| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms in Title or Summary |
| Katherine M. Perez-Oviedo |
AN IN-DEPTH CRITICISM OF SHAW v. RENO |
30 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 309 (Fall, 2025) |
If I have learned one thing from my semester taking Critical Race Theory, it is that the United States Supreme Court has repeatedly issued decisions that directly impede on remedial efforts to address past racial discrimination. When the question of how can we use the law to instill social change? is proposed in class discussion, it is difficult... |
2025 |
Yes |
| M. Isabel Medina, College of Law, Loyola University New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA, Email: medina@loyno.edu |
BANNED: THE FIGHT FOR MEXICAN AMERICAN STUDIES IN THE STREETS AND IN THE COURTS. BY NOLAN L. CABRERA AND ROBERT S. CHANG. CAMBRIDGE: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2025 |
59 Law and Society Review 449 (June, 2025) |
On January 29, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order 14190 on Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling prohibiting federal funds going to K-12 public schools that teach critical race or critical theories and radical gender ideology. The order is premised on the belief that schools in recent years have indoctrinated or compelled... |
2025 |
Yes |
| Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen , School of Law, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA, Email: sballakrishnen@law.uci.edu |
BLASÉ: DEVIANT LAWYERS AND THE DENIAL OF DISCRIMINATION |
59 Law and Society Review 324 (June, 2025) |
(Received 20 November 2023; revised 2 September 2024; accepted 10 October 2024) Using 60 interviews with a range of minority law students and early career legal professionals (primarily differentiated by race, gender identity, religion, and disability), this Article illuminates the cruciality of empirical Critical Race Theory to understand... |
2025 |
Yes |
| Addrain Conyers, Amanda N. Bergold, Antoinette Critelli |
CHALLENGING BATSON: INTEREST CONVERGENCE AND PERMANENCE OF RACISM IN JURY SELECTION |
28 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice 179 (2025) |
Abstract: A Batson challenge is an objection to the use of peremptory challenges to dismiss potential jurors based on their race; however, Batson challenges are rarely successful. In this paper, we apply Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a framework to analyze the Batson Challenge. More specifically, we argue that the Batson challenge is a practice... |
2025 |
Yes |
| Hana E. Brown , Department of Sociology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA, Email: brownhe@wfu.edu |
CHALLENGING THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT: COLORBLIND RACISM, WHITENESS AS PROPERTY, AND THE LEGAL ARCHITECTURE OF SETTLER COLONIALISM |
59 Law and Society Review 356 (June, 2025) |
(Received 19 October 2023; revised 14 June 2024; accepted 4 July 2024) Bringing critical race theory and settler colonial theory to bear on legal mobilization scholarship, this article examines the ongoing campaign to strike down the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). ICWA sought to end the forced removal of American Indian children from their... |
2025 |
Yes |
| Christopher Taylor, Cheryl Thompson |
CRITICAL RACE APPROACH TO HUMAN RIGHTS DISPUTE RESOLUTION |
31 Dispute Resolution Magazine 28 (January, 2025) |
There is vocal skepticism about the usefulness of DEI officers, principles, and practices both in Canada, the country from which we write, and even more strongly in the US. In this article, we challenge this suspicion of DEI by advancing that critical DEI and anti-racist communication practices are strong assets to resolving disputes in what is... |
2025 |
Yes |
| Steven L. Nelson, J.D., Ph.D. , Aaren N. Cassidy, Ed.D. , Sheron T. Davenport, Ed.D. |
CRITICAL RACE CARE, THE MISSING LINK IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF STATE TAKEOVER LEGISLATION: A CRITICAL RACE SOCIO-LEGAL ANALYSIS OF POLICY IMPLEMENTATION |
25 Journal of Law in Society 86 (Winter, 2025) |
C1-2CONTENTS Abstract. 87 Introduction. 88 I. State Takeovers: Then and Now. 91 A. Efforts at Education Reform and Accountability. 91 B. State Takeovers: Different Strokes Aimed at the Same Folks. 95 C. State Takeovers as an Entry Point for Market-Based Reforms. 97 II. Race, Urbanicity, and Histories of Takeover. 98 A. Seizures of Urban Areas. 99... |
2025 |
Yes |
| Raquel Muñiz, J.D., Ph.D. |
CURRICULAR GOVERNMENTAL SPEECH: LEGAL DOCTRINE IN THE ANTI-CRT LAW AND POLICY DEBATES |
438 West's Education Law Reporter 669 (6-Nov-25) |
As the so-called anti-Critical Race Theory (CRT) laws proliferated across the U.S., public and scholarly debate about their legality surfaced. Could states simply adopt laws to change the curricula to fit political agendas, regardless of, for example, the relation between the proposed curricular changes to educational theories, pedagogical... |
2025 |
Yes |
| Kate Caldwell , Jamelia Morgan |
DISCRIT LEGAL STUDIES (DCLS): A METHOD FOR LEGAL ANALYSIS |
71 Wayne Law Review 87 (Summer, 2025) |
I. Introduction. 88 II. Emergence and Evolution of DLS. 89 A. Emergence of DLS. 89 Figure 1: Theoretical Framework of DCLS. 92 B. Evolution of DLS. 92 Figure 2: Evolution of DLS. 94 C. Bridging Theory. 94 Table 1: Comparing Approaches to Disability in the Law. 95 III. Racing Disability Law, Enabling Critical Race Theory. 96 A. DisCrit. 96 B.... |
2025 |
Yes |
| Mario L. Barnes , Osagie K. Obasogie |
INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE ON EMPIRICAL METHODS AND CRITICAL RACE THEORY |
59 Law and Society Review 231 (June, 2025) |
(Received 31 March 2025; accepted 31 March 2025) Keywords: empirical; methods; critical; race; theory Critical Race Theory (CRT) can be understood as an attempt to examine how race and racism are central rather than peripheral to law and legal thinking. Rather than viewing the long and ongoing story of race in American law as a series of... |
2025 |
Yes |
| Justin L. Brooks |
JURIDICIAL OCCASIONS FOR RACIAL FORMATION: THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU, LABOR, AND PRIVATE LAW |
72 UCLA Law Review Discourse 426 (2025) |
The Reconstruction Era has garnered renewed attention from legal historians and scholars of the critical race tradition. Yet Reconstruction's central institutional actor, the Freedmen's Bureau--a federal agency created to aid emancipated persons' transition to freedom--has largely eluded theoretical scrutiny. Building upon legal scholarship on... |
2025 |
Yes |
| Lucy Jewel |
JUSTICE LEWIS POWELL'S QUIET LUXURY: FROM BAKKE TO SFFA |
15 Washington Journal of Social & Environmental Justice 1 (June, 2025) |
This article is anchored by Justice Lewis Powell's 1978 opinion in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. Taking a unique interdisciplinary approach, this article pulls together several threads within the Bakke opinion--combining critical race theory, feminist theory, rhetorical analysis, and biographical analysis to forge a new... |
2025 |
Yes |
| Jeremy Kessler |
LAW AND HISTORICAL MATERIALISM |
74 Duke Law Journal 1523 (April, 2025) |
Since the financial crisis of 2008, left-leaning legal thought has experienced a renaissance within the American academy. From law and political economy to critical race theory to feminist legal studies to Marxist legal theory, new perspectives have flourished, and marginalized traditions have been revived and revised. These new perspectives and... |
2025 |
Yes |
| Catherine Y. Kim |
NARRATIVE IN IMMIGRATION LAW |
32 Asian American Law Journal 1 (2025) |
Immigration remains one of the most divisive issues of our times. Yet contemporary debates about asylum, economic migrants, chain migration, and undocumented migration occur at a level of abstraction bereft of human context. This Article challenges the flattening and erasure of immigrants by building on Critical Race Theory's rich tradition of... |
2025 |
Yes |
| Meghan L. Morris |
PARTIAL PERSPECTIVE, OBJECTIVITY, AND INTERNATIONAL LAW |
39 Temple International and Comparative Law Journal 23 (Spring, 2025) |
Adrien Wing's framing chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Women and International Law outlines Global Critical Race Feminism (GCRF) as an approach to international law that has something for everyone. I have written this comment on the chapter in that spirit--as someone who does not have expertise in GCRF, but finds much to learn from its... |
2025 |
Yes |
| Mona Lynch, Sofia Laguna , Department of Criminology, Law & Society, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA |
POLICE TALK IN THE JURY ROOM: THE PRODUCTION OF RACE-CONSCIOUS REASONABLE DOUBT AMONG RACIALLY DIVERSE JURY GROUPS |
59 Law and Society Review 419 (June, 2025) |
(Received 26 September 2023; revised 29 April 2024; accepted 3 July 2024) A central goal of Critical Race Theory (CRT) is to deconstruct the jurisprudence of colorblindness that is infused with the language of equality while operating to maintain racial hierarchies. Color-blind ideology extends to the procedures governing criminal juries,... |
2025 |
Yes |
| Zachary R. Evans |
RECKONING WITH THE VIOLENT LEGACY OF RACIALIZED U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN CHILE |
28 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social 95 Change(2025) |
Critical Race Theory scholars have shone a spotlight on the legal underpinnings of imperial power and violence in numerous topics, including foreign policy. Absent from this critical scholarship is an analysis of United States interference in South American affairs. In centering the violent histories of dispossession and enslavement, I propose a... |
2025 |
Yes |
| Almas Khan |
RECONSTITUTING THE CANON: THE RISE OF THE BLACK LIVES MATTER JUDICIAL OPINION |
17 Washington University Jurisprudence Review 247 (2025) |
This article presents a critical race theory-inflected history of the U.S. judicial opinion and conceptualizes the emergence of a new form: the Black Lives Matter judicial opinion. Since the Black Lives Matter movement's inception in 2013, legal scholars have unearthed the racist intellectual history of several doctrinal fields, but the... |
2025 |
Yes |
| Sean M. Kammer |
REFLECTIONS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF CRITICAL THEORY TO TEACHING ENVIRONMENTAL LAW |
70 South Dakota Law Review 40 (2025) |
The freedom of students to learn about critical approaches to understanding their world is under sustained political attack. In this time of increasing environmental peril and political dysfunction, Professor Sean M. Kammer reflects upon the importance of critical theory (including Critical Race Theory) to understanding--and ultimately... |
2025 |
Yes |
| Richard Delgado |
RODRIGO'S EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENT: CAN PLEADINGS BE BOTH PLAUSIBLE AND FAIR? |
12 Texas A&M Law Review 1025 (Spring, 2025) |
Critical race theory has enabled followers to understand some of the twists and turns of racial history and the rise and fall of constitutional values such as equal protection. But does it have anything useful to say about blackletter subjects such as civil procedure? In the following chronicle, Rodrigo and his straight man, the Professor,... |
2025 |
Yes |
| M. Isabel Medina |
TEACHING CONSTITUTIONAL LAW IN POLARIZED TIMES: RIGHTS AND STRUCTURE |
72 UCLA Law Review Discourse 482 (2025) |
Teaching constitutional law today has been impacted by two trends reflecting a polarized electorate and politics: first, recent restrictions targeting education prohibiting the use of critical race theory, critical legal theory, feminist theories, intersectionality, and other critical legal perspectives in the classroom; and second, recent U.S.... |
2025 |
Yes |
| Khaled A. Beydoun |
THE WORLD CUP AS A RACIAL REBUILT PROJECT |
2025 Utah Law Review 805 (2025) |
Scholars, particularly Critical Race Theorists, have written trenchantly about the law's role in racial formation. Yet, while instrumental in this process, the law does not stand alone as a conduit of making race. Particularly for misrepresented groups, like Arabs, who struggle to find existential self-determination between imperial identity... |
2025 |
Yes |
| Alexandra M. Baumann |
WHAT IOWA SCHOOLS WON'T TEACH YOU: HOW IOWA HAS USED LEGISLATION TO WEAPONIZE EDUCATION TOWARD STUDENTS OF COLOR |
28 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 249 (Winter, 2025) |
I. Introduction. 249 II. Background. 251 A. Tenets of Critical Race Theory. 251 B. Current Bans on Critical Race Theory. 253 C. First Amendment Arguments on Critical Race Theory (CRT) Bans in Schools. 255 D. History of Race and Education in the United States. 258 1. Federal-Level Historical Background. 258 2. Historical Values of Education in Iowa.... |
2025 |
Yes |
| Karen Yao |
"A VAST CREVICE": OLDER ASIAN WOMEN'S UNTOLD EXPERIENCE WITH SEXUAL VIOLENCE |
105 Boston University Law Review 1075 (April, 2025) |
Content Warning: This Note discusses sexual assault, rape, and violence. The legal field's silence on sexual violence against older women--especially older women of color--echoes. Piercing the silence, this Note discusses sexual violence against older Asian women through the lens of legal narrative theory to illuminate an often-overlooked group;... |
2025 |
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| Alexander Brown |
"BIGOTS IN BLACK ROBES": LEGAL ETHICS AND JUDICIAL HATE SPEECH |
20 Intercultural Human Rights Law Review 285 (2025) |
Instances of judges using, as opposed to merely mentioning, hate speech are relatively rare, but they are not unheard of. Nor are they confined to the distant past. What is more, like other forms of judicial misconduct, when judges use hate speech, this can bring the judiciary into disrepute. Judicial hate speech raises two pressing questions of... |
2025 |
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| Andrea T. Traietti |
"LIFTING THE LEGISLATIVE RUG": A PROPOSAL FOR CONGRESSIONAL ABROGATION OF STATE LEGISLATIVE PRIVILEGE IN DISCRIMINATION CASES UNDER § 1983 |
66 Boston College Law Review 1045 (March, 2025) |
Abstract: Originally enacted in 1871 as part of the Ku Klux Klan Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1983 today serves as one of the primary vehicles for litigants to raise civil rights claims. The statute creates a cause of action to sue [e]very person who under color of state law acts in violation of a constitutional right. In recent years, plaintiffs have... |
2025 |
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| Cass R. Sunstein |
"OUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE!" HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT |
139 Harvard Law Review Forum 76 (December, 2025) |
The United States government now gives an extraordinary amount of money to colleges and universities. If it threatens to withhold some of that money, it might be able to achieve important and legitimate goals. It can also create serious risks to educational institutions, perhaps even existential risks, and it might be able to use its power to move... |
2025 |
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| Andrew Hull |
"PRISONERS OF THE UNION": EMPORIUM CAPWELL AND THE DECLINE OF CONCERTED ACTIVITY AGAINST RACIAL DISCRIMINATION |
22 UC Law Journal of Race and Economic Justice 211 (January, 2025) |
This paper tracks the development of judicial understanding of labor unions' status under Section 9 of the National Labor Relations Act as the exclusive representative of employees for the purposes of bargaining with the employer, focusing on the how the Supreme Court case Emporium Capwell v. Western Community Addition has led to a gradual... |
2025 |
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| Jacob Abolafia |
"SAFETY, IN A REPUBLICAN SENSE": TRUMP v. UNITED STATES, DEMOCRACY, AND AN ANTISUBORDINATION THEORY OF THE CRIMINAL LAW |
134 Yale Law Journal Forum 43 (2024-2025) |
October 25, 2024 abstract. Democratic governance requires holding the powerful to account. This principle was as familiar to the ancient Athenians as it was to the Framers of the Constitution. Contemporary liberal democracies, however, must balance the need for popular control with the procedural principles of criminal due process. First and... |
2025 |
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| Joshua Aiken |
"SHE HAD SLAIN HER FAVORITE": RACE, GENDER, VIOLENCE, AND THE RULE OF LAW IN THE MILITARY-OCCUPIED SOUTH |
36 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 229 (2025) |
Abstract. This Article excavates the 1865 trial United States v. Temperance Neely to analyze how emergent legal cultures in the military-occupied South calcified racial slavery's logic despite formal emancipation. Through examination of previously unanalyzed court proceedings, I demonstrate how this case illuminates three interlocking dimensions of... |
2025 |
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"TEACHING LAW IN A TIME OF RETRENCHMENT": A REFLECTION FROM THE EDITORS OF DISCOURSE VOLUME 72 |
72 UCLA Law Review Discourse 736 (2025) |
As we the editors of UCLA Law Review Discourse Volume 72 complete our tenure, we are honored to offer a brief note at the conclusion of this year's Teaching Law in a Time of Retrenchment symposium. Our law school experience brought with it a multitude of significant legal and political events that render the future of constitutional law, and law... |
2025 |
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| Tinesha C. Zandamela |
"THERE ARE [DISABLED] BLACK PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE": AFROFUTURISM & DISABILITY LAW |
113 Georgetown Law Journal 1223 (May, 2025) |
Afrofuturism celebrates--and encourages--imagination. This Note exists to foster imagination, focusing on Blackness and disability from an Afrofuturist lens and discussing what a glorious future could look like for Black disabled people. Part I will describe and explore Afrofuturism and its role in our lives, the law, and social movements. In... |
2025 |
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| Philipp Corfman |
"VERY LITTLE CAUSE AT ALL": THE EROSION OF JOB SECURITY FOR OHIO TEACHERS |
73 Cleveland State Law Review 797 (2025) |
As education becomes an increasingly divisive partisan issue, with teachers caught in the crossfire, it is more important than ever that teachers have protection from unfair or politically-motivated terminations. The Ohio Teacher Tenure Act was enacted 80 years ago to give teachers this essential job security. However, this Note examines the... |
2025 |
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| Linda C. McClain, James E. Fleming |
"WHAT SHALL BE ORTHODOX" IN POLARIZED TIMES: OVERVIEW AND RESPONSE TO COMMENTATORS |
90 Missouri Law Review 659 (Summer, 2025) |
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. Justice Robert Jackson wrote this celebrated passage in his majority opinion in... |
2025 |
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| Cheyenne Petrich |
(LAW) SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE |
43 Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality 161 (Spring, 2025) |
Mass incarceration is also a legal phenomenon, and the role of the legal profession needs scrutiny. Unless we are to characterize the legal profession as unthinking or malevolent, we need an account of why so many lawyers have chosen and still choose to pursue convictions and prison sentences on such a massive scale. -- Alice Ristroph If students... |
2025 |
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| Anjali Vats |
(WHITE) RACIAL ARITHMETIC AS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ARCHITECTURE |
103 Texas Law Review 1581 (June, 2025) |
In The Signal and the Noise, a manifesto for our cognitively dissonant post-fact, pro-statistics era, Nate Silver writes: Data-driven predictions can succeed--and they can fail. It is when we deny our role in the process that the odds of failure rise. Before we demand more of our data, we need to demand more of ourselves. He continues: [O]ur... |
2025 |
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| Tamara Thermitus |
A CANADIAN EXPERIENCE OF REPARATIONS: INDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SETTLEMENTS |
119 AJIL Unbound 159 (2025) |
My parents, immigrants from Haiti, settled in Canada. I grew up in Sept-Îles, a town with an Indigenous community. We were the first Black family to put down roots there. One day, Steve, an Indigenous friend, invited me to his home, a brand-new house on the reserve. I was shocked. The walls were covered with graffiti of despair, red sacrifice,... |
2025 |
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| Marisa Omori , Alessandra Milagros Early , Luis Torres |
A THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL CRITIQUE OF RACIAL INNOCENCE IN SENTENCING |
59 Law and Society Review 382 (June, 2025) |
(Received 25 March 2024; revised 11 November 2024; accepted 8 December 2024) Despite large-scale racial inequalities across multiple social domains, racial innocence highlights the complacency of the law and social science research in denying racial power through race neutral assumptions. We explore three theoretical and methodological mechanisms... |
2025 |
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| Christopher Williams |
ABOLITION IN THE REAL WORLD: A CASE STUDY OF CASH BAIL ABOLITION IN ILLINOIS |
60 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 443 (Spring, 2025) |
In recent years, legal academia's interest in abolition and the harms of pretrial incarceration has increased dramatically. Much of the scholarship has focused on the theoretical underpinnings of abolition, problems associated with the cash bail system, and forms of abolition (police abolition, prison abolition, etc.) in the abstract. However, less... |
2025 |
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| Robert Vargas , David Hackett , Sebastian Ortega , Elena Smyslovskikh , Federico Dominguez-Molina |
ACADEMIC COPAGANDA |
59 Law and Society Review 298 (June, 2025) |
(Received 16 November 2023; revised 24 September 2024; accepted 31 October 2024) How does social science insulate police from social movements' demand for abolition? We explore this through a content analysis of policing social science research funded by Arnold Ventures, the MacArthur Foundation, and the National Institute of Justice published from... |
2025 |
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| Jasmine B. Gonzales Rose, Asees Bhasin, Spencer Piston |
ANTIRACIST EXPERT EVIDENCE |
134 Yale Law Journal 2362 (May, 2025) |
ABSTRACT. Since 2020, when mass protests against racism swept across the United States, scholars, lawyers, and the general public have become increasingly aware that racism permeates society and the criminal legal system, from overt racial animus to the nuanced effects of structural racism. Demonstrating the influence of racism is therefore vital... |
2025 |
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| Connor Simpson |
BAN OR BAND-AID®?: AN EXPLORATION OF THE ENFORCEMENT DEFICIENCIES WITHIN ILLINOIS'S "BAN ON BOOK BANS" |
2025 University of Illinois Law Review 1413 (2025) |
Book bans have become a topic of increasing consequence, as intensifying political discord across the nation has fueled an alarming trend of opposition to certain books and topics being accessible through public libraries. Illinois has weighed in on the issue by passing HB 2789, legislation that has been hailed by some as a ban on book bans.... |
2025 |
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| Thalia González , Alyssa Faith Scott |
BETWIXT AND BETWEEN: RESTORATIVE JUSTICE, DEI, AND EDUCATION CARCERALITY |
52 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1165 (September, 2025) |
American K-12 public education is at a critical anti-civil rights inflection point amidst a rapidly changing landscape of federal and state education law and policy. From local anti-literacy measures to state three strikes exclusionary school discipline legislation to punitive federal executive orders, new legal mechanisms are conjoining to... |
2025 |
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| Melvin J. Kelley IV |
BEYOND THE PERPETRATOR PERSPECTIVE ON GOLDEN GHETTOS: DEFENDING FAIR HOUSING REVISIONISM WITH CRITICAL EYES |
77 Stanford Law Review 925 (April, 2025) |
Abstract. Most fair housing advocates maintain that integration is a core aim of the federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 (FHA). They contend that to achieve that integration, affordable housing must be sited in predominantly white, affluent areas. These advocates often cite legislative sponsors such as Senator Edmund Muskie, who declared that the aim... |
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BOOK NOTES |
50 Law and Social Inquiry e1 (August, 2025) |
Bambrick, Christina R. Constitutionalizing the Private Sphere: A Comparative Inquiry. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. xi + 306. $130.00 cloth. While traditionally only government actors are responsible for upholding constitutional rights, courts and constitution-makers increasingly do assign constitutional duties to private actors... |
2025 |
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| Angela E. Addae |
BOOZE, BARS, AND BIAS: ANTI-BLACKNESS IN LIQUOR LICENSING ENFORCEMENT |
81 Washington and Lee Law Review 1855 (2025) |
This Article explores the disharmonious and disturbing influence of race in the enforcement of liquor licenses. Across the length and breadth of this nation, attentive Black revelers bear witness to an all-too-familiar trend signified by the disproportionately frequent closures of Black entertainment businesses. This Article argues that the... |
2025 |
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| Victor C. Romero |
BORDER DECRIMINALIZATION AS A STATE PROJECT: LESSONS FROM MARIJUANA AND ASSISTED SUICIDE LEGALIZATION ACROSS THE UNITED STATES |
32 William and Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social 1 Justice(Fall, 2025) |
My prior work argued for the decriminalization of border crossings without proof of specific intent to violate another law (like drug trafficking), which is even less likely to happen now than it was when the piece was published, given the current presidential administration's zealous deportation strategy and Congress's seeming acquiescence. As... |
2025 |
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| Citlalli Ochoa |
BRIDGING MOVEMENT LAWYERING & INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY |
66 Boston College Law Review 1833 (June, 2025) |
Introduction. 1835 I. Why Bridge Movement Lawyering and International Human Rights Advocacy. 1839 II. Movement Lawyering & International Human Rights Law and Advocacy. 1844 A. Movement Lawyering: Contours, Principles, & Definitions. 1844 B. The International Human Rights Legal Framework & Human Rights Advocacy in the U.S.. 1847 1. The International... |
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| Meera E. Deo |
BUILDING BELONGING |
102 Denver Law Review 771 (Spring, 2025) |
Given the end of affirmative action as we know it, a decline in numeric representation of students of color in higher education seems inevitable-- resulting in devastating losses for legal education, the legal profession, and American leadership. Yet those who seek to maintain diverse educational institutions cannot focus their attention solely on... |
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| Rachel E. Barkow |
BUREAUCRACY AND DEMOCRACY AS COMPLEMENTS |
105 Boston University Law Review 1203 (May, 2025) |
C1-2Contents Introduction. 1204 I. Information Is for Everyone. 1206 II. Institutional Design Is for Everyone. 1213 III. Belief in Government. 1216 Conclusion. 1218 |
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