| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Alex B. Long |
OF PROSECUTORS AND PREJUDICE (OR "DO PROSECUTORS HAVE AN ETHICAL OBLIGATION NOT TO SAY RACIST STUFF ON SOCIAL MEDIA?") |
55 U.C. Davis Law Review 1717 (February, 2022) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 1719 I. The Special Role of Prosecutors and Public Perception of the Criminal Justice System. 1725 II. The Rules of Professional Conduct and Extra-prosecutorial Speech Manifesting Bias. 1729 A. Rule 3.8: Special Responsibilities of a Prosecutor. 1729 B. Rule 8.4(g): Discrimination. 1730 C. Rule 8.4(d): Conduct... |
2022 |
| Brandon Hasbrouck |
ON LENITY: WHAT JUSTICE GORSUCH DIDN'T SAY |
108 Virginia Law Review 1289 (September, 2022) |
Facially neutral doctrines create racially disparate outcomes. Increasingly, legal academia and mainstream commentators recognize that this is by design. The rise of this colorblind racism in Supreme Court jurisprudence parallels the rise of the War on Drugs as a political response to the Civil Rights Movement. But, to date, no member of the... |
2022 |
| Brandon Hasbrouck |
ON LENITY: WHAT JUSTICE GORSUCH DIDN'T SAY |
108 Virginia Law Review Online 239 (August, 2022) |
Facially neutral doctrines create racially disparate outcomes. Increasingly, legal academia and mainstream commentators recognize that this is by design. The rise of this colorblind racism in Supreme Court jurisprudence parallels the rise of the War on Drugs as a political response to the Civil Rights Movement. But, to date, no member of the... |
2022 |
| Khaled A. Beydoun |
ON TERRORISTS AND FREEDOM FIGHTERS |
136 Harvard Law Review Forum 1 (20-Oct-22) |
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in late March of 2022 ushered in a new chapter of war on the European continent. For a Russian regime intent on actualizing its imperial vison and an accosted Ukranian community fighting in the name of self-determination, this war is far more than a theater of war. Ukraine evolved into real-time drama for racial... |
2022 |
| Jacob Bronsther , Guha Krishnamurthi |
OPTIONAL LEGISLATION |
107 Minnesota Law Review 297 (November, 2022) |
Not since the nineteenth century has partisanship been this intense. The only thing that Democrats and Republicans can agree upon, it seems, is that Washington is broken. Indeed, for years now, Congress has been unable to pass legislation on issues that pose serious risk to the nation and on which there is broad consensus for a federal solution... |
2022 |
| Eisha Jain |
POLICING THE POLITY |
131 Yale Law Journal 1794 (April, 2022) |
The era of Chinese Exclusion left a legacy of race-based deportation. Yet it also had an impact that reached well beyond removal. In a seminal decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a law that required people of Chinese descent living in the United States to display a certificate of residence on demand or risk arrest, detention, and possible... |
2022 |
| Marissa Jackson Sow |
PROTECT AND SERVE |
110 California Law Review 743 (June, 2022) |
There exists a substantial body of literature on racism and brutality in policing, police reform and abolition, the militarization of the police, and the relationship of the police to the State and its citizenry. Many theories abound with respect to the relationship between the police and Black people in the United States, and most of these... |
2022 |
| Donald T. Hornstein |
PUBLIC INVESTMENT IN CLIMATE RESILIENCY: LESSONS FROM THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF NATURAL DISASTERS |
49 Ecology Law Quarterly 137 (2022) |
This Article takes issue with an important claim in the public choice and climate disaster literature: that American political markets will not allow appropriate investments in disaster preparedness and prevention, even when those investments are cost-benefit bargains. The claim is significant because the costs of climate disasters in the... |
2022 |
| Ming Hsu Chen |
PURSUING CITIZENSHIP DURING COVID-19 |
93 University of Colorado Law Review 489 (Winter, 2022) |
Introduction. 490 I. Building Pathways to Citizenship. 491 A. Meaning of Citizenship. 492 B. Integration. 494 C. Enforcement. 496 II. Shifting Political Conditions and Implications for the Paths Not Taken. 500 A. Formal Paths to Citizenship. 503 B. Substantive Paths to Citizenship. 504 1. Social: From Alien to Noncitizen to Citizen. 504 2.... |
2022 |
| Edward A. Purcell, Jr. |
RACE ACROSS THE CURRICULUM: A TEAM-TAUGHT COURSE ON LAW AND RACE IN AMERICA |
66 New York Law School Law Review 125 (2021/2022) |
Faculty members at New York Law School have long been moved by the continuing problems of race relations in America and by questions of how law and legal education might be able to contribute to their amelioration. During the 2015-2016 academic year, a group of more than twenty members of the NYLS faculty began a cooperative project to develop a... |
2022 |
| Bethany R. Berger |
RACE TO PROPERTY: RACIAL DISTORTIONS OF PROPERTY LAW, 1634 TO TODAY |
64 Arizona Law Review 619 (Fall, 2022) |
Race shaped property law for everyone in the United States, and we are all the poorer for it. This transformation began in the colonial era, when demands for Indian land annexation and a slave-based economy created new legal innovations in recording, foreclosure, and commodification of property. It continued in the antebellum era, when these same... |
2022 |
| Eric S. Fish |
RACE, HISTORY, AND IMMIGRATION CRIMES |
107 Iowa Law Review 1051 (March, 2022) |
ABSTRACT: The two most frequently charged federal crimes are immigration crimes: the misdemeanor of entering the United States without inspection, and the felony of reentering the United States after deportation. Federal prosecutors charge tens of thousands of people with these two crimes each year. In 2019, these two crimes comprised a majority of... |
2022 |
| Cyra Akila Choudhury |
RACECRAFT AND IDENTITY IN THE EMERGENCE OF ISLAM AS A RACE |
91 University of Cincinnati Law Review 1 (2022) |
Introduction. 3 I: The Myth of Race and Reality of Fluid Racial Identities. 6 The Myth of Race. 6 Fluid Identities and Multiple Subordinations. 10 Muslim/Islamicized Identities as Cosynthetic Identities. 15 II. A Genealogy of Islam-as-Race. 18 Thread 1: Connecting Black Islam from Slavery to Anti-Islam Immigration Laws and the Civil Rights... |
2022 |
| Atinuke O. Adediran |
RACIAL ALLIES |
90 Fordham Law Review 2151 (April, 2022) |
Racial allies are white individuals and institutions that actively work to dismantle systems of racial inequality and the consequences of poverty that disproportionately impact communities of color and that are willing to both confer and share power with members of subjugated groups. There is no other sector of the legal profession that professes... |
2022 |
| Kevin D. Brown , Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt |
RACIAL AND ETHNIC ANCESTRY OF THE NATION'S BLACK LAW STUDENTS: AN ANALYSIS OF DATA FROM THE LSSSE SURVEY |
22 Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy 1 (2022) |
Introduction. 2 I. Changing Racial and Ethnic Ancestries of Black People in the United States Since Affirmative Action Began. 6 A. Historical Race and Ethnicity of Black People at the Commencement of Affirmative Action. 6 B. Current Racial and Ethnic Ancestry of Black People. 8 C. Impact of Change in Census Definitions on the Ability to Collect... |
2022 |
| E. Tendayi Achiume |
RACIAL BORDERS |
110 Georgetown Law Journal 445 (March, 2022) |
This Article explores the treatment of race and racial justice in dominant liberal democratic legal discourse and theory concerned with international borders. It advances two analytical claims. The first is that contemporary national borders of the international order--an order that remains structured by imperial inequity--are inherently racial.... |
2022 |
| Stewart Chang |
RACIAL CONTAGION: ANTI-ASIAN NATIONALISM, THE STATE OF EMERGENCY, AND EXCLUSION |
9 Belmont Law Review 486 (Spring, 2022) |
Introduction. 486 I. Contagion, Yellow Peril, and Exclusion. 491 II. Korematsu, Internment, and the Enemy Within. 501 III. The Chinese Virus and the COVID-19 Travel Bans. 506 Conclusion. 510 |
2022 |
| Jennifer M. Chacón |
RECOUNTING: AN OPTIMISTIC ACCOUNT OF MIGRATION |
110 California Law Review 1041 (June, 2022) |
Introduction. 1041 I. Some Definitions. 1046 II. Existing Frames: Refugees and Beyond. 1050 III. The Costs of Current Choices. 1055 IV. Toward Optimism. 1059 Conclusion. 1063 Postscript. 1064 |
2022 |
| Harvey Gee |
REDUCING GUN VIOLENCE WITH SHOTSPOTTER GUNSHOT DETECTION TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNITY-BASED PLANS: WHAT WORKS? |
100 Oregon Law Review 461 (2022) |
Urban violence is better understood as a grievous injury, a gushing wound that demands immediate attention in order to preserve life and limb. [T]he panoptic powers of modern surveillance . imperil our democracy in a way that we've never before seen . It is our responsibility to speak up for ourselves, our civil liberties, and the sort of world... |
2022 |
| M. Akram Faizer |
REFORMING STATE ELECTORAL COLLEGE LAWS TO DEPOLARIZE AMERICAN POLITICS |
70 Cleveland State Law Review 145 (2022) |
Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee involved the Supreme Court gutting the remaining vestiges of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), such that jurisdictions will have free rein to impose partisan burdens on franchise rights that have a disproportionate negative effect on racial minority voters who, based on racial political polarization, prefer... |
2022 |
| Rose Cuison-Villazor |
REJECTING CITIZENSHIP |
120 Michigan Law Review 1033 (April, 2022) |
Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era. By Ming Hsu Chen. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2020. Pp. xi, 215. $28. Citizenship for undocumented immigrants is once again on the horizon. Just a few weeks after President Donald Trump left the White House, and several years since the last time Congress failed to pass comprehensive immigration... |
2022 |
| Dylan Farrell-Bryan , Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
RELIEF OR REMOVAL: STATE LOGICS OF DESERVINGNESS AND MASCULINITY FOR IMMIGRANT MEN IN REMOVAL PROCEEDINGS |
56 Law and Society Review 167 (June, 2022) |
In recent years, there has been an unprecedented rise in the number of immigrants facing removal from the United States, many of whom make a case for their right to be granted relief from removal and stay in the country. While immigrant men of color are disproportionately represented in both removal proceedings and contemporary sociopolitical... |
2022 |
| Ingrid Eagly, Tali Gires, Rebecca Kutlow, Eliana Navarro Gracian |
RESTRUCTURING PUBLIC DEFENSE AFTER PADILLA |
74 Stanford Law Review 1 (January, 2022) |
Abstract. In the 2010 landmark decision Padilla v. Kentucky, the Supreme Court held that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel demands that criminal defense attorneys inform their clients of adverse immigration consequences that may flow from a guilty plea. Although over a decade has passed since Padilla, astonishingly little is known about how... |
2022 |
| Ediberto Román , Ernesto Sagás |
RHETORIC AND THE CREATION OF HYSTERIA |
107 Cornell Law Review Online 188 (December, 2022) |
When you have fifteen thousand people marching up . how do you stop these people? You shoot them [crowd member shouts] [chuckling, Trump responds:] [O]nly in the panhandle can you get away with that thing. U.S. President Donald Trump When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending... |
2022 |
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RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL |
51 Georgetown Law Journal Annual Review of Criminal Procedure 656 (2022) |
Under the Sixth Amendment, criminal defendants have a right to trial by an impartial jury drawn from the state and district where the crime allegedly occurred. The right to a jury trial exists only in prosecutions for serious crimes, as distinguished from petty offenses. In determining whether a crime is serious under the Sixth Amendment, courts... |
2022 |
| Catherine Y. Kim |
RIGHTS RETRENCHMENT IN IMMIGRATION LAW |
55 U.C. Davis Law Review 1283 (February, 2022) |
This Article analyzes changes in the constitutional status of noncitizens in immigration law over the past generation. It shows that notwithstanding the optimistic predictions of scholars, over the last quarter century, with few exceptions, the Supreme Court has been unwilling to impose a constitutional check on the political branches' immigration... |
2022 |
| Michael Haggerty , Gregory P. Downs |
ROGER TANEY: INTERSECTIONAL RACIST IN AN AGE OF RACIST DIFFERENTIATION |
24 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 729 (June, 2022) |
In his article Dred Scott and Asian Americans, Gabriel J. Chin creatively and persuasively reads the well-known, much-reviled opinion by Chief Justice Roger Taney in Dred Scott v. Sandford through Taney's little-known opinion in United States v. Dow to argue that Dred Scott should be regarded as pertinent to all people of color, not only African... |
2022 |
| Lenni B. Benson |
SEEING IMMIGRATION AND STRUCTURAL RACISM: IT'S WHERE YOU PUT YOUR EYES |
66 New York Law School Law Review 277 (2021/2022) |
Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality. --James Baldwin Immigration law is frequently a proxy for racial and ethnic discrimination. The legal fictions and rules that generate our immigration laws would be unconstitutional in any other context. This essay asks you to interrogate your assumptions and to explore the... |
2022 |
| Christopher A. Galeano |
SENATE BILL 54 (2017): CALIFORNIA versus THE LAW ENFORCEMENT LOBBY |
68 UCLA Law Review 1446 (January, 2022) |
Before calls to abolish Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) became a progressive rallying cry throughout the United States, the California Values Act of 2017 (SB 54) promised to freeze ICE out of California. The goal behind SB 54 was to restrict state and local law enforcement entanglement with ICE in the state with the most immigrants in the... |
2022 |
| Huyen Pham, Pham Hoang Van |
SHERIFFS, STATE TROOPERS, AND THE SPILLOVER EFFECTS OF IMMIGRATION POLICING |
64 Arizona Law Review 463 (Summer, 2022) |
As the Biden Administration decides whether to continue the 287(g) program (the controversial program deputizing local law enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration laws), our research shows that the program has broader negative effects on policing behavior than previously identified. To date, debate about the 287(g) program has focused... |
2022 |
| Bruce A. Green , Brandon P. Ruben |
SHOULD VICTIMS' VIEWS INFLUENCE PROSECUTORS' DECISIONS? |
87 Brooklyn Law Review 1127 (Summer, 2022) |
When prosecutors make discretionary decisions in criminal cases, how should they take account of individual victims' views of the fair and just outcome? No doubt, many crime victims have views, including about whether the person who harmed them should be prosecuted, diverted from the criminal process, or entirely left alone. But little is written... |
2022 |
| Brian Owsley |
SUPPLY AND DEMAND IN THE ILLEGAL EMPLOYMENT OF UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS |
71 Catholic University Law Review 227 (Spring, 2022) |
The United States is in a quandary regarding immigration. There are over eleven million undocumented aliens residing in the country with about eight million of them working in the American economy. The federal government has criminalized the illegal entry and the illegal reentry into the United States. Moreover, it has enacted a statute making it... |
2022 |
| Rashida Richardson, Amba Kak |
SUSPECT DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS: DATABASING MARGINALITY AND ENFORCING DISCIPLINE |
55 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 813 (Summer, 2022) |
Algorithmic accountability law--focused on the regulation of data-driven systems like artificial intelligence (AI) or automated decision-making (ADM) tools--is the subject of lively policy debates, heated advocacy, and mainstream media attention. Concerns have moved beyond data protection and individual due process to encompass a broader range of... |
2022 |
| Kevin R. Johnson |
SYSTEMIC RACISM IN THE U.S. IMMIGRATION LAWS |
97 Indiana Law Journal 1455 (Spring, 2022) |
This Essay analyzes how aggressive activism in a California mountain town at the tail end of the nineteenth century commenced a chain reaction resulting in state and ultimately national anti-Chinese immigration laws. The constitutional immunity through which the Supreme Court upheld those laws deeply affected the future trajectory of U.S.... |
2022 |
| Sarah Brady Siff |
TARGETED MARIJUANA LAW ENFORCEMENT IN LOS ANGELES, 1914-1959 |
49 Fordham Urban Law Journal 643 (March, 2022) |
Introduction. 643 I. Anti-Mexican Aims of the First Marijuana Ban. 644 II. Marijuana Was a Whole Different Thing Back Then. 648 III. From Bad to Worse: Racialized Enforcement and New Policing Strategies. 654 IV. Cultural Conquest: Targeting the Hip and Famous. 658 V. Escalation of Unconstitutional Enforcement. 667 Conclusion: Confronting the Legacy... |
2022 |
| Barbara Fedders |
THE ANTI-PARENT JUVENILE COURT |
69 UCLA Law Review 746 (May, 2022) |
This Article identifies and analyzes features of the juvenile delinquency court that harm the people on whom children most heavily depend: their parents. By negatively affecting a child's family--creating financial stress, undermining a parent's central role in rearing her child, and damaging the parent-child bond--these parent-harming features... |
2022 |
| Alexis Hoag |
THE COLOR OF JUSTICE |
120 Michigan Law Review 977 (April, 2022) |
Free Justice: a History of the Public Defender in Twentieth Century America. By Sara Mayeux. University of North Carolina Press. 2020. Pp. xi, 271. $26.95. Writing about history requires making certain decisions: when to start the account, what to include and exclude, which documents and artifacts to rely upon, and what questions to address. One... |
2022 |
| Tom I. Romero, II |
THE COLOR OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT: OBSERVATIONS OF A BROWN BUFFALO ON RACIAL IMPACT STATEMENTS IN THE MOVEMENT FOR WATER JUSTICE |
25 CUNY Law Review 241 (Summer, 2022) |
This Article advocates for the adoption of racial impact statements (RIS) in local government decision making, particularly among water utilities. Situated in the larger history of water and climate injustice in Colorado and the arid American West, this Article examines ways that racially minoritized communities engage and contest legal and... |
2022 |
| Thomas Ward Frampton |
THE DANGEROUS FEW: TAKING SERIOUSLY PRISON ABOLITION AND ITS SKEPTICS |
135 Harvard Law Review 2013 (June, 2022) |
Prison abolition, in the span of just a few short years, has established a foothold in elite criminal legal discourse. But the basic question of how abolitionists would address the dangerous few often receives superficial treatment; the problem constitutes a spectral force haunting abolitionist thought . as soon as abolitionist discourses... |
2022 |
| Khiara M. Bridges |
THE DYSGENIC STATE: ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE AND DISABILITY-SELECTIVE ABORTION BANS |
110 California Law Review 297 (April, 2022) |
Disability-selective abortion bans are laws that prohibit individuals from terminating a pregnancy because the fetus has been diagnosed with a health impairment. Many environmental toxins--to which low-income people and people of color disproportionately are exposed--are known to cause impairments in fetuses. When the fact of environmental... |
2022 |
| Gabriel J. Chin *, Anna Ratner ** |
THE END OF CALIFORNIA'S ANTI-ASIAN ALIEN LAND LAW: A CASE STUDY IN REPARATIONS AND TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE |
29 Asian American Law Journal 17 (2022) |
For nearly a century, California law embodied a rabid anti-Asian policy, which included school segregation, discriminatory law enforcement, a prohibition on marriage with Whites, denial of voting rights, and imposition of many other hardships. The Alien Land Law was a California innovation, copied in over a dozen other states. The Alien Land Law,... |
2022 |
| Brendan Williams |
THE EXPENDABLES: HISPANIC WORKERS IN THE U.S. DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC |
13 Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review 119 (2021-2022) |
I. Essential Work. 121 II. Health Care Inequities. 127 III. White Privilege and Opposition to COVID-19 Safeguards. 136 IV. Conclusion. 141 |
2022 |
| Mary D. Fan |
THE HIDDEN HARMS OF PRIVACY PENALTIES |
56 U.C. Davis Law Review 71 (November, 2022) |
How to frame privacy penalties to protect our personal information is an important question as demands for legislation and proposals proliferate. The predominant assumption in calls for a comprehensive consumer privacy regime is that regulation and penalties arm the consumer David against Goliath businesses. Missing in the focus on powerful... |
2022 |
| Tina S. Ching |
THE HISTORY OF OREGON'S SO-CALLED "SANCTUARY" LAW |
114 Law Library Journal 233 (2022) |
Sanctuary laws are known as intensely partisan policy responding to immigration decisions made during the Trump administration. However, Oregon's law has been in place since 1987 and continues to evolve. This article documents the history of this pioneering state law through the passage of the 2021 Sanctuary Promise Act. Introduction. 233... |
2022 |
| Nikolas Bowie , Norah Rast |
THE IMAGINARY IMMIGRATION CLAUSE |
120 Michigan Law Review 1419 (May, 2022) |
For the past century, the Supreme Court has skeptically scrutinized Congress's power to enact healthcare laws and other domestic legislation, insisting that nothing in the Constitution gives Congress a general power to regulate an individual from cradle to grave. Yet when Congress regulates immigrants, the Court has contradictorily assumed that... |
2022 |
| Aysha A. Chowdhry |
THE IMMIGRATION & NATIONAL SECURITY NEXUS: BALANCING SECURITY, OPENNESS, AND HUMANITY |
36 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 1041 (Spring, 2022) |
Immigration to the United States stretches back hundreds of years, and a review of its arc shows that at different points in history, the flow of people to its shores has been managed--and manipulated--in different ways. Analyzing the National Security Strategies (NSS) of three successive modern administrations will show that contemporary American... |
2022 |
| Taleed El-Sabawi, Jennifer Oliva |
THE INFLUENCE OF WHITE EXCEPTIONALISM ON DRUG WAR DISCOURSE |
94 Temple Law Review 649 (Summer, 2022) |
For much of its history, the United States has adopted a punitive approach to escalating overdose rates and addiction through the prohibition or stringent regulation of drugs deemed dangerous or habit forming. The policy tools used to support this approach rely on criminal punishment for the possession and sale of such substances and are based on... |
2022 |
| Asli Ü. Bâli |
THE LIMITS OF PRODEMOCRATIC INTERNATIONAL LAW IN EUROPE |
23 Chicago Journal of International Law 45 (Summer, 2022) |
Tom Ginsburg's Democracies and International Law explores the ways in which regional human rights regimes have been designed to promote and protect democracy and the degree of their success in an age of democratic backsliding. In this symposium contribution, I examine the impact of the relationship between the European Union (E.U.) and Turkey on... |
2022 |
| Anneke Dunbar-Gronke |
THE MANDATE FOR CRITICAL RACE THEORY IN THIS TIME |
69 UCLA Law Review Discourse 4 (2022) |
A necessary conclusion from Critical Race Theory (CRT) is that Black people cannot look to the law for justice because racism is baked into the law. As a result, the movement for Black liberation cannot rely on the law for just outcomes. This result does not, however, mean that we have to abandon legal interventions altogether. Instead, for those... |
2022 |
| Rebecca Brown |
THE NEW "SANCTUARY STATE": UNITED STATES v. CALIFORNIA AND LESSONS FOR COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM |
55 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 185 (Winter, 2022) |
The Trump Administration waged war on so-called sanctuary policies. The Administration targeted localities and states that refused to subscribe to the Administration's enforcement goals. The battle was most potent in the fight with California, culminating in the federal case United States v. California over California's recently enacted... |
2022 |