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| Jordana R. Goodman |
SY-STEM-IC BIAS: AN EXPLORATION OF GENDER AND RACE REPRESENTATION ON UNIVERSITY PATENTS |
87 Brooklyn Law Review 853 (Spring, 2022) |
Women and people of color have been systemically excluded from participation in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields in the United States for centuries. This inability to participate, coupled with disparate abilities to own and control property, created STEM access gaps still evident in the United States today. In the... |
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| 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 |
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| Vinay Harpalani |
TESTING THE LIMITS: ASIAN AMERICANS AND THE DEBATE OVER STANDARDIZED ENTRANCE EXAMS |
73 South Carolina Law Review 759 (Spring, 2022) |
I. Introduction. 759 II. Social, Political, and Historical Context. 762 A. Racial Triangulation. 762 B. Model Minority to Peril of the Mind. 763 C. Negative Action and Affirmative Action. 766 III. Controversies over Standardized Entrance Exams. 770 A. College Entrance Exams and the Test-Blind Movement. 771 B. New York City's Specialized High... |
2022 |
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| Laura M. Padilla |
THE BLACK--WHITE PARADIGM'S CONTINUING ERASURE OF LATINAS: SEE WOMEN LAW DEANS OF COLOR |
99 Denver Law Review 683 (Summer, 2022) |
The Black-white paradigm persists with unintended consequences. For example, there have been only six Latina law deans to date with only four presently serving. This Article provides data about women law deans of color, the dearth of Latina law deans, and explanations for the data. It focuses on the enduring Black-white paradigm, as well as other... |
2022 |
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| 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 |
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| Maytal Gilboa |
THE COLOR OF PAIN: RACIAL BIAS IN PAIN AND SUFFERING DAMAGES |
56 Georgia Law Review 651 (Spring, 2022) |
For more than half a century, our legal system has formally eschewed race-based discrimination, and nearly every field of law has evolved to increase protections for minority groups historically burdened by racial prejudice. Yet, even today, juries in tort actions routinely consider a plaintiff's race when calculating compensatory tort damages, and... |
2022 |
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| Craig Haney, Eileen L. Zurbriggen, Joanna M. Weill , Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz |
THE CONTINUING UNFAIRNESS OF DEATH QUALIFICATION: CHANGING DEATH PENALTY ATTITUDES AND CAPITAL JURY SELECTION |
28 Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 1 (February, 2022) |
The present research examines whether and how the biasing effects of the death qualification process--the unique procedure by which prospective jurors are screened for eligibility on the basis of their death penalty attitudes--have been affected by the changing landscape of opinions about capital punishment. In-depth telephone surveys were... |
2022 |
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| Veronikah Warms |
THE COST OF INJUSTICE: HOW TEXAS'S "BAIL REFORM" KEEPS LOW-INCOME PEOPLE & PEOPLE OF COLOR BEHIND BARS |
27 Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights 273 (Spring, 2022) |
The term Latinx is used in this piece in keeping with academic convention. Latinx is widely used in academic contexts and is more inclusive of nonbinary people in the sense that it is gender neutral, yet it has not been widely accepted in the community. See Luisa Torregrosa, Many Latinos say Latinx offends or bothers them. Here's why., NBC... |
2022 |
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| Vince Mancini |
THE COURT'S GERRYMANDERING CONUNDRUM: HOW HYPER-PARTISANSHIP IN POLITICS ALTERS THE RUCHO DECISION |
2022 Utah Law Review 1135 (2022) |
The Supreme Court's recent decision in Rucho v. Common Cause was the latest in a line of opinions regarding reviewability of gerrymandering claims related to the constitutionally required decennial state redistricting process. In Rucho, the Court altered the course of future electoral processes and held that partisan gerrymandering claims were... |
2022 |
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| Ngozi Okidegbe |
THE DEMOCRATIZING POTENTIAL OF ALGORITHMS? |
53 Connecticut Law Review 739 (February, 2022) |
Jurisdictions are increasingly embracing the use of pretrial risk assessment algorithms as a solution to the problem of mass pretrial incarceration. Conversations about the use of pretrial algorithms in legal scholarship have tended to focus on their opacity, determinativeness, reliability, validity, or their (in)ability to reduce high rates of... |
2022 |
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| Paula Natalia Barreto Parra , Vladimir Atanasov , Jeff Whittle , John Meurer , Qian (Eric) Luo , Ruohao Zhang , Bernard Black |
THE EFFECT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON THE ELDERLY: POPULATION FATALITY RATES, COVID MORTALITY PERCENTAGE, AND LIFE EXPECTANCY LOSS |
30 Elder Law Journal 33 (2022) |
Funding and Competing Interest Statement: This project was funded by the National Institutes of Health, award 3 UL1 TR001436-06S1, and was approved by the Medical College of Wisconsin Human Research Review Board. The authors have no competing interests. Keywords: COVID-19; life expectancy; COVID mortality rates. The COVID-19 pandemic has... |
2022 |
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| Jeff Kukucka, Ashley M. Horodyski, Christina M. Dardis, Department of Psychology, Towson University |
THE EXONEREE HEALTH AND LIFE EXPERIENCES (EXHALE) STUDY: TRAUMA EXPOSURE AND MENTAL HEALTH AMONG WRONGLY CONVICTED INDIVIDUALS |
28 Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 387 (August, 2022) |
The exoneree population is growing rapidly, and legislatures are increasingly contemplating whether and how to better support exonerees' reentry, yet our understanding of exonerees' mental health and other postrelease needs remains somewhat limited. The current study measured trauma exposure and mental health, including various protective and risk... |
2022 |
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| 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 |
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| André Douglas Pond Cummings , Steven A. Ramirez |
THE ILLINOIS CANNABIS SOCIAL-EQUITY PROGRAM: TOWARD A SOCIALLY JUST PEACE IN THE WAR ON DRUGS? |
53 Loyola University Chicago Law Journal 793 (Summer, 2022) |
Laudably, when Illinois legalized the recreational use of cannabis, it also sought to repair the damage wrought by the War on Drugs (WOD) through its social-equity initiatives. That harm included excessive and disproportionate incarceration in communities of color, over-policing within those communities, and all of the social and economic harms... |
2022 |
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| 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 |
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| Jad G. Elchahal |
THE IOWA GENERAL ASSEMBLY MUST ACT TO PROTECT THE PERSONAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OF TENANTS |
108 Iowa Law Review 409 (November, 2022) |
ABSTRACT: In Iowa, thirty percent of all households rent rather than own. At the termination of a rental agreement, or after abandonment is established, Iowa's current case law gives landlords the power to enter the leased premises and take possession of any remaining personal property without notice to the tenant. In Iowa, residential, commercial,... |
2022 |
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| Janel A. George |
THE MYTH OF MERIT: THE FIGHT OF THE FAIRFAX COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD AND THE NEW FRONT OF MASSIVE RESISTANCE |
49 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1091 (October, 2022) |
Introduction. 1091 I. The Consequences of Colorblindness. 1095 A. Retreat and Resegregation: The Gradual Erosion of Brown. 1095 B. Parents Involved and Race-Neutral Policies. 1100 II. The Battle for TJ. 1103 A. The Nation's Top Public High School Struggles to Diversify. 1103 B. George Floyd and Thomas Jefferson: Past and Present Collide. 1109 III.... |
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| Carla Laroche |
THE NEW JIM AND JANE CROW INTERSECT: CHALLENGES TO DEFENDING THE PARENTAL RIGHTS OF MOTHERS DURING INCARCERATION |
12 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 517 (July, 2022) |
I. Introduction. 518 II. The New Jim Crow & The New Jane Crow: Background. 523 A. The New Jim Crow & Gender. 524 B. The New Jane Crow's Framework. 527 III. Tattered Access to Effective Parents' Counsel. 532 A. Defense Counsel's Potential Bias, Time, & Caseload Constraints. 533 B. Defense Strategy. 535 C. Case Preparation & Communication with... |
2022 |
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| Shaun Ossei-Owusu |
THE NEW PENAL BUREAUCRATS |
170 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1389 (June, 2022) |
Introduction. 1390 I. The Same Legal Problems. 1400 A. Criminal Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy. 1400 B. Law School Socialization. 1407 C. Demographics. 1413 II. The New Penal Bureaucrats. 1420 A. Generational Change in the Legal Profession. 1421 B. Prosecution Reimagined. 1426 C. Indigent Defense Rebooted. 1433 III. Provocation... |
2022 |
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| Sarah Somers , Jane Perkins |
THE ONGOING RACIAL PARADOX OF THE MEDICAID PROGRAM |
16 Journal of Health & Life Sciences Law 96 (2022) |
ABSTRACT: Medicaid, the largest public health insurance program for low-income people, has since 1965 extended health coverage to millions of people, including people of color. At the same time, is has perpetuated disparities based on race. Central in the paradox of Medicaid is that racism is baked into the program, yet it has transformed... |
2022 |
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| Rachel Rebouché |
THE PUBLIC HEALTH TURN IN REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS |
68 Practical Lawyer 3 (Oct-22) |
Over the last decade, public health research has demonstrated the short-term, long-term, and cumulative costs of delayed or denied abortion care. These costs are largely imposed on people who share common characteristics: abortion patients are predominantly low-income and disproportionately people of color. Public health evidence, by establishing... |
2022 |
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| Dalia Castillo-Granados , Rachel Leya Davidson , Laila L. Hlass , Rebecca Scholtz |
THE RACIAL JUSTICE IMPERATIVE TO REIMAGINE IMMIGRANT CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: SPECIAL IMMIGRANT JUVENILES AS A CASE STUDY |
71 American University Law Review 1779 (June, 2022) |
The immigration legal system has codified and perpetuated racial violence in many ways, yet the experiences of young people of color in this system have yet to be deeply examined. This Article surfaces the distinct and varied racialized harms that children experience in the immigration system through the example of Special Immigrant Juveniles.... |
2022 |
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| Aurora J. Grutman |
THE RACIAL WEALTH GAP IS A RACIAL HEALTH GAP |
110 Kentucky Law Journal 723 (2021-2022) |
Table of Contents. 723 Introduction. 724 I. Race-Based Income and Wealth Inequalities. 725 II. Race-Based Health Inequalities. 729 III. The Interrelationship of Health and Wealth. 735 Conclusion. 737 |
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| Anne Barnhill, A. Susana Ramírez, Marice Ashe, Amanda Berhaupt-Glickstein, Nicholas Freudenberg, Sonya A. Grier, Karen E. Watson, Shiriki Kumanyika |
THE RACIALIZED MARKETING OF UNHEALTHY FOODS AND BEVERAGES: PERSPECTIVES AND POTENTIAL REMEDIES |
50 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 52 (Spring, 2022) |
Keywords: Race and Ethnicity, Food and Beverage Marketing, Targeted Marketing, Health Equity, Structural Racism Abstract: We propose that marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages to Black and Latino consumers results from the intersection of a business model in which profits come primarily from marketing an unhealthy mix of products, standard... |
2022 |
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| André Douglas Pond Cummings, Steven A. Ramirez |
THE RACIST ROOTS OF THE WAR ON DRUGS & THE MYTH OF EQUAL PROTECTION FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR |
44 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 453 (Spring, 2022) |
By 2021, the costs and pain arising from the propagation of the American racial hierarchy reached such heights that calls for anti-racism and criminal justice reform dramatically expanded. The brutal murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police vividly proved that the social construction of race in America directly conflicted with supposed... |
2022 |
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| John Whitlow |
THE REAL ESTATE STATE AND GROUP-DIFFERENTIATED VULNERABILITY TO PREMATURE DEATH: EXPLORING THE POLITICAL-ECONOMIC ROOTS OF COVID-19'S RACIALLY DISPARATE DEADLINESS IN NEW YORK CITY IN THE SPRING OF 2020 |
35 Journal of Civil Rights & Economic Development 245 (Spring, 2022) |
Tell me how you die and I will tell you who you are. [I]n our time all politics is about real estate; and this from the loftiest statecraft to the most petty maneuvering around local advantage. In May 2020, after several bleak months in which Covid-19 took the lives of thousands of New York City's most vulnerable residents, a vigil was held in... |
2022 |
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| Morgan Stutts, Joseph R. Cohen, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
THE ROLE OF HOPELESSNESS AND PROCEDURAL JUSTICE ON DEPRESSOGENIC OUTCOMES IN SERIOUS ADOLESCENT OFFENDERS |
46 Law and Human Behavior 415 (December, 2022) |
Objective: Despite increasing depression and suicide rates in justice-system-involved youth, little is known about depressogenic risk factors in this population. Therefore, we explored how levels of and changes in hopelessness and perceptions of procedural justice predicted depressive and suicidal outcomes in justice-system-involved youth.... |
2022 |
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| Shanda K. Sibley |
THE UNCHOSEN: PROCEDURAL FAIRNESS IN CRIMINAL SPECIALTY COURT SELECTION |
43 Cardozo Law Review 2261 (August, 2022) |
Specialized criminal courts were created in an effort to offer nonpunitive responses to the commission of crime. The promise of these courts was that they would remove select populations from the traditional legal system and offer them something different, and perhaps better, than mere punishment and incapacitation. However, the current selection... |
2022 |
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| William J. Aceves |
THE WATTS GANG TREATY: HIDDEN HISTORY AND THE POWER OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS |
57 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 115 |
On the eve of the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, a small group of gang leaders and community activists drafted an agreement to curtail violence in south Los Angeles. Several gangs in Watts accepted the truce and established a cease-fire agreement. By most accounts, the 1992 Watts Gang Treaty succeeded in reducing gang violence in Los Angeles. Local... |
2022 |
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| Medha D. Makhlouf |
TOWARDS RACIAL JUSTICE: THE ROLE OF MEDICAL-LEGAL PARTNERSHIPS |
50 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 117 (Spring, 2022) |
Keywords: Medical-Legal Partnership, Health Equity, Structural Determinants of Health, Racism, Poverty Abstract: Medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) integrate knowledge and practices from law and health care in pursuit of health equity. However, the MLP movement has not reached its full potential to address racial health inequities, in part because... |
2022 |
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| Alina Ball |
TRANSACTIONAL COMMUNITY LAWYERING |
94 Temple Law Review 397 (Spring, 2022) |
The racial reckoning during the summer of 2020 presented a renewed call to action for movement lawyers committed to collaborating with mobilized clients to advance racial equity and economic justice. During the last thirty years, community lawyering scholarship has made significant interventions into poverty lawyering and provides the theoretical... |
2022 |
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| Kevin Johnson , Raquel Aldana , José Padilla, Amagda Pérez, Thomas Saenz , Opening Remarks, Moderator, Panelists |
TRANSCRIPT: THE CIVIL RIGHTS LEGACY OF JUSTICE CRUZ REYNOSO |
26 U.C. Davis Social Justice Law Review 132 (Winter, 2022) |
The family of Justice Cruz Reynoso released the following announcement upon his death in May 2021: On May 7, 2021, former California Supreme Court Associate Justice, law professor, and civil rights activist Cruz Reynoso passed away at age 90, surrounded by his family. Reynoso was born on May 2, 1931, in Brea, California, to Francisca Ramirez... |
2022 |
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| Ann E. Tweedy |
TRIBES, FIREARM REGULATION, AND THE PUBLIC SQUARE |
55 U.C. Davis Law Review 2625 (June, 2022) |
We stand at a crossroads with the United States Supreme Court seemingly poised, in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, to expand the right of individualized self-defense first recognized in District of Columbia v. Heller, and shortly thereafter extended to states in McDonald v. City of Chicago. The Court's decision in Heller has... |
2022 |
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| Yael Cannon |
UNMET LEGAL NEEDS AS HEALTH INJUSTICE |
56 University of Richmond Law Review 801 (Symposium 2022) |
In 2021, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a call to action to the legal community. The Supreme Court had recently invalidated the nationwide eviction moratorium that was issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic, and concerns were mounting about an impending tsunami of... |
2022 |
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| Bertrall L. Ross II , Douglas M. Spencer |
VOTER DATA, DEMOCRATIC INEQUALITY, AND THE RISK OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE |
107 Cornell Law Review 1011 (May, 2022) |
Campaigns' increasing reliance on data-driven canvassing has coincided with a disquieting trend in American politics: a stark gap in voter turnout between the rich and poor. Turn-out among the poor has remained low in modern elections despite legal changes that have dramatically decreased the cost of voting. In this Article, we present evidence... |
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| Jelani Jefferson Exum , David Niven |
WHERE BLACK LIVES MATTER LESS: UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF BLACK VICTIMS ON SENTENCING OUTCOMES IN TEXAS CAPITAL MURDER CASES FROM 1973 TO 2018 |
66 Saint Louis University Law Journal 677 (Summer, 2022) |
The systemic disregard for Black lives in America was on full display when footage of a police officer kneeling on the neck of George Floyd went viral. Mr. Floyd's resultant death set off protests declaring that Black Lives Matter throughout the nation and across the world. While national attention rightfully turned to demanding police... |
2022 |
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| Brielle Autumn Brown |
WHERE'S MY BALLOT?: WHY CONGRESS SHOULD AMEND HOUSE BILL H.R.1 TO INCLUDE A NATIONAL MANDATE OF DROP BOXES FOR FEDERAL ELECTIONS TO HELP PROTECT THE BLACK VOTE |
14 Drexel Law Review 405 (2022) |
Casting a ballot should be easy, but voter suppression continues to be an obstacle for many Black voters. The failure during Reconstruction to address Black suffrage, together with the proliferation of Jim Crow laws, enabled states to abridge the right to vote based on race. The Fifteenth Amendment was intended to eliminate racial restrictions at... |
2022 |
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| Osamudia James |
WHITE INJURY AND INNOCENCE: ON THE LEGAL FUTURE OF ANTIRACISM EDUCATION |
108 Virginia Law Review 1689 (December, 2022) |
In the wake of the racial reckoning of 2020, antiracism education attracted intense attention and prompted renewed educator commitments to teach more explicitly about the function, operation, and harm of racism in the United States. The increased visibility of antiracism education engendered sustained critique and opposition, resulting in... |
2022 |
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| Marissa Jackson Sow |
WHITENESS AS CONTRACT |
78 Washington and Lee Law Review 1803 (2022) |
2020 forced scholars, policymakers, and activists alike to grapple with the impact of twin pandemics--the COVID-19 pandemic, which has devastated Black and Indigenous communities, and the scourge of structural and physical state violence against those same communities--on American society. As atrocious acts of anti-Black violence and harassment... |
2022 |
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| Caroline Lewis Bruckner , Jonathan Barry Forman |
WOMEN, RETIREMENT, AND THE GROWING GIG ECONOMY WORKFORCE |
38 Georgia State University Law Review 259 (Winter, 2022) |
Gig work--the selling or renting of labor, effort, skills, and time outside of traditional employment--is a long-standing feature of the U.S. economy. Today, millions of online gig workers sell goods and services, or rent rooms, houses, vehicles, and other assets using apponline and app-based platforms (for example, Uber, Lyft, Rover, DoorDash,... |
2022 |
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| Richard Spradlin |
ZONING, NATURAL RESOURCES, AND RECLAMATION: OPPORTUNITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN A FLOWERING INDUSTRY |
23 Vermont Journal of Environmental Law 374 (Summer, 2022) |
Introduction. 375 I. Racialized Criminalization and Attempted Restoration. 377 A. Criminalization. 377 B. Legalization. 379 1. Canna-colonialism. 379 II. Relationship Between the Environment and Cannabis Cultivation/Production. 383 III. EJ and Cannabis: Considerations and Opportunities. 389 A. Zoning, Licensing, and Community Rebuilding. 390 B.... |
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| Sarah Fishel |
"BE A LIE IF I TOLD YOU THAT I NEVER THOUGHT OF DEATH": USING JUDICIAL DISCRETION TO CONSIDER ANTICIPATED EARLY DEATH DURING SENTENCING |
13 Drexel Law Review 707 (2021) |
Prevalent in street culture for generations, the idea that youth who are subject to daily violence internalize that chaos into an expectation of dying young is fairly new to social-legal settings. Anticipated early death has been advanced as a theory in recent years by researchers who argue that youth exposed to this violence and chaos early in... |
2021 |
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| Michael Heise, Jason P. Nance |
"DEFUND THE (SCHOOL) POLICE"? BRINGING DATA TO KEY SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE CLAIMS |
111 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 717 (Summer, 2021) |
Nationwide calls to Defund the Police, largely attributable to the resurgent Black Lives Matter demonstrations, have motivated derivative calls for public school districts to consider defunding (or modifying) school resource officer (SRO/police) programs. To be sure, a school's SRO/police presence-- and the size of that presence--may... |
2021 |
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| Nancy Chi Cantalupo |
"I THINK YOU DIDN'T GET IT BECAUSE THEY MISIDENTIFIED YOU AS LATINA": A COMMENTARY ON MULTIRACIALS AND CIVIL RIGHTS: MIXED-RACE STORIES OF DISCRIMINATION |
34 Journal of Civil Rights & Economic Development 39 (Spring, 2021) |
Liz was interviewing for a tenure-track, entry-level law faculty position at Law School X, ranked (in that year) around 100. She had heard a rumor that the law school was determined to hire a person who would add to the diversity of the faculty, which was both White- and male-dominated. Liz's job talk, a presentation on a current article that... |
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| Ada K. Wilson, Esq. , Dr. Timothy J. Fair , Michael G. Morrison, II, Esq. |
"NEWTRALITY": A CONTEMPORARY ALTERNATIVE TO RACE-NEUTRAL PEDAGOGY |
43 Campbell Law Review 171 (2021) |
This Article presents the findings of an interdisciplinary search for an alternative to race-neutral pedagogy. Ultimately, Motivated Awareness and Inclusive Integrity can build capacity for advancements in human understanding of the social sciences and inspire reconsideration of race-neutral standards which impede meaningful judicial review.... |
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| Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Anthony V. Alfieri |
(RE)FRAMING RACE IN CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYERING, STONY THE ROAD: RECONSTRUCTION, WHITE SUPREMACY, AND THE RISE OF JIM CROW, BY HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., PENGUIN PRESS, 2019 |
130 Yale Law Journal 2052 (June, 2021) |
This Review examines the significance of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s new book, Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, for the study of racism in our nation's legal system and for the regulation of race in the legal profession, especially in the everyday labor of civil-rights and poverty lawyers, prosecutors, and... |
2021 |
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| Carrie L. Rosenbaum |
(UN)EQUAL IMMIGRATION PROTECTION |
50 Southwestern Law Review 231 (2021) |
L1-3Table of Contents I. Introduction. 231 II. Equal Protection Intent Doctrine. 236 III. Immigration UnEqual Protection. 243 A. Equal Protection Challenges to Alienage Laws. 245 B. Equal Protection Challenges to Racially Discriminatory Immigration Laws. 246 IV. DHS v. Regents - Intentional Blindness Redoubled. 253 V. Conclusion. 260 |
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| Christopher Burton |
3/5THS TO 1/10TH, HOW TO MAKE BLACK AMERICA WHOLE: EXPLORING CONGRESSIONAL ACT H.R.40--COMMISSION TO STUDY AND DEVELOP REPARATION PROPOSALS FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS ACT |
54 UIC John Marshall Law Review 530 (Summer, 2021) |
I. Introduction. 530 II. Background. 535 A. What Is H.R. 40?. 535 B. Historic Economic Disparities Among Black and White Americans. 537 1. The New Deal and Jim Crow. 538 2. The Racist Execution of the G.I. Bill. 541 C. History of Past Proposed Reparation Acts in the United States.. 544 1. Reparations to Japanese Americans Interned During World War... |
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| Liel Levy, Natalie Fragkouli, Founders, Nanato Media |
5 TIPS FOR CONNECTING TO THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY |
40 Legal Management 9 (October, 2021) |
The 2020 Census confirmed what many expected: The Hispanic population in the United States is booming, increasing 23% since the 2010 Census. In fact, as of 2020, people identifying as Hispanic or Latino accounted for a whopping 19% of the population. Given the rapid growth, how much of a minority will they be in the next decade? Businesses are... |
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| Desirée D. Mitchell |
A CLASS OF ONE: MULTIRACIAL INDIVIDUALS UNDER EQUAL PROTECTION |
88 University of Chicago Law Review 237 (January, 2021) |
When it comes to recognizing multiracial individuals under the Equal Protection Clause, courts have fallen short. Only rarely do courts explicitly identify multiracial plaintiffs as just that--multiracial. Instead, the majority of courts revert to a one-drop rule in which they view plaintiffs as only one part of their self-identified racial... |
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