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Katharine Waters FROM SCHOOLHOUSE GATE TO LOCKER ROOM DOOR: THE STUDENT ATHLETE'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO PROTEST AT A PUBLIC UNIVERSITY DOES NOT STOP AT THE HARDWOOD 73 Hastings Law Journal 1593 (July, 2022) The Supreme Court has not faced a case involving the public university student athlete's right to protest during game day events, such as during the pre-game warm up, the national anthem, and game play itself. Protests stemming from the arena of sports is nothing new, and athletes are supported by a long and rich history of influential professional... 2022  
David McNamee FUNDAMENTAL LAW, FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, AND CONSTITUTIONAL TIME 55 Indiana Law Review 319 (2022) This Article lays the groundwork for a novel theory giving citizens pride of place in constitutional interpretation--as voters and jurors, deliberators and disobedients, and more. My account adopts different answers to two basic questions that divide it from other prevailing theories: first, that citizens, rather than judges, shoulder primary... 2022  
Brian L. Owsley GEORGE FLOYD, GENERAL WARRANTS, AND CELL-SITE SIMULATORS 59 American Criminal Law Review 149 (Winter, 2022) The Fourth Amendment was enacted to prevent the government from utilizing general warrants. Instead, the government must obtain a warrant that is based on the specificity or particularity of the person, place, or thing to be searched. This approach evolved from a property-centric approach to safeguarding Fourth Amendment rights to one that is based... 2022  
David D. Coyle GETTING IT RIGHT: WHETHER TO OVERTURN QUALIFIED IMMUNITY 17 Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy 283 (Spring, 2022) Qualified immunity, the defense available to police officers and other government officials facing civil rights lawsuits, has increasingly come under attack. In recent opinions, Justice Clarence Thomas has noted his growing concern that the Court's current qualified immunity jurisprudence, which deals with whether a right is clearly established,... 2022  
Veryl Pow GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT LAWYERING: INSIGHTS FROM THE GEORGE FLOYD REBELLION 69 UCLA Law Review 80 (March, 2022) In the immediate aftermath of the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police, protesters engaged in acts of destruction, looting, and seizure of private and state property on a scale unseen since the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968. An estimated $2 billion was caused in private property damage, by far the most... 2022  
Melissa Charbonneau GUN VIOLENCE: THE AMERICAN HATE CRIME EPIDEMIC 28 Public Interest Law Reporter 19 (Fall, 2022) In the United States, 321 people are shot every day. Whether it occurs directly to you or to a family member or friend, or whether one simply witnesses the recurring events on the news, it is one of the few constants in all our lives. In the United States alone, there have been 38,421 gun violence deaths as of November 12, 2022. With a number that... 2022  
Jonathan Turley HARM AND HEGEMONY: THE DECLINE OF FREE SPEECH IN THE UNITED STATES 45 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 571 (Spring, 2022) Throughout its history, the United States has struggled with movements that aim to silence others through state or private action. These periods have been pendulous, with acute suppression followed by relative tolerance for free speech. This boom-or-bust pattern for free speech may well continue. However, the United States is arguably living... 2022  
Shirin Sinnar HATE CRIMES, TERRORISM, AND THE FRAMING OF WHITE SUPREMACIST VIOLENCE 110 California Law Review 489 (April, 2022) Even before the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, a rising chorus of policymakers and pundits had called for treating White supremacist violence as terrorism. After multiple mass shootings motivated by White supremacist ideology, commentators argued that the hate crime label failed to convey the political nature of the violence or... 2022  
Janelle Lamb HE SAID. SHE SAID. THE IPHONE SAID. THE USE OF SECRET RECORDINGS IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LITIGATION 110 California Law Review 1095 (June, 2022) Trigger Warning: This Note describes graphic scenes of domestic violence. It also discusses child abuse, elder abuse, and sexual assault. This Note explores the use of secret recordings in domestic violence litigation. It is particularly concerned with how the criminalization of domestic violence influences the laws governing the creation and use... 2022  
Almeta E. Cooper , Michael W. Peregrine HEALTH EQUITY AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS: CHALLENGES, RISKS, RESOURCES, AND STRATEGIC RESPONSES 16 Journal of Health & Life Sciences Law 74 (2022) ABSTRACT: Oversight of health equity in the delivery of quality medical care is the primary responsibility of health care organizations' governing bodies. Failure to make it a priority could result in a breach of the duty of care and oversight by the health care organization. The number and breadth of challenging crises affecting the health care... 2022  
Marie Carp HEALTH IN ALL POLICIES: AN APPROACH TO COMBATTING RACISM'S IMPACT ON PUBLIC HEALTH 67 Wayne Law Review 457 (Winter, 2022) I. Introduction. 457 II. Background. 460 A. Racism as a Public Health Crisis. 460 B. Governor Whitmer's Executive Directive. 462 1. Data Collection and Analysis. 463 2. Policy and Planning. 463 3. Engagement, Communication, and Advocacy. 464 4. Implicit Bias Training. 464 C. Proposed Policies and Legislation in Michigan. 465 D. Other State and... 2022  
Brendan Williams HOSTILE SHORES: RACIAL EXCLUSION LAWS AND THE WEST COAST 28 Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice 559 (Spring, 2022) I. California and Chinese Exclusion. 562 II. Oregon and Black Exclusionary Laws. 568 III. Washington and Anti-Japanese Laws. 570 IV. The West Coast Origins of Japanese Internment. 572 V. Race and the West Coast Today. 574 2022  
Norrinda Brown Hayat HOUSING THE DECARCERATED: COVID-19, ABOLITION & THE RIGHT TO HOUSING 110 California Law Review 639 (June, 2022) The coronavirus pandemic revealed the need to advance the right to housing and abolition movements. The need for advancements in both spaces was no more painfully apparent than among the recently decarcerated population. Securing housing for the recently decarcerated is particularly difficult due to the culture of exclusion that has long pervaded... 2022  
Tabatha Abu El-Haj HOW THE LIBERAL FIRST AMENDMENT UNDER-PROTECTS DEMOCRACY 107 Minnesota Law Review 529 (December, 2022) Introduction. 530 I. The First Amendment as Underwriter. 539 II. The Court's Theoretical Missteps. 545 A. Public Assembly. 547 B. Elections and a Meaningful Right to Vote. 552 III. Under-Protection of Political Conduct. 557 A. Limited Protection for Disruptive Protesters and Assemblies. 558 B. Under-Protecting Voting and the Integrity of the... 2022  
Mitchell F. Crusto HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER: WHEN A WHITE MALE POLICE OFFICER KILLS A YOUNG BLACK PERSON 79 Washington and Lee Law Review Online 1 (1/18/2022) Systemic racism in policing allows police officers, in particular white men, to continue to perpetuate the violent killings of Black people. This violence is not accidental. Rather it is intentional and allowed to continue due to a failure by the Supreme Court to hold police officers accountable. This Article explains how the doctrines of qualified... 2022  
Princess Diaz-Birca IN THE NAME OF "TERRORISM": SILENCING DISSENT IN SAUDI ARABIA 14 Northeastern University Law Review 631 (June, 2022) Introduction I. History A. Domestic Terrorism B. KSA Specialized Criminal Court II. Eradicating Terrorism: A System of Lawful Oppression A. Defining Terrorism: An International Proposal B. Defining Terrorism: The KSA Counter-Terror Laws C. Institutional Violence: Systemic Violations of Human Rights D. Institutional Violence: Torture and Coerced... 2022  
Chaumtoli Huq INTEGRATING A RACIAL CAPITALISM FRAMEWORK INTO FIRST-YEAR CONTRACTS: A PATHWAY TO ANTI-CAPITALIST LAWYERING 35 Journal of Civil Rights & Economic Development 181 (Spring, 2022) I came to theory because I was hurting--the pain within me was so intense that I could not go on living. I came to theory desperate, wanting to comprehend--to grasp what was happening around and within me. Most importantly, I wanted to make the hurt go away. I saw in theory then a location for healing. [T]he practice of theory is informed by... 2022  
Suzette M. Malveaux IS IT TIME FOR A NEW CIVIL RIGHTS ACT? PURSUING PROCEDURAL JUSTICE IN THE FEDERAL CIVIL COURT SYSTEM 63 Boston College Law Review 2403 (November, 2022) Introduction. 2405 I. Procedural Law Has Reached a Tipping Point. 2409 A. Pleadings. 2410 B. Class Actions. 2415 C. Arbitration. 2425 II. Institutional Competencies: Why Congress Should Make the Course Correction. 2436 A. Supreme Court Versus Rule-Makers. 2437 B. Rule-Makers Versus Congress. 2442 C. Congress as Solution. 2445 III. It Is Time for a... 2022  
Cole Craghan IT SHOULD NOT MATTER WHAT TYPE OF OFFICER WRONGLY ARRESTS YOU: USING CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIONS TO PROTECT PEACEFUL PROTESTORS 48 Journal of Legislation 370 (2022) On June 1, 2020, an operation headed by the United States Park Police (USPP) and the U.S. Secret Service cleared protestors from Lafayette Square outside the White House. At the same time, then-President Trump spoke nearby in the Rose Garden; he recommended that governors across the country dominate the streets and declared that he would deploy... 2022  
Andra Gillespie, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Emory University JOHN LEWIS AND THE DURABILITY OF TRANSCENDENT RACE POLITICS 37 Journal of Law and Religion 55 (January, 2022) John Lewis's civil rights activism in the 1960s often obscures the fact that he won elective office as a racially moderate politician. Scholars have long noted the efficacy of using deracialized, or racially transcendent, campaign strategies to get elected, despite normative concerns. These strategies were critical to electing Black governors,... 2022  
Cashmere Cozart JOHNSON v. CITY OF FERGUSON: UNREASONABLE SEIZURES OF BYSTANDERS OF POLICE BRUTALITY 55 UIC Law Review 587 (Fall, 2022) I. Introduction. 587 II. Background. 588 A. The Altercation that Led to Michael Brown's Murder. 589 B. The Indictment. 590 C. The Department of Justice Findings on Policing in Ferguson. 591 D. Procedural History of Dorian Wilson's Suit. 594 E. The Eighth Circuit Affirmed the District Court. 596 III. Court's Analysis. 599 A. The En Banc Panel Held... 2022  
Ben Waldron, Richard Bales K-12 NONTRADITIONAL BARGAINING IN A TIME OF COVID-19: BUILDING SOLIDARITY BETWEEN MOVEMENTS THROUGH SHARED GRIEVANCES 20 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 501 (Winter, 2022) By focusing on shared community grievances related to the conditions created by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, teachers today can replicate their successes in the 2018-2019 teachers' strikes using similar labor tactics. The 2018-2019 strikes started with teachers demanding better funding for public education, but then expanded as... 2022  
Justin Hansford KEYNOTE ADDRESS 45 Seattle University Law Review 787 (Spring, 2022) Dontay Proctor-Mills: Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome back as we move into the latter part in the end of today's symposium, it is my pleasure to introduce our keynote speaker Professor Justin Hansford, Howard University School of Law Professor and Executive Director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center. Professor Hansford was previously a... 2022  
Ann C. McGinley LABORATORIES OF DEMOCRACY: STATE LAW AS A PARTIAL SOLUTION TO WORKPLACE HARASSMENT 30 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 245 (2022) I. Introduction: Structural, Legal, and Political Failures. 246 II. Analysis of the Current Situation in Federal Anti-Harassment Law. 255 A. Procedural Injustice. 255 i. Summary Judgments and Dismissals. 256 ii. Burdens of Persuasion: Differential Treatment. 258 iii. Removal to Federal Court. 261 B. Substantive Injustice in Sex- and Race-Based... 2022  
Frank W. Munger, Carroll Seron LAW AND THE PERSISTENCE OF RACIAL INEQUALITY IN AMERICA 66 New York Law School Law Review 175 (2021/2022) EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was adapted from Frank W. Munger & Carroll Seron, Race, Law, and Inequality, Fifty Years After the Civil Rights Era, 13 Ann. Rev. L. & Soc. Sci. 331 (2017). In 2020, America was once again required to confront its legacy of racial inequality. Widely viewed videos of police violence against Black Americans, a resurgent... 2022  
Barry Friedman LAWLESS SURVEILLANCE 97 New York University Law Review 1143 (October, 2022) Policing agencies in the United States are engaging in mass collection of personal data, building a vast architecture of surveillance. License plate readers collect our location information. Mobile forensics data terminals suck in the contents of cell phones during traffic stops. CCTV maps our movements. Cheap storage means most of this is kept for... 2022  
Laila L. Hlass LAWYERING FROM A DEPORTATION ABOLITION ETHIC 110 California Law Review 1597 (October, 2022) This Article contributes to the emerging literature on abolition within the immigration legal system by mapping deportation abolition theory onto lawyering practice. Deportation abolitionists work to end immigrant detention, enforcement, and deportation, explicitly understanding immigrant justice as part of a larger racial justice fight connected... 2022  
Donald J. Polden LEADING LAW FIRMS IN THE "NEW NORMAL": RECOVERING FROM CRISES THROUGH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT 63 Santa Clara Law Review 223 (2022) Beginning in 2008, the first of three major crises hit the nation and had global implications and effects, including significant ones for the legal profession. Those crises were the financial crisis of 2008, followed by the social justice movements reflecting outrage at several highly-publicized police killings of Black men and women, and, most... 2022  
To Nhu Huynh LEGAL EPIDEMIOLOGY FOR RACIAL HEALTH EQUITY 21 Houston Journal of Health Law & Policy 411 (2022) Introduction. 413 I. The Need to Integrate Racial Health Equity Considerations into Policy-Making. 417 II. Legal Epidemiology: the Microscope to Study Laws. 420 III. Legal Epidemiology in Action. 426 A. Case Study 1: Tracking Legal Responses to COVID-19 in 51 Jurisdictions. 427 1. Efforts to Track Legal Responses to COVID-19. 427 2. Preliminary... 2022  
Daniel S. Harawa LEMONADE: A RACIAL JUSTICE REFRAMING OF THE ROBERTS COURT'S CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE 110 California Law Review 681 (June, 2022) The saying goes, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When it comes to the Supreme Court's criminal jurisprudence and its relationship to racial (in)equity, progressive scholars often focus on the tartness of the lemons. In particular, they have studied how the Court often ignores race in its criminal decisions, a move that in turn reifies a... 2022  
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