| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms in Title or Summary |
| Amna A. Akbar, Sameer M. Ashar, Jocelyn Simonson |
MOVEMENT LAW |
73 Stanford Law Review 821 (April, 2021) |
Abstract. In this Article we make the case for movement law, an approach to legal scholarship grounded in solidarity, accountability, and engagement with grassroots organizing and left social movements. In contrast to law and social movements--a field that studies the relationship between lawyers, legal process, and social change--movement law... |
2021 |
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| Royce Poinsett |
OVERVIEW |
84 Texas Bar Journal 712 (September, 2021) |
The 2021 Texas Legislature furnished enough compelling storylines for several sessions. Among other endeavors, legislators convened warily during a pandemic, responded to a historic winter storm that overwhelmed the state's electrical grid, and balanced a strained state budget with the help of billions of dollars in just-in-time federal relief. A... |
2021 |
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| Lario Albarrán |
OWNING FRIDA KAHLO |
35 Emory International Law Review 627 (2021) |
--Hayden Herrera Frida Kahlo is undoubtedly one of the most recognizable names in art history. Her work epitomizes Mexican national and indigenous traditions and is regarded as an uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form. But her fame goes beyond art galleries. Kahlo's face--brooding gaze, elaborate Mexican coiffures, and... |
2021 |
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| Jocelyn Simonson |
POLICE REFORM THROUGH A POWER LENS |
130 Yale Law Journal 778 (February, 2021) |
abstract. Scholars and reformers have in recent years begun to imagine new and different configurations for how the state can design policing institutions. These conversations have increased in volume and urgency in response to the 2020 national uprising against police violence, when radical demands born within social movements have gained... |
2021 |
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| Aya Gruber |
POLICING AND "BLUELINING" |
58 Houston Law Review 867 (Symposium, 2021) |
In this Commentary written for the Frankel Lecture symposium on police killings of Black Americans, I explore the increasingly popular claim that racialized brutality is not a malfunction of policing but its function. Or, as Paul Butler counsels, Don't get it twisted--the criminal justice system ain't broke. It's working just the way it's supposed... |
2021 |
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| E. Tendayi Achiume , Aslı Bâli |
RACE AND EMPIRE: LEGAL THEORY WITHIN, THROUGH, AND ACROSS NATIONAL BORDERS |
67 UCLA Law Review 1386 (April, 2021) |
In January 2020, we convened the UCLA Law Review Symposium, entitled Transnational Legal Discourse on Race and Empire. In this Article, which also serves as an introduction to the Issue that resulted from the Symposium, we seek to do two things. Our first objective is to situate this Symposium Issue within its broader intellectual context: renewed... |
2021 |
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| Chantal Thomas |
RACE AS A TECHNOLOGY OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE |
67 UCLA Law Review 1860 (April, 2021) |
This Article offers an account of the role of race in global political economy--in particular, how to understand racialization as part of the process by which institutions of economic hierarchy not only were created but continue to be legitimated. It offers the conception of race as a technology: the product of racialized forms of knowing, which... |
2021 |
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| Shaun L. Gabbidon, Ph.D. |
RACE, CRIME, AND THE LAW: A SOCIOHISTORICAL ANALYSIS |
47 Ohio Northern University Law Review 585 (2021) |
I have been researching and teaching the topic of race and crime for more than twenty-five years. During this period, a few things have become increasingly clear: First, students and the general public are woefully ignorant of the historical and significant role racism plays in criminal justice system outcomes. Second, students and the general... |
2021 |
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| Joshua S. Sellers |
RACE, RECKONING, REFORM, AND THE LIMITS OF THE LAW OF DEMOCRACY |
169 University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online 167 (2021) |
Introduction. 167 I. The Range of Racial Reforms. 170 II. Law of Democracy Scholarship and Black Equity. 176 Conclusion. 185 |
2021 |
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| Yuvraj Joshi |
RACIAL TRANSITION |
98 Washington University Law Review 1181 (2021) |
The United States is a nation in transition, struggling to surmount its racist past. This transitional imperative underpins American race jurisprudence, yet the transitional bases of decisions are rarely acknowledged and sometimes even denied. This Article uncovers two main ways that the Supreme Court has sought racial transition. While Civil... |
2021 |
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| Vinay Harpalani |
RACIAL TRIANGULATION, INTEREST-CONVERGENCE, AND THE DOUBLE-CONSCIOUSNESS OF ASIAN AMERICANS |
37 Georgia State University Law Review 1361 (Summer, 2021) |
This Essay integrates Professor Claire Jean Kim's racial triangulation framework, Professor Derrick Bell's interest-convergence theory, and W.E.B. Du Bois's notion of double-consciousness, all to examine the racial positioning of Asian Americans and the dilemmas we face as a result. To do so, this Essay considers the history of Asian immigration to... |
2021 |
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| Jasmine E. Harris |
RECKONING WITH RACE AND DISABILITY |
130 Yale Law Journal Forum 916 (June 30, 2021) |
abstract. Our national reckoning with race and inequality must include disability. Race and disability have a complicated but interconnected history. Yet discussions of our most salient sociopolitical issues such as police violence, prison abolition, healthcare, poverty, and education continue to treat race and disability as distinct, largely... |
2021 |
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| Erika George , Jena Martin , Tara Van Ho |
RECKONING: A DIALOGUE ABOUT RACISM, ANTIRACISTS, AND BUSINESS & HUMAN RIGHTS |
30 Washington International Law Journal 171 (March, 2021) |
Abstract: Video of George Floyd's death sparked global demonstrations and prompted individuals, communities and institutions to grapple with their own roles in embedding and perpetuating racist structures. The raison d'être of Business and Human Rights (BHR) is to tackle structural corporate impediments to the universal realization of human rights.... |
2021 |
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| Phyllis Goldfarb , Randy Hertz , Michael Pinard |
REFLECTING ON OUR TURBULENT TIMES |
28 Clinical Law Review 1 (Fall, 2021) |
For a long period, all of us have been facing multiple overlapping crises. In a variety of ways, the last eighteen months have brought disruption, pain, and chaos to the lives of our students, clients, colleagues, and families. The future feels precarious. Despite closures, lockdowns, and vaccines, we remain in the midst of a global pandemic. In a... |
2021 |
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| Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez |
RELIGIOUS NEUTRALITY, LAÏCITÉ AND COLORBLINDNESS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS |
42 Cardozo Law Review 539 (May, 2021) |
C1-3Table of Contents L1-2Introduction . L3540 I. A Caveat to Comparability. 549 II. Modes of Reasoning. 552 A. Formalistic Legal Reasoning, Anti-Classification as Symmetry, and the Limited Reach of Anti-Discrimination Law. 552 B. Shielding Discrimination from Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law. 568 1. The Public/Private Divide as a Limit on... |
2021 |
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| Chantal Thomas |
RELOADING THE CANON: THOUGHTS ON CRITICAL LEGAL PEDAGOGY |
92 University of Colorado Law Review 955 (Fall, 2021) |
On the first day of the first-year contracts class that I teach, I preview for the students both the general contours of the blackletter law that we will be learning throughout the course, and some of the perspectives that I will incorporate in developing our critical thinking and analysis of the law. My aim is to impress upon the students that... |
2021 |
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| Christina Payne-Tsoupros |
REMOVING POLICE FROM SCHOOLS USING STATE LAW HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY |
17 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 1 (Fall, 2021) |
This Article argues that school police, often called school resource officers, interfere with the state law right to education and proposes using the constitutional right to education under state law as a mechanism to remove police from schools. Disparities in school discipline for Black and brown children are well-known. After discussing the legal... |
2021 |
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| David M. Forman |
REOCCURRING CULTURAL INSENSITIVITY: CONFRONTING THE ABDICATION OF CORE JUDICIAL FUNCTIONS |
43 University of Hawaii Law Review 341 (Summer, 2021) |
ROAD MAP. 347 I. AGENCY INTERPRETATIONS OF THEIR OWN ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS ARE NOT ENTITLED TO DEFERENCE UNDER PASH. 351 II. REVISITING THE PASH GUIDELINES: ELEMENTS OF HAWAI'I'S CUSTOM DOCTRINE AND OTHER BADLY NEEDED JUDICIAL GUIDANCE. 356 A. PASH footnote 43. 356 B. PASH footnotes 23 and 25. 357 C. PASH footnote 26. 359 D. PASH footnote... |
2021 |
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| Lynn D. Lu |
RESTORATIVE RELATIONSHIPS AND "RADICAL HELP": REIMAGINING WELFARE-TO-WORK BEYOND THE MARKET-FAMILY DIVIDE |
50 University of Baltimore Law Review 287 (Spring, 2021) |
INTRODUCTION. 288 I. WORKFARE AS PUNISHMENT AND THE MARKET-FAMILY DIVIDE. 293 II. RESTORING THE SAFETY NET FOR SANCTIONS: RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO PUNITIVE WORKFARE. 303 A. Choosing Relationships Over Retribution. 303 B. The Long Shadow of Sanctions. 310 III. REVIVING RELATIONAL WORK: RADICAL HELP AS VOLUNTARY AFFIRMATIVE SUPPORT.... |
2021 |
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| Jonathan Andrew Perez |
RIOTING BY A DIFFERENT NAME: THE VOICE OF THE UNHEARD IN THE AGE OF GEORGE FLOYD, AND THE HISTORY OF THE LAWS, POLICIES, AND LEGISLATION OF SYSTEMIC RACISM |
24 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 87 (Spring, 2021) |
I. Introduction. 88 II. Looting Economic Equity from Black America. 96 A. The Statistics of Black Overrepresentation in the Criminal Justice System. 96 B. How Overrepresentation in the Criminal Justice System Affects Black Communities. 97 C. COVID-19 Amplifies The Looting of Black America. 101 III. The Anxiety of a Counterfeit America: Protests and... |
2021 |
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| Emily A. Benfer , James Bhandary-Alexander , Yael Cannon , Medha D. Makhlouf , Tomar Pierson-Brown |
SETTING THE HEALTH JUSTICE AGENDA: ADDRESSING HEALTH INEQUITY & INJUSTICE IN THE POST-PANDEMIC CLINIC |
28 Clinical Law Review 45 (Fall, 2021) |
The COVID-19 pandemic surfaced and deepened entrenched preexisting health injustice in the United States. Racialized, marginalized, poor, and hyper-exploited populations suffered disproportionately negative outcomes due to the pandemic. The structures that generate and sustain health inequity in the United States--including in access to justice,... |
2021 |
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| Noah C. Chauvin |
SHADOWBOXING WITH FREE SPEECH PRINCIPLES: AGAINST FREE SPEECH. BY ANTHONY LEAKER. LANHAM, M.D.: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS. 2020. PP. 128. PAPERBACK. $19.95 |
73 South Carolina Law Review 175 (Autumn, 2021) |
I. Introduction. 175 II. The Book. 176 III. The Critique. 180 IV. Conclusion. 188 |
2021 |
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| Trust Kupupika |
SHAPING OUR FREEDOM DREAMS: RECLAIMING INTERSECTIONALITY THROUGH BLACK FEMINIST LEGAL THEORY |
107 Virginia Law Review Online 27 (January, 2021) |
Black feminist legal theory has offered the tool of intersectionality to modern feminist movements to help combat interlocking systems of oppression. Despite this tremendous offering, intersectionality has become wholly divorced from its Black feminist origins. This is significant because without a deep engagement with Black feminist legal theory,... |
2021 |
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| James Thuo Gathii |
STUDYING RACE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW SCHOLARSHIP USING A SOCIAL SCIENCE APPROACH |
22 Chicago Journal of International Law 71 (Summer, 2021) |
This Essay takes up Abebe, Chilton, and Ginsburg's invitation to use a social science approach to establish or ascertain some facts about international law scholarship in the United States. The specific research question that this Essay seeks to answer is to what extent scholarship has addressed international law's historical and continuing... |
2021 |
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| Matthew B. Lawrence |
SUBORDINATION AND SEPARATION OF POWERS |
131 Yale Law Journal 78 (October, 2021) |
abstract. This Article calls for the incorporation of antisubordination into separation-of-powers analysis. Scholars analyzing separation-of-powers tools-- laws and norms that divide power among government actors--consider a long list of values ranging from protecting liberty to promoting efficiency. Absent from this list are questions of equity:... |
2021 |
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| Omarr Rambert |
THE ABSENT BLACK FATHER: RACE, THE WELFARE-CHILD SUPPORT SYSTEM, AND THE CYCLICAL NATURE OF FATHERLESSNESS |
68 UCLA Law Review 324 (May, 2021) |
The perception of Black fathers is that they are largely absent from their children's lives, and that such absence--and the ensuing experience of growing up fatherless--is a direct cause of social issues in Black communities. Through media representations and policymaking, the absent Black father narrative has taken shape over the past fifty years,... |
2021 |
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| Pedro A. Malavet |
THE ACCIDENTAL CRIT III: THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING . PEDRO? |
22 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 247 (2021) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction: Names, Titles and Academic Survival. 249 II. How did you get to your current position?. 255 III. Why did you stay?. 281 IV. Conclusion: Reveling in Law Geekness. 289 |
2021 |
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| Nicci Arete |
THE BAR EXAM'S CONTRIBUTION TO SYSTEMIC INEQUALITIES IN ACCESS TO JUSTICE AROUND THE WORLD |
30 Washington International Law Journal 324 (March, 2021) |
Abstract: Existing literature does not give adequate attention to if and how the bar exam impacts the legal profession's goals. Bar exam proponents say that the test separates competent candidates from incompetent ones, protecting the public from falling victim to inadequate legal services. But what constitutes a competent attorney? What are the... |
2021 |
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| Charles L. Barzun |
THE COMMON LAW AND CRITICAL THEORY |
92 University of Colorado Law Review 1221 (Fall, 2021) |
Before I got out of bed this morning, I had an exchange on Facebook Messenger, which began this way: Aunt Lucy: Question for you. Do you actually think there is no Marxist attempt, ongoing for years, to undermine and destroy America? Now most clearly involving China, but a la Gramsci, also in virtual total control of the media, universities, and... |
2021 |
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| Richard Ariel |
THE FIRST AMENDMENT IMPLICATIONS OF PRESIDENT TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDER ON DIVERSITY TRAINING |
56-SUM Procurement Lawyer 11 (Summer, 2021) |
Following the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd in March and May 2020, respectively, mass protests against police brutality and systemic racism erupted across the United States. Following this period of civil unrest, a multitude of companies, many of which were federal contractors, put a focus on diversity and inclusiveness training,... |
2021 |
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| Vincent M. Southerland |
THE INTERSECTION OF RACE AND ALGORITHMIC TOOLS IN THE CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM |
80 Maryland Law Review 487 (2021) |
A growing portion of the American public--including policymakers, advocates, and institutional stakeholders--have accepted the fact that racism endemic to the United States infects every stage of the criminal legal system. Acceptance of this fact has resulted in efforts to address and remedy pervasive and readily observable systemic bias. Chief... |
2021 |
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| Dr. Angélica Guevara |
THE NEED TO REIMAGINE DISABILITY RIGHTS LAW BECAUSE THE MEDICAL MODEL OF DISABILITY FAILS US ALL |
2021 Wisconsin Law Review 269 (2021) |
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. --Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 Disability is not a personal problem, but rather a social reaction to natural human variation and susceptibility to life circumstances. Current disability antidiscrimination law has been ineffective in overcoming this misleading... |
2021 |
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| Audra L. Savage |
THE RELIGION OF RACE: THE SUPREME COURT AS PRIESTS OF RACIAL POLITICS |
2021 Utah Law Review 569 (2021) |
The tumultuous summer of 2020 opened the eyes of many Americans, leading to a general consensus on one issue--racism still exists. This Article offers a new descriptive account of America's history that can contextualize the zeitgeist of racial politics. It argues that the Founding Fathers created a national civil religion based on racism when they... |
2021 |
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| Daniel Abebe , Adam Chilton , Tom Ginsburg |
THE SOCIAL SCIENCE APPROACH TO INTERNATIONAL LAW |
22 Chicago Journal of International Law 1 (Summer, 2021) |
For over a hundred years, scholars have argued that international law should be studied using a scientific approach. Throughout the twentieth century, however, the most prominent methods used to study international law primarily consisted of different theoretical and analytical claims about how international law should be developed, interpreted,... |
2021 |
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| Courtney Trombly |
THE SPACE RACE: FUTILE FIGHTING FOR FINITE FINDINGS |
31 Albany Law Journal of Science and Technology 118 (2021) |
The advent of space exploration has brought a myriad of exciting new discoveries, among which are materials and resources. Such resources include sunlight and elements contained in the atmosphere, as well as materials included within the regolith (unconsolidated material that overlies solid rock on planetary bodies). The materials--which include... |
2021 |
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| Hiram E. Puig-Lugo |
THE WISCONSIN LAW REVIEW: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF CREATIVITY, CONTINUITY, AND CHANGE |
2021 Wisconsin Law Review 253 (2021) |
This issue explores the intellectual history and traditions of the University of Wisconsin Law School as the Wisconsin Law Review celebrates its 100th anniversary. It represents yet another example of the valuable contributions the Law Review has made to academic discourse and professional development throughout its history. I am extremely grateful... |
2021 |
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| Benjamin Justice , Tracey L. Meares |
THE WOLF WE FEED: DEMOCRACY, CASTE, AND LEGITIMACY |
119 Michigan Law Review Online 95 (May, 2021) |
Legal authority rests on enactment; its pure type is best represented by bureaucracy. The basic idea is that laws can be enacted and changed at pleasure by formally correct procedure. The governing body is either elected or appointed and constitutes as a whole and in all its sections rational organizations .. Obedience is not owed to anybody... |
2021 |
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| Maleah Riley-Brown, Samia Osman, Justice C. Shannon , Yemaya Hanna, Brandie Burris, Tony Sanchez, Joshua Cottle |
THIS IS MINNESOTA: AN ANALYSIS OF DISPARITIES IN BLACK STUDENT ENROLLMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW SCHOOL AND THE EFFECTS OF SYSTEMIC BARRIERS TO BLACK REPRESENTATION IN THE LAW |
105 Minnesota Law Review Headnotes 251 (Spring, 2021) |
Lawyers often occupy powerful positions in the highest levels of our government and economy. Whether drafting legislation, prosecuting or defending crimes, representing indigent clients in housing court, or finalizing corporate mergers, attorneys influence and operate within one of the most critical professions in the United States. Lawyers can... |
2021 |
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| Maleah Riley-Brown, Samia Osman, Justice C. Shannon , Yemaya Hanna, Brandie Burris, Tony Sanchez, Joshua Cottle |
THIS IS MINNESOTA: AN ANALYSIS OF DISPARITIES IN BLACK STUDENT ENROLLMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW SCHOOL AND THE EFFECTS OF SYSTEMIC BARRIERS TO BLACK REPRESENTATION IN THE LAW |
47 Mitchell Hamline Law Review 26 (November, 2021) |
Lawyers often occupy powerful positions in the highest levels of our government and economy. Whether drafting legislation, prosecuting, or defending crimes, representing indigent clients in housing court, or finalizing corporate mergers, attorneys influence and operate within one of the most critical professions in the United States. Lawyers can... |
2021 |
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| Kyle C. Velte |
TOWARD A TOUCHSTONE THEORY OF ANTI-RACISM: SEX DISCRIMINATION LAW MEETS #LIVINGWHILEBLACK |
33 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 119 (2021) |
Abstract: White supremacy and anti-Black racism continue their pervasive and destructive paths in contemporary American society. From the murder of George Floyd to the daily exclusions of Black bodies from white spaces, the nation's failure to right the wrongs of chattel slavery and racism continues to be highlighted in stark relief. This article... |
2021 |
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| James Thuo Gathii |
TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL GROTIUS LECTURE: THE PROMISE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW: A THIRD WORLD VIEW |
36 American University International Law Review 377 (2021) |
James Thuo Gathii of the Loyola University Chicago School of Law, and discussant Fleur Johns of the University of New South Wales School of Law, provided the Twenty-Second Annual Grotius Lecture on Thursday, June 25, 2020, at 5:00 p.m. (Including a TWAIL Bibliography 1996-2019 as an Appendix) I. INTRODUCTION. 378 II. PART ONE: INTERNATIONAL LAW'S... |
2021 |
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| John A. Powell , Eloy Toppin, Jr. |
UPROOTING AUTHORITARIANISM: DECONSTRUCTING THE STORIES BEHIND NARROW IDENTITIES AND BUILDING A SOCIETY OF BELONGING |
11 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 1 (January, 2021) |
Authoritarianism is on the rise globally, threatening democratic society and ushering in an era of extreme division. Most analyses and proposals for challenging authoritarianism leave intact the underlying foundations that give rise to this social phenomenon because they rely on a decontextualized intergroup dynamic theory. This Article argues that... |
2021 |
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| Vanita Saleema Snow |
VEILING AND INVERTED MASKING |
36 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 115 (2021) |
Introduction. 115 I. The Identity Dichotomy. 120 A. Binary Gender Identity. 122 B. Black and African-American Women: Race Intersects with Gender. 128 C. Muslim Women: Religious Identity Intersects with Gender. 130 D. African-American Muslim Women: The Challenges of Identity Convergence. 134 II. Masking Identity. 135 A. Masking to Assimilate. 137 B.... |
2021 |
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| Meera E. Deo |
WHY BIPOC FAILS |
107 Virginia Law Review Online 115 (June, 2021) |
Racial tensions have been endemic to the U.S. since its founding. In 2020, this racial conflict bubbled over into the streets as those supporting Black Lives Matter and opposing a long history of racist police violence congregated to demand justice. Last year and still now, the global pandemic has placed additional stress on communities of color,... |
2021 |
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| Shannon N. Morgan |
WORKING TWICE AS HARD FOR LESS THAN HALF AS MUCH: A SOCIOLEGAL CRITIQUE OF THE GENDERED JUSTIFICATIONS PERPETUATING UNEQUAL PAY IN SPORTS |
45 Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts 121 (Fall, 2021) |
The difference is the total amount of revenue. It's not a gender issue. It's a revenue issue. This was Mark Cuban's response when called out about the pay gap between men's and women's professional basketball players by Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) player Skylar Diggins-Smith. So often when the question, Why do male athletes... |
2021 |
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| Lolita Buckner Inniss |
(UN)COMMON LAW AND THE FEMALE BODY |
61 Boston College Law Review E-Supplement I.-95 (May 14, 2020) |
Abstract: A dissonance frequently exists between explicit feminist approaches to law and the realities of a common law system that has often ignored and even at times exacerbated women's legal disabilities. In The Common Law Inside the Female Body, Anita Bernstein mounts a challenge to this story of division. There is, and has long been, she... |
2020 |
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| I. Bennett Capers |
AGAINST PROSECUTORS |
105 Cornell Law Review 1561 (September, 2020) |
Introduction. 1561 I. The Prosecutors. 1565 II. We, the People. 1573 A. From Private Prosecution to Public Prosecutors. 1573 B. Three Lessons. 1581 III. Benefits. 1586 Conclusion. 1609 |
2020 |
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| Bruce P. Frohnen |
AUGUSTINE, LAWYERS & THE LOST VIRTUE OF HUMILITY |
69 Catholic University Law Review 1 (Winter, 2020) |
I. The Virtue of Humility. 3 II. The Secular Critique. 4 III. Political Theology. 7 IV. Shaffer's Christian Call to Disorder. 9 V. The Dangers of Lawyerly Theology. 11 VI. MRPC: A System Requiring and Allowing for Humility. 17 VII. Conclusion. 20 |
2020 |
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| Dena Elizabeth Robinson , Tyra Robinson |
BETWEEN A LOC AND A HARD PLACE: A SOCIO-HISTORICAL, LEGAL, AND INTERSECTIONAL ANALYSIS OF HAIR DISCRIMINATION AND TITLE VII |
20 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 263 (Fall, 2020) |
Every year, Black people, including children, are reminded that they are inferior when they are turned away from jobs, have offers of employment rescinded, or are humiliated in front of family and friends due to the way their hair naturally grows out of their heads. When Black people bring claims of hair discrimination under Title VII, which are... |
2020 |
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| Justin Hansford |
BOOK REVIEW: CHOKEHOLD BY PAUL BUTLER |
4 Howard Human & Civil Rights Law Review 39 (2019-2020) |
When Mike Brown was killed on August 9th, 2014, few of the people who took to the streets in protest could explain in depth the structural details of the system that we knew would, in all likelihood, allow the killer to escape without punishment. We just knew the whole system was guilty as hell. Any instincts to take a systemic perspective were... |
2020 |
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