Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms in Title or Summary |
Susan Bennett, Binny Miller, Michelle Assad, Maria Dooner, Mariam Hinds, Jessica Millward, Citlalli Ochoa, Charles Ross, Anne Schaufele, Caroline Wick |
BUILDING A CULTURE OF SCHOLARSHIP WITH NEW CLINICAL TEACHERS BY WRITING ABOUT SOCIAL JUSTICE LAWYERING |
31 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 311 (2023) |
I. Introduction. 313 II. The Teaching of Social Justice as a Fundamental Lawyering Skill. 319 III. The Narratives. 321 A. Forging Professional Identities Under Stress: Providing Opportunities for Framing Success and for a Transition to a Social Justice-Informed Practice. 321 1. Teaching Through Injustice and Uncertainty. 323 a. Defining Goals and... |
2023 |
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Katie O'Brien |
CAMERA-ENFORCED STREETS: CREATING AN ANTI-RACIST SYSTEM OF TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT |
36 Journal of Civil Rights & Economic Development 515 (Winter, 2023) |
On July 10, 2015, Sandra Bland was pulled over while driving in Prairie View, Texas, for failure to signal a lane change after moving to allow a trooper's vehicle to pass her car. As the stop progressed, the trooper ordered Bland to get out of her car. When she refused, the trooper threatened to yank [Bland] out of her car and light [her] up... |
2023 |
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Mary L. Frampton |
CAN RESTORATIVE JUSTICE TRANSFORM SCHOOL CULTURE IN CALIFORNIA? QUALITATIVE RESEARCH SHINES A LITTLE LIGHT |
20 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 75 (Spring, 2023) |
C1-2Table of Contents Restorative Justice as a Paradigm Shift. 77 Restorative Justice Pilot Program at Oakland's Middle School. 78 Policy Leaders Shift Toward Restorative Justice and Other Positive Disciplinary Approaches. 80 Decisions to Suspend and Expel Continue to Disproportionately Impact Children of Color. 82 Can A Qualitative Research Study... |
2023 |
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Mary L. Frampton |
CAN RESTORATIVE JUSTICE TRANSFORM SCHOOL CULTURE IN CALIFORNIA? QUALITATIVE RESEARCH SHINES A LITTLE LIGHT |
34 Hastings Journal on Gender and the Law 75 (Spring, 2023) |
C1-2Table of Contents Restorative Justice as a Paradigm Shift. 77 Restorative Justice Pilot Program at Oakland's Middle School. 78 Policy Leaders Shift Toward Restorative Justice and Other Positive Disciplinary Approaches. 80 Decisions to Suspend and Expel Continue to Disproportionately Impact Children of Color. 82 Can A Qualitative Research Study... |
2023 |
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Anna Belle Newport |
CIVIL MIRANDA WARNINGS: THE FIGHT FOR PARENTS TO KNOW THEIR RIGHTS DURING A CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES INVESTIGATION |
54 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 854 (Spring, 2023) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 856 Part I: The Family Regulation System as it is Today. 862 A. Constitutional Protections & Limitations in the Family Regulation System. 862 B. Disproportionate Impact on Low-Income Communities of Color. 865 C. The Limitations of Miranda v. Arizona in the Family Court Context. 870 Part II: The Meaninglessness of... |
2023 |
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Nicole Summers |
CIVIL PROBATION |
75 Stanford Law Review 847 (April, 2023) |
Abstract. The scholarly literature on the eviction legal system has repeatedly concluded that eviction courts are courts of mass settlement. In court hallways, landlords' attorneys pressure unrepresented tenants into signing settlement agreements in a factory-like process, and judges approve the agreements with a perfunctory rubber stamp. Yet while... |
2023 |
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Lisa Lucile Owens |
CONCENTRATED SURVEILLANCE WITHOUT CONSTITUTIONAL PRIVACY: LAW, INEQUALITY, AND PUBLIC HOUSING |
34 Stanford Law and Policy Review 131 (2023) |
Equal treatment of citizens under the law is a supposedly central value in the American legal system, and yet laws often contribute to the further entrenchment of inequality. This Article utilizes qualitative social scientific data to shed light on the differential impacts of law. In particular, this Article asks how vulnerable individuals and... |
2023 |
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Barbara Fedders |
CONCEPTUALIZING AN ANTI-MOTHER JUVENILE DELINQUENCY COURT |
101 North Carolina Law Review 1351 (June, 2023) |
This Article makes three contributions to the literature on the harms to children and their families that flow from involvement in the juvenile delinquency court. It argues, first, that poor mothers of color--especially those raising children without cohabitating partners--are uniquely vulnerable among parents to both seeing their children... |
2023 |
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Anna Roberts |
CRIMINAL TERMS |
107 Minnesota Law Review 1495 (April, 2023) |
Core items of vocabulary used by criminal legal academics to describe the criminal system, those affected by it, and those overseeing it, convey implicit messages that bolster that system. While important scholarship in the last few years has identified the fact that criminal legal academics are implicated in the system and has argued that through... |
2023 |
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Kevin Brown |
CRITICAL RACE THEORY EXPLAINED BY ONE OF THE ORIGINAL PARTICIPANTS |
98 New York University Law Review Online 91 (April, 2023) |
President Donald Trump issued an executive order in September of 2020 seeking to exclude diversity and inclusion training from federal contracts if those trainings contained so-called divisive concepts like stereotyping and scapegoating based on race and sex. In the wake of the executive order, attacks on Critical Race Theory (CRT) skyrocketed.... |
2023 |
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Nicole Stelle Garnett |
DECOUPLING PROPERTY AND EDUCATION |
123 Columbia Law Review 1367 (June, 2023) |
Over the past several years, the landscape of K-12 education policy has shifted dramatically, thanks in part to increasing prevalence of parental-choice policies, including intra- and inter-district public school choice, charter schools, and private-school choice policies like vouchers and (most recently) universal education savings accounts. These... |
2023 |
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Lauren Sudeall |
DELEGALIZATION |
75 Stanford Law Review Online 116 (July, 2023) |
The lack of resources available to assist low-income litigants as they navigate the legal system has been widely documented. In the civil context-- where a majority of cases involve eviction, debt collection, and family matters --various solutions have been offered to address the problem. These include expanding the civil right to counsel;... |
2023 |
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Robyn Zoccola, Erin Borissov |
DIGITAL DIVIDE--DISPARATE IMPACT? THE IMPACT OF MODERN RECRUITING AND WORKPLACE PRACTICES THAT RELY ON BROADBAND |
56 Indiana Law Review 543 (2023) |
For many of us, it is difficult to imagine a life without the internet. Everything in our lives is tied to it. With the prevalence of telemedicine, e-commerce, online education, remote work, online news sources, and more, the inaccessibility of broadband service can quickly cause people to fall behind in every aspect of their life. Despite the... |
2023 |
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Saptarishi Bandopadhyay, Joshua R. Coene |
DISASTER RISK IN THE CARCERAL STATE |
42 Stanford Environmental Law Journal 171 (May, 2023) |
I. Introduction. 173 II. A Sketch of the Carceral State. 184 A. Mass Incarceration, Excess, and Origins. 184 B. Prison Regimes and Risk Management: Between Incapacitation and Correctionalism. 192 C. The Production of Carceral Vulnerability. 197 III. Between Compassion and Security: Disaster Risk in the Managerial State. 200 A. Disaster Risk... |
2023 |
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Cynthia Godsoe |
DISRUPTING CARCERAL LOGIC IN FAMILY POLICING |
121 Michigan Law Review 939 (April, 2023) |
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. By Dorothy Roberts. New York: Basic Books. 2022. Pp. 11, 303. $32. Among a growing consensus that the criminal legal system is oversized, racist, and ineffective at preventing harm, the child welfare/family-policing system continues to be... |
2023 |
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Victoria Kalumbi |
DON'T MAKE THEM MARTYRS: EMPOWERING CHILDREN IN THE FOSTER CARE & JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEMS THROUGH COVID-19 VACCINE CONSENTING RIGHTS |
41 Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality 29 (Winter, 2023) |
Traditionally, the law has created only narrow avenues for children's rights to be recognized and vindicated. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed and reminded adults what it means to be in control, and what rights we should have to live a full, engaged, and productive life. Children in the foster care and juvenile justice systems have such little... |
2023 |
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Laura Portuondo |
EFFECTING FREE EXERCISE AND EQUAL PROTECTION |
72 Duke Law Journal 1493 (April, 2023) |
There is an emerging discrepancy in free exercise and equal protection law. For decades, the Supreme Court has maintained that a law's effects on a protected group are usually insufficient to trigger heightened scrutiny under either the Free Exercise or Equal Protection Clause. This longstanding rule has rendered it virtually impossible to... |
2023 |
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Caroline Cecot |
EFFICIENCY AND EQUITY IN REGULATION |
76 Vanderbilt Law Review 361 (March, 2023) |
The Biden Administration has signaled an interest in ensuring that regulations appropriately benefit vulnerable and disadvantaged communities. Prior presidential administrations since at least the Reagan Administration have focused on ensuring that regulations are efficient, maximizing the net benefits to society as a whole, without considering who... |
2023 |
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David Leeds |
ELECTION LAW AS IDEOLOGY: TOWARD A NEW HISTORIOGRAPHY OF DEMOCRACY AS A FUNCTION OF LAW |
111 Georgetown Law Journal 607 (March, 2023) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 608 I. Theories of Democracy. 610 a. the tension between democracy and liberal capitalism. 610 b. the incoherence of liberal rights theory. 611 c. spurious neutrality. 613 II. The Political Theory of Election Law. 614 a. voting rights law. 614 1. Residency-Based Disenfranchisement: Holt Civic Club v. Tuscaloosa... |
2023 |
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Simran Kaur |
ELIMINATING CASH BAIL IN WASHINGTON STATE--AMENDING CRIMINAL RULE 3.2 |
47 Seattle University Law Review 257 (Fall, 2023) |
C1-2Contents Introduction. 257 I. The Cash Bail System. 261 A. Understanding the Bail System. 261 B. History of the Bail System. 262 C. The Contemporary Bail System in Washington State. 265 II. The Effect of Bail for Pretrial Release. 267 A. Low-Income and Racial Inequalities. 268 B. Impact of Pretrial Detention. 271 C. Disparate Figures. 272 III.... |
2023 |
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Rachel Avi Silberman Holtzman |
EMOTIONS MATTER: EMOTIONAL DISTRESS DAMAGES FOR DISCRIMINATION IN PUBLIC BENEFITS |
3 North Carolina Civil Rights Law Review 171 (Spring, 2023) |
Title VI is sound; it is morally right; it is legally right; it is constitutionally right . What will it accomplish? It will guarantee that the money collected by colorblind tax collectors will be distributed by Federal and State administrators who are equally colorblind. Let me say it again: The title has a simple purpose--to eliminate... |
2023 |
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Daina Strub Kabitz |
ENGAGING IN EQUITY-CENTERED POLICYMAKING: STATE-LEVEL RACIAL EQUITY IMPACT ASSESSMENT TRENDS, LESSONS LEARNED, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS |
49 Mitchell Hamline Law Review 645 (June, 2023) |
I. Introduction. 646 II. Background. 647 III. Racial Equity Impact Assessments: Detailed Examples. 651 A. Criminal Justice Focused REIAs: Iowa's Correctional Impact Statement. 651 B. Generally Applicable REIAs: Colorado's Demographic Note. 654 C. Emerging REIA Trends at the Local Level: New York City's Racial Equity Report. 656 IV. Racial Equity... |
2023 |
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Chinonso Anozie |
EQUALIZING REMEDIATION |
2023 Wisconsin Law Review 919 (2023) |
Environmental harm remediation occurs far less than it should in minority and low-income communities. One in six Americans live within three miles of a designated toxic waste or contaminated site, which causes a variety of health hazards. Frequently, these sites are located within minority or low-income communities. Multinational corporations and... |
2023 |
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Rubin Danberg Biggs, Patrick Holland |
FAMILIAL-STATUS DISCRIMINATION: A NEW FRONTIER IN FAIR HOUSING ACT LITIGATION |
132 Yale Law Journal 792 (January, 2023) |
A key provision in the Fair Housing Act (FHA)--the Housing for Older Persons Act (HOPA) exemption--has allowed municipalities to weaponize senior housing to discriminate against families, obstruct affordable housing, and perpetuate race and class segregation. This Note documents the nature, stakes, and origins of this pattern and advances three... |
2023 |
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Elizabeth Chu , James S. Liebman , Madeline Sims , Tim Wang |
FAMILY MOVES AND THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION |
54 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 469 (Spring, 2023) |
State laws compel school-aged children to attend school while fully funding only public schools. Especially following the COVID-19 pandemic, this arrangement is under attack--from some for unconstitutionally coercing families to expose their children to non-neutral values to which they object and from others for ignoring the developmental needs of... |
2023 |
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Tarek Z. Ismail |
FAMILY POLICING AND THE FOURTH AMENDMENT |
111 California Law Review 1485 (October, 2023) |
Each year, Child Protective Services (CPS) investigates over one million families. Every CPS investigation includes a thorough, room-by-room search of the family home, designed to uncover evidence of maltreatment. Most seek evidence of poverty-related allegations of neglect; few ever substantiate the allegations. Despite what in many cities amounts... |
2023 |
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S. Lisa Washington |
FAMMIGRATION WEB |
103 Boston University Law Review 117 (February, 2023) |
A growing body of scholarship examines the expansive nature of the criminal legal system. What remains overlooked are other parts of the carceral state with similarly punitive logics and impacts. To begin filling this gap, this Article focuses on the convergence of the family regulation and immigration systems. This Article examines how the... |
2023 |
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James G. Dwyer |
FAUX ADVOCACY IN AMICUS PRACTICE |
50 Pepperdine Law Review 633 (April, 2023) |
Amicus brief filing has reached avalanche volume. Supreme Court Justices and lower court judges look to these briefs particularly for non-case-specific factual information--legislative facts--relevant to a case. This Article calls attention to a recurrent yet unrecognized problem with amicus filings offering up legislative facts in the many... |
2023 |
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Steven Jessen-Howard |
FIGHTING CHILD POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES: THE UNIVERSAL CHILD BENEFIT |
30 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 589 (Spring, 2023) |
More than ten million children in the United States live in poverty, largely because of the country's relative lack of investment in children and families. Child poverty is associated with higher rates of child maltreatment and contributes to a host of outcomes that harm children and society. Recent legislation that increased the size and scope of... |
2023 |
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Maggie Blackhawk |
FOREWORD: THE CONSTITUTION OF AMERICAN COLONIALISM |
137 Harvard Law Review 1 (November, 2023) |
C1-2CONTENTS Introduction. 2 I. The Constitution of American Colonialism. 22 A. Constituting American Colonialism. 26 1. Colonization Within the Founding Borders. 28 2. Colonization Beyond the Founding Borders. 33 3. Colonization of Noncontiguous Territory. 43 B. The Rise of the Plenary Power Doctrine. 53 1. Plenary Power as Doctrine. 55 2.... |
2023 |
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John Powell , Ned Conner |
FORM AND SUBSTANCE: UNDERSTANDING CONCEPTUAL AND DESIGN DIFFERENCES AMONG RACIAL EQUITY PROPOSALS AND A BOLD APPLICATION |
38 Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution 13 (2023) |
I. Introduction II. Defining Racial Equity A. Conceptual Underpinnings B. Problems with Equity C. A Different Vision of Racial Justice III. Racial Equity Cleavages A. Race-Targeted v. Universalistic Form 1. Race-Targeted Policies 2. Universalistic, but Race-Conscious B. Racial Equity Reforms v. New Initiatives 1. Reforms 2. New Programs &... |
2023 |
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Hal Clay |
FORTY ACRES AND A MULE: AMERICA'S BILL FOR REPARATIONS IS LONG PAST OVERDUE |
24 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice 505 (2023) |
Introduction. 507 A. The Justification For Timely Reparations Stems From The Historic Injustices Perpetrated On Black Americans. 507 I. History. 517 A. There Are Historical Justifications For Reparations. 517 B. There Is No Better Justification For Reparations Established Than Federal Payments Made To Slave Owners Before And After The Civil War.... |
2023 |
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Maxine Eichner |
FREE-MARKET FAMILY POLICY AND THE NEW PARENTAL RIGHTS LAWS |
101 North Carolina Law Review 1305 (June, 2023) |
How can government best support children's interests? Recently, federal and state policies have suggested conflicting answers to this question. One answer comes from a series of economic measures supporting families that were passed by Congress during the pandemic. These measures rested on the rationale that families do better when they are... |
2023 |
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Mary Holper |
GANG ACCUSATIONS: THE BEAST THAT BURDENS NONCITIZENS |
89 Brooklyn Law Review 119 (Fall, 2023) |
A teenager from El Salvador attends a high school that is populated mostly by Latine youth. He finds his friends in a group of boys. He gets into a scuffle with another boy. Little does he know, with each of these interactions, he has been accruing points in a database that tracks gang membership and affiliation. The friendships earn him two... |
2023 |
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Deborah M. Weissman |
GENDER VIOLENCE AS LEGACY: TO IMAGINE NEW APPROACHES |
20 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 55 (Spring, 2023) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 55 Part I. Defining RJ/TJ and Identifying the Challenges. 58 A. Restorative Justice (RJ). 58 B. Transformative Justice (TJ). 59 Part II. From Carceral Responses to Addressing the Political Economy of IPV. 61 Part III. The Turn to History. 64 Part IV. Restorative and Transformative Justice: Matters of Praxis... |
2023 |
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Deborah M. Weissman |
GENDER VIOLENCE AS LEGACY: TO IMAGINE NEW APPROACHES |
34 Hastings Journal on Gender and the Law 55 (Spring, 2023) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 55 Part I. Defining RJ/TJ and Identifying the Challenges. 58 A. Restorative Justice (RJ). 58 B. Transformative Justice (TJ). 59 Part II. From Carceral Responses to Addressing the Political Economy of IPV. 61 Part III. The Turn to History. 64 Part IV. Restorative and Transformative Justice: Matters of Praxis... |
2023 |
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Jose Garcia-Fuerte , William Garriott |
GREENING THE GREEN RUSH: HOW ADDRESSING THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF CANNABIS LEGALIZATION CAN ENHANCE SOCIAL EQUITY AND REMEDIATE THE HARMS OF THE WAR ON DRUGS |
53 Environmental Law 169 (Spring, 2023) |
The legalization of cannabis in the United States has focused on creating regulated, for-profit commercial markets modeled on alcohol to replace the prohibition regime that held sway for most of the 20th Century. Like the fabled gold rush of the 19th Century, this new market opportunity has been a magnet for entrepreneurs and prospectors of all... |
2023 |
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Kennedy Ray Fite |
HAALAND v. BRACKEEN: THE DECISION THAT THREATENED THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT'S PROTECTIONS OF NATIVE FAMILIES IN ILLINOIS |
54 Loyola University Chicago Law Journal 1109 (Summer, 2023) |
The Indian Child Welfare Act has become a controversial piece of legislation since the Supreme Court heard oral argument on the case of Haaland v. Brackeen in November 2022 and released its decision in June 2023. The statute was originally enacted in 1978 to remedy the United States' tragic history of family separation in tribal communities,... |
2023 |
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Randi Mandelbaum |
HEEDING THE VOICES OF MIGRANT YOUTH: THE NEED FOR ACTION |
121 Michigan Law Review 965 (April, 2023) |
Unaccompanied: The Plight of Immigrant Youth at the Border. By Emily Ruehs-Navarro. New York: New York University Press. 2022. Pp. ix, 163. Cloth, $89; paper, $28. Nicolas is a sixteen-year-old boy who was forced to flee Ecuador due to extreme poverty as well as threats to him and his family (pp. 1-2). His father had resided in the United States... |
2023 |
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Dr. Lucius Couloute , Kacie Snyder |
HOUSING INSECURITY AMONG PEOPLE WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS: A FOCUS ON LANDLORDS |
32-SUM Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 21 (Summer, 2023) |
Approximately 600,000 people are released from prisons each year and at least 79 million adults--over one third of the population--now hold some form of a criminal record. Upon formal criminalization, a combination of socioeconomic barriers compound to inhibit one's chances at successfully (re)integrating into society. In particular,... |
2023 |
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Kiricka Yarbough Smith, Maura Reinbrecht |
HOW ANTI-SEX TRAFFICKING EFFORTS SHOULD ALIGN WITH CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM |
38 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 158 (2023) |
Current law enforcement practices--including efforts to address sex trafficking--disproportionately harm Black people. This Article proposes that front-end criminal justice reforms to reduce the criminalization of poverty, reform racially biased police practices, and increase police accountability could mitigate the disparate impact that policing... |
2023 |
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Steven Arrigg Koh |
HOW DO PROSECUTORS "SEND A MESSAGE"? |
57 U.C. Davis Law Review 353 (November, 2023) |
The recent indictments of former President Trump are stirring national debate about their effects on American society. Commentators speculate on the cases' impact outside of the courtroom--on the 2024 election, on political polarization, and on the future of American democracy. Such cases originated in the prosecutor's office, begging the question... |
2023 |
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Courtney G. Joslin , Douglas NeJaime |
HOW PARENTHOOD FUNCTIONS |
123 Columbia Law Review 319 (March, 2023) |
Approximately two-thirds of states have functional parent doctrines, which enable courts to extend parental rights based on the conduct of forming a parental relationship with a child. Different jurisdictions use different names--including de facto parentage, in loco parentis, psychological parenthood, or presumed parentage--and the doctrines arise... |
2023 |
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Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal |
INVESTING IN ABOLITION |
112 Georgetown Law Journal 1 (October, 2023) |
This Article situates the prison within a broader macro-financial trend, what I call community capture. As private equity firms have consolidated the market for carceral services, they have also gained control over other essential social infrastructure, like housing and healthcare. By layering debt, fees, and aggressive profit expectations over... |
2023 |
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Blanche Bong Cook |
JEFFREY EPSTEIN: PEDOPHILES, PROSECUTORS, AND POWER |
26 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 311 (Spring, 2023) |
This isn't about bad men, though they were most assuredly bad men . It's about a system that is void of integrity. Mistakes can happen. But if you don't do anything to stop them from happening again, you can't keep calling them mistakes. Jeffrey Epstein, a wealthy, white, billionaire child rapist, ran an international sex trafficking ring. Rather... |
2023 |
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Dontay Proctor-Mills |
JUDICIAL ETHICS AND THE ERADICATION OF RACISM |
46 Seattle University Law Review 813 (Spring, 2023) |
C1-2Contents Introduction. 814 I. Summary. 815 A. Washington State Code of Judicial Conduct. 815 B. Other Commission Decisions Involving Canon 1. 815 C. Background and Facts of Judge Keenan's Case. 818 1. The Ethics Complaint. 819 II. Analysis. 820 A. The Commission's Decision and Application of Canon 1. 820 B. The Reasonable Perspective. 822 C.... |
2023 |
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JUSTICE FOR SURVIVORS OF INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE CONFERENCE REPORT |
44 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 1 (Fall, 2023) |
Domestic violence survivors seeking justice and safety in New York State's family and supreme courts often encounter a deeply flawed, poorly functioning system that exposes them and their children to further harm. On October 13 and 14, 2022, a coalition of leading nonprofit agencies that serve and advocate for survivors convened a conference in New... |
2023 |
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Kaylie Hidalgo |
KEEP AUSTIN . WHITE? HOW EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT CAN SAVE AUSTIN, TEXAS FROM ITS RACIST PAST AND HOMOGENIZED FUTURE |
9 Texas A&M Journal of Property Law 109 (4/5/2023) |
More than a century of racist federal, state, and local government policies created inequitable and racially segregated neighborhoods through a practice known as redlining. I-35 in Austin, Texas, represents one of the most iconic and stark segregationist splits in the country, with the Eastside being impoverished and mostly Black while the... |
2023 |
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Rose Wehrman |
KEEPING FERRIS OUT OF FOSTER CARE: REFORMING THE JJDPA TO PREVENT HOME REMOVALS BASED ON TRUANCY |
57 Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 161 (Fall, 2023) |
Truancy is directly correlated with negative educational and life outcomes for students. The state exacerbates these negative effects when it removes students from their homes for truancy. Far from addressing the underlying causes of truancy, home removals--whether into secure or non-secure placements--cause devastating harm. The Juvenile Justice... |
2023 |
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Robyn M. Powell |
LEGAL ABLEISM: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF STATE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS LAWS |
101 Washington University Law Review 423 (2023) |
Although the fundamental right to raise a family is among our most cherished, it is not equally afforded to everyone. Indeed, the United States has an appalling and enduring history of policing parenthood among people with disabilities. In recent years, the rights of parents with disabilities and their children have garnered unprecedented attention... |
2023 |
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