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Richard A. Paez A Perspective on Judging 13 Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 47 (2002) It is good to be here at Boalt. It wasn't too many years ago that I returned to the law school for a visit. I left in 1972, and if somebody had told me then, that twenty-five years later I would be appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, I would have said, You're kidding. That's not going to happen. Had I thought... 2002  
Araceli Martínez-Olguín A Redefining Moment 13 Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 109 (2002) I started keeping a journal my senior year in high school. It has been my practice to record in its volumes important events. That is why it shocks me that there is not a single entry from the trip to Cincinnati. It was extremely formative of my sense of self as a law student. As an admitted student, I was in touch with one of the students who went... 2002  
Lolita K. Buckner Inniss Bicentennial Man - the New Millennium Assimilationism and the Foreigner among Us 54 Rutgers Law Review 1101 (Summer 2002) Much has been written about law and film. Law and film can be seen as an outgrowth of the law and literature movement, which is typically understood as being roughly divided between considerations of law as literature, and law in literature. Most law and film scholarship falls into the latter category, frequently treating the portrayal of lawyers... 2002  
Cruz Reynoso Brief Remembrances: My Appointment and Service on the California Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, 1976-1987 13 Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 15 (2002) Outside the weather was warm as it usually is in Sacramento in August. However, we were all inside the courtroom of the Library and Courts Building. The building itself is grand. It was built in the 1920s to be the home of the California Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal. It is one of two imposing public buildings located directly in front of... 2002  
Jane E. Larson Class, Economics, and Social Rights 54 Rutgers Law Review 831 (Summer 2002) This cluster explores the themes of LatCrit through the lens of class broadly conceived. Class as these authors invoke the concept, connotes both material inequality and deprivation of individuals, and societal systems of economic domination. With one exception, the essays examine the ways class constitutes the social world, ranging from the... 2002  
Claire Moore Dickerson Culture and Trans-border Effects: Northern Individualism Meets Third-generation Human Rights 54 Rutgers Law Review 865 (Summer 2002) The economic power of the North and West is not much in dispute; the issue is how to control that power as its impacts spill outside the purely commercial domain. I am proposing a lesson in manipulation of multinationals and, in this connection, make two claims. First, the North (including the West) abuses the South at least in part because the... 2002  
Marisa Arrona, Alegría De La Cruz, César del Peral From Michigan to Cincinnati: Our Fate in Their Hands 13 Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 103 (2002) It didn't take us long to find each other - the progressive students, the students of color - at Boalt Hall. We came demanding answers to the frustrating statistics showing the lack of diversity at the top public law school in the state. We came wanting to learn strategies and solutions, and needing to learn how to reverse the reactionary Supreme... 2002  
Jenny B. Davis Grande Opportunity 88-DEC ABA Journal 34 (December, 2002) Although they may deny it at first, most civil defense lawyers in Texas' Rio Grande Valley have a certain type of story to tell. The details vary by teller, but the ending is always the same: An outsider, sometimes a fellow Texan but more often a Yankee, comes down to investigate a claim, check on a case or assist with voir dire. One visit to any... 2002  
Adrien Katherine Wing Healing Spirit Injuries: Human Rights in the Palestinian Basic Law 54 Rutgers Law Review 1087 (Summer 2002) Critical Race Theory (CRT), which evolved based on U.S. legal paradigms, has begun to address more legal issues outside the U.S. as well. The LatCrit VI conference held in April 2001 contributed to enhanced transnationalism with the wonderful theme of Encountering Latin America: Exploring the Parameters and Relevance of LatCrit Theory In and... 2002  
Beverly A. Greene Heterosexism and Internalized Racism among African Americans: the Connections and Considerations for African American Lesbians and Bisexual Women: a Clinical Psychological Perspective 54 Rutgers Law Review 931 (Summer 2002) Clinical and counseling psychologists are charged with understanding the nature of human identities, evolution, and forms as a part of their struggle to understand behavior. How much of identity is fixed or fluid and what kinds of things influence how people come to see themselves and others are two of the many questions psychologists raise in... 2002  
Sharon E. Rush Identity Matters 54 Rutgers Law Review 909 (Summer 2002) As I read this cluster of papers on race, gender and sexuality, I am reminded of the caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland. When Alice comes upon him as he rests on a mushroom, he blows smoke from his hookah that, in the movie version, spells out the question he simultaneously asks her, W h o a r e y o u? The smokey, blurry letters float in the air... 2002  
Stephanie Townsend Allala , Angelica Cervantes In Recognition of Alberto Gonzales: Counsel to the President 8 Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy 3 (Spring 2002) Alberto Al Gonzales has forged a remarkable path to political success, from the cotton fields of South Texas to the White House War Room, and he takes his assent in stride. It's hard for me to recall what dreams I had as a boy, he says, but it is clear that his trajectory has been not so much the fulfillment of a dream as an answer to a call.... 2002  
Boaventura de Sousa Santos Nuestra America: Reinventing a Subaltern Paradigm of Recognition and Redistribution 54 Rutgers Law Review 1049 (Summer 2002) According to Hegel, we recall, universal history goes from the East to the West. Asia is the beginning, while Europe is the ultimate end of universal history, the place where the civilizational trajectory of humankind is fulfilled. The biblical and medieval idea of the succession of empires (translatio imperii) becomes in Hegel the triumphal way of... 2002  
Erick Muñoz Off to See the Wizard 13 Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 111 (2002) Before beginning law school I had a clear picture of what I wanted to do: focus on learning the law, develop the skills to be an outstanding attorney and have a lucrative and successful career. The motivating factors behind my goals were unchanged as my first semester got underway. I felt a tremendous responsibility to help my family, without whose... 2002  
Frances Muñoz Overcoming Barriers: Being Flexible and Creative 13 Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 29 (2002) Well I'm here by accident. And why did it take so long to have a woman appointed to a judicial position in California? When I became a judge it was something that I didn't even dream of, not even in my wildest dreams. I was raised in the barrio. My parents were immigrants from Mexico, who didn't speak English and we were 11 children. My biggest... 2002  
Edén E. Torres Power, Politics, and Pleasure: Class Differences and the Law 54 Rutgers Law Review 853 (Summer 2002) Whenever we enter discussions about race, there is a presence that haunts us. It often remains at the edges of our consciousness, and when we try to look directly at this fantasma, it disappears. The truth of liberal and judicial education is that we are not taught to think about class, even though many of us talk endlessly about the intersections... 2002  
Carlos R. Moreno Reflecciones: from the Barrio to the Supreme Court 13 Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 35 (2002) Thank you, I'm honored to be participating in this unprecedented gathering but I want to say that I don't really feel that I'm a pioneer in any endeavor that I've undertaken, but rather I'm the beneficiary of many other Latinos and Chicanos who have come from California and elsewhere who have gone on to law school and practiced law or have taken... 2002  
Josephine Ross Riddle for Our Times: the Continued Refusal to Apply the Miscegenation Analogy to Same-sex Marriage 54 Rutgers Law Review 999 (Summer 2002) There was a riddle that went around my elementary school thirty years ago. The riddle went as follows: a father is driving his son to school when the car crashes, killing the father. The son is rushed to the hospital and the surgeon is about to operate but stops, announcing: I cannot operate on this boy; he's my son. How can this be? Answer:... 2002  
Ellen J. Pader Space of Hate: Ethnicity, Architecture and Housing Discrimination 54 Rutgers Law Review 881 (Summer 2002) Embedded within the most everyday, trivial facets of daily life lie the secrets for understanding how and why popular culture, politicians, policymakers, and judges turn their own truths into determinations of what is reasonable to the ordinary person. This essay delves into some of those daily activities to extricate the interaction amongst... 2002  
Felipe H. Lopez The Construction of Mexican Identity 54 Rutgers Law Review 989 (Summer 2002) Indigenous identity has been portrayed as being fixated in time and space, and has been created by or imposed within a historical power relation, where the mestizo intellectuals and politicos have many times represented and created stereotypical indigenous identities. The Mexican identity has been a creation of those people who want to gain and... 2002  
Joaquin G. Avila The Importance and Necessity of Political Integration 13 Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 43 (2002) Voting Rights - a kaleidoscopic phrase subject to different interpretations and often eliciting heated debate. For some, when the kaleidoscope is twisted to the left, the phrase represents the right to cast one's vote on an equal basis as others, the elimination of barriers hindering racial and ethnic minority voters from effective participation in... 2002  
Ana M. Otero To the People Sitting in Darkness: a Resolve for Unity and Integration 54 Rutgers Law Review 1133 (Summer 2002) On April 29, 1962, at the age of eleven, I fled Cuba and entered the United States as a political exile - an enemy of the revolution. I was accompanied in this overt act of insurrection by my five-year old cousin and I was sent to New Jersey to stay with my aunt and uncle. We were permitted to take only the clothes on our backs. I also brought a... 2002  
Manuel J. Caro Tying Racism in El Ejido to Spanish and European Politics 54 Rutgers Law Review 893 (Summer 2002) El Ejido is a town on the Mediterranean coast of the southeastern corner of Spain. Its population, whose livelihood depends mainly on agriculture, has doubled and its income per capita has climbed to be among the highest in Spain in the last fifteen years. El Ejido's landscape and its adjacent towns look like a gray sea of plastic that, from a... 2002  
Joe R. Feagin White Supremacy and Mexican Americans: Rethinking the "Black-white Paradigm" 54 Rutgers Law Review 959 (Summer 2002) In May 1990, three white men in suburban San Diego were drinking beer. After a while, one said he wanted to shoot some aliens. From a house on the United States-Mexico border, one man, using a high-powered rifle, shot and killed a twelve-year-old Mexican youngster attempting to cross the border. The man was sentenced only to two years in jail for... 2002  
Adela de la Torre Arizona Redistricting: Issues Surrounding Hispanic Voter Representation 6 Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy 163 (Summer 2001) I. Introduction. 164 II. Roots of Historical Voting Discrimination in Arizona. 165 III. Current Issues in Arizona's Redistricting Debate. 167 Arizona, after the 2000 Census, will gain two additional Congressional seats due to the rapid growth of the state. Much of this growth is attributed to the increase in the Hispanic population. Since the 1990... 2001 Yes
Henry Flores, Ph.D. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Texas Latinos and Redistricting in 2001 6 Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy 137 (Summer 2001) I. Introduction. 138 II. Latino Growth in the 1990s. 139 III. The Republicans. 141 IV. The Democrats. 143 V. The Latinos. 143 VI. The Outcome. 145 VII. Conclusion. 146 The Latino electorate has finally arrived at a political juncture where it is perceived as a prized political possession for both major political parties. Both parties are willing to... 2001 Yes
Laura M. Padilla But You're Not a Dirty Mexican:Internalized Oppression, Latinos & Law 7 Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy 59 (Fall 2001) I. Introduction. 61 II. Internalized Oppression and Racism. 65 A. Working Definitions of Internalized Oppression and Racism. 65 B. Internalized Racism and Latinos. 67 III. Latinos' Internalized Oppression as Revealed in the Law. 73 A. Proposition 187. 74 B. Proposition 209. 81 C. Proposition 227. 85 D. Cordova v. Vaughn Municipal School District.... 2001 Yes
Kevin R. Johnson Comparative Racialization: Culture and National Origin in the Latina/o Communities 78 Denver University Law Review 633 (2001) Within the contours of critical Latina/o (LatCrit) Theory, comparative racialization analyzes how society constructs, or racializes, or others, various Latin American national origin groups in different ways. Such comparisons in no way seek to demonstrate that one group is more disadvantaged than another, but rather strive for a deeper... 2001 Yes
Hiroshi Fukurai Critical Evaluations of Hispanic Participation on the Grand Jury: Key-man Selection, Jurymandering, Language, and Representative Quotas 5 Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy 7 (Spring 2001) I. Abstract. 8 II. Introduction. 8 III. Racial Minorities, Grand Juries, and Public Confidence. 10 IV. Grand Jury Selection Procedures. 14 A. Legal Requirements in California. 16 B. Grand Jury Selection in Santa Cruz County. 17 V. Hypotheses. 19 VI. Research Design. 21 A. Sample. 21 B. Method. 24 VII. Result. 25 A. Hispanic Underrepresentation in... 2001 Yes
Peter L. Reich Dismantling the Pueblo: Hispanic Municipal Land Rights in California since 1850 45 American Journal of Legal History 353 (October, 2001) Frank Soulé in The Annals of San Francisco described that city in 1855 as wearying to the eye, for there was no public park or garden . not even a circus, oval, open terrace, broad avenue, or any ornamental line of street or building, or verdant space of any kind. By 1871, reforming journalist Henry George saw that much of the city's land that... 2001 Yes
  Drawing Lines in the Sand: the Texas Latino Community and Redistricting 2001 6 Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy 1 (Summer 2001) I. Panel one: The History of Latinos and Redistricting in Texas. 3 A. Panelists. 4 B. Statement of Dr. Henry Flores. 4 C. Statement of Mr. Jose Garza. 7 D. Question-and-Answer Session. 13 II. Panel Two: Redistricting Legislative Issues: Implications for the Latino Community. 17 A. Panelists. 18 B. Statement of Texas State Representative Delwin... 2001 Yes
Steve Bickerstaff Effects of the Voting Rights Act on Reapportionment and Hispanic Voting Strength in Texas 6 Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy 99 (Summer 2001) I. Introduction. 100 II. Fundamental Legal Principles of Reapportionment. 101 III. Effects of the Voting Rights Act on Hispanic Voting Strength. 101 A. The Voting Rights Act of 1965. 101 B. Increases in Hispanic Voting Strength. 104 1. Changes in the Composition of Congress. 105 2. Changes in the Composition of the Texas Legislature. 106 C.... 2001 Yes
Brian M. Steger Harvest of Empire: a History of Latinos in America 38-APR Houston Lawyer 54 (March/April, 2001) In Harvest of Empire, Juan Gonzalez boldly attempts to condense the history of Latinos in the United States to a compact, reader-friendly, 275 pages. The book is geared toward two distinct audiencesthe general reader wishing to gain a greater appreciation for or understanding of American Latinos and the intellectual wishing to broaden his or her... 2001 Yes
  Hispanic Bar Association of Central Florida Produces Domestic Violence Video 75-DEC Florida Bar Journal 54 (December, 2001) Lights. Camera. Action. Those words are becoming familiar terms for the Hispanic Bar Association of Central Florida (HBACF), which is preparing to produce a second videotape in Spanish to offer resources available to victims of domestic violence. The Hispanic Bar's first videotape, The Domestic Courts in Orange County, explains the different... 2001 Yes
Angie L. Padin Hispanismo as Leverage: Latcrit Questions Spain's Motives 9 University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review 165 (2000/2001) I. Introduction. 165 II. Universality as the Future. 166 III. Hispanismo as the Present. 168 IV. Conclusion. 169 2001 Yes
Jose Garza History, Latinos, and Redistricting 6 Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy 125 (Summer 2001) Summary I. Introduction. 126 II. History of Discrimination Evidence in Redistricting Litigation. 127 A. One Person, One Vote . 127 B. Minority Vote Dilution. 127 III. Texas Voting Rights Litigation, 1979-2000. 130 IV. Recent Developments. 133 V. Conclusion. 135 2001 Yes
Miguel de la Madrid Las Condiciones Del Empleo En América Latina Y Sus Repercusiones En La Práctica Y En El Derecho Laboral 36 Revista Juridica Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico 183 (Septiembre-Diciembre, 2001) Uno de los problemas más acuciantes de los países latinoamericanos es el creciente desempleo que se observó en los últimos años, aunado al problema del crecimiento de la economía informal. Ésta es la economía constituida por pequeños empresarios y trabajadores que, ante el alto costo y las excesivas reglamentaciones de la autoridad, prefieren... 2001 Yes
Elizabeth M. Iglesias Latcrit Theory: Some Preliminary Notes Towards a Transatlantic Dialogue 9 University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review 1 (2000/2001) I. L2-3,T3Contextualizing LatCrit Theory in American Critical Legal Discourse 1 A. Critical Legal Studies (CLS) and Critical Race Theory (CRT). 9 B. Feminist Critical Legal Theory and Critical Race Feminism. 18 C. Asian Pacific American Critical Legal Scholarship and Chicana/o Studies. 25 D. Queer Legal Theory. 29 II. L2-3,T3Conclusion 32 2001 Yes
Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol Latinas, Culture and Human Rights: a Model for Making Change, Saving Soul 23 Women's Rights Law Reporter 21 (Summer/Fall 2001) This essay, to be included in the 30 anniversary celebration of the Women's Rights Law Reporter, provides an overview of progresses achieved for women in the Americas by virtue of the use of the human rights model to further women's rights and attain betterment of their lives. Specifically, this work reviews the location of Latinas both within and... 2001 Yes
Francisco Valdes Postcolonial Encounters in the Postpinochet Era: a Latcrit Perspective on Spain, Latinas/os and "Hispanismo" in the Development of International Human Rights 9 University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review 189 (2000/2001) I. Introduction. 189 II. LatCrit Theory: A Summary Overview. 197 III. Spain and International Human Rights Norms in the PostPinochet Era: LatCrit Extrapolations on Pending Postcolonial Encounters. 206 IV. Conclusion. 222 2001 Yes
Mary Romero State Violence, and the Social and Legal Construction of Latino Criminality: from El Bandido to Gang Member 78 Denver University Law Review 1081 (2001) D: 911 what is your emergency? C: Did (sic) you speak Spanish? D: No, do you speak English? C: No. D: Do you have an emergency? C: Police please. D: Do you need Police? C: Yes . . . (Dispatcher contacts ATT interpreter) . . . D: Can you find out what this ladies (sic) emergency is for the Police please? ATT: Do you have an emergency ma'am? C: Yes,... 2001 Yes
Maria Pabon Lopez The Phoenix Rises from El Cenizo: a Community Creates and Affirms a Latino/a Border Cultural Citizenship Through its Language and Safe Haven Ordinances 78 Denver University Law Review 1017 (2001) On August 3, 1999, El Cenizo (meaning ashen in Spanish), the small Southwest Texas border town of seven thousand, adopted an ordinance which makes Spanish its predominant language. The mayor, shortly thereafter in a public ceremony, raised the Stars and Stripes, publicly affirming his town's patriotism. The Predominant Language Ordinance... 2001 Yes
Enid Trucios-Haynes Why "Race Matters:" Latcrit Theory and Latina/o Racial Identity 12 La Raza Law Journal 1 (2001) Latinas/os are a force to be reckoned with, and we now require our own room in the Master's House. Yet, we must not forget it is the Master's House, and we are constrained by the basic home rule that is White supremacy. Latinas/os are not exempt from the oppression of White supremacy, yet, as a group or individually, we often are seduced into... 2001 Yes
Steven W. Bender Will the Wolf Survive?: Latino/a Pop Music in the Cultural Mainstream 78 Denver University Law Review 719 (2001) The American news media dubbed 1999 as the year of the Latino based almost entirely on the runaway sales success and appeal of Latino /a singers to a mainstream pop music audience. While in 1998 the media spotlight, when directed at Latino/as, shone on a lone Chihuahua hawking tacos for corporate America, in 1999 Ricky Martin replaced a small dog... 2001 Yes
Aniella Gonzalez Being Individuals: a Comparative Look at Relationships, Gender and the Public/private Dichotomy 9 University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review 115 (2000/2001) I. Introduction. 115 II. Human Relationships and the Public/Private Dichotomy. 117 III. Gender and Public/Private Dichotomy. 119 IV. Conclusion. 123 2001  
Christine Gudaitis Essay: Tourism in Developing Countries - Panacea or Poison? 9 University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review 265 (2000/2001) I. Introduction: Culture, Human Rights and Tourism. 265 II. Case Studies: Mexico, Indonesia and Tanzania. 274 III. Alternative/Sustainable Tourism. 280 IV. Conclusion. 284 2001  
Steven Weller , John A. Martin , John Paul Lederach Fostering Culturally Responsive Courts 39 Family Court Review 185 (April, 2001) This article focuses on how mediation services can be improved to better reflect the culture-based needs and expectations of Latino litigants. The research on which this article is based was conducted in a court-attached custody and visitation program in one U.S. community with a large Latino presence. The findings, recommendations, and conclusions... 2001  
Ana Salinas de Frías Free Movement of Persons in the European Union, National Borders and Legal Reforms: the Principle of Non-discrimination Based on Nationality (Article 12 Ect) 9 University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review 61 (2000/2001) A central feature of the European Union (EU) project which seeks integration at the Community level, is the idea that productive factors within an economy should enjoy the right of free movement. Persons, are productive factors and as such, are recipients of this right. The idea is unique within the EU where, unlike other regional associations,... 2001  
Ángel Rodríguez-Vergara Díaz Género Y Derechos Fundamentales En Europa: Evolución Reciente De La Discriminación Positiva En El Ámbito Laboral Y Electoral 9 University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review 125 (2000/2001) Nuestra época es la época de los derechos, y, en consonancia con ello, los derechos han pasado a constituir el tema principal de nuestro Derecho. No hay problema jurídico que no pueda abordarse, en la actualidad, desde esta perspectiva, que eleva a argumento principal la de los derechos subjetivos que puedan o deban generarse en torno a una... 2001  
Cindy Rosales , Alberto Mesta, Jr. In Recognition of Adelfa Callejo: Dallas Attorney and Activist 5 Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy 2 (Spring 2001) It is January 2001. Adelfa Callejo leads the Coalition of Hispanic Organizations in a fight to delay the Dallas, Texas City Council elections. The new Census 2000 data will be released on April 1, while the city elections are scheduled for May 5. Adelfa believes there is not enough time to redraw the districts. If the Census confirms the... 2001  
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