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| Jedediah Britton-Purdy, David Singh Grewal, Amy Kapczynski, K. Sabeel Rahman |
Building a Law-and-political-economy Framework: Beyond the Twentieth-century Synthesis |
129 Yale Law Journal 1784 (April, 2020) |
We live in a time of interrelated crises. Economic inequality and precarity, and crises of democracy, climate change, and more raise significant challenges for legal scholarship and thought. Neoliberal premises undergird many fields of law and have helped authorize policies and practices that reaffirm the inequities of the current era. In... |
2020 |
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| Judith H. Owens, Ed.D |
Building an Antiracist Organization Is No Easy Task -- or Did Kindergarten Teach Us How? |
66No.6 Practical Lawyer 29 (12/1/2020) |
This is Part 1 of a two-part article about the urgent call for a systematically antiracist society, and how we can answer that call on the organizational level, within our legal offices, companies, and other institutions. Recent events have evoked the issue of racism and the unfair treatment of people of color not just on an interpersonal level,... |
2020 |
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| Amisha Gandhi |
California County Oversight of Use Policies for Surveillance Technology |
108 California Law Review 1011 (June, 2020) |
California Senate Bill 1186 (SB 1186), proposed in 2018, would have implemented surveillance transparency, accountability, and oversight measures over the California Highway Patrol, the California Department of Justice, and every California police department, sheriff's office, district attorney's office, and school district and state university... |
2020 |
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| Laura Weiss, CQ Roll Call |
California, New York Fund Managers Urge Workforce Diversity Disclosure |
CQ Briefing Roll Call Washington Corporate Governance (7/28/2020) |
Officers for some of the country's largest public pension funds are urging companies to disclose workforce diversity data by making EEO-1 report information public. |
2020 |
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| Christina Murray |
Cameras Down, Hands Up: How the Supreme Court Chilled the Development of the First Amendment Right to Record the Police |
71 Mercer Law Review 1125 (Summer, 2020) |
You may not realize this, but the Supreme Court of the United States has possibly jeopardized one of your First Amendment rights: the right to record the police. While this right may mean little to you now, it could serve as a means of protecting your other rights and in keeping law enforcement accountable. Because of the right to record the... |
2020 |
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| Emily Kopp and Mark Stricherz, CQ Roll Call |
Cannabis Companies May Gain as More States Vote on Legalizing Marijuana |
CQ Briefing Roll Call Washington Capital Markets (10/22/2020) |
Cannabis companies including Curaleaf Holdings Inc., Green Thumb Industries, Cresco Labs Inc. and Canada's Acreage Holdings could get a boost from this year's legalization efforts in the U.S., analysts say. Voters will decide next month whether to legalize recreational marijuana in four states: Arizona, Montana, New Jersey and South Dakota.... |
2020 |
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| John Fitzgerald |
Change.org Misled Donors Who Signed George Floyd Petition, Suit Says |
27No.06 Westlaw Journal Class Action 02 (2020) |
When Sean Randall signed a Change.org petition calling for justice after the death of George Floyd, he was asked to chip in $3" to help the petitioner's agenda. Now Randall is questioning how those donations are being spent. He and other donors were misled into believing that their contributions would be used to promote the "Justice for George..." |
2020 |
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| Nancy E. Dowd |
Children's Equality Rights: Every Child's Right to Develop to Their Full Capacity |
41 Cardozo Law Review 1367 (April, 2020) |
Children are born equal. Yet as early as eighteen months, hierarchies emerge among children. These hierarchies are not random but fall into patterns by race, gender, and class. They are not caused nor voluntarily chosen by children or their parents. The hierarchies grow, persist, and are made worse by systems and policies created by the state,... |
2020 |
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| Nancy E. Dowd |
Children's Equality: the Centrality of Race, Gender, and Class |
47 Fordham Urban Law Journal 231 (February, 2020) |
Hierarchies among children dramatically impact their development. Beginning before birth, and continuing during their progression to adulthood from birth to age 18, structural and cultural barriers separate and subordinate some children, while they privilege others. The hierarchies replicate patterns of inequality along familiar lines, particularly... |
2020 |
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| Zack Budryk |
Civil Rights Icon Rev. James Lawson: 'We Need the Constitution to Come Alive' to Honor Lewis |
The Hill (7/30/2020) |
The Rev. James Lawson, a major leader and tactician in the civil rights movement, spoke at Rep. John Lewiss (D-Ga.) funeral Thursday, saying Lewis practiced politics the nation need[s] more desperately than ever before. |
2020 |
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| Katrina M. Wyman |
Commodity & Propriety in Contemporary New York City |
29 Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy 735 (Spring, 2020) |
Introduction. 735 I. Contemporary Urban Centralism. 742 II. Contemporary Urban Localism. 748 Conclusion. 756 |
2020 |
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| Laura Weiss, CQ Roll Call |
Companies Actively Seeking Black Board Members amid Social Pressure |
CQ Briefing Roll Call Washington Corporate Governance (8/5/2020) |
Companies are actively searching for Black board members after years of diversity efforts that focused on adding representation of women and people of color more generally, according to search firms. |
2020 |
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Companies Including Jpmorgan Pledge to Use More Inclusive Language - Implications for Compliance |
30No.03 04 (2020) |
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is eliminating terms like blacklist (Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence) |
2020 |
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| Abigail Greene |
Compliance Issues: the Supreme Court's Confusing Messages to Municipalities |
85 Missouri Law Review 547 (Spring, 2020) |
Local municipalities are vested with the power to enact zoning ordinances that prohibit signs and flags in residential areas for aesthetic purposes. This power directly competes with an individual's constitutional right to use private property to express their views. The United States Supreme Court recently struck a balance for this conflict in... |
2020 |
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Constitutional Remedies--bivens Actions-- Search and Seizure-- Hernández V. Mesa |
134 Harvard Law Review 550 (November, 2020) |
In its landmark decision in Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, the Supreme Court held that a federal agent's violation of the Fourth Amendment gives rise to a cause of action for damages. In two subsequent cases, the Court extended this reasoning to violations of the equal protection component of the Fifth... |
2020 |
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| David Ireland, Richard Jochelson |
Continuing the Conversation: Exploring Current Themes in Criminal Justice and the Law |
43 Manitoba Law Journal L.J. I (2020) |
It is our great pleasure to bring you the latest volumes of the Criminal Law Special Edition of the Manitoba Law Journal. Academics, students, and the practicing bench and bar continue to access this publication and contribute to it their knowledge and experience in the criminal law. Publishing a triple volume is a testament to the quality of... |
2020 |
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| Camille Gear Rich |
Contracting Our Way to Inequality: Race, Reproductive Freedom, and the Quest for the Perfect Child |
104 Minnesota Law Review 2375 (May, 2020) |
Introduction. 2377 I. Packaging Race in the ART Market. 2391 A. Packaging Gametes. 2392 B. Packaging Race. 2397 C. Packaging and Its Effect on Consumer Perceptions. 2405 1. The Re-Biologization of Race. 2406 2. Re-Instantiating Racial Categories. 2407 3. Racial Purity Rules. 2409 4. The Toxic Search for Whiteness. 2410 5. Anti-Miscegenation Ethos.... |
2020 |
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Convicted: Do Recent Cases Represent a Shift in Police Accountability? A Research Note |
56 Criminal Law Bulletin ART 3 (2020) |
Dr. Jones-Brown earned a J.D. and a Ph.D. in criminal justice from Rutgers University. She is retired from the Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY). She was the founding director of the John Jay College Center on Race, Crime, and Justice... |
2020 |
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| Frank Rudy Cooper |
Cop Fragility and Blue Lives Matter |
2020 University of Illinois Law Review 621 (2020) |
There is a new police criticism. Numerous high-profile police killings of unarmed blacks between 2012-2016 sparked the movements that came to be known as Black Lives Matter, #SayHerName, and so on. That criticism merges race-based activism with intersectional concerns about violence against women, including trans women. There is also a new police... |
2020 |
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Copyright Law Reports Letter No. 495 |
CCH Copyright Law Reporter P 1192309 (2020) |
Rapper Drake's sampling of Jimmy Smith song was fair use $6.75M award for destruction of aerosol art paintings affirmed LEGO entitled to injunction barring rival from selling action figures Newsletter publisher's failure to mitigate not a complete defense In-vehicle CD-copying devices not subject to royalty provisions Use of video to... |
2020 |
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| Robert B. Barnett Jr., J.D. |
Copyright-s.d.n.y.: Use of Video to Mock Views Expressed in it Deemed Fair Use |
Wolters Kluwer Intellectual Property Law Daily (2/7/2020) |
The court determined that it had the right to adjudicate fair use, an affirmative defense, from the face of the complaint on a motion to dismiss. A suit by Akilah Hughes, a liberal YouTube content creator, against Carl Benjamin, a conservative YouTube content creator, alleging copyright infringement and misrepresentation was dismissed with... |
2020 |
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| Eric Berger |
Courts, Culture, and the Lethal Injection Stalemate |
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The Supreme Court's 2019 decision in Bucklew v. Precythe reiterated the Court's great deference to states in Eighth Amendment lethal injection cases. The takeaway is that when it comes to execution protocols, states can do what they want. Events on the ground tell a very different story. Notwithstanding courts' deference, executions have ground to... |
2020 |
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| Jessica Bregant , Eugene M. Caruso , Alex Shaw |
Crime Because Punishment? The Inferential Psychology of Morality and Punishment |
2020 University of Illinois Law Review 1177 (2020) |
Psychologically speaking, punishment may operate as a special case of social norm information, but what sets punishment apart from other norms is the moral weight punishment carries. Although norms other than punishment may also communicate moral messages, punishment seems to be unique in its relationship to morality, and especially to judgments of... |
2020 |
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| Marisol Orihuela |
Crim-imm Lawyering |
34 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 613 (Spring, 2020) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 614 I. The Rise of Crim-Imm. 616 II. Lawyering Theory in Criminal and Immigration Law. 619 A. Why Lawyering Models Matter. 620 1. Early Social Change Lawyering Scholarship. 621 2. Intentionality and Self-Reflection. 622 B. Lawyering Theory in Immigration Law. 623 1. Community Lawyering. 624 2. Movement Lawyering.... |
2020 |
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| Daniel S. McConkie, Jr. |
Criminal Justice Citizenship |
72 Florida Law Review 1023 (September, 2020) |
The American criminal justice system is fundamentally democratic and should reflect an ideal of citizenship that is equal, participatory, and deliberative. Unfortunately, the outcomes of criminal cases are now almost always determined by professionals (prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges) instead of by juries. This overly bureaucratized... |
2020 |
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| Barbara O'Brien , Catherine M. Grosso |
Criminal Trials and Reforms Intended to Reduce the Impact of Race: a Review |
16 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 117 (2020) |
race, criminal trials, pretrial decisions, bail, jury selection, peremptory strikes, jury deliberations, jury unanimity, implicit bias, prison abolition This review collects initiatives and legal decisions designed to mitigate discrimination in pretrial decision making, jury selection, jury unanimity, and jury deliberations. It also reviews... |
2020 |
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| Featuring Michael Banerjee, Michael Z. Green, Alexis Karteron, Ji Seon Song |
Critical Topics Concerning Police and Policing - Panel Discussion from Fourth National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Hosted at the American University Washington College of Law |
44 Harbinger 45 (2/9/2020) |
All right, so it seems like we're running a few minutes behind, maybe it's a good time to get started. Welcome everyone, my name is Alexis Karteron. I'm an Assistant Professor at Rutgers Law School in Newark, and I have been drafted to moderate this panel, and we're lucky to have some really interesting papers and topics up for... |
2020 |
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| Marty Johnson |
Cuccinelli Says Dhs to Change Camouflage Uniforms of Federal Agents Used in Portland |
The Hill (8/4/2020) |
Acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli told a Senate panel on Tuesday that the remaining federal agents in Portland, Ore., would be transitioning away from the camouflage military-style uniforms they have been wearing. |
2020 |
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| Brendan Doneghy |
Culturally Courageous Conversations |
2020-AUT West Virginia Lawyer 44 (Autumn, 2020) |
In his 1963 letter from the Birmingham jail, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote [i]njustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Culturally Courageous Conversations is a 2020 webinar and article series... |
2020 |
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| Sarah Chaney Reichenbach |
Cve and Constitutionality in the Twin Cities: How Countering Violent Extremism Threatens the Equal Protection Rights of American Muslims in Minneapolis-st. Paul |
69 American University Law Review 1989 (August, 2020) |
In 2011, President Barack Obama announced a national strategy for countering violent extremism (CVE) to attempt to prevent the radicalization of potential violent extremists. The Obama Administration intended the strategy to employ a community-based approach, bringing together the government, law enforcement, and local communities for CVE... |
2020 |
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