| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms |
| Kevin R. Johnson |
BRINGING RACIAL JUSTICE TO IMMIGRATION LAW |
116 Nw. U. L. Rev. Online 1 [Northwestern University Law Review Online] (5/13/2021) |
Abstract--From at least as far back as the anti-Chinese laws of the 1800s, immigration has been a place of heated racial contestation in the United States. Although modern immigration laws no longer expressly mention race, their enforcement unmistakably impacts people of color from the developing world. Specifically, the laws, as enacted and... |
2021 |
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| Gowri J. Krishna, Kelly Pfeifer, Dana Thompson |
CARING FOR THE SOULS OF OUR STUDENTS: THE EVOLUTION OF A COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CLINIC DURING TURBULENT TIMES |
28 Clinical L. Rev. 243 [Clinical Law Review] (Fall, 2021) |
Community Economic Development (CED) clinicians regularly address issues surrounding economic, racial, and social justice, as those are the core principles motivating their work to promote vibrant, diverse, and sustainable communities. When COVID-19 arrived, and heightened attention to police brutality and racial injustice ensued, CED clinicians... |
2021 |
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| Mary E. Carney, J.D. |
Cause of Action for Violation of Constitutional Rights by Law Enforcement Officers Using Nonlethal or Less Lethal Weapons |
99 COA2d 223 [Causes of Action Second Series] (2021) |
In protests throughout the country, law enforcement officials have attempted to control groups of protesters through the use of rubber bullets, tear gas, flashbangs, beanbag rounds, and other implements deemed to be nonlethal or less lethal. Although they are called nonlethal or less lethal weapons, their use can result in serious injuries and... |
2021 |
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| Don Corbett |
CHANGING THE GAME: GEORGE FLOYD, ATHLETE PROTEST, AND THE COUNTERSPEECH DOCTRINE |
98 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. 197 [University of Detroit Mercy Law Review] (Winter, 2021) |
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an African American man, died at the hands of four police officers in Minneapolis, MN. A convenience store employee believed Floyd, who was unarmed, attempted to use counterfeit money to pay for goods and called 911. Four officers from the Minneapolis Police Department responded, and within thirty minutes, Floyd was... |
2021 |
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| Alan K. Chen |
CHEAP SPEECH CREATION |
54 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 2405 [U.C. Davis Law Review] (June, 2021) |
As we look back on Professor Eugene Volokh's predictive article about cheap speech, it is worth examining what other elements of the speech and media landscape, as well as the supporting legal infrastructure, have changed over that same period. This Essay focuses on the substantial reduction in the cost of speech creation, as opposed to... |
2021 |
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CHEVRON CORP. (SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS)) |
SEC No Action Ltrs. WSB File No. 0405202107 [SEC No Action Letters] (2021) |
WSB File No. 0405202107 WSB Subject Category: 77 Public Availability Date: March 30, 2021. Prepared By: Gibson Dunn References: Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 14(a); Rule 14a-8 ________________Washington Service Bureau Summary________________ January 18, 2021 VIA E-MAIL Office of Chief Counsel Division of Corporation Finance Securities... |
2021 |
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CHUBB LTD. |
SEC No Action Ltrs. WSB File No. 0329202115 [SEC No Action Letters] (2021) |
WSB File No. 0329202115 WSB Subject Category: 77 Public Availability Date: March 26, 2021 References: Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 14(a); Rule 14a-8 ________________Washington Service Bureau Summary________________ January 14, 2021 Via Email Shareholderproposals@sec.gov Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Corporation Finance... |
2021 |
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| Woodworth Winmill |
COERCION, DEFIANCE AND COMPETING AUDIENCES: UNDERSTANDING THE MEANING OF CONTEMPT AND SANCTIONS TO "TRUE BELIEVER" LITIGANTS |
126 Penn St. L. Rev. Penn Statim 10 [Penn State Law Review Penn Statim] (2021) |
Courts have substantial powers to punish entities that disobey their orders. However, despite potentially severe repercussions, litigants with intensely held ideologies--what this Article calls true believer litigants--sometimes choose to defy court orders, which leads to sanctions and contempt charges. This Article argues that, rather than... |
2021 |
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| Woodworth Winmill |
COERCION, DEFIANCE AND COMPETING AUDIENCES: UNDERSTANDING THE MEANING OF CONTEMPT AND SANCTIONS TO "TRUE BELIEVER" LITIGANTS |
126 Penn St. L. Rev. Penn Statim 10 [Penn State Law Review Penn Statim] (2021) |
Courts have substantial powers to punish entities that disobey their orders. However, despite potentially severe repercussions, litigants with intensely held ideologies--what this Article calls true believer litigants--sometimes choose to defy court orders, which leads to sanctions and contempt charges. This Article argues that, rather than... |
2021 |
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| Catherine Powell |
COLOR OF COVID AND GENDER OF COVID: ESSENTIAL WORKERS, NOT DISPOSABLE PEOPLE |
33 Yale J.L. & Feminism 1 [Yale Journal of Law & Feminism] (2021) |
We live in a viral moment--a moment of interconnected pandemics. The COVID-19 crisis provides a window into the underlying pandemics of inequality, economic insecurity, and injustice. In fact, the viruses of sexism, racism, and economic instability are pre-existing conditions of an unjust legal system--baked into our nation at the... |
2021 |
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| Catherine Powell |
COLOR OF COVID AND GENDER OF COVID: ESSENTIAL WORKERS, NOT DISPOSABLE PEOPLE |
33 Yale J.L. & Feminism 1 [Yale Journal of Law & Feminism] (2021) |
We live in a viral moment--a moment of interconnected pandemics. The COVID-19 crisis provides a window into the underlying pandemics of inequality, economic insecurity, and injustice. In fact, the viruses of sexism, racism, and economic instability are pre-existing conditions of an unjust legal system--baked into our nation at the... |
2021 |
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| Jennifer Aronsohn |
COMMUNITY CLAIM OF RIGHT |
51 Urb. Law. 135 [Urban Lawyer] (2021) |
Vacant properties are more than an eyesore or a sign of neighborhood blight: they contribute to wider social and legal problems for residents and are a significant expense for cities. Cities across the nation acquire and hold vacant and tax foreclosure properties to abate public nuisances and protect communities from criminal activity. Even though... |
2021 |
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| Jennifer Aronsohn |
COMMUNITY CLAIM OF RIGHT |
51 Urb. Law. 135 [Urban Lawyer] (2021) |
Vacant properties are more than an eyesore or a sign of neighborhood blight: they contribute to wider social and legal problems for residents and are a significant expense for cities. Cities across the nation acquire and hold vacant and tax foreclosure properties to abate public nuisances and protect communities from criminal activity. Even though... |
2021 |
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| Matthew B. Kugler , Mariana Oliver |
CONSTITUTIONAL PANDEMIC SURVEILLANCE |
111 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 909 [Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology] (Fall, 2021) |
How do people view governmental pandemic surveillance? And how can their views inform courts considering the constitutionality of digital monitoring programs aimed at containing the spread of a highly contagious diseases? We measure the perceived intrusiveness of pandemic surveillance through two nationally representative surveys of Americans. Our... |
2021 |
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Cori Bush: Marjorie Taylor Greene didn't take back what she said about me |
(2/5/2021) |
Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) on Thursday acknowledged that while Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) apologized to congressional colleagues this week over her past controversial statements, Greene didn't take back or regret claims directed at Bush. |
2021 |
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| Helen Hershkoff, Arthur R. Miller |
COURTS AND CIVIL JUSTICE IN THE TIME OF COVID: EMERGING TRENDS AND QUESTIONS TO ASK |
23 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol'y 321 [NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy] (2021) |
COVID-19 is a highly infectious virus that has caused worldwide disruption, large numbers of deaths, and economic dislocation. Since its appearance in 2019, containment of COVID-19 has depended, in part, upon forms of social distancing that have strained and made impossible traditional forms of judicial and legal practice. This Article focuses on... |
2021 |
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| Helen Hershkoff, Arthur R. Miller |
COURTS AND CIVIL JUSTICE IN THE TIME OF COVID: EMERGING TRENDS AND QUESTIONS TO ASK |
23 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol'y 321 [NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy] (2021) |
COVID-19 is a highly infectious virus that has caused worldwide disruption, large numbers of deaths, and economic dislocation. Since its appearance in 2019, containment of COVID-19 has depended, in part, upon forms of social distancing that have strained and made impossible traditional forms of judicial and legal practice. This Article focuses on... |
2021 |
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| E. Tendayi Achiume , Devon W. Carbado |
CRITICAL RACE THEORY MEETS THIRD WORLD APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL LAW |
67 UCLA L. Rev. 1462 [UCLA Law Review] (April, 2021) |
By and large, Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) exist in separate epistemic universes. This Article argues that the borders between these two fields are unwarranted. Specifically, the Article articulates six parallel ways in which CRT and TWAIL have exposed and challenged the racial dimensions of... |
2021 |
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| Linda S. Greene |
CRITICAL RACE THEORY: ORIGINS, PERMUTATIONS, AND CURRENT QUERIES |
2021 Wis. L. Rev. 259 [Wisconsin Law Review] (2021) |
Critical Race Theory (CRT) emerged from two movements in legal education. One was the Critical Legal Studies movement, which fostered a power critique about American law and emerged at the University of Wisconsin in 1977 and continued through meetings and scholarship until about 1992. The second movement, which came to be known as Critical Race... |
2021 |
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| Linda S. Greene |
CRITICAL RACE THEORY: ORIGINS, PERMUTATIONS, AND CURRENT QUERIES |
2021 Wis. L. Rev. 259 [Wisconsin Law Review] (2021) |
Critical Race Theory (CRT) emerged from two movements in legal education. One was the Critical Legal Studies movement, which fostered a power critique about American law and emerged at the University of Wisconsin in 1977 and continued through meetings and scholarship until about 1992. The second movement, which came to be known as Critical Race... |
2021 |
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| Frédéric Gilles Sourgens |
CURIOUS UNILATERALISM |
13 Fed. Cts. L. Rev. 113 [Federal Courts Law Review] (2021) |
Introduction. 114 I. A Working Definition of Unilateralism. 119 II. Unilateralism as Assault on Republican Government. 124 A. The Procedural Problem of Unilateralism. 125 B. The Substantive Problem of Unilateralism. 127 III. Vermeule's Defense of Unilateralism. 130 IV. A Breakdown of Public Reason. 137 A. Two Accounts of Public Reason. 138 B. The... |
2021 |
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| Frédéric Gilles Sourgens |
CURIOUS UNILATERALISM |
13 Fed. Cts. L. Rev. 113 [Federal Courts Law Review] (2021) |
Introduction. 114 I. A Working Definition of Unilateralism. 119 II. Unilateralism as Assault on Republican Government. 124 A. The Procedural Problem of Unilateralism. 125 B. The Substantive Problem of Unilateralism. 127 III. Vermeule's Defense of Unilateralism. 130 IV. A Breakdown of Public Reason. 137 A. Two Accounts of Public Reason. 138 B. The... |
2021 |
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| W. Kip Viscusi , Scott Jeffrey |
DAMAGES TO DETER POLICE SHOOTINGS |
2021 U. Ill. L. Rev. 741 [University of Illinois Law Review] (2021) |
Many fatal shootings by police are not warranted. These shootings impose losses on the victims and their families and reflect the failure of existing administrative and legal restraints to deter these unwarranted shootings. This Article proposes a revamping of existing incentives to both provide more adequate compensation to the victims' families... |
2021 |
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| W. Kip Viscusi , Scott Jeffrey |
DAMAGES TO DETER POLICE SHOOTINGS |
2021 U. Ill. L. Rev. 741 [University of Illinois Law Review] (2021) |
Many fatal shootings by police are not warranted. These shootings impose losses on the victims and their families and reflect the failure of existing administrative and legal restraints to deter these unwarranted shootings. This Article proposes a revamping of existing incentives to both provide more adequate compensation to the victims' families... |
2021 |
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| Russell Stetler |
DEATH PENALTY KEYNOTE: WHY MITIGATION MATTERS, NOW AND FOR THE FUTURE |
61 Santa Clara L. Rev. 699 [Santa Clara Law Review] (2021) |
This Article examines the current state of the death penalty in California and nationally through the lens of mitigation--the empathy-evoking evidence that has been a constitutional requirement to ensure individualized sentencing in the era of the modern American death penalty. It situates the discussion in the context of the extraordinary events... |
2021 |
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| Russell Stetler |
DEATH PENALTY KEYNOTE: WHY MITIGATION MATTERS, NOW AND FOR THE FUTURE |
61 Santa Clara L. Rev. 699 [Santa Clara Law Review] (2021) |
This Article examines the current state of the death penalty in California and nationally through the lens of mitigation--the empathy-evoking evidence that has been a constitutional requirement to ensure individualized sentencing in the era of the modern American death penalty. It situates the discussion in the context of the extraordinary events... |
2021 |
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| Caleb L. Green |
DEFENDING THE RIGHT TO PROTEST THROUGH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW |
24-JAN NBA Nat'l B. Ass'n Mag. 18 [NBA National Bar Association Magazine] (January, 2021) |
The death of George Floyd has resulted in a recent international outcry for social and criminal justice reform, sparking a wave of creative protests and artistic expressions. Namely, protestors have embraced non-traditional means to amplify their voices and manifest their right to protest through street murals and related artworks. For example,... |
2021 |
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| David J. Oliveiri, M.B.A., J.D. |
Defense of good faith in action for damages against law enforcement official under 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983, providing for liability of person who, under color of law, subjects another to deprivation of rights |
61 A.L.R. Fed. 7 (Originally published in 1983) [American Law Reports ALR Federal] (2021) |
Collected and analyzed in this annotation are those cases in which the federal courts have considered questions related to the availability or establishment by law enforcement officials of a defense of good faith in actions seeking damages under 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983, which provides for liability of persons who, under color of law, subject another to... |
2021 |
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| Mark Goldfeder |
DEFINING ANTISEMITISM |
52 Seton Hall L. Rev. 119 [Seton Hall Law Review] (2021) |
Some people hate Jews. Fine, alright it's been done. I mean, that's part of my problem with it. Could you hate somebody new? -Gary Gulman Antisemitic harassment is illegal, but without a standard definition of what antisemitism includes, that idea is almost meaningless. That is why state legislatures and university administrators across the... |
2021 |
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| Mark Goldfeder |
DEFINING ANTISEMITISM |
52 Seton Hall L. Rev. 119 [Seton Hall Law Review] (2021) |
Some people hate Jews. Fine, alright it's been done. I mean, that's part of my problem with it. Could you hate somebody new? -Gary Gulman Antisemitic harassment is illegal, but without a standard definition of what antisemitism includes, that idea is almost meaningless. That is why state legislatures and university administrators across the... |
2021 |
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Democrats seek to keep spotlight on Capitol siege |
(4/24/2021) |
Democrats are scrambling to keep the Jan. 6 insurrection in the public eye, pressing Republicans to back a months-long investigation into the deadly rampage that would shine a spotlight on former President Trump's role in the attack. |
2021 |
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| Katrina Lee |
DISCRIMINATION AS ANTI-ETHICAL: ACHIEVING SYSTEMIC CHANGE IN LARGE LAW FIRMS |
98 Denv. L. Rev. 581 [Denver Law Review] (Spring, 2021) |
As protests calling for racial justice erupted across the country in 2020, many large law firms issued compelling statements acknowledging systemic inequities and bias. During the preceding few decades, firms had already expressed their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion; some had launched well-publicized diversity initiatives. Still,... |
2021 |
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| Bianca Velez |
DO THE POLICE PROTECT AND SERVE ALL PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES?: A SURVEY OF THE PROBLEMS WITHIN MODERN POLICING AND SOLUTIONS TO ENSURE THE POLICE PROTECT AND SERVE US ALL |
55 U.S.F. L. Rev. 421 [University of San Francisco Law Review] (2021) |
ON MAY 25TH, 2020, MINNEAPOLIS POLICE responded to a call from a convenience store employee alleging that a Black man named George Floyd had made a purchase with a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill. Four police officers subsequently detained Mr. Floyd, and within seventeen minutes of the first squad car arriving at the scene, Mr. Floyd was handcuffed,... |
2021 |
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| Bianca Velez |
DO THE POLICE PROTECT AND SERVE ALL PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES?: A SURVEY OF THE PROBLEMS WITHIN MODERN POLICING AND SOLUTIONS TO ENSURE THE POLICE PROTECT AND SERVE US ALL |
55 U.S.F. L. Rev. 421 [University of San Francisco Law Review] (2021) |
ON MAY 25TH, 2020, MINNEAPOLIS POLICE responded to a call from a convenience store employee alleging that a Black man named George Floyd had made a purchase with a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill. Four police officers subsequently detained Mr. Floyd, and within seventeen minutes of the first squad car arriving at the scene, Mr. Floyd was handcuffed,... |
2021 |
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| Corynn Wilson |
DOMESTIC TERRORISM SHOULD BE A CRIME: FIGHTING WHITE SUPREMACIST VIOLENCE LIKE CONGRESS FOUGHT "ANIMAL ENTERPRISE TERRORISM" |
58 Hous. L. Rev. 749 [Houston Law Review] (Winter, 2021) |
White supremacist violence has steadily increased in recent years, leading to hundreds of senseless murders in the United States. The shooting epidemic in the United States has caused cyclical firearm regulation debates and calls to classify the murderers as domestic terrorists. Currently, there is no way to charge mass shooters as domestic... |
2021 |
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| Ana Pajar Blinder |
DON'T (TOWER) DUMP ON FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION: PROTEST SURVEILLANCE UNDER THE FIRST AND FOURTH AMENDMENTS |
111 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 961 [Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology] (Fall, 2021) |
Government surveillance is ubiquitous in the United States and can range from the seemingly innocuous to intensely intrusive. Recently, the surveillance of protestors--such as those protesting against George Floyd's murder by a police officer--has received widespread attention in the media and in activist circles, but has yet to be successfully... |
2021 |
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| Jenny B. Davis |
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! |
107-JUL A.B.A. J. 12 [ABA Journal] (June/July, 2021) |
If Who is Zach Newkirk? ever became an answer to a Jeopardy! question, writers for the legendary television quiz show would have plenty of angles to choose from. For example, they could go with this: This Washington, D.C.-based voting rights lawyer, a six-time Jeopardy! champion in 2020, took home nearly $125,000 in winnings. Or this one: This... |
2021 |
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| Cesar Hernandez-Villanueva |
DRESS CODE AND RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATIONS THROUGH THE LENSE OF EEOC v. KROGER |
22 Rutgers J. L. & Religion 161 [Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion] (2021) |
Lawson began working for Kroger ten years ago at the deli department, where she worked until her termination two years ago. Lawson's co-worker Rickerd began her employment with Kroger goods around the same time as a cashier and file maintenance clerk, and she worked in these positions until her termination two years ago. Both Rickerd and Lawson... |
2021 |
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| Cesar Hernandez-Villanueva |
DRESS CODE AND RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATIONS THROUGH THE LENSE OF EEOC v. KROGER |
22 Rutgers J. L. & Religion 161 [Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion] (2021) |
Lawson began working for Kroger ten years ago at the deli department, where she worked until her termination two years ago. Lawson's co-worker Rickerd began her employment with Kroger goods around the same time as a cashier and file maintenance clerk, and she worked in these positions until her termination two years ago. Both Rickerd and Lawson... |
2021 |
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| M. L. Cross |
Eligibility of women as jurors |
157 A.L.R. 461 (Originally published in 1945) [American Law Reports ALR] (2021) |
The reported case for this annotation is State v. Emery, 224 N.C. 581, 31 S.E.2d 858, 157 A.L.R. 441 (1944). |
2021 |
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| Rebecca Bratspies, Vanessa Casado Perez, Robin Kundis Craig, Lissa Griffin, Keith Hirokawa, Sarah Krakoff, Katrina Kuh, Jessica Owley, Melissa Powers, Shannon Roesler, Jonathan Rosenbloom, J.B. Ruhl, Erin Ryan, David Takacs |
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, DISRUPTED BY COVID-19 |
51 Envtl. L. Rep. (ELI) 10509 [Environmental Law Reporter (ELI)] (June, 2021) |
For over a year, the COVID-19 pandemic and concerns about systemic racial injustice have highlighted the conflicts and opportunities currently faced by environmental law. Scientists uniformly predict that environmental degradation, notably climate change, will cause a rise in diseases, disproportionate suffering among communities already facing... |
2021 |
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| Kathleen Y. Murray |
EXPLORING A "NECESSARY STANDARD" FOR THE USE OF EXCESSIVE, DEADLY FORCE BY LAW ENFORCEMENT: A FLAWED SOLUTION WITH POSITIVE POTENTIAL |
52 U. Tol. L. Rev. 397 [University of Toledo Law Review] (Summer, 2021) |
The foundation of a law enforcement agency funded by taxpayer dollars is based on an inherent agreement: The people who pay their wages do so for the good of the community, and from that transaction they expect a certain level of professionalism, efficacy, and accountability from the police. When the social contract between police and society... |
2021 |
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FACEBOOK, INC. |
SEC No Action Ltrs. WSB File No. 0329202119 [SEC No Action Letters] (2021) |
WSB File No. 0329202119 WSB Subject Category: 77 Public Availability Date: March 26, 2021. Prepared By: Davis Polk References: Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 14(a); Rule 14a-8 ________________Washington Service Bureau Summary________________ January 11, 2021 Re: Stockholder proposal of National Center for Public Policy Research Pursuant... |
2021 |
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| Andrew Guthrie Ferguson |
FACIAL RECOGNITION AND THE FOURTH AMENDMENT |
105 Minn. L. Rev. 1105 [Minnesota Law Review] (February, 2021) |
Introduction. 1106 I. Facial Recognition Technology. 1109 A. The Technology. 1110 B. Police Use of Facial Recognition Technology. 1115 1. Face Surveillance. 1116 2. Face Identification. 1119 3. Face Tracking. 1122 4. Non-Law Enforcement Purposes. 1124 II. The Fourth Amendment and the Privacy Problem of Facial Recognition. 1126 A. Pre-Digital Face... |
2021 |
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| William Covington |
FOREWORD |
30 Wash. Int'l L.J. viii [Washington International Law Journal] (March, 2021) |
It is my privilege to introduce the Washington International Law Journal's winter quarter symposium. This publication presents six articles exploring past and present injustices, their operation, and possible solutions. What makes this issue special is its range. This special issue begins with Erika George, Jena Martin, and Tara Van Ho sharing... |
2021 |
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| Co-Dean David Lopez |
FOREWORD |
72 Rutgers U. L. Rev. 1265 [Rutgers University Law Review] (Winter, 2021) |
That everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist. Think of how many changes you have already seen. The world is nothing but change. -Marcus Aurelius The general laws of migration hold that the greater the obstacles and the farther the distance traveled, the more ambitious the migrants. -Isabel Wilkerson History will have to record... |
2021 |
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| T. Alexander Aleinikoff |
FOREWORD TO THE REPUBLICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION IN CONTEXT: THE CONTINUING SIGNIFICANCE OF RACISM |
92 U. Colo. L. Rev. 1315 [University of Colorado Law Review] (Special Issue 2021) |
It is disturbing--to say the least--that an article written nearly three decades ago based on an assertion of the continuing existence of racism in the United States can be seen as meriting republication, not for its historical interest but because of its current relevance. The article began with descriptions of the brutal murder of Emmet Till in... |
2021 |
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| T. Alexander Aleinikoff |
FOREWORD TO THE REPUBLICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION IN CONTEXT: THE CONTINUING SIGNIFICANCE OF RACISM |
92 U. Colo. L. Rev. 1315 [University of Colorado Law Review] (Special Issue 2021) |
It is disturbing--to say the least--that an article written nearly three decades ago based on an assertion of the continuing existence of racism in the United States can be seen as meriting republication, not for its historical interest but because of its current relevance. The article began with descriptions of the brutal murder of Emmet Till in... |
2021 |
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| Megan Armstrong |
FROM LYNCHING TO CENTRAL PARK KAREN: HOW WHITE WOMEN WEAPONIZE WHITE WOMANHOOD |
32 Hastings Women's L.J. 27 [Hastings Women's Law Journal] (Winter, 2021) |
In recent years, we have seen an influx of Karens and otherwise nicknamed white women gain infamy on the internet. Though sometimes the behavior of these women is innocuous and merely entitled, the pejorative nickname Karen has also become a term for white women engaging in racist behavior. A typical scenario involves a white woman calling the... |
2021 |
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| Dr. Donald F. Tibbs |
FROM TIKTOK TO RACIAL VIOLENCE: ANTI-BLACKNESS IN THE GENDERED SPHERE |
33 St. Thomas L. Rev. 198 [Saint Thomas Law Review] (Spring, 2021) |
The impact of Covid-19 on racial and social consciousness during 2020 was significant. While much of the world was in social incapacitation, we passed the time by tuning into our televisions and social devices. The local and national news told stories of the rising number of deaths lost to the virus. Particularly hard hit by the virus were people... |
2021 |
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