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| Noah Smith-Drelich |
THE ANTI-DISCRIMINATORY RIGHT TO TRAVEL |
100 Indiana Law Journal 1063 (Spring, 2025) |
Travel rights and travel restrictions shape nearly every part of society, moderating where and how we go about our daily lives. Yet a central aspect of travel has gone largely unnoticed in the legal literature. Oppressive governments have routinely restricted free movement as a principal means of effectuating discrimination. And travel rights, as a... |
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| Nadia B. Ahmad |
THE IMPERCEPTIBILITY OF MUSLIM IDENTITY |
28 CUNY Law Review 169 (Winter, 2025) |
This article examines the challenges facing Muslim Americans, particularly Muslim women, as they confront systemic bias, intersectional oppression, and the racialization of religion in the United States. Through personal narrative and critical legal scholarship, it explores the pervasive nature of Islamophobia in political, academic, and societal... |
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| Julia Alicia Mendoza |
THE LANGUAGE OF MASS INCARCERATION AND ORGANIZED ABANDONMENT |
21 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 43 (May, 2025) |
Our capacity to see and understand the extent of carceral violence is thwarted by the language and narratives employed by the judicial system. As evidenced by the Supreme Court's historicization of the factual record in Johnson v. California and other ancillary prison law cases, the judicial system mobilizes a language of mass incarceration: a... |
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| Elaine M. Chiu |
THE MODEL MINORITY VICTIM |
65 Santa Clara Law Review 451 (2024-2025) |
The rise in xenophobia, hate and violence against AAPI Americans inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic was an opportunity to assess the effectiveness of the criminal legal system as a tool of anti-racism. This Article traces the legal aftermath when Asian New Yorkers reported 276 possible hate crimes to the police in 2021. The analysis takes an... |
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| Brian R. Cheffins |
THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF CORPORATE PURPOSE |
48 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law 387 (2025) |
Corporate purpose is currently hotly debated amidst much speculation that American public companies are forsaking shareholder centrality in favor of a wider set of priorities. Despite this speculation, systematic analysis of the future of corporate purpose is lacking. This Article correspondingly offers predictions on the trajectory of corporate... |
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| Karla McKanders |
THE RACIALIZED RETALIATORY STATE: WEAPONIZING IMMIGRATION LAW TO CRIMINALIZE DISSENT |
32 William and Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice 63 (Fall, 2025) |
Just days before his ICE arrest in February 2019, 21 Savage, birth name-- She'yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph--a British-born American rapper of Caribbean descent--performed a song on The Tonight Show that included lyrics critical of family separations at the United States-Mexico border and other injustices: The gas was off, so we had to boil up the... |
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| Michael Conklin |
THE ROLE OF RACE IN HOWARD LAW SCHOOL'S RANKING |
56 Saint Mary's Law Journal 225 (2025) |
I. Introduction. 226 II. Law School Rankings. 229 III. Criticism of the Rankings. 232 IV. Howard University School of Law's Overall and Peer Law School Rankings. 237 V. Potential Explanations for Howard's Rankings Disparity. 239 A. Law School Location. 240 B. Exceptional Law Review. 241 C. Political Ideology Preference. 244 D. Promotional... |
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| Shayna Swanson |
THE STATE OF THE POLICE IN MODERNITY: THE CONVERGENCE OF TWO FORMS OF PUNISHMENT |
17 Washington University Jurisprudence Review 407 (2025) |
The profound influence of French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault reverberates across various fields of study, notably in law and the social sciences. One of his most prominent works is Discipline and Punish, a genealogical study outlining the development of the punitive state. In the book, Foucault discusses two eras of punishment: the... |
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| Jade A. Craig |
THE TRAFFICANTE ROUTE: FAIR HOUSING LAW AND THE ROAD TO RACIAL RECONCILIATION |
60 Wake Forest Law Review 821 (2025) |
This Article draws on the story of Trafficante v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., one of the earliest cases in which the U.S. Supreme Court interpreted the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Paul Trafficante, one of the plaintiffs, was a white tenant of a large apartment complex in San Francisco who discovered that the landlord was engaging in systematic... |
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| Ronald C. Den Otter |
THE UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF STUDENT DRESS CODES |
50 Vermont Law Review 109 (Fall, 2025) |
Introduction. 110 I. Theoretical and Historical Background. 112 A. Student Free Speech Rights. 112 B. Judicial Decisions. 113 II. Expressive Conduct. 116 A. The Law. 116 B. Marginalized Students. 122 C. Young Women. 124 III. Self-Development and Individuality. 126 A. The Place of Autonomy in American Constitutional Law. 126 B. Millian... |
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| Erin Cranor, Dane Thorley |
THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS--MAYBE: TESTING THE APPLICATION AND BOUNDARIES OF THE "FIGHTING WORDS" DOCTRINE USING A RANDOMIZED SURVEY EXPERIMENT |
50 Brigham Young University Law Review 1667 (2025) |
Advanced note to readers: The survey experiment in this Article depicts acts of verbal violence, including the use of race-and gender-based epithets. Some of the relevant caselaw also includes offensive or harmful language. As one of only a handful of exceptions to the First Amendment's bar on laws proscribing speech, fighting words are defined... |
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| Alia Nahra |
THIS IS WHAT TRANSPARENCY LOOKS LIKE: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF NYPD MISCONDUCT AFTER THE REPEAL OF 50-A |
125 Columbia Law Review 2035 (November, 2025) |
This Note presents the first empirical study of the implications of the repeal of Civil Rights Law section 50-a (50-a), which made public New York Police Department (NYPD) personnel records, including disciplinary investigations. These data demonstrate the limited potential of transparency reforms, which are lauded as an important step toward... |
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| Adam Gaudet |
THREE-STRIPE LIFE: HOW ADIDAS CAN ACT AS A MODEL IN TRADEMARK DISPUTES BY PROMOTING INTERNAL ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTIONS |
26 Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution 495 (Summer, 2025) |
Adidas has a storied history as one of the largest producers of shoes and athletic wear worldwide. Along with this history comes no shortage of intellectual property disputes between Adidas and other creators over Adidas's three-stripe trademark. Since 2008, Adidas has filed more than 90 lawsuits against other designers and has settled more than... |
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| Arianna Kiaei |
UNDER THE INFLUENCE: DUTIES, DECEPTION, DISCLOSURES, AND DUE DILIGENCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS |
82 Washington and Lee Law Review 365 (Winter, 2025) |
The encroachment of social media into the daily lives of society reflects a major shift in consumer behavior. As social media moves from providing platforms of narrow connectivity among friends and family to social connection beyond one's personal network, novel channels are being formed for consumers to absorb and share information. It opens... |
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| Melissa Redmon |
UNDERMINING LOCAL AUTONOMY: STATE-LEVEL LEGISLATIVE INTERFERENCE IN PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION |
55 Stetson Law Review 363 (Winter 2025) |
On August 9, 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suspended from office Monique Worrell, State Attorney for the Ninth Judicial Circuit of Florida, stating that her practices and policies of avoiding mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes and drug trafficking, as well as her handling of juvenile cases, amounted to a neglect of duty and... |
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| Meagan R. Hurley |
USING BIG DATA TO DISMANTLE SYSTEMIC BARRIERS: HOW TRACKING OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT CAN FOSTER JUSTICE AND INCREASE ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM |
38 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 455 (Summer, 2025) |
The U.S. criminal legal system is a vast and complex machine, long subject to public and scholarly scrutiny. The U.S. incarcerates more people than any other nation, holding an astonishing 1.9 million individuals behind bars. Of them, approximately eighty percent are indigent, and over sixty percent are racial minorities, despite these groups... |
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| Brockton D. Hunter |
VETERANS, VIOLENT EXTREMISM, AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: HISTORICAL PATTERNS, CAUSAL FACTORS, AND INTERVENTION OPPORTUNITIES |
21 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 10 (Winter, 2025) |
This article is dedicated in the memory of Dr. Evan R. Seamone, a warrior, scholar, and tireless advocate for his fellow veterans. In May and June of 2020, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer--and the protests and riots that followed--members of the Boogaloo Movement, an anti-government extremist group--many of... |
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| S. David Mitchell |
WHOSE RIGHT(S)?: CIVIL RIGHTS IMPACT OF CULTURAL CONFLICTS IN THE CURRICULUM |
37 Journal of Civil Rights & Economic Development 251 (Summer, 2025) |
To point out merely the defects as they appear today will be of little benefit to the present and future generations. These things must be viewed in their historic setting. The conditions of today have been determined by what has taken place in the past, and in a careful study of this history we may see more clearly the great theatre of events in... |
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| Irina D. Manta , Kavita D. Balchand |
WHY JACK DANIEL'S CAN'T STOP #WESTELMCALEB, AND WHAT NOW? |
33 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 653 (March, 2025) |
Introduction. 654 I. Trademark Law and Brand Protection. 656 A. Overview. 656 B. Proving Trademark Infringement and Dilution. 657 II. Social Media and Brand Promotion. 660 A. The Rise of Social Media. 661 1. The Emergence of Hashtags on Social Media. 662 2. The Proliferation of Hashtags Involving Brands on Social Media. 663 3. Federal Registration... |
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| Peggie Smith , Marion Crain |
WOKE-WASHING AT WORK |
102 Washington University Law Review 1509 (2025) |
In the modern era, corporate marketing and branding processes frequently encompass a public commitment to progressive social causes favored by a firm's base of both consumers and workers. So-called woke capitalism, or values-based branding, is designed to build a relationship between the firm and its stakeholders that will yield brand loyalty and... |
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| Prof. Angela D. Minor, Esq. |
BLACK LIVES STILL MATTER: THE UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE REASONABLENESS STANDARD IN THE DOCTRINE OF QUALIFIED IMMUNITY |
27 University of the District of Columbia Law Review 71 (Spring, 2024) |
Legislative history serves as a tool of argumentation that offers preliminary insight as to why a particular law has been codified, passed, and implemented in society. It is designed to provide extensive background knowledge of the true intentions of the codification of a statute. An examination of the legislative history of the Civil Rights Acts... |
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| Renee Nicole Allen |
CONTEXTUALIZING THE TRIGGERING EVENT: COLONIAL WHITE SUPREMACY, ANTI-BLACKNESS, AND BLACK LIVES MATTER IN ITALY AND THE UNITED STATES |
33 Minnesota Journal of International Law 1 (Spring, 2024) |
In the summer of 2020, spurred by George Floyd's murder and amid a worldwide pandemic, Black Lives Matter demonstrations peaked in the United States. The viral nature of the police violence that caused Floyd's death was a triggering event for transnational Black Lives Matter protests. Around the world, millions took to the streets to demand... |
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| Patience A. Crowder , Tom I. Romero, II |
EMBEDDING RACIAL JUSTICE IN THE WORK OF ENVIRONMENTAL NON-PROFITS |
22 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 803 (Spring, 2024) |
A shift is occurring as social justice activists are leveraging the climate emergency to address social justice and climate activists are leveraging Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and other social justice movements to motivate climate action. -Jennie Stevens In response to the national and worldwide protests against racial violence and the health... |
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| Melanie Reid |
GOOD POLICING PRACTICES ARE DIFFICULT, EVEN FOR THE AVENGERS |
72 Cleveland State Law Review 563 (2024) |
Policing, as a topic, is complicated. Many have strong views as to what police should or should not be doing and how effectively they are doing it. Too often policing has become polarized with various perspectives disagreeing as to the future of policing. Black Lives Matter, Defund the Police, and Policing Abolition movements are on one spectrum... |
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| Kenneth Williams |
IF BLACK LIVES REALLY MATTER, WE MUST END TRAFFIC STOPS! |
30 William and Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice 309 (Winter, 2024) |
I. My Personal Experience II. Examples of Fatal Traffic Stops A. Patrick Lyoya B. Philando Castile C. Walter Scott D. Daunte Wright E. Jayland Walker III. Purposes of Traffic Stops A. Public Safety B. Revenue Source C. Pretextual Stops and Racial Profiling 1. Ferguson 2. Minneapolis D. Veil of Darkness E. Searches IV. Scotus, Pretextual Stops and... |
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| Michael A. Hardy |
INTRODUCTION |
52 Urban Lawyer 471 (2024) |
The United States finds itself at a crossroad when it comes to issues of equity and fairness in criminal justice matters and particularly policing in 21st-century America. The rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and the explosion of wrongful deaths in civilian and police encounters have turned the nation's attention to look more closely at the... |
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| Emily Sunflower Thompson |
JUSTICE, A PHOTO SERIES |
35 UC Law SF Journal on Gender and Justice 119 (May, 2024) |
The following two photos were shot as part of a photo series at a Black Lives Matter protest in Long Beach, California circa 2018. These photos were shot on black and white film with a vintage 35mm Rangefinder. A Young Child No Justice, No Peace |
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| Ny'esha Young |
LIKE, COMMENT, AND FOLLOW: HOW TO AMEND COPYRIGHT LAW TO PROTECT BLACK TIKTOKERS |
10 Texas A&M Journal of Property Law 411 (18-Apr-24) |
The Black community has long suffered through a cycle of trauma and pain, with history repeating itself throughout generations. From the civil rights movement to the Black Lives Matter movement, this cycle persists, showing up again in the experiences of Black TikTokers. Despite looking race-neutral on its face, copyright law's lack of... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| Sierra Garcia |
THE FUTURE OF ACTIVISM IS YOUTH-FULL: HOW YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD ARE CARRYING THE TORCH FOR GAZANS |
44 Children's Legal Rights Journal 87 (2024) |
The youth you are now living is a form of power; it is you who must employ it. José Enrique Rodó Throughout history, many successful nonviolent action campaigns have been led by young people, from the Free Speech movement to the Civil Rights movement to the Black Lives Matter movement. Recent social movements worldwide - from Latin America to... |
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| 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... |
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| Erin M. Carr , Nabil Yousfi |
"ANTI-WOKEISM" & AUTHORITARIANISM: A RENEWED CALL FOR CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS FOR EDUCATION |
74 Syracuse Law Review 971 (2024) |
Introduction. 972 I. The History of the Weaponization of Education. 975 II. Anti-Wokeism as Modern-Day Anti-Literacy Laws. 982 A. The Prohibition and Punishment of Knowledge. 985 B. The Authoritarianism Inherent to Anti-Literacy Legislation. 991 III. Measuring the Early Effects of the Stop W.O.K.E. Act. 996 A. The Contagion Effect. 996 B. Racial... |
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| Jasmine Oesterling |
"I CAN'T BREATHE": A COMPARISON OF RACIAL INEQUITY AND POLICE BRUTALITY OBSERVED IN FRANCE AND THE UNITED STATES |
17 DePaul Journal for Social Justice 1 (Spring, 2024) |
This paper explores the unanticipated convergence of human experiences among Black and Brown citizens of France and the United States, despite their historical and legislative differences. Investigating racial inequity and police brutality through a comparative lens, this paper highlights global connections forged by racial and ethnic minorities in... |
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| Ayesha I. Ahsan |
"MY MIRANDAS DON'T STAND A CHANCE, WITH COPS": THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT'S IMPENDING DESTRUCTION OF MIRANDA RIGHTS UNDER THE PRETENSE OF PROPHYLAXIS IN VEGA v. TEKOH |
65 Boston College Law Review 1445 (April, 2024) |
Abstract: In 2022, in Vega v. Tekoh, the U.S. Supreme Court held that individuals interrogated without knowledge of their Miranda rights cannot seek remedy under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The Supreme Court's rationale for this decision was that the right provided in the 1966 Miranda v. Arizona decision, which ensures that those facing the criminal legal... |
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| Frank D. LoMonte , Jessica Terkovich |
"TWITTER JAIL" FOR THE JAILER: THE PRECARIOUS FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS OF POLICE OFFICERS TO SHARE WORKPLACE CONCERNS ON SOCIAL MEDIA |
24 Nevada Law Journal 473 (Spring, 2024) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 474 I. Legal Background. 477 A. The First Amendment Inside, and Outside, the Workplace. 477 B. The Pickering and the Pendulum. 482 C. Is the First Amendment a Facebook Friend?. 486 D. Social Media and Public Employment. 489 II. Police Agency Supervision over Social Media. 490 A. Liverman and Online Speech in... |
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| Eli Wald |
A LIBERAL THEORY OF LEGAL EDUCATION |
75 Alabama Law Review 563 (2024) |
Introduction. 564 I. The Liberal Façade of Law Schools. 567 A. Law Schools' Historical Orthodox Model: Formalism, Realism, and the Functionalist Approach. 568 B. Law Schools' Orthodox Model 2.0: New Liberalism. 571 C. The New Liberalism Excuse in the Twenty-First Century. 578 D. The Banality of the A-Liberal Model of Legal Education. 581 II. A... |
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| James Cavallaro , Silvia Serrano Guzmán , Jessica Tueller |
A NEW PATH FORWARD? HOW ATTENTION TO ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS COULD INCREASE U.S. INDIGENOUS AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN CIVIL SOCIETY ENGAGEMENT WITH THE INTER-AMERICAN HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEM |
28 UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs 39 (Fall, 2024) |
This Article contends that the evolving approach of the inter-American human rights system toward the human rights of Indigenous peoples and persons of African descent, including their economic, social, cultural, and environmental rights, presents a key opportunity for U.S. civil society actors to expand beyond the dominant framework of civil... |
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| Tom I. Romero, II |
A RPL IN TIME: A BROWN BUFFALO'S OBSERVATIONS ON THE ONGOING STRUGGLE OF CIVIC AND RACIAL NATIONALISM IN HIGHER EDUCATION--CIRCA 2023 |
101 Denver Law Review 497 (Spring, 2024) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Author's Testimonio: I am a Chicano by ancestry and a Brown Buffalo by choice.. 497 II. The Age of Confusion. 500 III. The Revolt[s] of the Cockroach Peoples. 503 IV. The Ongoing (Auto) Biographies of Brown Buffaloes. 508 V. Author's Postscript: Radical Hope, Buffaloes, and Dreaming Freedom in Higher Education. 516 |
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| Brenda D. Gibson |
AFFIRMATIVE REACTION: THE BLUEPRINT FOR DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION AFTER SFFA |
104 Boston University Law Review 123 (February, 2024) |
This Article is both a descriptive and prescriptive authority on the efforts of the legal profession's ongoing attempts to achieve diversity and inclusion. It lays bare the history of the legal profession's unsuccessful diversity and inclusion efforts and explores the efficacy and success of some of the solutions that the legal profession has... |
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| Stacy-Ann Elvy |
AGE-APPROPRIATE DESIGN CODE MANDATES |
45 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 953 (Summer, 2024) |
Fueled by the Internet of Things and various other technological developments, information about children's daily activities and social interactions are progressively migrating to the digital sphere. In response to the rapid datafication of children and in accordance with the United Kingdom's Data Protection Act of 2018, the Information... |
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| Leah N. Rodriguez, Esq. |
AN ACADEMIC FREEDOM EXCEPTION TO GARCETTI: A PRONOUN-CED STANDARD TO PROTECT THE FREE SPEECH AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM RIGHTS OF PUBLIC UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS FACING TRANSGENDER PRONOUN MANDATES |
36 Regent University Law Review 86 (2023-2024) |
The rise of transgenderism has led to a variety of legal gaps that must be filled, such as the definition of sex and gender, the question of whether the right to privacy includes the right for students to use school bathrooms based on biological sex, and the question of whether university sports teams should remain separated based on biological... |
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| Antonio L. Ingram II |
ANTI-TRUTH MOVEMENTS IN POST WORLD WAR II GERMANY AND CONTEMPORARY TEXAS: THE REPETITION OF HISTORY AND LESSONS IN TRUTHFUL RECONSTRUCTION |
16 Drexel Law Review 751 (2024) |
Legislators in Texas mounted an assault on multiracial democracy when they attacked public higher education throughout the Lone Star State in the 87th legislative session with the introduction of Senate Bills 16, 17 and 18. Together, these bills arguably constituted a tripartite attack on the foundation of public higher education in Texas, seeking... |
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| Alireza Nourani-Dargiri |
BAILING OUT THE PROTESTER |
14 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 977 (August, 2024) |
The United States cash bail system unconstitutionally hinders protest rights enshrined in the First Amendment. Protesting on controversial issues, while protected activity, often risks arrests and other interactions with police. Unfortunately, studies show that protesters of color are arrested at higher rates than white protesters. Cash bail, in... |
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| Samantha C. Pownall |
CENTERING STUDENTS' RIGHTS IN OUR DEMOCRACY: A CASE STUDY FROM MARYLAND'S EASTERN SHORE |
57 Family Law Quarterly 147 (2023-2024) |
Across the country, state legislators and school districts have invoked parents' rights to justify attempts to limit discussions of race, sexual orientation, gender, and history, including African American history and slavery, in public schools. These efforts are part of a larger far-right movement to strip away human and civil rights that have... |
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| Tolu Lawal, Al Brooks |
CHARACTER AND FITNESS IN AMERICA'S NEO-REDEMPTIVE ERA |
27 CUNY Law Review 143 (Winter, 2024) |
Introduction. 145 I. Reconstruction, Redemption, and White Grievance Politic. 148 A. Reconstruction. 148 B. Redemption. 149 C. White Grievance Groundhog Days. 152 II. Law as a Communication of Redemptive Power: The Backlash Against Democratization and the Return of White Supremacist Legal Hegemony. 155 A. The Origin of Character and Fitness... |
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| Susan Greene |
CHOOSE YOUR WORDS CAREFULLY SOCIAL MEDIA, SOCIAL JUSTICE, AND THE WORKPLACE |
41 Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal 363 (Spring, 2024) |
In an age of social and political activism, speech has become an important corporate tool. This may be a profit-maximizing marketing strategy, as a cynic might say, or an initiative to use power for the greater good, as an idealist might say. Regardless, today's corporate speech extends far beyond the ambit of a company's services or expertise and... |
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| Alexis Hoag-Fordjour |
COMMUNITY RESPONSIVE PUBLIC DEFENSE |
92 Fordham Law Review 1309 (March, 2024) |
I. Defining the Terms. 1311 A. Defining the Community. 1312 B. Responding to That Community. 1315 C. Increased Community Action Addressing Injustice. 1318 II. Community Responsiveness in Action. 1321 A. Mindful, Mission-Driven Staffing. 1322 B. Advocacy Outside of the Courtroom. 1325 C. Funding Source Makes a Difference. 1328 III. Benefits and... |
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| Kate Andrias |
CONSTITUTIONAL CLASH: LABOR, CAPITAL, AND DEMOCRACY |
118 Northwestern University Law Review 985 (2024) |
Abstract--In the last few years, workers have engaged in organizing and strike activity at levels not seen in decades; state and local legislators have enacted innovative workplace and social welfare legislation; and the National Labor Relations Board has advanced ambitious new interpretations of its governing statute. Viewed collectively, these... |
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| Ferrell L. Littlejohn |
CORPORATE ESG FALLS SHORT: SYSTEMIC ANTI-BLACK RACISM AND INEQUALITY SHOULD BE ADDRESSED THROUGH A CUMULATIVE INTEGRATED APPROACH |
29 Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law 695 (2024) |
In the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court endorsed the separate but equal doctrine, essentially codifying racial segregation. This decision guaranteed that systemic racism would permeate every fabric of society despite the abolition of slavery. Recently, many corporate institutions have pledged to actively support the fight against... |
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