| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Gender in Title or Summary | Ethnicity in Title |
| Angela Dixon |
UNSHACKLED: WHY ELIMINATING HEALTH DISPARITIES REQUIRES THAT OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM SET INCARCERATED MOTHERS AND THEIR DEVELOPING CHILDREN FREE |
38 Journal of Law and Health 102 (10/31/2024) |
Abstract: Incarceration of pregnant nonviolent offenders takes not only the pregnant mother captive but also her unborn child. Kept in unnecessary captivity, these innocent children may experience adverse childhood experiences (ACES) or lifelong damage to their physical and mental health. The experiences may be the same for children born already... |
2024 |
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| Terry Allen |
USING SPATIAL AND QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS TO RETHINK SCHOOL POLICING |
112 Georgetown Law Journal 987 (May, 2024) |
When researchers typically think about the problem of policing in schools, we tend to focus on the experiences of Black children in majority-Black and Latino schools. This body of scholarship has shown that Black students disproportionately experience negative police encounters in majority-Black and Latino schools compared to other racial and... |
2024 |
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Multiple Groups |
| Robyn Weinstein |
WHAT'S GOING ON? DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION DISPUTE RESOLUTION INITIATIVES IN THE U.S. |
73 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 294 (2024) |
Our past, our history, and the people we encounter in life matter. They matter because they shape our experiences, our stories, our identities, what we choose to do (or not do), our present, our future and our ethical stance. - Jacqueline N. Font-Guzmán Over the course of my career, I have worked for and managed community dispute resolution... |
2024 |
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| Hala Baradi |
ADVOCATING FOR ABOLITION IN HEALTH LAW: A THEORY AND PRAXIS TO LIBERATE BLACK INCARCERATED WOMEN |
51 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 196 (Spring, 2023) |
Keywords: Health Law, Health Justice, Abolition, Reproductive Justice, Structural Determinant of Health Abstract: The prison-industrial complex has historically operated as a mechanism for social control generally and as a tool to restrict women's reproductive capacities specifically. Reproductive justice is a domain within the practice of health... |
2023 |
Yes |
African/Black American |
| Dorothy Couchman |
AFFIRMING AND SUPPORTING BLACK WOMEN'S LACTATION AGENCY AS REDRESS |
60 San Diego Law Review 587 (August-September, 2023) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 588 II. Why Lactation as Redress?. 591 III. The Atrocity. 592 A. Lactation Abuse in Enslavement. 593 B. Lactation Denial During Jim Crow. 593 IV. The Harms of Lactation Agency Denial. 597 V. Atonement and Redress. 598 VI. Areas for Lactation Redress. 600 A. Lactation Agency in Perinatal Care. 600 B. Infant... |
2023 |
Yes |
African/Black American |
| Maryam Asenuga |
AREN'T I A WOMAN DESERVING OF JUSTICE? RESTRUCTURING VAWA'S FUNDING STRUCTURE TO CREATE RACIAL AND GENDER EQUITY |
13 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 853 (June, 2023) |
Because young Black women . are depicted not as frightened, pregnant adolescents who are . abused by men . but as criminal defendants . it is virtually impossible for the mainstream public, their communities, or their potential advocates to understand their vulnerability or to respond accordingly. This Note analyzes the funding priorities of the... |
2023 |
Yes |
African/Black American |
| Bethool Zehra Haider |
ASKING THE MUSLIM WOMAN QUESTION: UNDERSTANDING THE SOCIAL AND LEGAL CONSTRUCTION OF MUSLIM WOMEN |
38 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 81 (2023) |
Introduction. 81 I. The Orientalist's Imagination. 84 A. Overview. 84 B. Gendered Conceptions. 85 C. In Modern Day. 87 D. Statistical Impacts in the Workforce. 92 II. In the Legal Imagination. 94 A. The Muslim Man as a Violent Oppressor. 94 B. An Exclusive Neutrality. 99 III. From the Legal Imagination to the Legal Institution. 103 A. Deprivation... |
2023 |
Yes |
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| Charelle Lett |
BLACK WOMEN VICTIMS OF POLICE BRUTALITY AND THE SILENCING OF THEIR STORIES |
30 UCLA Journal of Gender & Law 131 (Summer, 2023) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 132 I. Brief History of State Sanctioned Violence Against Black People in the United States. 132 A. Slave Patrols as the Foundation of Modern Policing. 132 B. The Lynching Period and Law Enforcement's Involvement. 134 C. Historical Account of the Criminalization of Black Activism. 136 1. Second Red Scare. 136 2.... |
2023 |
Yes |
African/Black American |
| Tierra Fulwood , Melba V. Pearson , Rachel A. Silverthorn |
BLACK, FEMALE & ELECTED |
38-FALL Criminal Justice 14 (Fall, 2023) |
In the wake of recent high-profile cases, the role of the elected prosecutor has taken on new scrutiny and attention. The debate over criminal justice reform, including what reform should look like, continues to be a polarizing topic in many circles. One positive, however, is more diverse candidates putting their hats in the ring for the position... |
2023 |
Yes |
African/Black American |
| Sidney E. Holler |
BRAIDS, LOCS, AND BOSTOCK: TITLE VII'S ELUSIVE PROTECTIONS FOR LGBTQ+ AND BLACK WOMEN EMPLOYEES |
26 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 223 (Winter, 2023) |
Whiteness and patriarchy frame our understanding of what it means to be and look professional. Workplace grooming and dress standards, inherently rooted in gender and racial stereotypes, often result in policies that place Black women employees at a unique disadvantage, particularly when it comes to hair. Black women who do not conform to... |
2023 |
Yes |
African/Black American |
| Chan Tov McNamarah |
CIS-WOMAN-PROTECTIVE ARGUMENTS |
123 Columbia Law Review 845 (April, 2023) |
It has become common to oppose the equal citizenship of transgender persons by appealing to the welfare of cisgender women and girls. Such Cis-Woman-Protective (CWP) arguments have driven exclusionary efforts in an array of contexts, including restrooms, sports, college admissions, and antidiscrimination law coverage. Remarkably, however, this... |
2023 |
Yes |
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| Makiya Turntine |
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--DOBBS v. JACKSON WOMEN'S HEALTH ORGANIZATION WILL LIKELY HAVE A NEGATIVE, DISPROPORTIONATE IMPACT ON WOMEN OF COLOR AND REASSERT INFERIORITY |
46 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 237 (Winter, 2023) |
I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman? Before Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, when abortion was a fundamental right, women of lower socioeconomic status, including women of color, experienced higher abortion rates... |
2023 |
Yes |
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| Jacqueline Pittman |
CONSTRUCTING RACE AND GENDER IN MODERN RAPE LAW: THE ABANDONED CATEGORY OF BLACK FEMALE VICTIMS |
30 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 151 (2023) |
Despite the successes of the 1960s Anti-Rape Movement, modern state rape statutes continue to prioritize white male perspectives and perceptions of race, ultimately ignoring the intersectional identity of Black women and leaving these victims without legal protection. This Note examines rape law's history of allocating agency along gendered and... |
2023 |
Yes |
African/Black American |
| Jennifer T. Perillo, Rochelle B. Sykes, Sean A. Bennett, Margaret C. Reardon, Department of Psychology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania |
EXAMINING THE CONSEQUENCES OF DEHUMANIZATION AND ADULTIFICATION IN JUSTIFICATION OF POLICE USE OF FORCE AGAINST BLACK GIRLS AND BOYS |
47 Law and Human Behavior 36 (February, 2023) |
Objective: Given the greater contact that Black youth have with the legal system compared with White youth, it is important to consider the differential ways that police use of force against these youth is perceived. Black youth may be at greater risk than White youth for animalistic (being seen as animal-like) and mechanistic (being seen as... |
2023 |
Yes |
African/Black American |
| Alichia McIntosh |
HEALTHCARE INEQUITIES IN THE UNITED STATES AND BEYOND ARE TAKING BLACK WOMEN'S LIVES |
18 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 102 (Spring, 2023) |
Black women have been dying at devastating rates due to health complications at the hands of the United States' healthcare and legal systems. This Note explores these distressing rates and how they compare to White women while analyzing the fatalities and diagnoses among several health complications and diseases. These fatalities persist due to the... |
2023 |
Yes |
African/Black American |
| Benita Miller |
KEEPING THE FAITH: FORTIFYING TITLE IX PROTECTIONS POST-ROE FOR BLACK GIRLS |
56 Creighton Law Review 359 (June, 2023) |
My spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender. Pregnant and parenting teens have a right to stay in school to complete their education. Embedded in the federal Title IX Education Amendments is the guarantee that discrimination based on pregnant and parenting status is prohibited if a school is receiving public funds. Title... |
2023 |
Yes |
African/Black American |
| Jessica M. Williams |
LOOKING A CERTAIN WAY: HOW DEFUNCT SUBJECTIVE STANDARDS OF MEDIA REGULATION CONTINUE TO AFFECT BLACK WOMEN |
111 California Law Review 247 (February, 2023) |
Regulatory enforcement is only as good as the standards to be enforced. I argue here that subjective standards formerly in place at the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) and the United States Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) were imbued with the White-centric beliefs of its designers and enforcers. Drawing on critical race... |
2023 |
Yes |
African/Black American |
| Brooklynn K. Hitchens , Jeaneé C. Miller , Yasser Arafat Payne , Ivan Y. Sun , Isabella Castillo |
MORE THAN RACE? INTRAGROUP DIFFERENCES BY GENDER AND AGE IN PERCEPTIONS OF POLICE AMONG STREET-IDENTIFIED BLACK MEN AND WOMEN |
47 Law and Human Behavior 634 (December, 2023) |
Objective: Whereas studies have documented racial differences in attitudes toward police between White and Black Americans, relatively little is known about the intragroup, gender-based variations among urban Black residents involved in criminal activity (i.e., street-identified men and women). Hypotheses: We hypothesized Black women would be more... |
2023 |
Yes |
African/Black American |
| Jennifer C. Nash |
ON MARCHING KARENS AND METAPHORICAL BLACK WOMEN |
34 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 40 (2023) |
In 2021, the New York Times published March of the Karens, an article that described a figure who symbolizes all that is wrong with contemporary feminism: Karen. Ligaya Mishan describes Karen as an interfering, hectoring white woman, the self-appointed hall monitor unloosed on the world, so assured of her status in society that she doesn't... |
2023 |
Yes |
African/Black American |
| Shirley LaVarco |
REIMAGINING THE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT FROM A TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE PERSPECTIVE: DECARCERATION AND FINANCIAL REPARATIONS FOR CRIMINALIZED SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE |
98 New York University Law Review 912 (June, 2023) |
While the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) has long been venerated as a major legislative victory for those subjected to sexual and gender-based violence (S/GBV), VAWA is less often understood as the funding boon that it is for police, prosecutors, and prisons. A growing literature on the harms of carceral feminism has shown that VAWA has never... |
2023 |
Yes |
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| Inès Zamouri |
SELF-DEFENSE, RESPONSIBILITY, AND PUNISHMENT: RETHINKING THE CRIMINALIZATION OF WOMEN WHO KILL THEIR ABUSIVE INTIMATE PARTNERS |
30 UCLA Journal of Gender & Law 203 (Summer, 2023) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 204 I. Accommodation of Victims/Survivors within Available Criminal Defenses. 211 A. The Self-Defense Doctrine. 212 1. Imminence. 213 2. Reasonableness. 215 3. Proportionality. 218 4. Implicit Biases in Self-Defense. 219 B. Battered Woman Syndrome Testimony. 221 1. Contours and Relevance in the Legal Context. 221... |
2023 |
Yes |
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| Paul Butler |
SISTERS GONNA WORK IT OUT: BLACK WOMEN AS REFORMERS AND RADICALS IN THE CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM |
121 Michigan Law Review 1071 (April, 2023) |
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom. By Derecka Purnell. New York: Astra House. 2021. Pp. 288. Cloth, $28. Paper, $18. Progressive Prosecution: Race and Reform in Criminal Justice. Edited by Kim Taylor-Thompson and Anthony C. Thompson. New York: New York University Press. 2022. Pp. 312. $45. Black women are guiding... |
2023 |
Yes |
African/Black American |
| Yvette N.A. Pappoe |
THE SCARLET LETTER "E": HOW TENANCY SCREENING POLICIES EXACERBATE HOUSING INEQUITY FOR EVICTED BLACK WOMEN |
103 Boston University Law Review 269 (February, 2023) |
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an unprecedented health and economic crisis in the United States. In addition to more than nine hundred thousand deaths in the United States and counting, another kind of crisis emerged from the pandemic: an eviction crisis. In August 2020, an estimated thirty to forty million people in America were at risk of... |
2023 |
Yes |
African/Black American |
| Lisa Avalos |
THE UNDER-POLICING OF CRIMES AGAINST BLACK WOMEN |
73 Case Western Reserve Law Review 795 (Spring, 2023) |
It is well known that over-policing has a severe adverse impact on communities of color. What is less well known is that over-policing is accompanied by a corollary--a pervasive and systemic under-policing of violence against women of color. The refusal to see women of color as victims of crime who are worthy recipients of justice, and the tendency... |
2023 |
Yes |
African/Black American |
| Laquala C. Dixon, Ph.D. |
UNDERSTANDING THE INTERLOCKING OPPRESSIVE SYSTEMS WITHIN HIGHER EDUCATION RESTRICTING THE PROFESSIONAL PROGRESSION OF BLACK WOMEN |
20 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 135 (Spring, 2023) |
Ransford and Miller suggested that feelings towards women continue to be greatly impacted by racial oppression both past and current. In a study by Parker and Ogilvy, women of color reported that the greatest barrier to their opportunities within dominant cultural organizations was racism rather than sexism. As workplaces uphold white male... |
2023 |
Yes |
African/Black American |
| Laquala C. Dixon, Ph.D. |
UNDERSTANDING THE INTERLOCKING OPPRESSIVE SYSTEMS WITHIN HIGHER EDUCATION RESTRICTING THE PROFESSIONAL PROGRESSION OF BLACK WOMEN |
34 Hastings Journal on Gender and the Law 135 (Spring, 2023) |
Ransford and Miller suggested that feelings towards women continue to be greatly impacted by racial oppression both past and current. In a study by Parker and Ogilvy, women of color reported that the greatest barrier to their opportunities within dominant cultural organizations was racism rather than sexism. As workplaces uphold white male... |
2023 |
Yes |
African/Black American |
| Heather Tanana |
VOICES OF THE RIVER: THE RISE OF INDIGENOUS WOMEN LEADERS IN THE COLORADO RIVER BASIN |
34 Colorado Environmental Law Journal 265 (Spring, 2023) |
Climate change is one of the leading challenges facing tribes today. Traditionally, Indigenous women played significant roles in tribal decisionmaking and governance. However, European contact and colonization shifted gender dynamics, imposing male-dominated leadership. Recently, Native American women are reclaiming leadership positions--formally... |
2023 |
Yes |
American Indian/Alaskan Native |
| Logan K. Jackson |
WILLFUL DISREGARD: HOW IGNORING STRUCTURAL RACISM IN MATERNAL MORTALITY HAS LED BLACK WOMEN TO BECOME INVISIBLE IN THEIR OWN CRISIS |
38 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 131 (2023) |
Indeed, in important respects, if the general discourse that surrounds racial disparities in maternal mortality is impoverished, then we should expect that the solutions that observers propose to this problem will be impoverished as well. Introduction. 132 I. The Historical Legacy of Slavery on Black Women's Reproductive Health and Autonomy. 134 A.... |
2023 |
Yes |
African/Black American |
| Mary Saade |
WOMEN & WHISTLEBLOWING |
34 Hastings Journal on Gender and the Law 43 (Winter, 2023) |
As more women in the United States take on leadership positions in the public and private sector, we have seen an influx of women whistleblowers. This Note examines whistleblower laws through a gender lens and offers insight to reveal why women blow the whistle, how women approach whistleblowing situations, and the effect current whistleblower laws... |
2023 |
Yes |
African/Black American |
| Torrell E. Mills |
"HIT THE ROAD, BLUE SLIPS": ELIMINATING SENATE OBSTRUCTIONISM OF FEDERAL JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS |
111 Georgetown Law Journal Online 171 (2023) |
Simply put, there shouldn't be one set of rules for . Republican nominees under a Republican president and a different set for nominees under a Democratic president. --Dick Durbin, U.S. Senator, Majority Whip and Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, 2021 In America, the law is used to protect our society's general safety and to ensure our... |
2023 |
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| Andrew J. Lanham |
"PROTECTION FOR EVERY CLASS OF CITIZENS": THE NEW YORK CITY DRAFT RIOTS OF 1863, THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE, AND THE GOVERNMENT'S DUTY TO PROTECT CIVIL RIGHTS |
13 UC Irvine Law Review 1067 (November, 2023) |
This Article examines an important but little-noticed moment in the intellectual history of the Equal Protection Clause: the New York City draft riots of 1863. In mid-July of that year, New York was engulfed by a weeklong riot against the Union military draft, as mobs of predominantly working-class white men beat and murdered Black New Yorkers,... |
2023 |
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African/Black American |
| E.L. Tremblay |
"UNDER CONDITIONS OF HARDSHIP": THE PEACE CORPS' CATCH-22 FOR SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL- AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE |
111 Georgetown Law Journal 1533 (June, 2023) |
The Peace Corps' treatment of Volunteers and trainees, particularly with regard to the policies and permissiveness surrounding sexual- and gender-based violence, reflects and perpetuates workplace sex discrimination. Because the agency fails to collect adequate data, it is impossible to determine the precise nature and degree of the problem, but it... |
2023 |
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| Kathryn Schumaker , Department of History, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA, Email: schumaker@ou.edu |
"UNLAWFUL INTIMACY": MIXED-RACE FAMILIES, MISCEGENATION LAW, AND THE LEGAL CULTURE OF PROGRESSIVE ERA MISSISSIPPI |
41 Law and History Review 773 (November, 2023) |
This article examines the enforcement of anti-miscegenation law in Progressive Era Mississippi by focusing on a series of unlawful cohabitation prosecutions of interracial couples in Natchez. It situates efforts to police and punish mixed-race families within the broader legal culture of Jim Crow, as politicians, judges, and district attorneys... |
2023 |
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| Elizabeth Butterworth |
"WHAT IF YOU'RE DISABLED AND UNDOCUMENTED?": REFLECTIONS ON INTERSECTIONALITY, DISABILITY JUSTICE, AND REPRESENTING UNDOCUMENTED AND DISABLED LATINX CLIENTS |
26 CUNY Law Review 139 (Summer, 2023) |
I. Introduction. 140 II. From Disability Rights to Disability Justice. 145 III. An Ableist and Disabling Immigration System. 149 A. Exclusionary Immigration Laws and the Public Charge Rule. 150 B. The Disabling Impact of Migrating to and Living Undocumented in the United States. 155 IV. The Need for Services and Barriers to Access. 157 V. From... |
2023 |
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Hispanic/Latinx American |
| Taylor Nicolas |
"WHO WAS YOUR GRANDFATHER ON YOUR MOTHER'S SIDE?" SEDUCTION, RACE, AND GENDER IN 1932 VIRGINIA |
34 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 364 (2023) |
Was Dorothy Short Black? And, more importantly, did she know it? These questions, odd-sounding and perhaps unsettling to the contemporary reader, were the ones raised by Leonard Harry Wood in the hopes of avoiding incarceration for the crime of seduction. This Article looks closely at the story of Dorothy Short and Leonard Wood, their relationship,... |
2023 |
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| Jenny-Brooke Condon |
#METOO IN PRISON |
98 Washington Law Review 363 (June, 2023) |
Abstract: For American women and nonbinary people held in women's prisons, sexual violence by state actors is, and has always been, part of imprisonment. For centuries within American women's prisons, state actors have assaulted, traumatized, and subordinated the vulnerable people held there. Twenty years after passage of the Prison Rape... |
2023 |
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| Michael Z. Green |
(A)WOKE WORKPLACES |
2023 Wisconsin Law Review 811 (2023) |
With heightened expectations for a reckoning in response to the broad support for the Black Lives Matter movement after the senseless murder of George Floyd in 2020, employers explored many options to improve racial understanding through discussions with workers. In rejecting any notions of the existence of structural or systemic discrimination,... |
2023 |
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African/Black American |
| Monika Batra Kashyap |
A CRITICAL RACE FEMINISM CRITIQUE OF IMMIGRATION LAWS THAT EXCLUDE SEX WORKERS: MOVING FROM THEORY TO PRAXIS |
38 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 52 (2023) |
This Article is the first to apply a critical race feminism (CRF) critique to the current immigration law in the United States, Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) § 212(a)(2)(D)(i), which excludes immigrants for engaging in sex work. This Article will use critical historical methodology to center the role of women of color as the primary targets... |
2023 |
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| Shiwali Patel, Elizabeth X. Tang, Hunter F. Iannucci |
A SWEEP AS BROAD AS ITS PROMISE: 50 YEARS LATER, WE MUST AMEND TITLE IX TO END SEX-BASED HARASSMENT IN SCHOOLS |
83 Louisiana Law Review 939 (Spring, 2023) |
C1-3Table of Contents Introduction. 940 I. Sex-Based Harassment Harms Students, and Schools Must Do Better.. 944 A. What Is Sex-Based Harassment?. 944 B. Sex-Based Harassment Is Widely Prevalent Among Students. 953 C. Most Students Do Not Report Sex-Based Harassment to Their Schools.. 955 D. Students Who Report Sex-Based Harassment Are Often... |
2023 |
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| Aya Gruber |
A TALE OF TWO ME TOOS |
2023 University of Illinois Law Review 1675 (2023) |
What is #MeToo's legacy? The conventional account currently being indelibly forged into our collective memory is that #MeToo was an unconditional progressive victory. It was a reckoning of the disempowered against the powerful that profoundly challenged sexist culture. This Article complicates and even counters that narrative by shining a light on... |
2023 |
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| Uzoamaka Emeka Nzelibe |
A TRIBUTE TO JOYCE A. HUGHES |
118 Northwestern University Law Review 571 (2023) |
It is an honor to pay tribute to Professor Joyce A. Hughes. Professor Hughes has been described as a pioneer and trailblazer. Her fifty-plus-year career is notable for its many firsts: the first Black woman to receive a law degree from the University of Minnesota, the first woman and the first Black lawyer to clerk for a federal judge in Minnesota,... |
2023 |
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African/Black American |
| Patrisse Cullors , Alexandre Ali Reza Dorriz |
ABOLITIONIST AESTHETICS AND THE ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT: LOS ANGELES GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS AND THE AESTHETIC FOUNDATIONS OF REAL-TIME ABOLITION |
69 UCLA Law Review 1488 (September, 2023) |
This Article profiles and interviews seven artists and organizers who are leaders throughout five distinct Los Angeles grassroots, abolitionist organizations at the forefront of dismantling and abolishing the largest penal system in the world, which is comprised of lethal policing and carceral institutions operated by the County and City of Los... |
2023 |
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| Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler |
ABORTION RIGHTS AND THE CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM: HOW DOBBS EXACERBATES EXISTING RACIAL INEQUITIES AND FURTHER TRAUMATIZES BLACK FAMILIES |
51 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 575 (Fall, 2023) |
Keywords: Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, Abortion Bans, Child Welfare System, Racial Inequities Abstract: This article explores how abortion bans in states with large Black populations will exacerbate existing racial inequities in those states' child welfare systems. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the Supreme Court returned to... |
2023 |
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African/Black American |
| Kira Eidson |
ADDRESSING THE BLACK MORTALITY CRISIS IN THE WAKE OF DOBBS: A REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE POLICY FRAMEWORK |
24 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 929 (Spring, 2023) |
Black people who can become pregnant and give birth were dying from pregnancy-related causes at rates more than double the national average before the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, and the Dobbs decision is expected to make America's maternal mortality crisis worse. This Note discusses the expected effects of abortion... |
2023 |
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African/Black American |
| Gerard Robinson |
ADDRESSING THE SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE THROUGH THREE NONTRADITIONAL PATHWAYS |
109 Virginia Law Review Online 49 (April, 2023) |
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. --Victor Hugo Analogous to Nathaniel Hawthorne's critique of his leaders' decision to use punishment as a sign of public accountability, and his adoption of the phrase the black flower of civilized society to describe the prison, our leaders in the White House, Congress, and the Supreme Court made... |
2023 |
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African/Black American |
| A. U'ilani Tanigawa Lum |
AIA I WAI'OLI KE ALOHA 'INA: RE-CENTERING 'INA AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE FOR RESTORATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE |
41 UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 301 (2023) |
This Article explores Knaka Maoli's (Native Hawaiians') work to re-center principles of Indigenous biocultural resource management in decisionmaking to more fully realize restorative environmental justice. To do so, it contextualizes 'ina (land and natural resources) as Knaka Maoli's natural counterpart. Deploying a contextual inquiry framework... |
2023 |
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Multiple Groups |
| DeShayla M. Strachan |
AMONG US: IMPOSTOR SYNDROME AND BARRIERS TO BLACK SUCCESS |
29 Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice 319 (Winter, 2023) |
Black women are going places--but they're not going into the practice of law. While law schools are becoming more diverse, the legal profession is not. The lack of diversity in the legal profession, coupled with existing implicit bias, causes heightened Impostor Syndrome in women, especially Black women, as well as women from other underrepresented... |
2023 |
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African/Black American |
| Adam Crepelle |
AN INTERTRIBAL BUSINESS COURT |
60 American Business Law Journal 61 (Spring, 2023) |
Few Indian reservations have any semblance of a private sector. Consequently, poverty and unemployment are major problems in much of Indian country. While there are many reasons why private enterprise is scarce in Indian country, one of the foremost reasons is businesses do not trust tribal courts. Businesses' distrust of tribal courts is not... |
2023 |
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American Indian/Alaskan Native |
| Chi Adanna Mgbako, Nate Johnson, Vivienne Bang Brown, Megan Cheah, Kimya Zahedi |
ANTI-CARCERAL HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY |
26 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change 173 (2023) |
Abstract. The theory of carceral abolition entered the mainstream during the 2020 global protests for Black lives. Abolition calls for divestment from carceral institutions like police and prisons in favor of the expansion of social and economic programs that ensure public safety and nurture community well-being. Although there is little... |
2023 |
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African/Black American |
| Heather R. Abraham |
APPRAISAL DISCRIMINATION: FIVE LESSONS FOR LITIGATORS |
76 SMU Law Review 205 (Spring, 2023) |
Appraisal discrimination not only persists, but its influence has actually increased in some housing markets. New studies document how contemporary appraisal methods operate as systemic racism, such as how appraisers select from a narrower set of comparable properties when appraising homes in predominantly Black neighborhoods. Recent events have... |
2023 |
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African/Black American |