| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms |
| Valencia Richardson |
Data-driven Discrimination: a Case for Equal Protection in the Racially Disparate Impact of Big Data |
12 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 209 (Fall, 2020) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 209 I. Holding the Government Liable Under the Fourteenth Amendment. 211 II. What Happens When Big Data is Racist. 214 A. What is Big Data?. 214 B. The Consequences of Big Data. 215 C. Responding to Big Data's Challenges Through Civil Rights Statutes. 217 III. Revisiting Fourteenth Amendment Jurisprudence for... |
2020 |
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| John Bowden |
Dc Mayor: Trump Treated Military 'Like Toy Soldiers' to Intimidate Americans |
The Hill (6/8/2020) |
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) accused President Trump on Monday of using the U.S. military as toy soldiers" to "intimidate Americans" in her city." |
2020 |
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Deconstructing Disinformation's Threat to Democracy |
44-WTR Fletcher Forum of World Affairs 153 (Winter, 2020) |
FLETCHER FORUM: Are there any new developments in the disinformation arena that you're worried people are overlooking at this time? joan donovan: It really depends on what events we might be talking about. Different media manipulators use different tactics. For example, some of the things we're looking at in our lab have to do with elections, so... |
2020 |
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| Aila Hoss |
Decriminalization as Substance Use Disorder Prevention |
51 University of Toledo Law Review 477 (Spring, 2020) |
FROM the President pointing fingers at China for the influx of fentanyl to journalists encouraging celebrities to end the stigma of substance use disorder (SUD) to activists promoting harm reduction strategies, everyone has something to say about the opioid use disorder and overdose crisis. Just like during its predecessor the crack epidemic,... |
2020 |
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| Richard L. Hasen |
Deep Fakes, Bots, and Siloed Justices: American Election Law in a "Post-truth" World |
64 Saint Louis University Law Journal 535 (Summer, 2020) |
About a decade or so ago, the major questions in the field of election law were familiar to scholars and centered on the Supreme Court: Would the Supreme Court overrule cases upholding limits on corporate and labor union campaign spending in candidate elections? Would the Court strike down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act requiring... |
2020 |
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| Meaghan O'Connor |
Defamation in the Age of Social Media: Why North Carolina's "Micro-influencers" Should Be Classified as Limited Purpose Public Figures |
42 Campbell Law Review 335 (Spring, 2020) |
The advent of social media has changed the way society communicates and the way ideas are spread. These new platforms for speech have inevitably pushed the boundaries of the law, particularly in the area of defamation. Social media has created new types of speakers, new publication methods, and easier ways for people to defame each other. This... |
2020 |
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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 American Law Reports ALR Federal 7 (2020) |
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... |
2020 |
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| David Schraub |
Deliberation and Dismissal |
22 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 1319 (August, 2020) |
One of the earliest steps in civil litigation is the motion to dismiss. Dismissal offers the opportunity to preemptively dispose of a given claim that does not present a legally judiciable case or controversy prior to expending time or energy on matters like discovery or a trial. Everyday talk, of course, is not bound by such procedural rules.... |
2020 |
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| Amna A. Akbar |
Demands for a Democratic Political Economy |
134 Harvard Law Review Forum 90 (12/1/2020) |
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters .. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. --Frederick Douglass, 1857 We are living in a... |
2020 |
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Democratic Attorneys Criticize House Judiciary Democrats' Questioning of Barr |
(7/28/2020) |
Democratic attorneys criticized Democrat lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee over their questioning of Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday, opining that they could have been more effective and pointed with the nation's top lawyer. |
2020 |
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| Cristina Marcos |
Democratic Rep. Max Rose Concedes New York House Race |
The Hill (11/12/2020) |
Rep. Max Rose (D-N.Y.) conceded his House race against Republican challenger Nicole Malliotakis on Thursday, paving the way for the GOP to retake one of the most competitive districts in the nation. |
2020 |
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| CQ Roll Call Washington Energy Briefing |
Democrats Push for Hearing on Pendley Nomination for Blm |
(8/7/2020) |
More than a year into the job officially still temporary, acting Bureau of Land Management Director William Perry Pendley is making decisions that may be permanent and Senate Democrats are seeking a chance to hold him to account. |
2020 |
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| Mike Lillis and Cristina Marcos |
Democrats See Victory in Trump Culture War |
The Hill (7/8/2020) |
Democrats are taking aggressive steps to highlight President Trumps focus on the hot-button cultural topics of race and heritage, betting it will play to their partys advantage in November. |
2020 |
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| Mike Lillis and Scott Wong |
Democrats Unveil Sweeping Legislation in Response to Protests of Police Brutality |
The Hill (6/8/2020) |
Democrats in both chambers introduced sweeping reforms on Monday designed to combat racial disparities in the criminal justice system the partys much awaited legislative response to recent police violence against African Americans that's sparked mass protests across the country and beyond. |
2020 |
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| Rebecca Beitsch |
Democrats Use Vulnerable Gop Senators to Get Rare Win on Environment |
The Hill (8/17/2020) |
President Trumps decision to withdraw his controversial nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is a rare example of Democrats and conservation groups being able to leverage the vulnerability of Republican senators to their advantage. |
2020 |
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| Alexander Bolton |
Democrats Worry about Voter Backlash in Suburbs |
The Hill (8/28/2020) |
Democratic strategists are worried scenes of violence in Kenosha, Wis., and the defund the police debate could give Republicans and President Trump a boost with suburban voters. |
2020 |
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| Justine Coleman |
Demonstrators Protest Portland Tactics Outside Home of Dhs Chief |
The Hill (7/26/2020) |
Demonstrators protested the tactics federal authorities are using in Portland, Ore., outside the Virginia home of the acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary on Sunday. |
2020 |
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| Katharine Silbaugh |
Developmental Justice and the Voting Age |
47 Fordham Urban Law Journal 253 (February, 2020) |
Several municipalities have lowered the voting age to 16, with similar bills pending in state legislatures and one considered by Congress. Meanwhile, advocates for youth are trying to raise the ages of majority across an array of areas of law, including ages for diverting criminal conduct into the juvenile justice system (18 to 21); buying tobacco... |
2020 |
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| Marty Johnson |
Dhs Compiled Intelligence Reports on Journalists Reporting on Protests in Portland: Report |
The Hill (7/30/2020) |
Amid the clashes between protestors and federal officers in downtown Portland, Ore., the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which deployed the agents created intelligence reports on a pair of journalists that it claims reported on leaked, unclassified information regarding the tense situation, according to The Washington Post. |
2020 |
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| Brianna Rosier |
Dignity: the Most Important Common Resource |
34 BYU Journal of Public Law 313 (2020) |
As a proselyting missionary, I spent time in many northern Colorado cities. While living in Loveland and Fort Collins, I was occasionally hit by a foul-smelling wind. Citizens of those cities would take a whiff and say, Smells like Greeley. The phrase was so prevalent that I picked it up myself, even though I had never been to Greeley, a city... |
2020 |
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| Annette Clark |
Diploma Privilege and the Future of the Bar Exam |
37No.6 GPSolo 19 (November/December, 2020) |
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted our lives and work in ways that were unimaginable only six months ago, as we've been faced with illness and death within our families and communities, a health care system that has been strained beyond capacity, the loss of jobs and increasing economic insecurity, anxiety and depression brought on by the fear of... |
2020 |
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| David Eichert |
Disciplinary Sodomy: Prison Rape, Police Brutality, and the Gendered Politics of Societal Control in the American Carceral System |
105 Cornell Law Review 1775 (September, 2020) |
This Note engages with critical legal scholarship about gender and race to reframe discussions about sodomy in American law. Instead of concentrating on the history and constitutionality of sodomy bans, I instead demonstrate how disciplinary sodomy remains an intrinsic part of the American carceral system. I detail several scenarios in which anal... |
2020 |
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| Daniel A. Klein, J.D. |
Disclosure, under State Freedom of Information or Records Act, of Video Obtained by Police or Other Law Enforcement Authorities from Dash Camera, Mobile Video Recorder, or Security or Surveillance Camera |
48 American Law Reports ALR7th Art. 2 (2020) |
Various types of electronic devices are typically used by police or other law enforcement agencies for recording or surveillance purposes. Besides stationary surveillance or security cameras within law enforcement agency premises, such devices include mobile video recorders or dashboard cameras (dash cams) mounted in law enforcement vehicles.... |
2020 |
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| Derek W. Miller |
Discrimination, Discretion, and Iowa's Packed Prisons |
105 Iowa Law Review 901 (January, 2020) |
ABSTRACT: For decades, the racial disparity in Iowa's prison system has persistently been one of the worst in the nation--despite the fact that the state is home to relatively few people of color. This Note submits that Iowa's County Attorneys may play an outsized role in perpetuating this state of affairs by charging and convicting... |
2020 |
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| Sarah L. Swan |
Discriminatory Dualism |
54 Georgia Law Review 869 (Spring, 2020) |
This Article identifies and theorizes a significant but previously overlooked feature of structural discrimination: it frequently develops into two seemingly opposing, yet in fact mutually supportive practices. This discriminatory dualism occurs in multiple contexts, including policing, housing, and employment. In policing, communities of color... |
2020 |
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| Clint Watts |
Disinformation's Dangerous Appeal: How the Tactic Continues to Shape Great Power Politics |
44-SUM Fletcher Forum of World Affairs 19 (Summer, 2020) |
fletcher forum: Can you define for us what is meant by the term, disinformation? clint watts: Disinformation is information that is deliberately created to achieve an objective that is knowingly false. This means that the person, the organization, the country, or the entity that is distributing it knows that it is not true, but it's designed to... |
2020 |
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| Kevin E. Jason |
Dismantling the Pillars of White Supremacy: Obstacles in Eliminating Disparities and Achieving Racial Justice |
23 CUNY Law Review 139 (Winter, 2020) |
Introduction. 140 I. A Tale of Two Americas Still Persists Today Between People of Color and Whites. 142 II. The Four Pillars Of White Supremacy: A Proposed Framework and Illustration Through Housing Policies. 148 A. Recognizing the Four Pillars of White Supremacy. 148 B. The Four Pillars at Work in Government-Led and Government-Sanctioned Housing... |
2020 |
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| Peter Blanck , Ynesse Abdul-Malak , Meera Adya , Fitore Hyseni , Mary Killeen , Fatma Altunkol Wise |
Diversity and Inclusion in the American Legal Profession: First Phase Findings from a National Study of Lawyers with Disabilities and Lawyers Who Identify as Lgbtq+ |
23 University of the District of Columbia Law Review 23 (Spring, 2020) |
Purpose: This article presents initial, descriptive findings from the first phase of a national study, with a planned longitudinal component, conducted in collaboration with the American Bar Association (ABA). With representation from all U.S. regions and states, as well as the District of Columbia, the study examined lawyers with diverse... |
2020 |
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Diversity Matters, Disclosure Works, and the Sec Can Do More |
24No.10 Wallstreetlawyer.com: Securities in the Electronic Age NL 5 (10/1/2020) |
Today I want to talk you about a topic that has dominated my thoughts recently, and Im sure many of yours as well: diversity and inclusion. I know that many of you have long advocated for greater diversity on corporate boards and elsewhere. Recent events have triggered an unprecedented national conversation on racial injustice that also highlights... |
2020 |
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| Richard S. Levick |
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: the Challenges Ahead for Lawyers and Directors |
39No.10 Of Counsel Counsel 5 (October, 2020) |
Are directors even relevant anymore? --Fortune 150 Board Member Over the years, I have had the honor of working with and speaking to many boards, public and private, and with many individual board members. Never was I simultaneously impressed and surprised by a question more than the one above. And that was three years ago. The world has only... |
2020 |
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