah |
BLACK LIVES MATTER ABROAD, TOO: PROPOSED SOLUTIONS TO THE RACIALIZED POLICING OF ETHIOPIAN JEWS IN ISRAEL |
27 Wm. & Mary J. Race, Gender & Soc. Just. 515 [William and Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice] (Winter, 2021) |
Introduction I. Overview of the Ethiopian Jewish Presence in Israel A. Who Are the Ethiopian Jewish Minority? B. Escape to Israel from Religious Persecution in Ethiopia C. Settlement in a New Land II. Comparing Palestinians and Ethiopian Jews A. Insular Groups in a White Society B. Views on the Police C. The Rules of Engagement III. Possible... |
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| Catherine Engberg |
BLACK LIVES MATTER AS GOVERNMENT SPEECH |
44-SEP L.A. Law. 10 [Los Angeles Lawyer] (September, 2021) |
In June 2020, communities across California and the world protested and mourned the nationally recognized acts of violence against Black Lives. #Say Their Names compiled a long list of black individuals who lost their lives in 2020 including Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd. A video of the Minneapolis police brutally killing George... |
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| Megan Ming Francis , Leah Wright-Rigueur |
BLACK LIVES MATTER IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE |
17 Ann. Rev. L. & Soc. Sci. 441 [Annual Review of Law and Social Science] (2021) |
Black Lives Matter, violence, protest, Black politics, civil rights, social movements This review examines the Black Lives Matter movement. Despite a growing body of literature focused on explaining the formation and activities of the present Black Lives Matter movement, less attention is given to the historical antecedents. What are earlier Black... |
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| Megan Ming Francis , Leah Wright-Rigueur |
BLACK LIVES MATTER IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE |
17 Ann. Rev. L. & Soc. Sci. 441 [Annual Review of Law and Social Science] (2021) |
Black Lives Matter, violence, protest, Black politics, civil rights, social movements This review examines the Black Lives Matter movement. Despite a growing body of literature focused on explaining the formation and activities of the present Black Lives Matter movement, less attention is given to the historical antecedents. What are earlier Black... |
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| Olafimihan Oshin |
Blinken authorized embassies to fly Black Lives Matter flags on Floyd anniversary: report |
The Hill (5/27/2021) |
Secretary of State Antony Blinken authorized all U.S. embassies overseas to fly flags honoring the Black Lives Matter movement on the anniversary of George Floyds death. |
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| Toni Jaramilla |
BLM: UPRISINGS TO REFORM |
44-JUN L.A. Law. 28 [Los Angeles Lawyer] (June, 2021) |
Echoing many concerns of the 1960s Civil Rights movement, Black Lives Matter has raised awareness that policing should not be an us versus them proposition The words of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., A riot is the language of the unheard, ring as true today as they did in the 1950s and 1960s when he marched and protested during the civil... |
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| Gabrielle M. Haddad |
CONFRONTING THE BIASED ALGORITHM: THE DANGER OF ADMITTING FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY RESULTS IN THE COURTROOM |
23 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 891 [Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law] (Summer, 2021) |
From unlocking an iPhone to Facebook tags, facial recognition technology has become increasingly commonplace in modern society. In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement and call for police reform in the United States, it is important now more than ever to consider the implications of law enforcement's use of facial recognition technology. A... |
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| Zack Budryk |
Cori Bush dismisses concerns of being 'co-opted' by establishment |
The Hill (1/19/2021) |
Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), who worked as a Black Lives Matter organizer in Ferguson, Mo., before taking office, said in a new interview that she is not at risk of being co-opted by the party establishment. |
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| Wayne D. Garris Jr., J.D. |
DISCRIMINATION-RACE-D. MASS.: NO RACE BIAS, RETALIATION CLAIMS FOR WHOLE FOODS EMPLOYEES BANNED FROM WEARING BLM ATTIRE |
[Wolters Kluwer Employment Law Daily] (2/8/2021) |
The employees alleged that the grocer had a dress code, but only enforced it when they started to wear Black Lives Matter masks to work. A federal district court in Massachusetts has granted Whole Foods' and Amazon's motions to dismiss the race discrimination claims of a class of current and former employees who claimed that they were punished for... |
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| Jacqueline M. Prats |
DIVERSITY INITIATIVES AND THE BACKLASH OF REVERSE DISCRIMINATION CLAIMS |
95-OCT Fla. B.J. 42 [Florida Bar Journal] (September/October, 2021) |
By now, most Americans have probably heard of the Black Lives Matter and Me Too movements. Although the Black Lives Matter movement had been active for a number of years, it gained international attention in the summer of 2020 when protests broke out across the nation in response to the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. Among... |
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| William C.C. Kemp-Neal J.D. |
ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM: USING ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING TO LIFT PEOPLE OUT OF POVERTY, AND RE-SHAPE THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE & POLLUTION IN COMMUNITIES OF COLOR |
32 Fordham Envtl. L. Rev. 295 [Fordham Environmental Law Review] (Symposium-Spring, 2021) |
Long before the phrase I can't breathe became a rallying cry for Black Lives Matter activists protesting the deaths of Black people at the hands of police, environmental-justice activists warned that pollution was choking and killing people of color in the U.S. In the mid-1900s the United States began to see a rise in concern for environmental... |
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| Veronica Root Martinez, Gina-Gail S. Fletcher |
EQUALITY METRICS |
130 Yale L.J. Forum 869 [Yale Law Journal Forum] (6/1/2021) |
This time is different. This time the death of another Black man at the hands of white police officers prompted calls for change not only within police departments, but across all aspects of American life. Those calls for change resulted in significant displays of support for the Black Lives Matter movement and interest in how to... |
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| By Keith Lewis, CQ Roll Call |
ESG investing gains traction amid pandemic, Black Lives Matter: survey |
[CQ Roll Call Washington Corporate Governance Briefing] (9/23/2021) |
The environmental, social and governance movement, which seeks to pressure public companies to consider longer-term risks and a broader a range of stakeholders, gained traction amid the pandemic and heightened racial strife in the past year, according to survey of investment professionals. |
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| Aina N. Watkins |
EXECUTIVE ORDER 13950, ON COMBATING RACE AND SEX STEREOTYPING: ITS EFFECT ON GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS' USE OF DIVERSITY TRAINING |
56-FALL Procurement Law. 10 [Procurement Lawyer] (Fall, 2021) |
In 2020, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that barred federal agencies from conducting diversity training focusing on anti-racism in the United States; the order came after the debut of the 1619 Project (a critical retrospective on race history in the United States), and in the aftermath of a surge in the Black Lives Matter... |
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