| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms |
| 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. |
2021 |
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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... |
2021 |
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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... |
2021 |
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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. |
2021 |
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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... |
2021 |
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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... |
2021 |
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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... |
2021 |
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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... |
2021 |
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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. |
2021 |
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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... |
2021 |
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| G. Alex Sinha |
FALSE FLAGS AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT: LYING THROUGH SYMBOLIC SPEECH |
89 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 133 [George Washington Law Review Arguendo] (November, 2021) |
Ivan Hunter, a leader of the right-wing Boogaloo Bois, recently pleaded guilty to participating in a riot when he fired his AK-47 at the Minneapolis Police Third Precinct during a Black Lives Matter protest in May of 2020. Hunter's target--the home base of Derek Chauvin, the officer captured on video killing George Floyd--burned down at the hands... |
2021 |
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| Celine Castronuovo |
Feds deliberately targeted Black Lives Matter protesters |
The Hill (8/18/2021) |
A report released Wednesday by racial justice organization The Movement for Black Lives found that the Justice Department (DOJ) under former President Trump intentionally targeted Black Lives Matter protesters with prosecutions in order to disrupt the movement amid last summers wave of civil unrest. |
2021 |
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| Tyler Valeska |
FIRST AMENDMENT LIMITATIONS ON PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF PROTEST SURVEILLANCE |
121 Colum. L. Rev. F. 241 [Columbia Law Review Forum] (12/15/2021) |
During and after last year's expansive Black Lives Matter protests, police departments nationwide publicly shared robust video surveillance of protestors. Much of this footage rendered individual protestors identifiable, sometimes in ways that seemed intentional. Such disclosures raise First Amendment concerns under NAACP v. Alabama ex rel.... |
2021 |
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| Karin M. Long, Editor-in-Chief |
FOREWORD |
30 Annals Health L. & Life Sci. I [Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences] (Summer, 2021) |
The Annals of Health Law & Life Sciences Editorial Board is proud to present the Summer 2021 Issue, the second edition of our thirtieth volume to date. 2020 was a year of change in the United States: at the start of the year, the global COVID-19 pandemic shut down communities, countries and economies, and by the summer, the Black Lives Matter... |
2021 |
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| Eric K. Yamamoto , Susan K. Serrano |
FOREWORD TO THE REPUBLICATION OF RACIALIZING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE |
92 U. Colo. L. Rev. 1383 [University of Colorado Law Review] (Special Issue 2021) |
Systemic racism! The burgeoning 2020 Black Lives Matter protests vaulted this formerly whispered phrase into mainstream public consciousness. Through news headlines, social media, educational classes, opinion essays, word of mouth, and more, America grappled with the enormity of racism as a form of oppression of people and communities, as... |
2021 |
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| Eric K. Yamamoto , Susan K. Serrano |
FOREWORD TO THE REPUBLICATION OF RACIALIZING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE |
92 U. Colo. L. Rev. 1383 [University of Colorado Law Review] (Special Issue 2021) |
Systemic racism! The burgeoning 2020 Black Lives Matter protests vaulted this formerly whispered phrase into mainstream public consciousness. Through news headlines, social media, educational classes, opinion essays, word of mouth, and more, America grappled with the enormity of racism as a form of oppression of people and communities, as... |
2021 |
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| Olivia Moulds |
FRACKING THE BEDROCK OF DEMOCRACY: THE UNITED STATES POLICING OF PROTESTS VIOLATES THE RIGHT OF PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY UNDER THE ICCPR |
36 Am. U. Int'l L. Rev. 887 [American University International Law Review] (2021) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 888 II. BACKGROUND. 889 A. Overview of the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests. 889 i. THE 2020 Black LiveS MATTER MARCHES. 889 ii. UNITED STATES LAW ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE TO THE 2020 PROTESTS. 891 iii. UNITED STATES LAW ON THE RIGHT TO ASSEMBLY. 896 B. Overview of the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights. 899 I.... |
2021 |
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| Olivia Moulds |
FRACKING THE BEDROCK OF DEMOCRACY: THE UNITED STATES POLICING OF PROTESTS VIOLATES THE RIGHT OF PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY UNDER THE ICCPR |
36 Am. U. Int'l L. Rev. 887 [American University International Law Review] (2021) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 888 II. BACKGROUND. 889 A. Overview of the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests. 889 i. THE 2020 BLACK LIVES MATTER MARCHES. 889 ii. UNITED STATES LAW ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE TO THE 2020 PROTESTS. 891 iii. UNITED STATES LAW ON THE RIGHT TO ASSEMBLY. 896 B. Overview of the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights. 899 i.... |
2021 |
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| Norrinda Brown Hayat |
FREEDOM PEDAGOGY: TOWARD TEACHING ANTIRACIST CLINICS |
28 Clinical L. Rev. 149 [Clinical Law Review] (Fall, 2021) |
Like other sectors of society, legal education is undergoing a reckoning in the wake of the 2020 murder of George Floyd, demands for racial justice from the Movement for Black Lives, and related demands for abolitionism and defunding the police. Through the lens of a formal call to action issued by the Rutgers Law School faculty and the author's... |
2021 |
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| Laura Possessky, Charlene C. Goldfield |
GET THE SCITECH EDGE |
17 No. 2 ABA SciTech Law. 34 [SciTech Lawyer] (Winter, 2021) |
Diversity drives innovation. Although long substantiated by research, the correlation between increased innovation and diversity recently has received more attention in response to Black Lives Matter protests, the #MeToo movement, and other social justice events highlighting inequities on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, and... |
2021 |
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| Tal Axelrod |
GOP senator says he may have felt unsafe if BLM, antifa had stormed Capitol |
The Hill (3/13/2021) |
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said in an interview this week that he did not feel unsafe during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot but might have if Black Lives Matter protesters or far-left antifa activists had demonstrated there, setting off a new wave of criticism. |
2021 |
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| Nicolás Quaid Galván , Editor-in-Chief, Volume 11 |
GROWTH IN UNPRECEDENTED TIMES |
11 Colum. J. Race & L. 421 [Columbia Journal of Race and Law] (July, 2021) |
Our Journal has published in unprecedented times. This year, we have gone to the streets to declare what should be a universal truth: Black Lives Matter. We have chanted the names of unarmed Black persons who have been killed by the state. This time, our demands for justice were not lost. In fact, a form of justice was delivered by a jury in... |
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Habeas Corpus Reform and Black Lives Matter: A Historical Perspective |
57 NO 5 CRIMLAWBULL ART 3 [Criminal Law Bulletin] (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 |
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| Travis D. Jones |
HUMANS LONG IGNORED: REVISITING NEPA'S DEFINITION OF "HUMAN ENVIRONMENT" IN THE ERA OF BLACK LIVES MATTER |
32 Vill. Envtl. L.J. 1 [Villanova Environmental Law Journal] (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 |
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| Travis D. Jones |
HUMANS LONG IGNORED: REVISITING NEPA'S DEFINITION OF "HUMAN ENVIRONMENT" IN THE ERA OF BLACK LIVES MATTER |
32 Vill. Envtl. L.J. 1 [Villanova Environmental Law Journal] (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 |
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| Monica C. Bell , Katherine Beckett , Forrest Stuart |
INVESTING IN ALTERNATIVES: THREE LOGICS OF CRIMINAL SYSTEM REPLACEMENT |
11 UC Irvine L. Rev. 1291 [UC Irvine Law Review] (August, 2021) |
What logics underlie the call to defund the police, and how do those logics matter in policy debate? In the wake of widespread protests after the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other victims of police violence during the summer of 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement's call to defund the police captured the national imagination.... |
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Investment Adviser Asks for SEC Disclosure Rulemaking on Financial Support for BLM |
WGL-ACCTALERT VOL 15 NO 115 [Vol. 15, No. 115] (6/17/2021) |
William Michael Cunningham, founder of Creative Investment Research, petitioned the SEC to start rulemaking to develop a framework requiring public companies that have promised financial support for Black Lives Matter to disclose all activity related to that pledge in a timely manner. His petition comes amid nationwide effort to address... |
2021 |
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| By Sarah Wynn, CQ Roll Call |
Lawmakers call for follow-through on racial equity vows by companies, banks |
[CQ Roll Call Washington Securities Enforcement & Litigation Briefing] (6/30/2021) |
Financial services companies and banks need to honor commitments to close the racial wealth gap they made following the murder of George Floyd last year and the Black Lives Matter nationwide protests, lawmakers said at a hearing. |
2021 |
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| Kevin E. Davis |
LEGAL RESPONSES TO BLACK SUBORDINATION, GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES |
134 Harv. L. Rev. F. 359 [Harvard Law Review Forum] (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 |
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| Dayton Campbell-Harris |
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF |
30 Wash. Int'l L.J. vi [Washington International Law Journal] (March, 2021) |
The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them--Ida B. Wells The Washington International Law Journal is proud to present this special-edition issue: A Global Reckoning: Answering Calls for Change. Combating racism and majority-group supremacy in all its forms is always necessary. This was true before the Black Lives Matter... |
2021 |
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| Sarah Schlossberg, Maya Williams |
LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF EQUITY -- OOPS, I DID IT AGAIN: IDENTIFYING AND RECTIFYING MICROAGGRESSIONS |
67 No. 3 Prac. Law. 7 [Practical Lawyer] (6/1/2021) |
Amidst the backdrop of the Me Too and the revitalized Black Lives Matter movements, our society has become hyperaware of the impact that our language and actions have on others. While it may be difficult and, at times, even uncomfortable, now is the time to focus on eradicating bias and equalizing the playing field in the legal profession.... |
2021 |
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| Sherri Lee Keene |
MAKING ROOM FOR IGNORED CITIZEN NARRATIVES OF POLICE ENCOUNTERS |
25 Legal Writing: J. Legal Writing Inst. 15 [Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute] (2021) |
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. I began to write this essay in August 2020 after returning home from Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C. While there, I took in colorful images painted on boarded up windows of familiar buildings, photographs tacked on the high gate that has taken... |
2021 |
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| Sherri Lee Keene |
MAKING ROOM FOR IGNORED CITIZEN NARRATIVES OF POLICE ENCOUNTERS |
25 Legal Writing: J. Legal Writing Inst. 15 [Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute] (2021) |
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. I began to write this essay in August 2020 after returning home from Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C. While there, I took in colorful images painted on boarded up windows of familiar buildings, photographs tacked on the high gate that has taken... |
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MASSACHUSETTS: POWERHOUSE POINTS: MASSACHUSETTS LAWSUIT OVER BLACK LIVES MATTER MASKS SHOWS WHEN IT COMES TO EMPLOYEES' SELF- EXPRESSION, CONSISTENCY IS KEY |
Labor & Empl. L. 3670841 [Labor & Employment Law] (2021) |
Article by Jennifer M. Huelskamp of Freeborn & Peters LLP Powerhouse Points Consistently-applied employment policies are key for employers to avoid this type of litigation. A recent federal lawsuit in the District of Massachusetts examines the intersection of the Black Lives Matter movement and Title VII. The court's opinion, which dismissed... |
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| Jordain Carney |
Merkley says he won't support Rahm Emanuel's ambassador nomination |
The Hill (11/3/2021) |
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) said Wednesday that he will oppose Rahm Emanuels nomination to be ambassador to Japan.Black Lives Matter. Here in the halls of Congress, it is important that we not just speak and believe these words, but put them into action in the decisions we make, Merkley said in a statement.I have carefully considered Mayor... |
2021 |
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| Jenice L. Malecki |
MINORITIES AND WOMEN IN THE SECURITIES INDUSTRY: THE DISPROPORTIONATE IMPACT OF SECURITIES FRAUD EXPLOITATION |
28 No. 1 PIABA B.J. 79 [PIABA Bar Journal] (2021) |
People of color and women have been greatly impacted in the securities arena whether it is as victims of fraud or through their underrepresentation in the field as a career prospect. During an age of Black Lives Matter Protests and women speaking out against gender discrimination, the securities sector has a great task on its hands in creating... |
2021 |
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| Jenice L. Malecki |
MINORITIES AND WOMEN IN THE SECURITIES INDUSTRY: THE DISPROPORTIONATE IMPACT OF SECURITIES FRAUD EXPLOITATION |
28 No. 1 PIABA B.J. 79 [PIABA Bar Journal] (2021) |
People of color and women have been greatly impacted in the securities arena whether it is as victims of fraud or through their underrepresentation in the field as a career prospect. During an age of Black Lives Matter Protests and women speaking out against gender discrimination, the securities sector has a great task on its hands in creating... |
2021 |
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| B.S. Chimni, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India |
MODERNIZING THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEM. BY BERTRAND G. RAMCHARAN. LEIDEN: BRILL NIJHOFF, 2019. PP. XVI, 241. INDEX |
115 Am. J. Int'l L. 171 [American Journal of International Law] (January, 2021) |
The matter of human rights has today assumed a new salience. The COVID-19 pandemic has sharply brought out the social and economic divides in societies; it has disproportionately impacted poor and marginalized groups. Social movements like the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States have highlighted in particular the class and race... |
2021 |
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| By WK Editorial Staff |
NLRB NEWS-HOME DEPOT ALLEGEDLY DISCRIMINATED AGAINST EMPLOYEE WHO RAISED RACIAL HARASSMENT ISSUES, WORE BLM SLOGAN |
[Wolters Kluwer Employment Law Daily] (8/16/2021) |
Purportedly, a Minneapolis store unlawfully enforced its otherwise lawful dress code and apron policies, and threatened employees not to engage in activity about racial harassment. 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... |
2021 |
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| Amanda Alexander, JD/PhD |
NURTURING FREEDOM DREAMS: AN APPROACH TO MOVEMENT LAWYERING IN THE BLACK LIVES MATTER ERA |
5 How. Hum. & C.R. L. Rev. 101 [Howard Human & Civil Rights Law Review] (Spring, 2021) |
Introduction. 102 I. Law and Power: Lessons from Detroit. 108 II. Building Power: Organizing, Visionary Organizing, and Freedom Dreams. 116 A. A Movement Lawyering Theory of Change. 121 III. The Detroit Justice Center's Approach: Defense, Offense, and Dreaming. 123 A. Our Values. 126 B. Our Approach in Practice. 130 1. Fighting Back Against the New... |
2021 |
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| Etienne C. Toussaint |
OF AMERICAN FRAGILITY: PUBLIC RITUALS, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND THE END OF INVISIBLE MAN |
52 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 826 [Columbia Human Rights Law Review] (Winter, 2021) |
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of American democracy in at least two important ways. First, the coronavirus has ravaged Black communities across the United States, unmasking decades of inequitable laws and public policies that have rendered Black lives socially and economically isolated from adequate health care services,... |
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| Juliegrace Brufke |
Plaskett slams GOP rep for saying Black Lives Matter 'doesn't like the old-fashioned family' |
The Hill (3/10/2021) |
Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) on Wednesday blasted Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) for saying on the House floor that Black Lives Matter doesn't like the old-fashioned family and called for his remarks to be stricken from the record. |
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| Jelani Jefferson Exum |
PRESUMED PUNISHABLE: SENTENCING ON THE STREETS AND THE NEED TO PROTECT BLACK LIVES THROUGH A REINVIGORATION OF THE PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE |
64 How. L.J. 301 [Howard Law Journal] (Winter, 2021) |
Introduction. 302 L1-2 I. Presumed Punishable A. The Development of Race-Based Policing and the Presumption of the Need to Control Black People Through Force. 305 B. The Current Consequences of Being Presumed Punishable. 309 C. Police as the Tool of the Presumption. 311 D. The Trauma of Being Presumed Punishable. 315 II. The Presumption of... |
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| Michael P. Goodyear |
PRIAM'S FOLLY: UNITED STATES v. ALVAREZ AND THE FAKE NEWS TROJAN HORSE |
73 Stan. L. Rev. Online 194 [Stanford Law Review Online] (September, 2021) |
2020 was a year of strain and reckoning in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic, the continued growth of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the 2020 presidential election made for a tumultuous and uncertain year. An overarching similarity that impacted all three of these historical events was the continued proliferation of fake news. Yet... |
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| Alex Gangitano |
Putin compares BLM to opposition groups, foreign entities in Russia |
The Hill (6/16/2021) |
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday compared the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in the U.S. to pro-democracy protests in Russia led by opposition leader Alexei Navalny. |
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| Marty Johnson |
Ron Johnson: 'No racism involved' in comments about Capitol riot |
The Hill (3/15/2021) |
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) on Monday responded to bipartisan criticism over comments he made last week regarding Black Lives Matter protesters, arguing there was no racism" in his previous remarks." |
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| Chelsea Hanlock |
SETTLING FOR SILENCE: HOW POLICE EXPLOIT PROTECTIVE ORDERS |
109 Calif. L. Rev. 1507 [California Law Review] (August, 2021) |
The national outcry and months of Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality that followed the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor are a resounding demonstration of the public's interest in combatting police violence, particularly excess force used on Black Americans. While media attention on police killings increased after... |
2021 |
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| Celia Goble |
SOCIAL WORKERS TO THE RESCUE?: AN URGENT CALL FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE REFORM |
48 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1021 [Fordham Urban Law Journal] (April, 2021) |
Introduction. 1022 I. Protests, Vigilantes, and Charity: Policing and Social Work Reform and the Quest for Professionalization. 1027 A. Black Lives Matter. 1027 B. The Police in the United States. 1029 C. Social Workers in the United States. 1032 D. 911: The Current Emergency Response System. 1035 II. Social Workers Recognize the Issues in Police... |
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| Emily A. Kline |
TEACHING SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE LEGAL WRITING CLASSROOM THROUGH PERSONAL NARRATIVE |
25 Legal Writing: J. Legal Writing Inst. 29 [Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute] (2021) |
The COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement have inspired a renewed national conversation about social justice and racial equality. The disparate impacts of the pandemic on communities of color and the failure to address systemic racial inequities in our policing and criminal justice system have converged to create a defining... |
2021 |
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| Emily A. Kline |
TEACHING SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE LEGAL WRITING CLASSROOM THROUGH PERSONAL NARRATIVE |
25 Legal Writing: J. Legal Writing Inst. 29 [Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute] (2021) |
The COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement have inspired a renewed national conversation about social justice and racial equality. The disparate impacts of the pandemic on communities of color and the failure to address systemic racial inequities in our policing and criminal justice system have converged to create a defining... |
2021 |
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