| Kathleen O'Connor Ives |
OUT OF THE LOOP: FEMALE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT CANDIDATES DISADVANTAGED BY A NOMINATION PROCESS IMBUED WITH FAVORITISM |
16 Texas Journal of Women and the Law 103 (Fall 2006) |
I. Introduction. 104 II. Women's Involvement in the Judicial Nomination Process. 106 A. Female Judges on the Federal Bench: More than Window Dressing. 106 B. The Structure of the Nomination Process at the Federal District Court Level. 107 1. Misconstrued Objectives of the Hearings. 107 2. The Role of Congressional Members in the Nomination Process.... |
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| Darren Rosenblum |
PARITY/DISPARITY: ELECTORAL GENDER INEQUALITY ON THE TIGHTROPE OF LIBERAL CONSTITUTIONAL TRADITIONS |
39 U.C. Davis Law Review 1119 (March, 2006) |
C1-3Table of Contents L1-2Introduction . L31121 I. The Pariah of Parity. 1127 A. Parity, a Profoundly Foreign Concept. 1127 1. Sex Discrimination, Not Representation. 1127 2. Voting Rights Law and Gender. 1129 a. Political Representation Remedies Center on Race. 1129 b. Existing Political Representation Remedies Do Not and Cannot Apply to Women.... |
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| Quinn White |
PROTECTING HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS: A CONTRADICTION IN FIRST AMENDMENT JURISPRUDENCE |
4 First Amendment Law Review 377 (Spring 2006) |
Within the American judicial system, the notions of free speech and equality are cherished judicial ideals. However, in relation to homophobic hate speech regulation, these two concepts often manifest in stark opposition to one another. The First Amendment protects the freedom of speech, thereby providing some protection for offensive speech. Yet,... |
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| Cynthia Grant Bowman , Dorothy Roberts , Leonard S. Rubinowitz |
RACE AND GENDER IN THE LAW REVIEW |
100 Northwestern University Law Review 27 (Special Issue 2006) |
A number of years ago a noted historian of the American West, Patricia Limerick, addressed the plenary session of the Association of American Law Schools. In her speech, she described how the received history of the West consisted of a narrative in which explorers like Lewis and Clark entered and discovered a vast empty territory. This account was,... |
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| Rachel D. Godsil |
RACE NUISANCE: THE POLITICS OF LAW IN THE JIM CROW ERA |
105 Michigan Law Review 505 (December, 2006) |
This Article explores a startling and previously unnoticed line of cases in which state courts in the Jim Crow era ruled against white plaintiffs trying to use common law nuisance doctrine to achieve residential segregation. These race-nuisance cases complicate the view of most legal scholarship that state courts during the Jim Crow era openly... |
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| Wilton Hyman |
RACE, CLASS, AND THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE: A CLASS BASED ANALYSIS OF A BLACK CRITIQUE OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE |
35 Capital University Law Review 119 (Fall, 2006) |
Economic class differences within the black community should be considered, in conjunction with the history of black racial oppression, in developing proposals to reduce economic disparities between whites and blacks. Analysis of A Black Critique of the Internal Revenue Code (A Black Critique), as well as the writings of commentators on that... |
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| Michelle Adams |
RADICAL INTEGRATION |
94 California Law Review 261 (March, 2006) |
It is a beautiful summer day. An aunt and her nine-year-old niece, both black, are driving from New York City to a Long Island resort to visit white friends. The aunt lives in a racially mixed community, her niece in a predominantly black neighborhood. Their friends have a modest boat docked at a marina which has a large pool. While the scenery is... |
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REMARKS BY ADRIEN WING |
100 American Society of International Law Proceedings 173 (March 29-April 1, 2006) |
Professor Adrien Wing addressed various questions that were circulated in advance of the panel in order to discuss the relevance of international law theory to the future. In particular, panelists were asked what they thought some important theoretical issues coming from the United States were. In response, Professor Wing discussed the current... |
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| David G. García |
REMEMBERING CHAVEZ RAVINE: CULTURE CLASH AND CRITICAL RACE THEATER |
26 Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review 111 (Spring 2006) |
It's revisionist history . . . It's claiming that we're here. We're part of American history or world history. And it's also reclaiming the other side, the other point of view . . . In Chavez Ravine, we take the point of view of the residents. They're the heroes, you know. We don't take the point of view of let's say the developer. We already know... |
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| H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr. |
REVISITING "THE NEED FOR NEGRO LAWYERS": ARE TODAY'S BLACK CORPORATE LAWYERS HOUSTONIAN SOCIAL ENGINEERS? |
9 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 637 (Spring 2006) |
The fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education provided scholars with numerous opportunities to discuss the legal importance and historical implications of this landmark decision. For countless black law students, who obviously benefit from Brown, these symposia were the first time many of them had in-depth, scholarly discussions about the... |
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| Richard Delgado |
RODRIGO'S ROUNDELAY: HERNANDEZ v. TEXAS AND THE INTEREST-CONVERGENCE DILEMMA |
41 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 23 (Winter, 2006) |
I was staring glumly at the single birthday card propped up at the edge of my office desk and pondering my own mortality when I heard a brisk knock at the door. Professor, it's me, Rodrigo. Have you got a minute? The door opened to reveal the lanky figure of my smiling young friend. I come bearing gifts, he said, picking up a large flat... |
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| Camille A. Nelson |
STARTING ANEW: THE ADA's DISABILITY WITH RESPECT TO EPISODIC MENTAL ILLNESS |
75 Mississippi Law Journal 1039 (Spring, 2006) |
Although lay people frequently conflate a diagnosis of mental illness with the existence of a disability, these concepts should properly be separated. The inclination towards conflation might be diminished by reference to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) distinction between the existence of a disability and the legal ability to recover... |
2006 |
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| Joshua M. Levine |
STIGMA'S OPENING: GRUTTER'S DIVERSITY INTEREST(S) AND THE NEW CALCULUS FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN HIGHER EDUCATION |
94 California Law Review 457 (March, 2006) |
In summary, the Equal Protection Clause does not prohibit the Law School's narrowly tailored use of race in admissions decisions to further a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body. So concluded Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's majority opinion in Grutter v. Bollinger upholding the University... |
2006 |
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| Cyra Akila Choudhury |
TERRORISTS & MUSLIMS: THE CONSTRUCTION, PERFORMANCE, AND REGULATION OF MUSLIM IDENTITIES IN THE POST 9/11 UNITED STATES |
7 Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion 8 (April 28, 2006) |
Where there is power there is resistance. Sadly, some of us Muslims are often quite rude to one another: not only do we brand each other as infidels, we oppress each other . Words like kufr (infidelity), shirk (associating partners with God, i.e. polytheism), and bid'a (heretical innovation) flow far too easily from our tongues. The finger that... |
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| Miranda Oshige McGowan , James Lindgren |
TESTING THE "MODEL MINORITY MYTH" |
100 Northwestern University Law Review 331 (Special Issue 2006) |
The stereotype of Asian Americans as a Model Minority appears frequently in the popular press and in public and scholarly debates about affirmative action, immigration, and education. The model minority stereotype may be summarized as the belief that Asian Americans, through their hard work, intelligence, and emphasis on education and... |
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| Renee Ann Cramer |
THE COMMON SENSE OF ANTI-INDIAN RACISM: REACTIONS TO MASHANTUCKET PEQUOT SUCCESS IN GAMING AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT |
31 Law and Social Inquiry 313 (Spring, 2006) |
Anti-Indian racism, as typified by anticasino backlash, is a part of the common sense of race relations in the United States, which increasingly impacts federal administrative procedures used to acknowledge the existence of tribal status. Using ethnographic and archival research, this article shows that the backlash over Mashantucket Pequot... |
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| Maneesha Deckha |
THE SALIENCE OF SPECIES DIFFERENCE FOR FEMINIST THEORY |
17 Hastings Women's Law Journal 1 (Winter 2006) |
The internationally renowned celebrity Pamela Anderson is a spokesperson for the organization, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). A Canadian by origin, she recently called for a boycott of Kentucky Fried Chicken Canada (KFC Canada). In a video asking Canadians to stop supporting the company, Anderson informs viewers that KFC... |
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| Martha T. McCluskey |
THE SUBSTANTIVE POLITICS OF FORMAL CORPORATE POWER |
53 Buffalo Law Review 1453 (Special Edition 2006) |
In Planet of the APs, Marc Galanter gives a fascinating, important picture of the increasingly privileged legal position of artificial persons--namely corporations--in the U.S. legal system. Corporations occupy more of the legal realm compared to natural persons, they use a greater quantity and percentage of legal services, more prestigious and... |
2006 |
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| Rachel Anderson, Marc-Tizoc González, Stephen Lee |
TOWARD A NEW STUDENT INSURGENCY: A CRITICAL EPISTOLARY |
94 California Law Review 1879 (December, 2006) |
We decided to embark upon this collaborative correspondence in 2005, the year we graduated from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt). We entered Boalt at a time of crisis in both the California and national public education systems. Locally, the state had taken over school districts for failing to achieve test scores... |
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| Christine Zuni Cruz |
TOWARD A PEDAGOGY AND ETHIC OF LAW/LAWYERING FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES |
82 North Dakota Law Review 863 (2006) |
One of the most important aspects of clinical practice and clinical teaching is that it allows reflection. Students practice law in a manner meant to encourage reflection of that practice, to allow them to learn, and to consider their lawyering approach. Reflection is a noun that comes from a late Latin word meaning the act of bending back. The... |
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| Mica Pollock |
TOWARD EVERYDAY JUSTICE: ON DEMANDING EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY IN THE NEW CIVIL RIGHTS ERA |
67 Ohio State Law Journal 245 (2006) |
This Article discusses everyday disputes between ordinary Americans over defining and addressing racial discrimination in education today. These disputes were encountered during the author's work experience in the Federal Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights circa 2000. (Note: the author is no longer an employee of OCR and does not... |
2006 |
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| Emily M.S. Houh |
TOWARD PRAXIS |
39 U.C. Davis Law Review 905 (March, 2006) |
C1-3Table of Contents L1-2Introduction . L3907 I. Foundations and Aspirations of the Good Faith Antidiscrimination Claim. 908 A. Carbado and Gulati's Working Identity Theory. 909 B. The Need for the Publicization of Private Law. 912 II. The Elements of the Good Faith Antidiscrimination Claim: Operationalizing Working Identity Theory. 919 A.... |
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| Mary L. Clark |
TREADING ON HALLOWED GROUND: IMPLICATIONS FOR PROPERTY LAW AND CRITICAL THEORY OF LAND ASSOCIATED WITH HUMAN DEATH AND BURIAL |
94 Kentucky Law Journal 487 (2005-2006) |
In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the land underlying the World Trade Center towers has come to be regarded as hallowed ground, unsuitable for private commercial development. How did this happen? The land was deemed consecrated by the deaths of nearly 3,000 people that day, including those who worked in the towers and those who died trying to... |
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| Cheryl I. Harris |
WHITEWASHING RACE: SCAPEGOATING CULTURE |
94 California Law Review 907 (May, 2006) |
The images of the suffering that washed over New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina seemed to provide incontrovertible evidence of the significance of race and persistence of racial inequality in contemporary U.S. society. The simple fact that the faces of those left to fend for themselves or die were overwhelmingly Black challenged the... |
2006 |
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| Mohar Ray |
"CAN I SEE YOUR PAPERS?" LOCAL POLICE ENFORCEMENT OF FEDERAL IMMIGRATION LAW POST 9/11 AND ASIAN AMERICAN PERMANENT FOREIGNNESS |
11 Washington and Lee Race and Ethnic Ancestry Law Journal 197 (Winter, 2005) |
If I see someone come in and he's got a diaper on his head and a fan belt around that diaper on his head, that guy needs to be pulled over and checked. U.S. Congressional Representative John Cooksey of Louisiana, Radio Announcement after September 11, 2001 In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks perpetuated by nineteen foreign... |
2005 |
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| Melissa E. Murray |
"I'D LIKE TO THANK THE ACADEMY": EMINEM, DUNCAN KENNEDY, AND THE LIMITS OF CRITIQUE |
55 Journal of Legal Education 65 (March/June, 2005) |
May I have your attention please? May I have your attention please? Will the real Slim Shady please stand up? I repeat, will the real Slim Shady please stand up? We're gonna have a problem here . Marshall Mathers (Eminem), The Real Slim Shady I am not usually a rap fan, but when I first viewed the video for The Real Slim Shady late at night during... |
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| Arvin Lugay |
"IN DEFENSE OF INTERNMENT": WHY SOME AMERICANS ARE MORE "EQUAL" THAN OTHERS |
12 Asian Law Journal 209 (April, 2005) |
At what point do the civil liberties protections of the Constitution cease to matter? The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 have sparked a national debate over balancing the pursuit of national security with the protection of civil rights. This debate, however, misses the more pertinent question regarding the state of civil rights today. The... |
2005 |
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| Sylvia R. Lazos Vargas |
"KULTURKAMPF[S]" OR "FIT[S] OF SPITE"?: TAKING THE ACADEMIC CULTURE WARS SERIOUSLY |
35 Seton Hall Law Review 1309 (2005) |
Polarization and heated debate within legal academia are nothing new. Some might argue that vigorous contentiousness, even if not always civil, is essential to a healthy intellectual culture. Others would note that lawyers, legal academics especially, are a highly contentious bunch with a reputation for aggressive behavior. Heated debates between... |
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| Francisco Valdes |
"WE ARE NOW OF THE VIEW" : BACKLASH ACTIVISM, CULTURAL CLEANSING, AND THE KULTURKAMPF TO RESURRECT THE OLD DEAL |
35 Seton Hall Law Review 1407 (2005) |
For the ninth time in as many years, LatCritters met in 2004 during the Cinco de Mayo weekend not only to help recall the unjust events of that day a century and a half ago, but also to center and challenge its continuing legacies in law and society. These legacies live on in many forms and many ways, of course, and this year, the LatCrit IX... |
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| Nicholas Espiritu |
(E)RACING YOUTH: THE RACIALIZED CONSTRUCTION OF CALIFORNIA'S PROPOSITION 21 AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALTERNATE CONTESTATIONS |
52 Cleveland State Law Review 189 (2005) |
Niggaz with knowledge is more dangerous than niggaz with guns They make the guns easy to get and try to keep niggaz dumb Target the gangs and graffiti with the Prop 21 . I already know the deal but what the fuck do I tell my son? Talib Kweli I. Introduction. 189 II. Ideological Foundations and Critical Analysis of Direct Democracy. 192 III.... |
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| Annalisa Jabaily |
1967: HOW ESTRANGEMENT AND ALLIANCES BETWEEN BLACKS, JEWS, AND ARABS SHAPED A GENERATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS FAMILY VALUES |
23 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 197 (Winter 2005) |
The entire civil rights struggle needs a new interpretation, a broader interpretation. We need to look at this civil rights thing from another angle--from the inside as well as from the outside. To those of us whose philosophy is black nationalism, the only way you can get involved in the civil rights struggle is give it a new interpretation. That... |
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| Daria Roithmayr |
A DANGEROUS SUPPLEMENT |
55 Journal of Legal Education 80 (March/June, 2005) |
The supplement supplements. It adds only to replace. --Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology I've reached that point in my teaching career where my age approaches twice that of the average student in my class. I find myself wondering, as time passes, how salient my own law school experiences and views of the world have remained for my students. Despite... |
2005 |
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| Anthony C. Infanti |
A TAX CRIT IDENTITY CRISIS? OR TAX EXPENDITURE ANALYSIS, DECONSTRUCTION, AND THE RETHINKING OF A COLLECTIVE IDENTITY |
26 Whittier Law Review 707 (Spring 2005) |
There is nothing unusual about the appearance of deconstructive arguments in the texts of non-deconstructionists . . . . - J. M. Balkin How to begin? A story to set the tone seems to work well, but my usual story line simply won't do the job this time. You see, I've recently begun my articles by tracing the thought process that led me to the... |
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| Margaret E. Johnson |
AN EXPERIMENT IN INTEGRATING CRITICAL THEORY AND CLINICAL EDUCATION |
13 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 161 (2005) |
Introduction. 162 I. Clinical Legal Education. 164 II. Clinical Education Through Feminist Legal Theory and Other Critical Legal Theories. 167 III. Integrating Critical Legal Theory and Clinical Legal Education. 171 A. The Women and the Law Clinic and the Domestic Violence Clinic. 171 B. Reconfiguring the Clinics' Seminar Curriculum. 172 C.... |
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| John Hayakawa Torok |
ASIAN AMERICAN JURISPRUDENCE: ON CURRICULUM |
2005 Michigan State Law Review 635 (Summer 2005) |
Introduction. 636 I. Some Background for Early Asian American Jurisprudence. 642 II. Preliminary Questions. 649 A. What Is Asian American?. 649 B. Does Asian American Jurisprudence Differ from Asian American Studies?. 657 C. What Makes it Jurisprudence?. 660 III. Columbia Asian American Jurisprudence Classes--1997-1999. 662 A. Antecedents of... |
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| Michele Goodwin |
ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND THE DOUBLE BIND: THE ILLUSORY CHOICE OF MOTHERHOOD |
9 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice Just. 1 (Fall 2005) |
I. Introduction. 2 II. Double Bind Defined: Hierarchical Paradigms and Eclipsed Social Status of Motherhood. 7 A. The Heightened Catch-22 . 7 B. Double Bind Applied: A Critical Legal Theory Analysis. 12 III. The Illusory Notion of Choice: The Compatibility of Motherhood & Technology Reconsidered. 16 A. Infertility and ART Usage: A Statistical... |
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| Mary Romero |
BROWN IS BEAUTIFUL |
39 Law and Society Review 211 (March, 2005) |
In one of his most compelling speeches Malcolm X cried out, We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary (Malcolm X 1970:37). In this conservative era, it feels a bit odd to recall how fervently students, activists, parents, and even a few parish priests debated the range... |
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| Angela Onwuachi-Willig , Mario L. Barnes |
BY ANY OTHER NAME?: ON BEING "REGARDED AS" BLACK, AND WHY TITLE VII SHOULD APPLY EVEN IF LAKISHA AND JAMAL ARE WHITE |
2005 Wisconsin Law Review 1283 (2005) |
Forty years after the passage of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, scholars Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan reported the results of their groundbreaking study, Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination. Their study revealed that simply having an African American... |
2005 |
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| Michael Eric Dyson |
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? |
7 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 621 (February, 2005) |
Thank you so much, Sister Tristan, for that very gracious introduction and to the dean for his eloquent remarks about the tone and tenor of the debate in this nation around race as well as Brother Carlos's insightful remarks about the struggle over race and jurisprudential rationality to define where we are in the nation. It's just good to be over... |
2005 |
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| Michael Boucai |
CAUGHT IN A WEB OF IGNORANCES: HOW BLACK AMERICANS ARE DENIED EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS |
18 National Black Law Journal 239 (2004-2005) |
Introduction. 240 A. The Defective Doctrines of Equal Protection Law. 240 B. Willful Ignorance. 241 C. Thesis: Willful Ignorance, Racism, and Unequal Protection. 245 I. Blissful Ignorance and the Unintentional Discriminator. 249 A. Intent Doctrine and Willful Ignorance of History. 250 B. Intent Doctrine and the Privileging of Ignorance. 251 II.... |
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| Francisco Valdes |
CITY AND CITIZEN: COMMUNITY-MAKING AS LEGAL THEORY AND SOCIAL STRUGGLE |
52 Cleveland State Law Review 1 (2005) |
I. Introduction. 1 II. Operations of Power: Expanding the Critiques of Identity in Law and Culture. 3 A. City and Citizenship: Between and Beyond the Nation-State. 7 B. Race, Ethnicity and Gender: Identity Ideologies in Law and Culture. 14 C. Identity, Discourse and Society: Mapping the Lines of Critical Inquiry. 22 D. Migration, Land and Labor:... |
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| Harvey Gee |
CIVIL LIBERTIES, NATIONAL SECURITY, AND THE JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT |
45 Santa Clara Law Review 771 (2005) |
I don't want any of them (persons of Japanese ancestry) here. They are a dangerous element. There is no way to determine their loyalty. . . . It makes no difference whether he is an American citizen, he is still a Japanese. American citizenship does not necessarily determine loyalty. . . . [W]e must worry about the Japanese all the time until he is... |
2005 |
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| Guy-Uriel E. Charles |
COLORED SPEECH: CROSS BURNINGS, EPISTEMICS, AND THE TRIUMPH OF THE CRITS? |
93 Georgetown Law Journal 575 (January, 2005) |
Virginia v. Black represents a complete reversal in the Court's approach to the constitutionality of anti-cross-burning statutes. In R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, a unanimous Supreme Court held that St. Paul's ordinance regulating cross burnings violated the First Amendment. Writing for the Court, Justice Scalia explained that the purpose of the... |
2005 |
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| Eli J. Kay-Oliphant |
CONSIDERING RACE IN AMERICAN IMMIGRATION JURISPRUDENCE |
54 Emory Law Journal 681 (Winter 2005) |
Imagine that you are President, fifteen years from now. You have been sitting in the Oval Office, thinking to yourself for over an hour. The silence is uncommon, considering your hectic schedule, and reflects the gravity of the situation and importance of the decision you must make. Time is moving slowly. Your mind races from one impossible... |
2005 |
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| Heidi Kitrosser |
CONTAINING UNPROTECTED SPEECH |
57 Florida Law Review 843 (September, 2005) |
The Supreme Court long has deemed a few categories of speech so harmful and so lacking in value as to be unworthy of First Amendment protection. Under this approach, which this Article calls categorization doctrine, legislatures may regulate-even ban-unprotected speech categories in their entirety. Specifically, legislatures may pass laws punishing... |
2005 |
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| Charles R. Venator Santiago |
COUNTERING KULTURKAMPF POLITICS THROUGH CRITIQUE AND JUSTICE PEDAGOGY |
50 Villanova Law Review 749 (2005) |
THE Ninth Annual Latina and Latino Critical Theory Conference (LatCrit IX) was held in Malvern, Pennsylvania between April 29 and May 1, 2004. This year's conference theme, Countering Kulturkampf Politics Through Critique and Justice Pedagogy, brought together a wide array of scholars, academics and activists from diverse backgrounds and... |
2005 |
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| Emily M.S. Houh |
CRITICAL RACE REALISM: RE-CLAIMING THE ANTIDISCRIMINATION PRINCIPLE THROUGH THE DOCTRINE OF GOOD FAITH IN CONTRACT LAW |
66 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 455 (Spring, 2005) |
This Article comprises the last leg of a larger project I have undertaken on the implied obligation of good faith in contract law. I have argued elsewhere that, as a descriptive matter, the doctrine of good faith and fair dealing in contract law, despite some theoretical controversy in the established scholarship on the doctrine, functions in... |
2005 |
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| Margaret L. Satterthwaite |
CROSSING BORDERS, CLAIMING RIGHTS: USING HUMAN RIGHTS LAW TO EMPOWER WOMEN MIGRANT WORKERS |
8 Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal 1 (2005) |
This Article considers the impact of the Migrant Workers Convention on the human rights of women migrants. While the adoption of a convention targeting abuses against migrant workers is a significant development in international human rights law, the author cautions that its specialized nature might be perceived as a limitation on the obligations... |
2005 |
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| Kevin R. Johnson , Angela Onwuachi-Willig |
CRY ME A RIVER: THE LIMITS OF "A SYSTEMIC ANALYSIS OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS" |
7 African-American Law and Policy Report 1 (2005) |
Richard Sander's article on affirmative action in the Stanford Law Review has generated nothing less than an academic firestorm. To its credit, A Systemic Analysis of Affirmative Action in American Law Schools has energized serious discussion of the costs and benefits of affirmative action. In no small part, this results from the counterintuitive... |
2005 |
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| Francisco Valdes |
CULTURE BY LAW: BACKLASH AS JURISPRUDENCE |
50 Villanova Law Review 1135 (2005) |
FOR the ninth time in as many years, LatCritters met in 2004 during the Cinco de Mayo weekend. We met not only to help recall the unjust events of that day a century and a half ago, but also to center and challenge its unjust legacies in law and society. These legacies live on in many forms and many ways, of course. Against this backdrop, the... |
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