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Joseph Russomanno |
Falsehood and Fallacies: Brandeis, Free Speech and Trumpism |
22 Communication Law and Policy 155 (Spring, 2017) |
Donald Trump's campaign for the presidency in 2016 was unique, noted for a number of attributes that rarely, if ever, had been witnessed, including the candidate's propensity to freely express his views, unfiltered. Debates surfaced, including some within his own party and campaign team, whether to let Trump be Trump. In other words, there was...; Search Snippett: ...A1. See, e.g., Dana Milbank, Commentary, Trump Is a Racist, Wash. Post , Dec. 2, 2015, at A21: Trump led the... |
2017 |
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Mitra Sharafi |
Hijacking Law |
42 Law and Social Inquiry 1240 (Fall, 2017) |
Sharafi, Mitra. 2014. Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772-1947. New York: Cambridge University Press, also 2017 Ranikhet, India: Permanent Black. Pp. xxiii + 343. This essay considers the legal strategies of comparative communities in South Asian, Middle Eastern, and US history. What does it mean for a particular...; Search Snippett: ...Feminism in India , 1800-1990. Delhi: Zubaan. Love, Erik. 2017. Islamophobia and Racism in America. New York: New York University Press. Mehrotra, S. R., and... |
2017 |
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Kevin R. Johnson |
How Political Ideology Undermines Racial and Gender Diversity in Federal Judicial Selection: the Prospects for Judicial Diversity in the Trump Years |
2017 Wisconsin Law Review 345 (2017) |
This Essay considers the relationship between efforts to increase the racial and gender diversity of the federal judiciary and the contemporary contentiousness of the Senate judicial confirmation process. Part I briefly evaluates the benefits of a diverse federal judiciary and summarizes the relatively successful efforts of President Obama--the...; Search Snippett: ...Preston et al., Donald Trump Win Has Blacks, Hispanics and Muslims Bracing for a Long 4 Years N.Y. Times (Nov. 9... |
2017 |
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Kevin R. Johnson |
Immigration and Civil Rights in the Trump Administration: Law and Policy Making by Executive Order |
57 Santa Clara Law Review 611 (2017) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 612 I. The Obama Administration on Immigration. 616 A. Enforcement: Record Crime-Based Removals. 616 B. Relief for the Undocumented: DACA and DAPA. 625 C. Failed Immigration Reform. 626 II. President Trump: Aggressive Immigration Enforcement by Executive Order. 628 A. The Travel Ban and the Redos. 630 B. The...; Search Snippett: ...Preston et al., Donald Trump Win Has Blacks, Hispanics and Muslims Bracing for a Long 4 Years N.Y. Times (Nov. 9... |
2017 |
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Shamika Dalton |
Incorporating Race into Your Legal Research Class |
109 Law Library Journal 703 (Fall, 2017) |
Ms. Dalton examines ways to incorporate a discussion of race into legal research courses, and suggests a number of hypotheticals to use in creating teachable moments. ¶1 As head of reference and instructional services, one of my responsibilities is to share my instructional materials with our newer teaching librarians. For years, I have used the...; Search Snippett: ...of unarmed African Americans at the hands of the police, racial gerrymandering, unequal pay for women, the unfair treatment of Muslims due to our fear of terrorism, and a campaign to... |
2017 |
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Sameer Ahmed |
Is History Repeating Itself? Sentencing Young American Muslims in the War on Terror |
126 Yale Law Journal 1520 (March, 2017) |
The United States' aggressive War on Terror policies since 9/11 have led to significant prison sentences for many young American Muslims, even when their charged criminal conduct cannot be tied to any act of violence in the United States or abroad. A primary reason provided for their severe punishment is that these individuals are uniquely... |
2017 |
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Harvey Gee |
Journey Towards Justice: the Historical and Legal Legacy of Fred Korematsu and the Japanese American Internment in a Post-9/11 World |
50 Suffolk University Law Review 237 (2017) |
In January 2017, President Obama made a final push towards his longstanding national security goal of closing the military base at Guantanamo Bay and transferring its remaining forty-one detainees to U.S. facilities. Obama explained that the push reflects the lessons that we've learned since 9/11, lessons that need to guide our nation going...; Search Snippett: ...Johnson, supra , at 301-02 . Sheryll Cashin, To Be Muslim or Muslim-Looking in America: A Comparative Exploration of Racial and Religious Prejudice in the 21st Century , 2 Duke F... |
2017 |
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Caroline Mala Corbin |
Justice Scalia, the Establishment Clause, and Christian Privilege |
15 First Amendment Law Review 185 (Symposium, 2017) |
Justice Scalia had an unusual take on the Establishment Clause. From its earliest Establishment Clause cases, the Supreme Court has held that the Clause forbids the government from first, favoring one or some religions over others, and second, favoring religion over secular counterparts. Although Justice Scalia was not alone in questioning the...; Search Snippett: ...essence, from the very beginning. . For example, because most Muslims in the United States are not white, hostility towards Muslims may have a racial component. See, e.g. Section 1: A Demographic Portrait of Muslim... |
2017 |
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Khaled A. Beydoun |
Muslim Bans and the (Re)making of Political Islamophobia |
2017 University of Illinois Law Review 1733 (2017) |
Fear and suspicion of Islam, or Islamophobia, occupied center stage on the 2016 presidential campaign. Republican presidential candidates, most notably Donald Trump, upped the ante on the rhetoric targeting Islam and Muslims, during an impasse when fears of terrorism and homegrown radicalization are at a climax. Calls for Muslim immigration... |
2017 |
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Khaled A. Beydoun |
On Islamophobia, Immigration, and the "Muslims Bans" |
43 Ohio Northern University Law Review 443 (2017) |
Anticipating that Hillary Clinton would win the Presidency, I had planned on giving an entirely different lecture based on my research investigating counterterrorism, which focused on national security programming that the Obama Administration implemented in the name of counter-radicalization. However, a different series of events has unfolded.... |
2017 |
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Michael J. Broyde |
Playground Resurfacing and Religious Arbitration Are Very Similar Activities: Trinity Lutheran Church as Applied to Religious Arbitration |
18 Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion 298 (Summer, 2017) |
Supreme Court has spoken, and it has done so in a clear and unambiguous way. In Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer, hereafter known as TLC, the Supreme Court ruled that government discrimination against religion in the matter of funding of playgrounds is unconstitutional. The concern is not about the future of Trinity Lutheran Church, rather, the...; Search Snippett: ...for American Islamic Arbitration Based on the Beth Din of America and Muslim Arbitration Tribunal Experience , 30 Harv. J. Racial & Ethnic Just. 33, n.29 (2014) 9 U.S.C. §§ 1... |
2017 |
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Zsea Bowmani |
Queer Refuge: the Impacts of Homoantagonism and Racism in U.s. Asylum Law |
18 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 1 (Spring, 2017) |
Introduction. 2 I. Institutionalized Discrimination in Immigration and Asylum Law. 4 A. Sexual and Racial Exclusions in U.S. Immigration Law. 5 1. Discrimination Against LGBTQ Immigrants. 7 2. Racial Exclusions. 11 B. U.S. and International Asylum Law: Ill-Fit for LGBTQ People. 14 1. The Quintessential Refugee is Not Queer. 15 2. The Process of...; Search Snippett: ...defines terrorism). . Paul Brickner & Meghan Hanson, The American Dreamers: Racial Prejudices and Discrimination As Seen Through the History of American... |
2017 |
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Mary Ziegler |
The Disability Politics of Abortion |
2017 Utah Law Review 587 (2017) |
With Ohio considering passing the nation's second ban on abortions motivated by Down Syndrome, the relationship between abortion and disability law has taken on new importance. Disability-based bans raise unique legal, moral, and political difficulties for those supporting legal abortion. The core commitments supporting legal abortion--including...; Search Snippett: ...loss of influence, see Elazar Barkan, The Retreat of Scientific Racism: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States Between the World Wars 1-2 (1992); Nathaniel Deutsch, Inventing America's Worst Family, Eugenics, Islam, and the Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Ishmael... |
2017 |
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Shirin Sinnar |
The Lost Story of Iqbal |
105 Georgetown Law Journal 379 (January, 2017) |
The Supreme Court's 2009 decision in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, which transformed pleading standards across civil litigation, is recognized as one of the most important cases of contemporary civil procedure. Despite the abundant attention the case has received on procedural grounds, the Court's representations of Javaid Iqbal, the plaintiff in the case,...; Search Snippett: ...because he wanted people to know the darker side of America: he saw the post-9/11 detentions as a reflection of systematic racism and imperialism that had also led to deadly U.S. interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other Muslim countries. [FN216] His lawyers filed a complaint in the Eastern... |
2017 |
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Carrie L. Rosenbaum |
The Natural Persistence of Racial Disparities in Crime-based Removals |
13 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 532 (Fall, 2017) |
This Article suggests that the replacement of Secure Communities with the Priority Enforcement Program (PEP) did not, and would not have ameliorated the problem of disparate criminal immigration deportation of Latina/o noncitizens. It explores the implications of de-coupling criminal and immigration enforcement and gives theoretical consideration...; Search Snippett: ...15, 2016, 3:00 AM), racism-make- america-great-again-521083; Jamelle Bouie, What We Have Unleashed, This... |
2017 |
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Roy Dripps |
The Persistence of Memory: the Continuing Influence of Antebellum Missouri Laws Regarding African Americans |
20 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice 57 (2017) |
I. Background. 60 II. Missouri Slave Laws: Overview. 65 III. The Roots of Missouri Slave Laws: The Louisiana Territory. 66 IV. Missouri State Laws Regarding Slaves. 70 V. Conclusion. 83; Search Snippett: ...perma.cc/6KNL-N3FR] (last visited Oct. 29, 2017) (reflecting on racism in America in light of his revelations about Islam). Forty years later, James Hart, a Republican, ran for the... |
2017 |
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Raphael Cohen-Almagor |
The Role of Internet Intermediaries in Tackling Terrorism Online |
86 Fordham Law Review 425 (November, 2017) |
John took a stool to the street, stood on it, and started shouting in a loud voice: I want to kill a soldier. Would you join me? I will kill a soldier. Come on with me. Soldiers deserve death. John's target was not named. The target was generic: a soldier, any soldier. John's intention was nevertheless dangerous. The speech conveyed a violent...; Search Snippett: ...in Paris [FN134] and attempting to capitalize on the current racial unrest in the United States by calling on African Americans to embrace Islam and kill racist politicians. [FN135] The fifteenth issue of Inspire , published in 2016... |
2017 |
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Cynthia Gonzalez |
We've Been Here Before: Countering Violent Extremism Through Community Policing |
74 National Lawyers Guild Review Rev. 1 (Spring, 2017) |
In the past, our courts have decided that African-Americans have no rights the white man is bound to respect, separate but equal is appropriate under the federal Constitution, it is criminal to speak against our military's involvement in a war, and interning Japanese-Americans is a legitimate national security measure. While these historical...; Search Snippett: ...skinned people suspected of being Muslim today. Under government-sanctioned racial oppression and segregation in the United States, [FN102] Muslim-Americans have abandoned discussions about religion and politics and have... |
2017 |
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Khaled A. Beydoun, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law; Affiliated Faculty, University of California, Berkeley Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project |
America, Islam, and Constitutionalism: Muslim American Poverty and the Mounting Police State |
31 Journal of Law and Religion 279 (November, 2016) |
The Cambridge Companion to American Islam. Edited by Julianne Hammer and Omar Safi. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. 386. $34.99 (paper). ISBN: 9780521175524. On the Muslim Question. By Anne Norton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. 288. $28.99 (cloth). ISBN: 978-0691157047. What Is an American Muslim? Embracing Faith... |
2016 |
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Khaled A. Beydoun |
Between Indigence, Islamophobia, and Erasure: Poor and Muslim in "War on Terror" America |
104 California Law Review 1463 (December, 2016) |
Nearly half of the Muslim American population is interlocked between indigence and Islamophobia, or anti-Muslim animus. Of the estimated eight million Muslim Americans, 45 percent of this population earns a household income less than $30,000 per year. While this statistic clashes with pervasive stereotyping of Muslim Americans as middle class,... |
2016 |
Yes |
Khaled A. Beydoun |
Beyond the Paris Attacks: Unveiling the War Within French Counterterror Policy |
65 American University Law Review 1273 (August, 2016) |
The Paris Attacks of November 13, 2015, left an indelible mark on France's culture war with Islam and are poised to permanently reform the identity of French counterterrorism policy. Since the beginning of the Jacques Chirac Administration in 1995, the State has maintained a hardline cultural assimilation campaign as the foundation of its... |
2016 |
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Theodore Goloff |
Employment Law |
50 The Year in Review (ABA) 359 (2016) |
In 2015, at least two decisions rendered by the Supreme Court of Canada impact transnational labour relations and employment law. These decisions impacted the law both in terms of the legal principles established and the effect that foreign law and jurisprudence, international conventions, and perceived Canadian treaty obligations might have in...; Search Snippett: ...that there was post 9/11 anti-Arab or anti- Muslim sentiment or bias involving racial profiling, was insufficiently specific to the United States regulations involved to taint the Alien Flight Students Program (AFSP... |
2016 |
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Harvey Gee |
Habeas Corpus, Civil Liberties, and Indefinite Detention During Wartime: from ex Parte Endo and the Japanese American Internment to the War on Terrorism and Beyond |
47 University of the Pacific Law Review 791 (2016) |
I. Introduction. 792 II. The Internment of Japanese Americans and Endo: It was About Race Despite the Government and Supreme Court Insistence that It Was About Military Necessity . 796 A. The Three Internment Cases Leading Up to Endo. 799 B. Endo's Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus and Justice Douglas' Avoidance of the Constitutional Issues. 801...; Search Snippett: ...of actually undermining security. ); Eric L. Muller, Inference or Impact? Racial Profiling and the Internment's True Legacy , 1 Ohio State J... |
2016 |
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Mariela Olivares |
Intersectionality at the Intersection of Profiteering & Immigration Detention |
94 Nebraska Law Review 963 (2016) |
I. Introduction. 963 II. The Road to and Realities of Immigrant Detention. 966 A. The Origins of Immigrant Detention. 967 B. A Snapshot of Detention. 973 III. The Commodification of Immigrants. 976 A. The Prison Business. 977 B. The Prison Industry Discovers the Price of Immigrants. 985 IV. At the Crossroads--Intersectionality at the...; Search Snippett: ...As a result, what would otherwise qualify as religiously driven racial discrimination became legitimate safeguards to protect the homeland--a homeland that Muslims find increasingly antagonistic to their presence, despite their status as United States citizens. See Alexander supra note 34, at 105-33... |
2016 |
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Khaled A. Beydoun |
Islam Incarcerated: Religious Accommodation of Muslim Prisoners Before Holt v. Hobbs |
84 University of Cincinnati Law Review 99 (Summer 2016) |
I. Introduction. 100 II. (Re)Building a Nation: The Nation of Islam. 107 A. Origins and History. 109 B. Core Beliefs. 114 C. How Other Muslims Perceived the Nation of Islam During its Rise. 118 III. The Nation of Islam's Rise Behind Bars. 121 IV. Judicial Doctrine Governing Prisoners' Rights. 126 A. The Hands Off Doctrine. 127 B. The Clear and... |
2016 |
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Anita Bernstein |
Just Jobs |
45 University of Baltimore Law Review 209 (Spring 2016) |
Activists who pursue gender justice in the United States have always focused on work, both the paid and unpaid kind. In her magisterial Sex Equality, Catharine MacKinnon chose Work as her first section, or illustrative locus, in the chapter titled Sex and Sexism. At the workplace, MacKinnon wrote, begins the most-traveled terrain of sex...; Search Snippett: ...South Africa drew outrage and unrelenting international activism until a racist regime threw in the towel, while the strain of Islam that limits the movements of women in Saudi Arabia makes... |
2016 |
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Sudha Setty |
Obama's National Security Exceptionalism |
91 Chicago-Kent Law Review 91 (2016) |
One of the premises of this symposium is that the Obama administration, in undertaking various executive actions that protect some of the vulnerable immigrant populations in the United States, is acting in a more rights-protective manner than Congress has explicitly authorized. This Essay juxtaposes this perceived dynamic with policies in the...; Search Snippett: ...falling on Arab noncitizens); Gil Gott, The Devil We Know: Racial Subordination and National Security Law, 50 Vill. L. Rev. 1073... |
2016 |
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Shirin Sinnar |
Rule of Law Tropes in National Security |
129 Harvard Law Review 1566 (April, 2016) |
In seeking to insulate national security conduct from external review, executive officials often publicize self-imposed rules that appear to subject their authority to familiar, well-established legal standards from constitutional or international law. But executive officials sometimes invoke such standards in public while deviating from prevalent...; Search Snippett: ...laptop-search-policy-border [Racial Profiling in America Before the Subcomm. on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human... |
2016 |
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William B. Turner |
The National Masturbators' Task Force; Or, the Importance of Lgbt Political Organizing for Evaluating Lgbt Equal Protection Claims in Competition with Free Exercise of Religion Claims |
25 Tulane Journal of Law & Sexuality 43 (2016) |
I. Introduction. 44 II. The Context. 55 A. Equal Protection. 62 B. Equal Protection/Due Process. 76 III. Equal Protection. 84 A. Carolene Products. 86 B. The LGBT Minority: Diffuse and Indiscrete. 89 C. Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc.. 92 D. Are LGBT Persons Necessarily Deficient Citizens?. 94 E. Nonmarital Children. 97 F. The Due...; Search Snippett: ...LGBT persons. It is perhaps easy to forget that the United States has a long and sorry history of discrimination against religious minorities, including Muslims, Mormons, and Catholics as well as Jews, and that many Christians considered racial segregation a moral imperative growing out of their religious beliefs... |
2016 |
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Doug Coulson |
British Imperialism, the Indian Independence Movement, and the Racial Eligibility Provisions of the Naturalization Act: United States V. Thind Revisited |
7 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives Persp. 1 (Spring, 2015) |
This article reexamines the United States Supreme Court's opinion in United States v. Thind, which held that high caste Hindus were not white persons and were therefore racially ineligible for naturalized citizenship, through a rhetorical history of the briefs, judicial opinions, National Archives and Records Administration documents, and British...; Search Snippett: ...for naturalization. See Douglas M. Coulson, Persecutory Agency in the Racial Prerequisite Cases: Islam, Christianity, and Martyrdom in United States v. Cartozian, 2 U. Miami Race & Soc. Just. L. Rev... |
2015 |
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Sahar F. Aziz |
Coercing Assimilation: the Case of Muslim Women of Color |
24 Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems 341 (Fall 2015) |
Thank you to Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems and the Journal of Gender, Race & Justice for inviting me, and a special thanks to Professor Wing for hosting us today. You all are very fortunate to have Professor Wing as an advisor and mentor here at the University of Iowa College of Law. Today, I have been asked to address the domestic...; Search Snippett: ...Americans and foreigners); Kathryn M. Neckerman & Joleen Kirschenman, Hiring Strategies, Racial Bias, and Inner-City Workers, 38 Soc. Probs. 433, 440... |
2015 |
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Taunya Lovell Banks |
Colorism among South Asians: Title Vii and Skin Tone Discrimination |
14 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 665 (2015) |
In 2013 Nina Davuluri, an Asian Indian from Syracuse, NY, became the first South Asian-American Miss America. Her selection prompted racist messages on Twitter mixing up Indian, Indian-American, Arab, Muslim, and everything in between. The racist tweets are not simply a commentary on racial progress in post-civil rights America but, more... |
2015 |
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Reginald C. Wisenbaker, Jr. |
Muslim Community Reparations |
2 Savannah Law Review 391 (2015) |
Muslim Americans are often targets of ill-founded discrimination, hate, and suspicion. Through popular cultural portrayals, salacious media reporting, and targeted governmental policies, Muslim Americans suffer from discrimination because mainstream Islam has become improperly conflated with terrorism in the United States. Compounding the harm,... |
2015 |
Yes |
Harvey Gee |
National Insecurity: the National Defense Authorization Act, the Indefinite Detention of American Citizens, and a Call for Heightened Judicial Scrutiny |
49 John Marshall Law Review 69 (Fall, 2015) |
I. Introduction. 69 II. The Japanese American Internment. 73 III. The NDAA and the War Against Terrorism. 79 A. 2001 Authorization of Use of Military Force. 79 B. National Defense Authorization Act of 2012. 80 C. Hamdi v. Rumsfeld and Establishing the Legal Authority for the NDAA. 83 IV. Hedges v. Obama. 85 V. Learning from History and Avoiding...; Search Snippett: ...inclusive, and impractical because as Professor Frank Wu explains, the racial profiling of Arab Americans and Muslim Americans relies on an incorrect belief that a large number or all the terrorists are Arab or Muslim . Most Arab Americans are not Muslim; most Muslims in the United States are South Asian or African Americans; and the post-September... |
2015 |
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Natsu Taylor Saito |
Race and Decolonization: Whiteness as Property in the American Settler Colonial Project |
31 Harvard Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice 31 (Spring 2015) |
we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives. Ben Okri A half-century after some of the most celebrated victories of the civil rights movement, the formal equality achieved during that era has had little discernible impact on the disparities that continue to define the material and psychological conditions of life for...; Search Snippett: ...Rev . 1219, 1245-71 (1995) ; on the construction of American Muslims as non-White, see Amara S. Chaudhry-Kravitz, Is Brown the New Black? American Muslims, Inherent Propensity for Violence, and America's Racial History , 20 Wash. & Lee J. Civil. Rts. & Soc. Just . 3... |
2015 |
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Dawinder S. Sidhu |
Racial Mirroring |
17 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 1335 (May, 2015) |
Racial mirroring refers to efforts by one group to match the primary racial composition of another group. In contrast to racial balancing, which takes place when two groups are adjusted simultaneously to achieve a desired degree of racial equilibrium between them, racial mirroring occurs when the racial makeup of one group is adjusted so as to...; Search Snippett: ...or illegal. (internal quotation marks omitted)); Kevin R. Johnson, How Racial Profiling in America Became the Law of the Land: United States v. Brignoni-Ponce and Whren v. United States and the Need for Truly Rebellious Lawyering , 98 Geo. L.J... |
2015 |
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Robert M. Franklin, James T. and Berta R. Laney Professor in Moral Leadership, Candler School of Theology |
Rehabilitating Democracy: Restoring Civil Rights and Leading the next Human Rights Revolution |
30 Journal of Law and Religion 414 (October, 2015) |
This article describes the culture of activist black Christian congregations that propelled campaigns to dismantle legalized racial segregation and advocate for equal justice. Historically, as the imperfections of American democracy were exposed, the most marginal people in the society acted persistently and repeatedly to extend the benefits of...; Search Snippett: ...and leading truth and reconciliation processes to heal both old racial divides and new xenophobia directed at immigrants and religious minorities, such as Muslims in America. Such expansion will require action by moral leaders. Yet this... |
2015 |
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Roundtable Discussion: Opposition to Islamic and Jewish Religious Practices in Contemporary America: Overlap and Divergences, the Anti-shari'a Movement in America Shari'a and Halakha in America Conference April 15-16, 2013 |
90 Chicago-Kent Law Review 13 (2015) |
Dean Tantillo: We welcome you to the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago. My name is Astrida Orle Tantillo. I am Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and it is really my pleasure to be here to open this final day of the Sharia and Halakha in America Conference. I would like to first thank the sponsors... |
2015 |
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Erin Sisson |
The Future of Sharia Law in American Arbitration |
48 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 891 (May, 2015) |
A rising tide of Islamophobia in the United States has led, in recent years, to state-level efforts to prohibit the application of Sharia law in American courts. While these bans have been largely unsuccessful as legislation--the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has even declared one such ban unconstitutional--the growing uneasiness among... |
2015 |
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William C. Bradford |
Trahison Des Professeurs: the Critical Law of Armed Conflict Academy as an Islamist Fifth Column |
3 National Security Law Journal 278 (Spring/Summer, 2015) |
Islamist extremists allege law of war violations against the United States to undermine American legitimacy, convince Americans that the United States is an evil regime fighting an illegal and immoral war against Islam, and destroy the political will of the American people. Yet these extremists' own capacity to substantiate their claims is inferior...; Search Snippett: ...whom it serves. [FN668] In essence, after 9/11, the United States, facing no threat, chose to perpetuate an evil national history... |
2015 |
Yes |
Khaled A. Beydoun |
Why Ferguson Is Our Issue: a Letter to Muslim America |
31 Harvard Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice Just. 1 (Spring 2015) |
Dear Muslim America: Ferguson is your issue. Ferguson is our issue. For a range of reasons that go well beyond passive commitment to civil rights or symbolic solidarity, Muslim-Americans are bound to Ferguson --and the piercing demand calling for an end to state-sponsored, structural violence against Black America that reverberates from its... |
2015 |
Yes |
Khaled A. Beydoun |
Antebellum Islam |
58 Howard Law Journal 141 (Fall 2014) |
Muslim-American identity today is deeply conflated with Arab-American identity. This conflation perpetuates stereotypes within legal scholarship, government agencies, and civil rights interventions seeking to combat the marginalization of Muslim Americans - victims of post-9/11 profiling and new, local policing surveillance programs (e.g., NYPD... |
2014 |
Yes |
Sahar F. Aziz |
Coercive Assimilationism: the Perils of Muslim Women's Identity Performance in the Workplace |
20 Michigan Journal of Race and Law L. 1 (Fall, 2014) |
Should employees have the legal right to be themselves at work? Most Americans would answer in the negative because work is a privilege, not an entitlement. But what if being oneself entails behaviors, mannerisms, and values integrally linked to the employee's gender, race, or religion? And what if the basis for the employer's workplace rules and... |
2014 |
Yes |
Pooja Gehi, Soniya Munshi |
Connecting State Violence and Anti-violence: an Examination of the Impact of Vawa and Hate Crimes Legislation on Asian American Communities |
21 Asian American Law Journal 5 (2014) |
In the United States, the dominant approach to responding to various forms of interpersonal violence, such as intimate violence or bias attacks, supports and expands the state apparatus of incarceration. For communities of color and LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer) communities who are already at risk for institutional violence,...; Search Snippett: ...of law enforcement efforts. See, e.g. , Inderpal Grewal, Transnational America: Race, Gender and Citizenship after 9/11 Social Identities: Journal... |
2014 |
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Aruna Papp |
Conspiracy of Silence: Honour-based Violence in North America |
22 Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law & Social Policy 105 (2013-2014) |
To say that I was overwhelmed with the invitation to speak this afternoon would be an understatement. Thank you for having me. It has been a very long journey for me to reach this podium. I often attend conferences, workshops, and events such as this aimed at front line service providers, academics, and others who are passionate about eliminating...; Search Snippett: ...Single Out: Should We Use the Term Honor Killing?, 7 Muslim World J. Hum. Rts. 1, 1-3 (2010) (noting some scholars and communities find the phrase honor killing controversial, racist, and misleading; arguing it is used to promote violent stereotypes of particular communities, particularly Muslim minorities in North America and Europe ); see also Purna Sen, Crimes of Honour, Value... |
2014 |
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Zane A. Umsted |
Deterring Racial Bias in Criminal Justice Through Sentencing |
100 Iowa Law Review 431 (November, 2014) |
In 2013, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) published a report revealing stark racial disparities in the national enforcement of marijuana laws. The report suggested that police officers often use their law enforcement discretion to selectively patrol predominantly African American communities. This Note examines this and other...; Search Snippett: ...Am. Civil Liberties Union & Rights Working Group, The Persistence of Racial and Ethnic Profiling in the United States 31-33 (2009), available at |
2014 |
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Brandon Paradise |
How Critical Race Theory Marginalizes the African American Christian Tradition |
20 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 117 (Fall, 2014) |
This Article offers the first comprehensive account of the marginalization of the African American Christian tradition in the movement of race and law scholarship known as critical race theory. While committed to grounding itself in the perspectives of communities of color, critical race theory has virtually ignored the significance of the fact...; Search Snippett: ...remains a relevant and invaluable resource in the struggle against racial subordination); Derrick Bell Ethical Ambition 75-93 (2002) (although a... |
2014 |
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William Y. Chin |
Invasions and Civilians: the Special Duty of the United States to Aid Civlian War Sufferers Produced by U.s. Military Intervention |
5 Human Rights & Globalization Law Review Rev. 3 (Fall, 2013-Spring, 2014) |
The United States is a military colossus capable of inflicting its will, through force, on any corner of the globe. However, with this military ability comes responsibility by harming others, the use of force creates a special duty to aid those harmed. Under this harm principle, when the United States invades another country and harms its...; Search Snippett: ...J. Hum. Rts. 2 (2006) . Sheryl Cashin, To Be Muslim or Muslim-Looking in America: A Comparative Exploration of Racial and Religious Prejudice in the 21st Century, 2 Duke Forum... |
2014 |
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Casey E. Faucon |
Marriage Outlaws: Regulating Polygamy in America |
22 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy Pol'y 1 (Fall 2014) |
Polygamist families in America live as outlaws on the margins of society. While the insular groups living in and around Utah are recognized by mainstream society, Muslim polygamists (including African-American polygamists) living primarily along the East Coast are much less familiar. Despite the positive social justifications that support... |
2014 |
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Sahar F. Aziz |
Policing Terrorists in the Community |
5 Harvard National Security Journal 147 (2014) |
Twelve years after the September 11th attacks, countering domestic terrorism remains a top priority for federal law enforcement agencies. Using a variety of reactive and preventive tactics, law enforcement seeks to stop terrorism before it occurs. Towards that end, community policing, developed in the 1990s to combat violent crime in inner city...; Search Snippett: ...the twelve years since the 9/11 attacks show that Muslims in the United States are not only experiencing subordination in various settings, but they... |
2014 |
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