Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms |
Carly Margolis |
TARGETING POLICE UNIONS, RETHINKING REFORM |
46 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 224 (2022) |
Police unions are a powerful obstacle to reform and abolition movements alike. This article tracks the (re)emergence of a political strategy targeting police unions as a site of police reform and abolition amid the summer 2020 uprising. It takes Washington, D.C.'s Defund MPD (Metropolitan Police Department) movement as a case study on the... |
2022 |
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Alberto Bernabe |
TEACHING AT THE INTERSECTION OF TORTS, RACE, AND GENDER |
41 Quinnipiac Law Review 1 (2022) |
Introduction. 2 I. Planning, Goals, and Approach. 5 II. Determining the Value of the Injury in Torts Cases. 10 III. Battery and Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress. 15 IV. Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress. 19 V. Should the Standard of Care In Negligence Cases Take Into Account Gender or Race?. 21 VI. Prenatal Torts. 26 VII. Duty... |
2022 |
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Steve Calandrillo , Nolan Kobuke Anderson |
TERRIFIED BY TECHNOLOGY: HOW SYSTEMIC BIAS DISTORTS U.S. LEGAL AND REGULATORY RESPONSES TO EMERGING TECHNOLOGY |
2022 University of Illinois Law Review 597 (2022) |
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. --Marie Curie Americans are becoming increasingly aware of the systemic biases we possess and how those biases preclude us from collectively living out the true meaning of our national creed. But to fully understand systemic... |
2022 |
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Franciska Coleman |
THE ANATOMY OF CANCEL CULTURE |
2 Journal of Free Speech Law 205 (2022) |
In this paper, I undertake a qualitative exploration of how social regulation of speech works in practice on university campuses, and of the extent to which social regulation in practice affirms or undermines the stereotypes and caricatures that characterize the cancel-culture wars. I first summarize the two narratives that anchor public debates... |
2022 |
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Brandon Hasbrouck |
THE ANTIRACIST CONSTITUTION |
102 Boston University Law Review 87 (February, 2022) |
Our Constitution, as it is and as it has been interpreted by our courts, serves white supremacy. The twin projects of abolition and reconstruction remain incomplete, derailed first by openly hostile institutions, then by the subtler lie that a colorblind Constitution would bring about the end of racism. Yet, in its debut in Supreme Court... |
2022 |
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Laura M. Padilla |
THE BLACK--WHITE PARADIGM'S CONTINUING ERASURE OF LATINAS: SEE WOMEN LAW DEANS OF COLOR |
99 Denver Law Review 683 (Summer, 2022) |
The Black-white paradigm persists with unintended consequences. For example, there have been only six Latina law deans to date with only four presently serving. This Article provides data about women law deans of color, the dearth of Latina law deans, and explanations for the data. It focuses on the enduring Black-white paradigm, as well as other... |
2022 |
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Anna Offit |
THE CHARACTER OF JURY EXCLUSION |
106 Minnesota Law Review 2173 (May, 2022) |
In American jury trials, cause challenges and peremptory strikes can be used to excuse otherwise eligible jurors based on their previous encounters with, or experience-based impressions of, the criminal justice system. The legitimacy of this practice hinges on the view that these individuals cannot fairly and impartially serve as jurors. Yet this... |
2022 |
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Nadia B. Ahmad |
THE CLIODYNAMICS OF MASS INCARCERATION, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND "CHAINS ON OUR FEET" |
49 Fordham Urban Law Journal 371 (February, 2022) |
Introduction. 371 I. Cliodynamics and Complexity. 377 II. Sociolegal Patterns of Mass Incarceration in the United States. 384 A. Historical Prison Trends. 384 B. Preparedness of Legal Systems. 387 C. Global South Variations. 393 D. Rule of Law Initiatives as Importation of U.S. Carcerality Overseas. 393 III. Climate Change Resistance Movements. 396... |
2022 |
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Alexis Hoag |
THE COLOR OF JUSTICE |
120 Michigan Law Review 977 (April, 2022) |
Free Justice: a History of the Public Defender in Twentieth Century America. By Sara Mayeux. University of North Carolina Press. 2020. Pp. xi, 271. $26.95. Writing about history requires making certain decisions: when to start the account, what to include and exclude, which documents and artifacts to rely upon, and what questions to address. One... |
2022 |
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Maryam Ahranjani , Natalie Saing |
THE CONSTITUTIONAL COSTS OF SCHOOL POLICING |
72 American University Law Review 337 (December, 2022) |
Responding to fears of violence and liability on K-12 campuses, local school boards and superintendents have made on-site or embedded school police omnipresent in American public schools. Yet, very little attention is paid to the many costs associated with their presence. When situating law enforcement's presence squarely in the racist history of... |
2022 |
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig |
THE CRT OF BLACK LIVES MATTER |
66 Saint Louis University Law Journal 663 (Summer, 2022) |
Critical Race Theory (CRT), or at least its principles, stands at the core of most prominent social movements of today--from the resurgence of the #MeToo Movement, which was founded by a Black woman, Tarana Burke, to the Black Lives Matter Movement, which was founded by three Black women: Opal Tometi, Alicia Garza, and Patrisse Cullors. In fact,... |
2022 |
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Veronica Root Martinez |
THE DIVERSITY RISK PARADOX |
75 Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc 115 (2022) |
There is a growing body of literature discussing the proper role of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts by and within public firms. A combination of forces brought renewed energy to this topic over the past few years. The #MeToo movement demonstrated a whole host of inequities faced by women within workplaces. Business Roundtable's 2019... |
2022 |
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Heidi M. S. Sandomir |
THE END OF FORCED ARBITRATION OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE |
29 Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice 111 (Fall, 2022) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 112 Part I. 115 A. Alternative Dispute Resolution. 115 B. Arbitration. 116 C. Forced Arbitration, Employment Contracts, and Workplace Sexual Violence. 116 D. Issues Inherent to Arbitrating Sexual Violence Claims. 118 1. Arbitration Lacks Diversity. 118 2. The Repeat Player Effect. 121 3. Civil Litigation Benefits... |
2022 |
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Arusha Gordon |
THE FIRST AMENDMENT, POLICING, AND WHITE SUPREMACY IN AMERICA |
28 Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights 33 (Fall, 2022) |
In recent years, journalists, researchers and community activists have identified thousands of law enforcement officers holding white supremacist, misogynistic, Islamophobic, homophobic, and other bigoted views. In addition to engaging in hateful activity online, officers have displayed insignia and hand signals for white supremacist groups,... |
2022 |
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Thomas P. Crocker |
THE FOURTH AMENDMENT AND THE PROBLEM OF SOCIAL COST |
117 Northwestern University Law Review 473 (2022) |
Abstract--The Supreme Court has made social cost a core concept relevant to the calculation of Fourth Amendment remedies but has never explained the concept's meaning. The Court limits the availability of both the exclusionary rule and civil damages because of their substantial social costs. According to the Court, these costs primarily consist... |
2022 |
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Laura C. Powell |
THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY: BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTESTS, THE JANUARY 6TH INSURRECTION, AND FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY AS ADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE |
72 American University Law Review 277 (October, 2022) |
The debate surrounding law enforcement's use of facial recognition technology (FRT) continues to raise concerns about accuracy, reliability, and equity. Nonetheless, law enforcement agencies continue to purchase, implement, and use FRT as an investigative tool to identify suspects and make arrests. Yet, its ability to enter the courtroom remains... |
2022 |
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Rohit Tallapragada |
THE HISTORY OF THE BLACK-INDIAN ALLIANCE |
14 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 227 (Summer, 2022) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 227 The Alliance and How it Formed. 228 The Alliance's Intellectual Exchange. 232 The Alliance's Fall. 236 The Black-Indian American Alliance Today. 237 The Future of the Alliance. 243 |
2022 |
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Jennifer S. Fan |
THE LANDSCAPE OF STARTUP CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN THE FOUNDER-FRIENDLY ERA |
18 NYU Journal of Law & Business 317 (Spring, 2022) |
In corporate governance scholarship, there is an important debate about the nature and roles of the members of the board of directors in venture capital-backed private companies. The impact of a newly emerged, founder-centric model has been underappreciated, while the role of the independent director as tiebreaker or swing vote is vastly... |
2022 |
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Deborah R. Gerhardt |
THE LAST BREAKFAST WITH AUNT JEMIMA |
14 Landslide 46 (December/January, 2022) |
In the spring and summer of 2020, as Americans struggled to make sense of George Floyd's murder in front of a crowd in broad daylight, trademark owners began abandoning iconic but racially charged words and imagery, including Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and the Redskins. This unprecedented moment in advertising history has much to teach us about... |
2022 |
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Deborah R. Gerhardt |
THE LAST BREAKFAST WITH AUNT JEMIMA AND ITS IMPACT ON TRADEMARK THEORY |
45 Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts 231 (Winter, 2022) |
The generally-accepted law and economics theory of trademarks fails to explain why a brand owner would ever walk away from a trademark that generates financially lucrative returns. In 2020, that is exactly what happened again and again as brand owners pledged to abandon racially explicit marks in the weeks following George Floyd's murder. As... |
2022 |
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Lucius T. Outlaw III |
THE LINE THAT I DID NOT KNOW I HAD: WHY I WOULD NOT REPRESENT A JANUARY 6 DEFENDANT AS A PUBLIC DEFENDER |
27 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 1 (Fall, 2022) |
Introduction. 1 I. The January 6th Insurrection. 4 II. January 6, White Extremism, & Racial Violence. 9 III. The Calling--A Public Defender's Subinterests. 15 IV. Why I Would Not Represent January 6 Defendants. 17 1. Preservation of My Racial Justice/Civil Rights Subinterest. 17 2. Refusing to be a Tool for Subjugating Black Americans. 19 V.... |
2022 |
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Anneke Dunbar-Gronke |
THE MANDATE FOR CRITICAL RACE THEORY IN THIS TIME |
69 UCLA Law Review Discourse 4 (2022) |
A necessary conclusion from Critical Race Theory (CRT) is that Black people cannot look to the law for justice because racism is baked into the law. As a result, the movement for Black liberation cannot rely on the law for just outcomes. This result does not, however, mean that we have to abandon legal interventions altogether. Instead, for those... |
2022 |
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Jake Landreth |
THE MATERIALITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE ("ESG") INDICATORS: IS IT TIME FOR MANDATORY DISCLOSURE? |
36 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy Online Supplement 528 (2022) |
Today, companies have no comprehensive mandatory requirements to disclose environmental, social, or corporate governance (ESG) details to their shareholders or the public. Corporations traditionally operate to make profits for their shareholders, and fifty years ago, that might have been the sole sufficient factor. Public corporations follow a... |
2022 |
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Ashley Evans |
THE MISTREATMENT OF BLACK-OWNED BUSINESSES DURING THE FIRST AND SECOND ROUNDS OF THE PAYCHECK PROTECTION PROGRAM |
17 Rutgers Business Law Review 107 (Spring, 2022) |
Amid a global pandemic, the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) severely discriminated against small Black-owned businesses. Combined with record closures because of COVID-19, further discrimination by the PPP and banking institutions will lead to the near eradication of small Black-owned businesses in America. The federal government needs to... |
2022 |
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Joshua G. Wolford |
THE MOST DANGEROUS OF ALL SUBVERSIONS: TAMING THE AT-WILL EMPLOYMENT DOCTRINE BY STATUTORILY SAFEGUARDING PRIVATE EMPLOYEES' PUBLIC PROTEST SPEECH |
110 Kentucky Law Journal 791 (2021-2022) |
Table of Contents. 791 Introduction. 792 I. The American Worker and Free Speech: Protections for Some, Capriciousness for Most, AND Uncertainty for All. 794 A. Protections for Some. 795 B. Capriciousness for Most. 798 II. Wrongful Discharge Claims and The Free Speech Freeze Out. 801 A. The Common Law Mess. 802 B. Wrongful Termination in Violation... |
2022 |
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Ariba Ahmad |
THE NEXT STEP IN CIVIL RIGHTS: ABOLISH ABSOLUTE PROSECUTORIAL IMMUNITY SO PROSECUTORS CANNOT USE THEIR POWER TO VIOLATE OTHERS' CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS |
72 Case Western Reserve Law Review 839 (Spring, 2022) |
C1-2Contents Introduction. 840 I. Winning at All Costs: Prosecutorial Misconduct Violates the Constitution and Destroys Lives. 841 A. A Few Bad Apples vs. A Rotten Orchard: The Issue is Systemic. 843 B. Our Judicial System is Failing Us--Why Internal Remedies Do Not Work. 846 1. Appellate Reversal. 846 2. Professional Discipline and Criminal... |
2022 |
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I. India Thusi |
THE PATHOLOGICAL WHITENESS OF PROSECUTION |
110 California Law Review 795 (June, 2022) |
Criminal law scholarship suffers from a Whiteness problem. While scholars appear to be increasingly concerned with the racial disparities within the criminal legal system, the scholarship's focus tends to be on the marginalized communities and the various discriminatory outcomes they experience as a result of the system. Scholars frequently mention... |
2022 |
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Cynthia Godsoe |
THE PLACE OF THE PROSECUTOR IN ABOLITIONIST PRAXIS |
69 UCLA Law Review 164 (March, 2022) |
Progressive prosecutors have been widely hailed as the solution to mass incarceration. This Article argues, to the contrary, that the legal arm of law enforcement can never be the full answer to its problems. While scholars critique police and call to defund and dismantle them, they overlook prosecutors. Building on the work of abolitionist... |
2022 |
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Caroline Mala Corbin |
THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND COMPELLED SPEECH REVISITED: REQUIRING PARENTAL CONSENT |
97 Indiana Law Journal 967 (Spring, 2022) |
Since the Supreme Court decided West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette in 1943, free speech law has been clear: public schools may not force students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Nevertheless, in two states--Texas and Florida--students may decline to participate only with parental permission. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals... |
2022 |
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Ronald E. Britt II |
THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE DRIVEN BY PROTEST: THE NEED TO REFORM THE ANTI-RIOT ACT AND EXAMINE ANTI-RIOT PROVISIONS |
90 Fordham Law Review 2269 (April, 2022) |
The right to join in peaceful assembly and petition is critical to an effective democracy and is at the core of the First Amendment. The assault of peaceful protestors in the pursuit of racial justice is not a new phenomenon, and legislators at the federal and state levels have drafted anti-riot provisions as a measure to target protestors they... |
2022 |
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