| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms |
| Tiffany Okeani |
SICKENING REPRESENTATION: THE IMPACT AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS OF LITIGATING AGAINST CONTAGION CONTROL |
38 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 857 (Fall, 2025) |
C1-3Table of Contents L1-2Introduction . L3857 I. COVID-19, Pandemic Politics, and Race. 859 a. the virus and government action. 859 b. racism in the wake of contagion. 863 II. Strategic Public Health Litigation. 865 a. standing. 867 III. Ethics of Litigating Against Public Health Measures. 870 a. issues with scope of representation. 870 b. deceit... |
2025 |
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| Jordan Robinson |
SIN, SICKNESS, OR SELF-DEFENSE? HOW MEDICALIZING WOMEN'S ACTS OF SURVIVAL CONFOUNDS JUSTIFICATION AND EXCUSE, AND UNDERMINES JUSTICE |
58 UIC Law Review 699 (Spring, 2025) |
I. Introduction. 699 II. Background. 707 A. The Legal Treatment of Survivor-Defendants. 707 1. Perfect Self-Defense. 710 2. Imperfect Self-Defense. 713 3. The Castle Doctrine and Stand Your Ground. 714 B. The Discredited Theory of Battered Spouse Syndrome. 717 1. Battered Spouse Syndrome Evidence. 718 C. The Historic Toleration of Male Violence.... |
2025 |
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| Sylvia Won |
SOUND JUDGMENT AND THE ECHOES OF ACCENT: ADDRESSING LEGAL BIAS AND DISCRIMINATION |
26 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 114 (2025) |
C1-2TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION. 115 A. The Social Meaning of Accent and Its Role in Discrimination. 117 Accent and First Impressions: How We Hear Difference. 117 Accent, Identity, and Power: How Perception Constructs Social Hierarchies. 118 Linguistic Profiling and the Psychology of Bias. 120 Social Conformity and the Construction of Accent... |
2025 |
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| Francesca Laguardia |
SPARING THE GORY DETAILS: LEGAL AND SOCIAL INERTIA AND THE REFUSAL TO CONFRONT THE BODY IN PREGNANCY |
20 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 83 (Spring, 2025) |
Health, including pain, suffering, blood, and guts, has always played an outsized role in legal and public analysis of abortion. Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the health implications of forced childbirth have returned to the public's attention, as evidenced by prevalent health exceptions to abortion bans, legal actions in regard to those... |
2025 |
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| Farina M. Barth |
STANDARDIZING EXONERATION COMPENSATION STATUTES |
17 Drexel Law Review 343 (2025) |
Wrongful convictions plague the American criminal justice system and leave lasting, unimaginable harm on the innocent. Since 1989 through February 2025, the National Registry of Exonerations reported 3,658 exonerations: a total of 32,750 years behind bars that were lost. An exoneree, once labeled a defendant, becomes a victim. To right this wrong,... |
2025 |
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| Areeb Asif, Lindsey Roloff |
STANDING ON STARE DECISIS AFTER STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS |
120 Northwestern University Law Review 181 (2025) |
Abstract--The Supreme Court recognized nearly half a century ago in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke that the nation's future depends upon leaders trained through wide exposure to the ideas and mores of students as diverse as this Nation of many peoples. Nevertheless, the Court seriously undercut efforts to bring such a future... |
2025 |
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| Maytal Gilboa |
SUBSTITUTE VICTIMS |
66 Boston College Law Review 797 (March, 2025) |
Introduction. 799 I. Delineating the Problem.. 807 A. The Less Costly Victim. 807 B. The Gist of the Problem. 810 II. Substitute Victims and Tort Law: Demonstrating the Problem. 811 A. Negligence. 811 1. Substitute Victims. 812 2. Policy Implications. 814 B. Nuisance. 815 1. Substitute Victims. 816 2. Policy Implications. 819 C. Product Liability... |
2025 |
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| Daiquiri J. Steele |
SURVEILLANCE AS RETALIATION |
59 Georgia Law Review 517 (Winter, 2025) |
Employers have a myriad of technologies at their disposal to help them surveil their employees, and they deploy these technologies for several reasons. Some of these reasons--e.g., monitoring time and attendance, ensuring compliance with occupational safety standards, protecting against certain data disclosure, etc.--are legitimate. Others are not.... |
2025 |
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| Mary D. Fan |
SUSPECTING WITH DATA |
109 Minnesota Law Review 2253 (May, 2025) |
Our pooled consumer big data, such as the pictures we post or the location history and keyword search trails we leave, are generating new ways to solve crimes. Much of the commentary on big data search strategies such as keyword, geofence, and facial recognition searches fixate on Fourth Amendment search and seizure issues rather than evidentiary... |
2025 |
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| Justin Bathon, Regina Pratel Umpstead, CJ Combs IV |
SUSTAINING THE FIGHT FOR EQUITABLE SCHOOLS IN THE SHIFTING STUDENT ASSIGNMENT LEGAL LANDSCAPE |
439 West's Education Law Reporter 727 (4-Dec-25) |
Seventy years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the desegregation legacy of this foundational case is more at risk than ever. Twenty years after the Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle decision, educators continue to struggle to sustain a balanced approach to school integration as lower courts have provided mixed clarity... |
2025 |
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| Baher Azmy |
TAKING BACK THE STREETS: IMPACT LITIGATION AS MOVEMENT LAW |
100 New York University Law Review 277 (May, 2025) |
This Article aims to reimagine impact litigation as movement law. It does so through a case study of Floyd v. City of New York, historic litigation which successfully challenged the New York Police Department's aggressive stop and frisk policies. It documents a seminal period in the history of policing and community resistance by providing the... |
2025 |
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| Henry Rose |
TAX ISSUES |
54 Real Estate Law Journal 286 (Fall, 2025) |
The affordability of housing in the United States is a major problem for both households who own their dwelling units and households who rent them. However, the housing affordability problem is much more severe for renters than owners. Half of all renters pay more than 30 percent of their household income for housing costs while less than a quarter... |
2025 |
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| M. Isabel Medina |
TEACHING CONSTITUTIONAL LAW IN POLARIZED TIMES: RIGHTS AND STRUCTURE |
72 UCLA Law Review Discourse 482 (2025) |
Teaching constitutional law today has been impacted by two trends reflecting a polarized electorate and politics: first, recent restrictions targeting education prohibiting the use of critical race theory, critical legal theory, feminist theories, intersectionality, and other critical legal perspectives in the classroom; and second, recent U.S.... |
2025 |
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| Blanche Bong Cook , Wei Luo |
TEACHING SANDRA BLAND: AN ASSESSMENT IN CRIMINAL PROCEDURE INVESTIGATIONS |
59 UIC Law Review 55 (Fall, 2025) |
The traffic stop of Sandra Bland presents a comprehensive in-class assessment for Criminal Procedure Investigations. A decade ago, Brian Encinia, a Texas Trooper, stopped Bland, a Black woman, for failure to signal. The stop quickly escalated into a seizure, when Bland refused to extinguish her cigarette, while she was in her car. Encinia arrested... |
2025 |
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| Diego H. Alcalá Laboy |
THE "FOUNDER'S GAZE": HOW THE FOURTH AMENDMENT IS A SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY THAT ENABLES AI TO SCALE CONTROL OVER THE SUBALTERN |
30 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 215 (Fall, 2025) |
Much has been written about the rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning applications and how the current Fourth Amendment law has been unable to mitigate the privacy harm that these tools produce. This article explores how the development and usage of AI and machine learning models is dependent on the originalism principles of Fourth... |
2025 |
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| Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander |
THE ANATOMY OF CREATING A NEW LEGAL DISCIPLINE IN WHICH INTERSECTIONALITY IS INTEGRAL: TEACHING EMPLOYERS TO ACCEPT THE IMPORTANCE OF WORKPLACE DISCRIMINATION AND UNDERSTANDING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INTERSECTIONALITY MESSAGES WE RECEIVE AND HOW THEY |
76 Mercer Law Review 647 (April, 2025) |
The Author created the first law course in the country for colleges of business that taught business students how to recognize and work to avoid the genesis of workplace discrimination legal claims that lawyers are then called upon to handle, many of which are firmly rooted in intersectionality. That is, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964... |
2025 |
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| Meredith Sadin, Amy E. Lerman, Ben J. Fils , University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA |
THE CLASSROOM AND THE YARD: THE CONTRASTING CONTEXT OF PRISON HIGHER EDUCATION AND ITS ROLE IN RACIAL BIAS MITIGATION |
50 Law and Social Inquiry 1117 (November, 2025) |
(Received 27 December 2023; revised 05 March 2025; accepted 14 March 2025; first published online 01 July 2025) Prison has long been recognized as a racialized institution in America, where race determines myriad aspects of life--from where individuals sleep to those with whom they live, eat, and socialize during incarceration. However, there is... |
2025 |
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| Neal McCluskey |
THE CONSERVATIVE RESPONSE TO TRANSFORMATIVE DISRUPTION: VOICE OR EXIT 100 YEARS AFTER MEYER AND PIERCE? |
26 Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 359 (2025) |
In 1923 and 1925, respectively, the U.S. Supreme Court rulings in Meyer v. Nebraska and Pierce v. Society of Sisters established limits on the ability of government to constrain what children's education contains and where it occurs. The Court recognized the right of parents to exercise basic control over those things. One hundred years later, we... |
2025 |
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| Reginald Oh |
THE DEFERENTIAL ASIAN AMERICAN: LOW RACIAL STATUS AND THE INVISIBILITY OF ASIAN AMERICANS IN LEADERSHIP AND THE AMERICAN NARRATIVE |
99 Saint John's Law Review 107 (2025) |
The loneliness of Asian Americans is about that desperate need to find oneself within the narrative of a country that would rather write you out of it or forgets that you are even here. This Article addresses two puzzling questions with respect to the Asian American experience. The first is why Asian American personal narratives persistently... |
2025 |
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| Evelyn Marcelina Rangel-Medina |
THE DISPOSABLE "ESSENTIAL" WORKERS OF COVID-19 |
66 Boston College Law Review 69 (January, 2025) |
Introduction. 71 I. Structural Inequalities in Low-Wage Essential Employment. 76 A. Six Structural Factors Underlying Inequality in Employment. 76 B. COVID-19 Exacerbated Structural Inequity for Low-Wage Workers of Color. 82 C. Essential Workers in the Food Chain System During COVID-19. 88 1. Agricultural Essential Workers. 89 2. Meatpacking... |
2025 |
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| Peter D. Linder |
THE EVOLUTION OF THE COURTS' UNDERSTANDING OF THE MINNESOTA EDUCATION CLAUSE |
21 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 359 (Spring, 2025) |
The US Constitution does not expressly guarantee Americans a right to an education. Instead, all fifty US state constitutions have education clauses that guarantee some level of education. Specifically, these clauses give the state legislature a duty to create an education or education system that meets some sort of adequacy requirement. These... |
2025 |
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| Marc Sendra |
THE GRASS IS NOT ALWAYS GREENER: HOW THE LEGALIZATION OF RECREATIONAL CANNABIS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES IS AT ODDS WITH INCARCERATION AND CONTINUED PUNISHMENT |
31 Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice 347 (Winter, 2025) |
Whether you call it Mary Jane, skunky funky, green, ganja, reefer, or just plain-old cannabis, this special green plant doused in purple and orange accents has become a popular topic of discussion within the legal community and American culture. Cannabis has been held in high regard for its scientific advances in the medical industry, alongside... |
2025 |
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| Theresa M. Beiner |
THE IMPACT OF DIVERSITY ON THE BENCH FOR EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION CASES |
59 University of Richmond Law Review 253 (Winter, 2025) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 254 I. Diversity in the Federal Judiciary. 255 A. What Is Meant by Diversity?. 256 B. Why Diversity Matters. 257 C. Diversity on the Federal Bench. 261 II. Decision-Making in Employment Discrimination Cases by Nontraditional Judges. 264 III. Evidence of an Anti-Plaintiff Bias in Employment Discrimination Cases.... |
2025 |
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| Russell K. Robinson |
THE INCOHERENCE OF THE "COLORBLIND CONSTITUTION" |
113 California Law Review 993 (June, 2025) |
The Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College (SFFA) majority opinion has been widely misunderstood as a victory for those who believe in the colorblind Constitution. By juxtaposing the opinion's main rule with the exception for admitting students based on essays that discuss students' lived experiences with... |
2025 |
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| Julia Alicia Mendoza |
THE LANGUAGE OF MASS INCARCERATION AND ORGANIZED ABANDONMENT |
21 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 43 (May, 2025) |
Our capacity to see and understand the extent of carceral violence is thwarted by the language and narratives employed by the judicial system. As evidenced by the Supreme Court's historicization of the factual record in Johnson v. California and other ancillary prison law cases, the judicial system mobilizes a language of mass incarceration: a... |
2025 |
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| Yuvraj Joshi |
THE LAW OF RACIAL RESENTMENT |
72 UCLA Law Review 424 (September, 2025) |
Racial resentment, stemming from perceptions that one racial group has unfairly lost opportunities to another, has profoundly shaped decades of affirmative action law. Affirmative action programs emerged in the 1960s to counteract racial discrimination and expand opportunities for racial minorities. However, some white applicants soon viewed these... |
2025 |
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| James T. Campbell |
THE LAW OF THE TERRITORIES: SHOULD IT EXIST? |
134 Yale Law Journal Forum 448 (2024-2025) |
February 10, 2025 abstract. The Law of the Territories is becoming an increasingly prominent academic heading for legal scholarship concerning the liminal status of U.S. territories. This Essay argues that the incipient momentum of this emerging field presents an obstacle rather than a pathway to meaningful scholarly engagement, sidelining... |
2025 |
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| Elaine M. Chiu |
THE MODEL MINORITY VICTIM |
65 Santa Clara Law Review 451 (2024-2025) |
The rise in xenophobia, hate and violence against AAPI Americans inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic was an opportunity to assess the effectiveness of the criminal legal system as a tool of anti-racism. This Article traces the legal aftermath when Asian New Yorkers reported 276 possible hate crimes to the police in 2021. The analysis takes an... |
2025 |
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| David B. Owens |
THE OBJECTIVE OBSERVER: THE WASHINGTON STATE SUPREME COURT'S REMEDIAL ASPIRATIONS AND EXPERIENCE ON THE GROUND |
100 Washington Law Review 325 (June, 2025) |
Abstract: The Washington State Supreme Court has adopted an objective observer rule for addressing whether race impacted jury selection and extended this rule to evaluating all aspects of Washington courts, including jury trials. The objective observer rule allows courts to evaluate whether decisions in those courtrooms could be viewed as the... |
2025 |
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| Ignacio Cofone , Warut Khern-am-nuai |
THE OVERSTATED COST OF AI FAIRNESS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE |
100 Indiana Law Journal 1431 (Summer, 2025) |
The dominant critique of algorithmic fairness in AI decision-making, particularly in criminal justice, is that increasing fairness reduces the accuracy of predictions, thereby imposing a cost on society. This Article challenges that assumption by empirically analyzing the COMPAS algorithm, a widely used and widely discussed risk assessment tool in... |
2025 |
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| Sarah L. Swan |
THE PLAINTIFF POLICE |
134 Yale Law Journal 1182 (February, 2025) |
In civil litigation, police officers typically occupy the role of defendant, regularly responding to allegations of excessive force, unlawful arrest, and discriminatory policing. However, police officers can also don a different litigative role: that of plaintiff. In the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests and the increased attention to police... |
2025 |
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| Audrey Byrne, Alicia Kuang, Alisa Steel |
THE POWER TO BE LENIENT AND THE POWER TO DISCRIMINATE: HOW PROSECUTORIAL POLICIES SHAPE CLAIMS UNDER THE CALIFORNIA RACIAL JUSTICE ACT |
30 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 244 (2025) |
Prosecutorial discretion can allow implicit and explicit biases to infect the decisions of district attorneys, but prosecutors can also wield such discretion to advance racial justice. Prosecutorial policies, or their absence, can limit the discretion of individual prosecutors, and reflect an office's recommended or required practices.... |
2025 |
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| Karla McKanders |
THE RACIALIZED RETALIATORY STATE: WEAPONIZING IMMIGRATION LAW TO CRIMINALIZE DISSENT |
32 William and Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice 63 (Fall, 2025) |
Just days before his ICE arrest in February 2019, 21 Savage, birth name-- She'yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph--a British-born American rapper of Caribbean descent--performed a song on The Tonight Show that included lyrics critical of family separations at the United States-Mexico border and other injustices: The gas was off, so we had to boil up the... |
2025 |
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| Andrew W. Eichner |
THE REAL IMPACT OF GENERAL DETERRENCE: EMPIRICAL INSIGHTS FROM THE ROBBERY DATA OF THREE AMERICAN CITIES |
74 Catholic University Law Review 625 (Fall, 2025) |
General deterrence theory relies on the critical assumption that prospective offenders will be deterred from committing crimes when they are aware of the apprehension and punishment of others. This idea has been reiterated across thousands of years of Western political thought and has significant implications in modern American criminal sentencing,... |
2025 |
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| Michael O'Hear , Darren Wheelock |
THE SENTENCING ADVANTAGE OF FEMALE DEFENDANTS IN HOMICIDE CASES |
72 Drake Law Review 37 (2025) |
Sentencing researchers commonly find that female defendants receive more lenient sentences than male defendants, but the precise dynamics driving gender disparities remain elusive. This Article explores the phenomenon of gender-related sentencing disparities using a unique data set comprised of 543 major homicide cases in Wisconsin over a... |
2025 |
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| Mariam A. Hinds |
THE SHADOW DEFENDANTS |
113 Georgetown Law Journal 823 (April, 2025) |
Although the overrepresentation of men, specifically Black men and men of color, in the criminal legal system is well documented, the people who support these men, especially women, have garnered less attention. Women who are proximate to system-involved men--mothers, grandmothers, sisters, daughters, girlfriends, and wives--are invisible actors in... |
2025 |
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| Richard L. Hasen |
THE STAGNATION, RETROGRESSION, AND POTENTIAL PRO-VOTER TRANSFORMATION OF U.S. ELECTION LAW |
134 Yale Law Journal 1673 (March, 2025) |
This Feature describes the stagnation and retrogression of election-law doctrine, politics, and theory, explains why these trends have emerged, and explores how to transform election law in a pro-voter direction. It begins by detailing election law's stagnation. After a short period of strengthening voting rights, courts (and especially the Supreme... |
2025 |
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| Jade A. Craig |
THE TRAFFICANTE ROUTE: FAIR HOUSING LAW AND THE ROAD TO RACIAL RECONCILIATION |
60 Wake Forest Law Review 821 (2025) |
This Article draws on the story of Trafficante v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., one of the earliest cases in which the U.S. Supreme Court interpreted the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Paul Trafficante, one of the plaintiffs, was a white tenant of a large apartment complex in San Francisco who discovered that the landlord was engaging in systematic... |
2025 |
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| Daniel R. Mandelker |
THE TRAGEDY OF LOW-DENSITY, LARGE-LOT ZONING |
60 Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Journal 1 (Spring, 2025) |
Synopsis: Low-density, large-lot residential zoning of more than three acres perpetuates economic and racial inequality, constrains housing supply and housing markets, and makes housing costs unaffordable. It covers much of suburban America, contributing to a litany of harms in our housing system, but it has survived judicial challenges with few... |
2025 |
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| Jeffrey A. Dodge |
THE UNFULFILLED PROMISE OF OBERGEFELL FOR CHILDREN OF LGBTQ+ PARENTS: ADVANCING NONDISCRIMINATION LAWS FOR FAMILIAL ASSOCIATION |
52 Northern Kentucky Law Review 141 (2025) |
Since the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision, same-sex marriages have increased significantly in the United States. The American Community Survey data collected in 2022 shows that there are around 1.3 million same-sex couple households in the country, up from 565,000 in 2008. Just over half of these couples are legally married, up nearly 400% from... |
2025 |
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| George R. La Noue |
THE WIDENING EFFECT OF STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS |
26 Federalist Society Review 95 (3-Mar-25) |
Sitting at the top of the judicial pyramid, the Supreme Court makes only a few dozen decisions each term. Rules announced in these cases, however, often instigate and then shape a significant amount of litigation in the lower courts on a wide range of issues. The Supreme Court's decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of... |
2025 |
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| Steven L. Nelson, J.D., Ph.D. |
'THEY'RE DESTABILIZING A COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE': STATE TAKEOVERS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND DISTRICTS AS POLITICAL REGIME CHANGE |
64 Washburn Law Journal 211 (Winter, 2025) |
This Article examines the impact of the implementation of legislation purposed to take over public schools and districts in Massachusetts. Specifically, this article uses a sociolegal law and society approach to understand how the state of Massachusetts' takeover of Lawrence Public Schools led to changes in the city and school district's political... |
2025 |
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| Alia Nahra |
THIS IS WHAT TRANSPARENCY LOOKS LIKE: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF NYPD MISCONDUCT AFTER THE REPEAL OF 50-A |
125 Columbia Law Review 2035 (November, 2025) |
This Note presents the first empirical study of the implications of the repeal of Civil Rights Law section 50-a (50-a), which made public New York Police Department (NYPD) personnel records, including disciplinary investigations. These data demonstrate the limited potential of transparency reforms, which are lauded as an important step toward... |
2025 |
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| Jiayu Liu |
TREATING EACH APPLICANT AS AN INDIVIDUAL IN STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS v. HARVARD AND ITS KEY PRECEDENTS |
110 Cornell Law Review 791 (April, 2025) |
Introduction. 792 I. Background. 794 A. Bakke: The First Supreme Court Decision on Race-Conscious School Admissions. 794 1. The Bakke Facts. 794 2. The Foundation of Affirmative Action Analysis: Strict Scrutiny. 795 3. Bakke Court Decided on the Unconstitutionality of Racial Quotas. 796 4. The Bakke Approach: Race-Conscious but Individualized... |
2025 |
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| Catherine M. Grosso , Michael Laurence , Jeffrey Fagan |
UNDERSTANDING PROCESSES THAT PRODUCE RACIAL DISPARITIES IN CALIFORNIA DEATH SENTENCES: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE |
65 Santa Clara Law Review 39 (2024-2025) |
A robust and extensive body of empirical research, and a rich historical record, documents a recurring and pervasive influence of race in the application of California's death penalty. This article reviews the legal and social science research to document multiple paths through which institutions and processes produce these racial disparities over... |
2025 |
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| David J. Peters , Emma Bartling , Emily Meyer |
UNDERSTANDING RURAL LEGAL DESERTS TO INFORM PUBLIC POLICY: IDENTIFYING AND DESCRIBING LAWYER GAPS IN NON-METROPOLITAN COUNTIES |
70 South Dakota Law Review 253 (2025) |
Rural legal deserts have become a growing topic of interest to legal scholars and social scientists in the U.S. However, current research is limited by measurement issues and by the lack of national-scale analyses. To address these limitations, we identify legal deserts by applying latent profile analysis to lawyer gap rates for N = 2,307... |
2025 |
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| Deborah Tuerkheimer |
UNWANTED PREGNANCY: SEX, CONTRACEPTION, AND THE LIMITS OF CONSENT |
110 Minnesota Law Review 829 (December, 2025) |
Rape exceptions to abortion bans, widely popular among the American electorate, are cleaved from a rule that defines pregnancy as the byproduct of choice. According to the logic of this rule and its remarkably limited exception, a person who is not raped consents to sex and therefore to the pregnancy that results. An empirical analysis of women's... |
2025 |
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| Brockton D. Hunter |
VETERANS, VIOLENT EXTREMISM, AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: HISTORICAL PATTERNS, CAUSAL FACTORS, AND INTERVENTION OPPORTUNITIES |
21 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 10 (Winter, 2025) |
This article is dedicated in the memory of Dr. Evan R. Seamone, a warrior, scholar, and tireless advocate for his fellow veterans. In May and June of 2020, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer--and the protests and riots that followed--members of the Boogaloo Movement, an anti-government extremist group--many of... |
2025 |
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| Laura Matthews-Jolly |
VISITATION AS FAMILY REGULATION |
103 North Carolina Law Review 521 (January, 2025) |
Legal scholarship is increasingly concerned with the centrality of family separation to child protective services in the United States. While the harms of family separation are significant, scholars have largely overlooked the most powerful tool to repair and rebuild families separated by the state: parent-child visitation. Frequent, meaningful... |
2025 |
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| Benjamin Plener Cover |
VOTER FRAUD MISTAKE |
33 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 709 (March, 2025) |
False narratives challenging electoral integrity often cite ineligible voting as a prime example of so-called widespread voter fraud. This Article demonstrates that ineligible voting often consists of mistakes that are problematically treated like fraud. Some jurisdictions criminalize ineligible voting on a strict liability basis, imposing... |
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