| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms in Title or Summary |
| Shun-Ling Chen |
SAMPLING AS A SECONDARY ORALITY PRACTICE AND COPYRIGHT'S TECHNOLOGICAL BIASES |
17 Journal of High Technology Law 206 (2017) |
L1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 208 II. The Exclusion and Inclusion of Sound Reproduction in US Copyright Law. 213 A. Copyright, and the Technologization of Word. 213 B. Mechanical Reproduction and the Technologizing of the Sound. 215 C. Sound Recording as Writing? Copyright's Technological Biases. 222 III. Sampling, Secondary Orality and... |
2017 |
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| Celesta A. Albonetti |
SENTENCING OF FEDERAL COCAINE TRAFFICKING/MANUFACTURING DEFENDANTS: ASSESSING DIRECT AND CONDITIONING EFFECTS OF DEFENDANT'S RACE/ETHNICITY AND GENDER ON LENGTH OF IMPRISONMENT |
21 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 1 (Winter 2017) |
I. Introduction. 1 II. Federal Sentencing Guidelines--Legal and Policy Issues. 3 III. Empirical Research on Federal Sentencing Outcomes. 9 IV. Theoretical Perspectives and Federal Sentencing. 12 V. Data and Analytical Procedures. 15 VI. Findings. 24 A. Univariate Descriptive Analyses. 24 B. Multivariate Analyses. 26 C. Race/Ethnicity Interactions.... |
2017 |
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| Francisco Valdes |
SEXUAL MINORITIES IN LEGAL ACADEMIA: A RETROSPECTION ON COMMUNITY, ACTION, REMEMBRANCE, AND LIBERATION |
66 Journal of Legal Education 510 (Spring, 2017) |
By the late 1980s and early 1990s, pioneering members of the U.S. legal academy finally were able to activate, within the structures of our profession, that self-liberating sense of individual and collective consciousness that had fueled a (conflicted) understanding of sexual minority-hood among women and men with same-sex orientations in the U.S.... |
2017 |
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| Antony Anghie |
SLAVERY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: THE JURISPRUDENCE OF HENRY RICHARDSON |
31 Temple International and Comparative Law Journal 11 (Spring, 2017) |
In the planning and writing of my work, I had witnessed more than five hundred years of human history pass before my eyes. I had seen one slave ship after another from Portugal, Spain, France, Holland, England and the United States pile black human cargo into its bowels as it would coal or even gold had either been more available and profitable at... |
2017 |
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| Steven L. Nelson, J.D., Ph.D. |
SPECIAL EDUCATION REFORM POLICIES AND THE PERMANENCE OF OPPRESSION: A CRITICAL RACE CASE STUDY OF SPECIAL EDUCATION REFORM IN SHELBY COUNTY, TENNESSEE |
60 Howard Law Journal 459 (Winter, 2017) |
ABSTRACT. 460 INTRODUCTION. 460 I. THE OVERREPRESENTATION OF BLACK STUDENTS IN SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS. 463 II. OVERREPRESENTATION OF BLACK STUDENTS IN SPECIAL EDUCATION AS RACIAL OPPRESSION. 465 III. SPECIAL EDUCATION POLICY AND EDUCATION REFORM POLICIES: A NOSTRUM FOR SCHOOL FAILURE?. 469 IV. THE TENNESSEE DIPLOMA PROJECT. 471 VI. METHODS. 473... |
2017 |
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| Steven L. Nelson |
STILL SERVING TWO MASTERS? EVALUATING THE CONFLICT BETWEEN SCHOOL CHOICE AND DESEGREGATION UNDER THE LENS OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY |
26 Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 43 (Winter, 2017) |
I. Introduction. 44 II. School Choice and School Desegregation: An Attempt to Serve Two Masters?. 45 A. Derek Black's Analysis of the Public Good: A Need to Expand the Framework?. 51 B. The Troubling Historical Intersection Between Desegregation and School Choice. 52 1. Understanding White Flight. 53 2. Segregation Academies. 55 3. Freedom of... |
2017 |
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| Paul Stancil |
SUBSTANTIVE EQUALITY AND PROCEDURAL JUSTICE |
102 Iowa Law Review 1633 (May, 2017) |
ABSTRACT: The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure reflect a formal equality approach to civil justice. Formally equal systems promote justice by treating like cases as like. Theories embracing formal equality norms therefore implicitly depend on the idea that identical treatment equates to fair treatment. Alternatively, substantive equality theorists... |
2017 |
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| Avis Kuuipoleialoha Poai |
TALES FROM THE DARK SIDE OF THE ARCHIVES: MAKING HISTORY IN HAWAI'I WITHOUT HAWAIIANS |
39 University of Hawaii Law Review 537 (Summer, 2017) |
[H]e makemake ko'u e pololei ka moolelo o ko'u one hanau, aole na ka malihini e ao mai ia'u i ka mooolelo o ko'u lahui, na'u e ao aku i ka moolelo i ka malihini. I want the history of my homeland to be correct, it is not the foreigner who will teach me the history of my people, it is I who shall teach the foreigner. --Samuel M. Kamakau I.... |
2017 |
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| Otis Grant |
TEACHING LAW EFFECTIVELY WITH THE SOCRATIC METHOD: THE CASE FOR A PSYCHODYNAMIC METACOGNITION |
58 South Texas Law Review 399 (Spring, 2017) |
I. Introduction. 399 II. The Socratic Method. 401 A. The Socratic Method. 401 B. Applying the Socratic Method. 402 III. Metacognition. 403 A. Metacognition. 403 B. Metacognition can be Taught. 404 IV. Psychodynamic Psychology. 406 A. Psychodynamic psychology. 406 B. Psychodynamic learning theory. 407 C. Psychodynamic metacognition. 409 V. Summary... |
2017 |
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| Olivia C. Jerjian |
THE DEBTORS' PRISON SCHEME: YET ANOTHER BAR IN THE BIRDCAGE OF MASS INCARCERATION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR |
41 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 235 (2017) |
Though officially deemed unconstitutional, the debtors' prison scheme consists of jailing low-income individuals for not being able to pay their legal financial obligations (LFOs), also known as criminal justice debt. These LFOs include fines, fees, and assessments--from traffic tickets to public defender fees. Two lawsuits, Cleveland, et al. v.... |
2017 |
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| Lundy Braun |
THEORIZING RACE AND RACISM: PRELIMINARY REFLECTIONS ON THE MEDICAL CURRICULUM |
43 American Journal of Law & Medicine 239 (2017) |
The current political economic crisis in the United States places in sharp relief the tensions and contradictions of racial capitalism as it manifests materially in health care and in knowledge-producing practices. Despite nearly two decades of investment in research on racial inequality in disease, inequality persists. While the reasons for... |
2017 |
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| Sarah Khanghahi |
THIRTY YEARS AFTER AL-KHAZRAJI: REVISITING EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION UNDER SECTION 1981 |
64 UCLA Law Review 794 (March, 2017) |
Many scholars have written about the racialization process experienced by people of Southwest Asia and North African (SWANA) descent, emphasizing the increased discrimination experienced by those perceived as Middle Eastern or SWANA. There is very little scholarship, however, concentrating specifically on employment discrimination faced by those of... |
2017 |
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| Jasmine B. Gonzales Rose |
TOWARD A CRITICAL RACE THEORY OF EVIDENCE |
101 Minnesota Law Review 2243 (June, 2017) |
It's not what you know, it's what you can prove in court! This oft-used movie line shows how even Hollywood recognizes the importance of evidence law. At trial, the facts are not determined through an independent investigation of the truth but by how the rules of evidence are employed to admit or exclude evidence. Attorneys use evidence rules to... |
2017 |
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| Leslie P. Culver |
WHITE DOORS, BLACK FOOTSTEPS: LEVERAGING "WHITE PRIVILEGE" TO BENEFIT LAW STUDENTS OF COLOR |
21 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 37 (Winter 2017) |
Law students of color typically avoid seeking the mentorship of white law professors, largely white males, finding female faculty and faculty of color more approachable and willing to serve as mentors. Yet, according to recent ABA statistics, white people make up eighty-eight percent of the legal profession, with sixty-four percent being male. In... |
2017 |
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| Eli Wald , Russell G. Pearce |
BEING GOOD LAWYERS: A RELATIONAL APPROACH TO LAW PRACTICE |
29 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 601 (Summer, 2016) |
In response to past generations of debates regarding whether law is a business or profession, we advance an alternative approach that rejects the dichotomies of business and profession, or hired gun and wise counselor. Instead, we propose a relational account of law practice. Unlike frameworks grounded in assumptions of atomistic individualism or... |
2016 |
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| Michael Omi , Howard Winant |
BLINDED BY SIGHT: THE RACIAL BODY AND THE ORIGINS OF THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF RACE |
41 Law and Social Inquiry 1062 (Fall, 2016) |
Obasogie, Osagie K. 2013. Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Osagie K. Obasogie's Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race through the Eyes of the Blind (2014) makes important contributions to both to the sociology of law and to critical race studies. The book challenges colorblind racial... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Devon W. Carbado |
BLUE-ON-BLACK VIOLENCE: A PROVISIONAL MODEL OF SOME OF THE CAUSES |
104 Georgetown Law Journal 1479 (August, 2016) |
This Article offers a theoretical model that explains the persistence of what I will call blue-on-black violence. Six features comprise the model. First, a variety of social forces converge to make African-Americans vulnerable to ongoing police surveillance and contact. Second, the frequency of this surveillance and contact exposes... |
2016 |
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| Chad G. Marzen , William Woodyard II |
CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING, THE RIGHT TO IMMIGRATE, AND THE RIGHT TO REGULATE BORDERS: A PROPOSED SOLUTION FOR COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM BASED UPON CATHOLIC SOCIAL PRINCIPLES |
53 San Diego Law Review 781 (Fall, 2016) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 783 I. The Current Debate Concerning Immigration Reform. 793 A. Immigration to the U.S.--Statistical Trends and the Emerging Issues of Immigration to the U.S. 793 B. Background of Key Modern Immigration Laws. 794 1. The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. 795 2. Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant... |
2016 |
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| Kim E. Clark |
CRITICAL RACE THEORY, TRANSFORMATION AND PRAXIS |
45 Southwestern Law Review 795 (2016) |
I suggest that through Critical Race Theory (CRT), race can or should become the preamble to all the social justice work we do. This can be achieved by engaging in what I call oppositional cultural practice (the process of inward and outward criticism and critique that brings about a spiritual transformation that then provides space to create and... |
2016 |
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| R. Mark Frey |
CRITICAL RACE THEORY: THE CUTTING EDGE (THIRD EDITION) EDITED BY RICHARD DELGADO AND JEAN STEFANCIC TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS, PHILADELPHIA, PA, 2013. 839 PAGES, $99.50 (CLOTH), $55.95 (PAPER) |
63-APR Federal Lawyer 79 (April, 2016) |
On July 4, 1992, in Philadelphia, former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall received the Liberty Medal from the National Constitution Center, and, during his acceptance speech, he voiced frustration with our nation's failure to come to grips with race and racism: I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. I wish I... |
2016 |
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| Mario L. Barnes |
EMPIRICAL METHODS AND CRITICAL RACE THEORY: A DISCOURSE ON POSSIBILITIES FOR A HYBRID METHODOLOGY |
2016 Wisconsin Law Review 443 (2016) |
Introduction. 444 I. Origin Stories. 448 II. Considering What It Means To Do e-CRT. 454 A. e-CRT and Collaborative Form as Method. 455 1. Solo Cross-Disciplinarians. 456 2. Fruitful Collaborations. 459 3. Theory Engagers. 460 4. Empirical Diviners. 463 B. Giving Space to Initial Formations but with a Watchful Eye. 465 III. Challenges. 468 A.... |
2016 |
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| Steven W. Bender |
FOREWORD: NOW, MORE THAN EVER: REFLECTIONS ON LATCRIT AT TWENTY |
37 Whittier Law Review 335 (Spring, 2016) |
More than twenty years ago, as an untenured law professor, I flew to Puerto Rico to participate in a 1995 colloquium on Latinas/os and critical race theory. Sponsored by the Latino Law Professor section of the Hispanic National Bar Association, the event was part of the HNBA's annual meeting. Seated together in front of me on the plane for the... |
2016 |
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| L. Darnell Weeden |
IN FISHER v. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS DERRICK BELL'S INTEREST CONVERGENCE THEORY IS ON A COLLISION COURSE WITH THE VIEWPOINT DIVERSITY RATIONALE IN HIGHER EDUCATION |
2016 Utah Law Review OnLaw 101 (2016) |
Professor Derrick Bell is necessarily and properly acknowledged because of his leading community service as a civil rights lawyer, a scholarly intellectual, law professor, and political activist. Professor Derrick Bell helped to set in place the basis for Critical Race Theory. After Professor Bell became a member of the faculty of Harvard Law... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Lauren B. Edelman , Aaron C. Smyth, Asad Rahim |
LEGAL DISCRIMINATION: EMPIRICAL SOCIOLEGAL AND CRITICAL RACE PERSPECTIVES ON ANTIDISCRIMINATION LAW |
12 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 395 (2016) |
workplace inequality, organizations, critical race theory, antidiscrimination law, civil rights, race The topic of workplace discrimination has received considerable attention in both empirical sociolegal scholarship and critical race theory. This article reviews the insights of both bodies of literature and draws on those insights to highlight a... |
2016 |
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| Geoff Ward |
MICROCLIMATES OF RACIAL MEANING: HISTORICAL RACIAL VIOLENCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS |
2016 Wisconsin Law Review 575 (2016) |
This article examines the socially constitutive force of historical racial violence, dimensions and mechanisms of environmental impact, enduring questions, and remedial implications. I stress the importance of empirical scrutiny of racial violence since the nineteenth century, both for the development of critical race perspective on its social... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Robert Rubinson |
OF GRIDS AND GATEKEEPERS: THE SOCIOECONOMICS OF MEDIATION |
17 Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution 873 (Spring 2016) |
Mediation scholars have long debated which mediator style or model is correct. The origin of the debate arises from a foundational piece of scholarship by Leonard Riskin. Riskin proposed a grid of mediator orientations comprised of what came to be known as facilitative mediation and evaluative mediation. A more recent addition to the... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Chandra L. Ford |
PUBLIC HEALTH CRITICAL RACE PRAXIS: AN INTRODUCTION, AN INTERVENTION, AND THREE POINTS FOR CONSIDERATION |
2016 Wisconsin Law Review 477 (2016) |
The field of Public Health has a progressive history of working with vulnerable communities to promote the health of all their residents, but it also has a complicated and problematic relationship to race. Its roles in racializing populations and disease as well as promoting scientific racism are well documented. At the same time, anti-racism... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Alfredo Mirandé |
RASCUACHE LAWYERING: A CHICANA/O VISION OF REBELLIOUS LAW PRACTICE, PEDAGOGY, AND CLIENTS |
23 Clinical Law Review 217 (Fall, 2016) |
This essay uses storytelling and the narrative method of Critical Race Theory to address current issues in progressive law practice. Specifically, it seeks to expand on Gerald López's vision of Rebellious Lawyering by applying the Mexican concept of rascuache or rascuachismo, a bottom up have not aesthetic and sensibility. By focusing on... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Amanda Carlin |
THE COURTROOM AS WHITE SPACE: RACIAL PERFORMANCE AS NONCREDIBILITY |
63 UCLA Law Review 450 (February, 2016) |
Central to critical race theory (CRT) is the notion that law is constitutive (and not merely reflective) of race. This Comment operates within the CRT tradition to point to the development of the courtroom as white space and the construction of legal narrative and legal truth as distinctly white. It traces the exclusion of people of color from the... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Brett G. Johnson |
THE HECKLER'S VETO: USING FIRST AMENDMENT THEORY AND JURISPRUDENCE TO UNDERSTAND CURRENT AUDIENCE REACTIONS AGAINST CONTROVERSIAL SPEECH |
21 Communication Law and Policy 175 (Spring, 2016) |
Pundits have recently used the term heckler's veto to describe instances in which vocal audiences seek to silence offensive or controversial speech by putting pressure on institutions that control the private forums that host the speech. The use of the term in these contexts, however, fails to take into account the jurisprudential nuances of the... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Paul Butler |
THE SYSTEM IS WORKING THE WAY IT IS SUPPOSED TO: THE LIMITS OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM |
104 Georgetown Law Journal 1419 (August, 2016) |
Ferguson has come to symbolize a widespread sense that there is a crisis in American criminal justice. This Article describes various articulations of what the problems are and poses the question of whether law is capable of fixing these problems. I consider the question theoretically by looking at claims that critical race theorists have made... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Daniel G. Solorzano , Verónica N. Vélez |
USING CRITICAL RACE SPATIAL ANALYSIS TO EXAMINE THE DU BOISIAN COLOR-LINE ALONG THE ALAMEDA CORRIDOR IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA |
37 Whittier Law Review 423 (Spring, 2016) |
As Critical Race researchers and pedagogues, we are constantly looking for contemporary examples of everyday racism and their historical corollaries. Our search has led us to better understand the many contours and interconnected facets of everyday racism, while motivating new interests, in particular, inquiry into historical and contemporary... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Lisa R. Pruitt |
WELFARE QUEENS AND WHITE TRASH |
25 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 289 (Spring 2016) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 289 II. A BRIEF HISTORY OF WHITE TRASH. 291 III. WHITENESS IN CRITICAL RACE THEORY. 295 IV. CALLS FOR GREATER VISIBILITY OF WHITE POVERTY, BUT WITH WHAT CONSEQUENCES?. 299 V. HOW CAN WE ATTRACT MORE PUBLIC AND GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR THE POOR?. 304 VI. CONCLUSION. 309 The welfare queen is widely recognized as a racialized... |
2016 |
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| Shirley Lin |
"AND AIN'T I A WOMAN?": FEMINISM, IMMIGRANT CAREGIVERS, AND NEW FRONTIERS FOR EQUALITY |
39 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 67 (Winter 2016) |
Introduction. 67 I. Feminist Legal Theory at the Crossroads: Immigrant Women Caregivers and the Carceral Matrix. 71 A. Feminism, Economic Insecurity, and Social Reproduction: Gender Equity in Context. 74 B. Immigrants and the Deepening Paradox of Wrongs Without Remedies. 81 1. From Contradiction to Lawful Retaliation: IRCA and Hoffman Plastics... |
2016 |
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| Lindsay Pérez Huber |
"MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!": DONALD TRUMP, RACIST NATIVISM AND THE VIRULENT ADHERENCE TO WHITE SUPREMACY AMID U.S. DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE |
10 Charleston Law Review 215 (Fall, 2016) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 215 II. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK. 217 III. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!. 222 IV. VOTE FOR WHITE SUPREMACY!. 229 V. SHIFTING U.S. DEMOGRAPHICS (AND RESPONSES). 232 VI. CONCLUSION. 239 VII. EPILOGUE: MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN. 244 |
2016 |
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| Mario L. Barnes |
"THE MORE THINGS CHANGE . . .": NEW MOVES FOR LEGITIMIZING RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN A "POST-RACE" WORLD |
100 Minnesota Law Review 2043 (May, 2016) |
If race is something about which we dare not speak in polite social company, the same cannot be said of the viewing of race. How, or whether, blacks are seen depends upon a dynamic of display that ricochets between hypervisibility and oblivion. Blacks are seen everywhere, taking over the world one minute; yet the great ongoing toll of poverty and... |
2016 |
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| Mauricio García-Villegas |
A COMPARISON OF SOCIOPOLITICAL LEGAL STUDIES |
12 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 25 (2016) |
comparative sociology of law, sociology of law, critical legal theory, sociolegal studies This article compares sociopolitical perspectives about the law in three regions of the world: the United States, France, and Latin America. Despite their heterogeneity, these sociolegal perspectives share many practical and theoretical similarities. For this... |
2016 |
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| Mario L. Barnes |
AFTERWORD: EVERYTHING OLD |
6 UC Irvine Law Review 243 (June, 2016) |
What do you replace it with? Introduction. 243 I. The New Look of Legal Realism. 246 A. Connecting the New to the Old. 246 II. Doing New Legal Realism Research. 248 III. Including or Connecting with Presumably Compatible Movements. 249 Conclusion. 253 According to R. Michael Fischl, it was the question above--what do you replace it... |
2016 |
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| Sarudzayi M. Matambanadzo , Francisco Valdes , Sheila Velez |
AFTERWORD: KINDLING THE PROGRAMMATIC PRODUCTION OF CRITICAL AND OUTSIDER LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP, 1996-2016 |
37 Whittier Law Review 439 (Spring, 2016) |
The United States is at a monumental juncture in its trajectory as a nation-state. Insecurity, inequality, and violence characterize much of contemporary life. Now, as before, activists and scholars frequently turn to law for solutions; however, law often fails to provide adequate tools to challenge social injustice. It is legal to suffer the... |
2016 |
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| Sarudzayi M. Matambanadzo , Francisco Valdes , Sheila I. Vélez-Martinez |
AFTERWORD: LATCRIT THEORY @ XX: KINDLING THE PROGRAMMATIC PRODUCTION OF CRITICAL AND OUTSIDER LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP, 1996-2016 |
10 Charleston Law Review 297 (Fall, 2016) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 298 II. FRAMING LATCRIT THEORY AND SCHOLARSHIP: . A SUBSTANTIVE RECAP OF BASICS AND HIGHLIGHTS. 302 III. LATCRIT AND/AS SCHOLARSHIP: GALVANIZING TWO DECADES OF PROGRAMMATIC KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION. 314 A. LatCritical Advancement of OutCrit Theorizing: A Few Substantive Highlights. 316 1. Latina/o Identities and Diversities. 317 2.... |
2016 |
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| Mary Crossley |
BLACK HEALTH MATTERS: DISPARITIES, COMMUNITY HEALTH, AND INTEREST CONVERGENCE |
22 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 53 (Fall, 2016) |
Health disparities represent a significant strand in the fabric of racial injustice in the United States, one that has proven exceptionally durable. Many millions of dollars have been invested in addressing racial disparities over the past three decades. Researchers have identified disparities, unpacked their causes, and tracked their trajectories,... |
2016 |
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| Osagie K. Obasogie , Zachary Newman |
BLACK LIVES MATTER AND RESPECTABILITY POLITICS IN LOCAL NEWS ACCOUNTS OF OFFICER-INVOLVED CIVILIAN DEATHS: AN EARLY EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT |
2016 Wisconsin Law Review 541 (2016) |
The Black Lives Matter movement launched in July 2013 after George Zimmerman was acquitted by a Florida jury in the shooting death of seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black male. The incident giving rise to this emerging social movement -- where the hoodie became a key part of widespread public debates on whether certain attributes... |
2016 |
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| Amanda Wong |
BROKEN, BRUTAL, BLOODY: THE HARMS OF VIOLENT RACIAL PORNOGRAPHY AND THE NEED FOR LEGAL ACCOUNTABILITY |
8 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 225 (Spring, 2016) |
A black woman cries out. She is slapped hard, dragged by her hair, and pushed onto a couch, flat on her back with her head hanging over the edge. A man is on top, pinning her down as he repeatedly shoves himself into her mouth. She continues to sob. This is the realm of violent racial pornography. Maybe we should be afraid of living in a world... |
2016 |
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| Khiara M. Bridges |
CLASS-BASED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, OR THE LIES THAT WE TELL ABOUT THE INSIGNIFICANCE OF RACE |
96 Boston University Law Review 55 (January, 2016) |
Introduction. 56 I. . 61 A. The Suspect Class to Suspect Classification Shift. 64 B. The Effects of the Class-to-Classification Shift. 67 C. Lies about Race that the Class-to-Classification Shift Tells. 69 II. . 78 A. The Shared Infirmities of Race-Based and Class-Based Affirmative Action. 80 1. Meritocracy Perversion. 80 2. Inefficacy. 81 3.... |
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| Wendy A. Bach, Lucy Jewel |
CLASSCRITS VIII: NEW SPACES FOR COLLABORATION AND CONTEMPLATION |
45 Southwestern Law Review 779 (2016) |
Emerging Coalitions: Challenging the Structures of Inequality was the title of the eighth ClassCrits conference which took place on October 23-24, 2015, at the University of Tennessee College of Law. The Southwestern Law Review and the Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice have graciously agreed to publish selected papers... |
2016 |
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| Claire P. Donohue |
CLIENT, SELF, SYSTEMS: A FRAMEWORK FOR INTEGRATED SKILLS-JUSTICE EDUCATION |
29 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 439 (Spring, 2016) |
As scholars and administrators look to experiential learning and clinical education specifically to cultivate practice-ready law school graduates there is worry amongst some clinicians that they must sanitize the experiential learning experience of its social justice bent, or at the very least dilute it, so as to make it marketable to the legal... |
2016 |
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| Laura E. Gómez |
CONNECTING CRITICAL RACE THEORY WITH SECOND GENERATION LEGAL CONSCIOUSNESS WORK IN OBASOGIE'S BLINDED BY SIGHT |
41 Law and Social Inquiry 1069 (Fall, 2016) |
Obasogie, Osagie K. 2013. Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind. Stanford, Ca: Stanford University Press. Sociologist and legal scholar Osagie Obasogie's study of how blind people see race reveals the usually invisible, taken-for-granted mechanisms that reproduce racism. In Blinded by Sight, he distinguishes racial... |
2016 |
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| Steven L. Nelson |
DIFFERENT SCRIPT, SAME CASTE IN THE USE OF PASSIVE AND ACTIVE RACISM: A CRITICAL RACE THEORY ANALYSIS OF THE (AB)USE OF "HOUSE RULES" IN RACE-RELATED EDUCATION CASES |
22 Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice 297 (Summer, 2016) |
C1-3Table of Contents I. Introduction. 298 II. The Half-Hearted Attempt to Desegregate Schools: The Creation of a White Power to Dictate the Pace of Forgiveness via Brown and its Progeny. 300 A. The Illusion of Forced Integration: The Court's Approval of Integration on the Terms of Whites. 301 B. The Delusional Responses to Efforts to Forcibly... |
2016 |
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| Jeremy Thompson |
ELIMINATING ZERO TOLERANCE POLICIES IN SCHOOLS: MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS' APPROACH |
2016 Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal 325 (2016) |
The United States has the highest prison population rate in the world. As a result, taxpayers spend over several billion dollars a year on prison costs. At a time where the United States has the highest incarceration rate and the highest amount of debt in history, saving money by reducing the prison population should be one of the highest... |
2016 |
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| Ruth Gordon |
ESSAYS IN HONOR OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. |
61 Villanova Law Review 537 (2016) |
I must congratulate my colleague, Michelle Dempsey, for her brilliant idea to honor the sixtieth anniversary of the Villanova Law Review through reflections by Villanova Law Faculty on pioneering Law Review articles. It is both an honor for the Law Review and an acknowledgement of the talents of my esteemed colleagues. Still, when asked to be part... |
2016 |
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