| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| L. Darnell Weeden |
Learning from Experience: Why Racial Diversity Cannot Be a Legally Compelling Interest in Elementary and Secondary Education |
36 Whittier Law Review 95 (Fall, 2014) |
The issue addressed in this article is whether the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the police from implementing and engaging in a racially biased stop-and-frisk policy, where race is either the predominant or the only factor law enforcement utilizes when stopping and frisking individuals. Racial bias infringes upon the rights of... |
2014 |
| Dorothy Brown , Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County |
Making Fair (Public) Housing Claims in a Post-Racism Legal Context |
19-DEC NBA National Bar Association Magazine 20 (December, 2014) |
The United States has the dubious distinction of being the incarceration capital of the world, with the highest documented incarceration rate of 754 per 100,000 people (as of 2009). This U.S. incarceration statistic comprises local jails, state prisons, federal prisons, pretrial detainees, female prisoners, juveniles and foreign prisoners,... |
2014 |
| Amanda E. Compton |
Naming Racism: a Conceptual Look at Internalized Racism in U.s. Schools |
15 Wake Forest Journal of Business and Intellectual Property Law L. 1 (Fall 2014) |
I. History: The Process of Banning Disparaging Trademarks from Federal Protection. 5 A. Earlier Federal Trademark Acts. 7 B. The Lanham Act. 11 C. The Registration Process and Review of Disparaging Matter by Examining Attorneys. 15 II. Moving Toward the Registration of Disparaging Trademarks. 21 A. Denial of Registration Will Not Stop Use of the; Search Snippet: ...DYKE, JAP, AND HEEB: RECONSIDERING DISPARAGING TRADEMARKS IN A POST- RACIAL ERA [FNd1] Amanda E. Compton [FNdd1] Copyright © 2014 Wake Forest... |
2014 |
| Tanya Katerí Hernández |
One Size Does Not Fit All: a Look at the Disproportionate Effects of Federal Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences on Racial Minorities and How They Have Contributed to the Degradation of the Underprivileged African-american Family |
32 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 309 (Summer, 2014) |
To create new norms, you have to understand people's existing norms and barriers to change. You have to understand what's getting in their way. The 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 finds the status of civil rights in the United States at a critical juncture. The formal edifice of a civil rights structure precariously stands amidst... |
2014 |
| Danielle Snyder , St. Thomas University School of Law, Miami Gardens |
One Tribe's Development of a Commercial Waste Facility in the Wake of Environment Racism |
36 Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy 77 (Fall, 2014) |
If you stand in a Federal Court, you're watching poor and uneducated people being fed into a machine like meat to make sausage. It's just bang, bang, bang, bang, next! says journalist Charles Bowden in Eugene Jarecki's documentary film entitled, The House I Live In. This metaphorical butchery concept illustrates the harsh and unfair nature of; Search Snippet: ...THE DISPROPORTIONATE EFFECTS OF FEDERAL MANDATORY MINIMUM DRUG SENTENCES ON RACIAL MINORITIES AND HOW THEY HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEGRADATION OF... |
2014 |
| Gregory S. Parks , Matthew W. Hughey |
Opt-out Education: School Choice as Racial Subordination |
57 Howard Law Journal 513 (Winter 2014) |
INTRODUCTION. 513 I. RACIAL ATTITUDES AND POLITICAL CONSERVATISM. 519 II. THE AUTOMATICITY OF RACIAL BIAS. 524 III. POLITICAL IDEOLOGY AND UNCONSCIOUS RACE BIAS. 533 IV. THE POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. 539 CONCLUSION. 542; Search Snippet: ...OPPOSING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF POLITICAL IDEOLOGY AND RACIAL ATTITUDES Gregory S. Parks [FNa1] Matthew W. Hughey [FNdd1] Copyright... |
2014 |
| Osamudia R. James |
Organizational Responsibility for Workplace Racial and Sexual Harassment: the Stories of One Company's Workers |
99 Iowa Law Review 1083 (March, 2014) |
Despite failure to improve academic outcomes or close the achievement gap, school-choice policies, advanced by education legislation and doctrine, have come to dominate public discourse on public education reform in the United States, with students of color disproportionately enrolling in voucher programs and charter schools. This Article; Search Snippet: ...Review March, 2014 Article OPT-OUT EDUCATION: SCHOOL CHOICE AS RACIAL SUBORDINATION Osamudia R. James [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2014 University of... |
2014 |
| Cheryl L. Wade |
Our Commitment to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities |
43 Hofstra Law Review 229 (Fall, 2014) |
Plaintiff: . . . . I see Mr. Willie Pressley over on the side of me with a bucket and a mop. My supervisor is like sitting right across from him . . . when I walk through and a couple more guys sitting in there. So I walked through. And as soon as I got by Willard Pressley, he had this mop in his hand and he rammed it up my ass--well, my butt; Search Snippet: ...Hofstra Law Review Fall, 2014 Article ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR WORKPLACE RACIAL AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT: THE STORIES OF ONE COMPANY'S WORKERS Cheryl... |
2014 |
| Andrea Wallace |
Patterns of Death: an Analysis of Racial Disparities in Capital Sentencing and Homicide Victimization |
8 DePaul Journal for Social Justice 91 (Winter 2014) |
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.-- Upton Sinclair Americans live in a country where race was once legally institutionalized. In fact, it was only 50 years ago that the United States' legal system officially ceased to operate as a mechanism that explicitly condoned racism; Search Snippet: ...DePaul Journal for Social Justice Winter 2014 December 2014 PATRIOTIC RACISM: AN INVESTIGATION INTO JUDICIAL RHETORIC AND THE CONTINUED LEGAL DIVESTITURE... |
2014 |
| Cassandra Jones Havard |
Post-Racial or Post-reform?: Examining the Change and Continuity of Racial Politics after 2015 |
24-FALL Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 176 (Fall, 2014) |
Should lenders have absolute discretion when setting mortgage loan prices regardless of the borrower's creditworthiness? How should a regulatory framework evaluate lending decisions for racial bias to determine if demographic or other variables are used as proxies for race? Congress enacted the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act in order to acquire data; Search Snippet: ...Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy Fall, 2014 Article POST- RACIAL LENDING? Cassandra Jones Havard [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2014 Kansas Journal... |
2014 |
| Romtin Parvaresh |
Precedent, Parity, and Racial Discrimination: a Federal/state Comparison of the Impact of Brown V. Board of Education |
87 Southern California Law Review 1287 (July, 2014) |
The existence of discrimination against minority groups in the United States has an adverse effect upon our relations with other countries. Racial discrimination furnishes grist for the Communist propaganda mills, and it raises doubts even among friendly nations as to the intensity of our devotion to the democratic faith. --U.S. Department of... |
2014 |
| Ofra Friesel |
Race, Affirmative Action, and Equality of Educational Opportunity in a So-called "Post-Racial" America |
32 Law and History Review 351 (May, 2014) |
The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1965 (CERD), was negotiated at the United Nations (UN) during the years 1962-1965. At that period, the UN was an organization so highly politicized and split that it was almost paralyzed, operatively speaking. Human rights codification was a major field whose... |
2014 |
| Norman L. Reimer , NACDL, 1660 L Street, NW, 12th Floor, Washington, DC 20036, 202-465-7623, Fax 202-872-8690, E-mail nreimer@nacdl.org |
Racial and Ethnic Fairness |
38-OCT Champion Champion 7 (October, 2014) |
This past summer, the nation's long history of racial strife once again took center stage in the public consciousness. The sad, shocking events in Ferguson, Mo., compelled the public to face the painful reality that the country has not yet achieved the elusive goal of universal racial and ethnic harmony--a goal toward which so many of good will... |
2014 |
| Paul Gowder |
Racial Classification and the Flawed Pursuit of Diversity: How Phantom Minorities Threaten "Critical Mass" Justification in Higher Education |
92 Washington University Law Review 325 (2014) |
Slow in my blindness, with my hand I feel the contours of my face. A flash of light gets through to me. I have made out your hair, color of ash and at the same time, gold. I say again that I have lost no more than the inconsequential skin of things. These wise words come from Milton, and are noble, but then I think of letters and of roses. I think,; Search Snippet: ...Law Review 2014 Midwestern People of Color Legal Scholarship Symposium RACIAL CLASSIFICATION AND ASCRIPTIVE INJURY Paul Gowder [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2014... |
2014 |
| Adjoa Artis Aiyetoro |
Racial Disparities in Sentencing |
71 National Lawyers Guild Review 193 (Winter 2014) |
The challenge of the twenty-first century . is to identify and dismantle those structures in which racism continues to be embedded. This is the only way the promise of freedom can be extended to the masses of people. This article provides a framework for responding to the need for racial reconciliation in the United States that has been the focus; Search Snippet: ...Winter 2014 December 2014 Race and Criminal Injustice Theme Issue RACIAL DISPARITIES IN PUNISHMENT AND ALIENATION: REBELLING FOR JUSTICE Adjoa Artis... |
2014 |
| Stephanie Francis Ward |
Racial Imbalance in the Public Schools: the Constitutional Concepts |
100-APR ABA Journal 66 (April, 2014) |
Students of color, particularly boys, are suspended and expelled at alarming rates and zero-tolerance school discipline policies fail the communities they serve, said several speakers on a panel at this year's ABA Midyear Meeting. Black students are 3.5 times more likely to be expelled than white students, said Nancy Heitzeg, a sociology professor; Search Snippet: ...JOURNAL ABA Journal April, 2014 Your ABA Midyear Meeting Report RACIAL IMBALANCE FEEDS SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE Stephanie Francis Ward Copyright... |
2014 |
| Jessica Erickson |
Racial Impermissibility under the Equal Protection Clause from Strauder V. West Virginia to Ricci V. Destefano |
89 Washington Law Review 1425 (December, 2014) |
The American criminal justice system is currently suffering from a dramatic increase in mass incarceration and staggering rates of racial disproportionalities and disparities. Many facially neutral laws, policies, and practices within the criminal justice system have disproportionate impacts on minorities. Racial impact statements provide; Search Snippet: ...2014 Symposium: Compensated Surrogacy in the age of Windsor Comment RACIAL IMPACT STATEMENTS: CONSIDERING THE CONSEQUENCES OF RACIAL DISPROPORTIONALITIES IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM Jessica Erickson [FNa1] Copyright... |
2014 |
| Benjamin Feist, Teresa Nelson, Ian Bratlie |
Racial Profiling in Health Care: an Institutional Analysis of Medical Treatment Disparities |
5 William Mitchell Law Raza Journal 82 (2013-2014) |
Racial profiling is a pervasive issue for immigrants in the United States, and it is becoming increasingly problematic for Latinos living and working in the predominantly rural communities of Greater Minnesota. Reports from throughout the state indicate that Latinos are disproportionately targeted by the police on a regular basis. In the waning; Search Snippet: ...RAZA JOURNAL William Mitchell Law Raza Journal 2013-2014 Article RACIAL PROFILING IN GREATER MINNESOTA AND THE CASE FOR EXPANDING THE... |
2014 |
| Richard Delgado , Juan F. Perea |
Racial Territoriality |
112 Michigan Law Review 1133 (April, 2014) |
A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico. By Amy S. Greenberg. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2012. Pp. xix, 279. Cloth, $30; paper, $16.95. This riveting tale of greed, international skullduggery, and behind-the-scenes heroism recounts the events that led up to America's wicked war with Mexico. It depicts how; Search Snippet: ...1600482 MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW Michigan Law Review April, 2014 Review RACIAL TEMPLATES Richard Delgado [FNa1] Juan F. Perea [FNaa1] Copyright ©... |
2014 |
| Stewart Chang |
Racial Violence Against Asian Americans |
14 Virginia Sports and Entertainment Law Journal L.J. 1 (Fall, 2014) |
This Article disputes the common misperception that sports are a colorblind meritocracy that should serve as a model for the rest of society. The capacity of players to break into and succeed in professional sports is believed to be based purely on merit, with no consideration of race. Controversies that surfaced around the rise of professional... |
2014 |
| Dagmar Rita Myslinska |
Racist Speech and "Reasonable People:" a Proposal for a Tort Remedy |
83 UMKC Law Review Rev. 1 (Fall, 2014) |
With no anti-discrimination legislation, strong Confucian-inspired in-group mentality, and a belief in their mono-ethnicity, Japan is marred by a culture of widespread discrimination. Although it has ratified the International Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and guarantees equality in its Constitution, all... |
2014 |
| Joshua Slone |
Reaction To: "Risk Assessment Instruments Are Inappropriate for Sentence Reform: Real Solutions for Reform Address Racial Stratification" |
6 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 67 (Spring, 2014) |
Matthew's article sets forth three propositions: (1) that there is an unconscious racial bias among U.S. healthcare providers that substantially contributes to poorer health and shorter life expectancies for racial minorities, (2) that recent data suggest that these unconscious biases can be altered, and (3) that reforming Title VI claims would be; Search Snippet: ...Spring, 2014 Article REACTION TO: HEALTH CARE, TITLE VI, AND RACISM'S NEW NORMAL Joshua Slone [FNa1] Copyright © 2014 by Joshua Slone... |
2014 |
| Dorothy E. Roberts |
Reconsidering Racial and Partisan Gerrymandering |
162 University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online 283 (2014) |
In response to Katie Eyer, Constitutional Colorblindness and the Family, 162 U. Pa. L. Rev. 537 (2014). In Constitutional Colorblindness and the Family, Katie Eyer brings to our attention an intriguing contradiction in the Supreme Court's equal protection jurisprudence. Far from ending race-based family law rules with its 1967 decision, Loving v; Search Snippet: ...IN THE PUBLIC AND IN THE FAMILY: THE ROLE OF RACIAL POLITICS Dorothy E. Roberts [FNd1] Copyright © 2014 by University of... |
2014 |
| Randall Kennedy |
Restoring Honor: Ending Racial Disparities in University Honor Systems |
58 Saint Louis University Law Journal 989 (Summer 2014) |
I had occasion recently to describe Sanford Levinson as the most adventurous, independent, and wide-ranging intellectual in the American legal academy. His Childress Lecture supports my claim. Its breadth, candor, incisiveness, suggestiveness, and passion is definitely Levinsonian. He begins by asking who counts as part of we the American; Search Snippet: ...Lecture RESPONSE TO SANFORD LEVINSON: WHO COUNTS?--THE POLITICS OF RACIAL MEMBERSHIP AND EXCOMMUNICATION Randall Kennedy [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2014 Saint... |
2014 |
| Lauren Elizabeth Sparks |
Saint Francis College and Shaare Tefila Congregation: Has the U.s. Supreme Court Resurrected Nazi Racial Theories? |
6 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 253 (Fall, 2014) |
[W]e find ourselves bound, first without, then within, by the nature of our categorization. And escape is not effected through a bitter railing against this trap; it is as though this very striving were the only motion needed to spring the trap upon us. We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our; Search Snippet: ...HOW LA GANG CULTURE AND U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY CONTRIBUTE TO RACIAL INJUSTICE FOR CENTRAL AMERICAN ASYLUM APPLICANTS Lauren Elizabeth Sparks [FNa1... |
2014 |
| F. Michael Higginbotham |
Say it Loud: Indirect Speech and Racial Equality in the Interrogation Room |
31 GPSolo 18 (November/December, 2014) |
President Theodore Roosevelt once said: The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena . [rather than to] those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. Those willing to examine issues of race deserve credit for their willingness to enter this most divisive of arenas. Too often today, many refuse to discuss racial; Search Snippet: ...DREAM FOR ALL Transforming America from Jim Crow to Post- Racial F. Michael Higginbotham [FNa1] Copyright © 2014 by American Bar Association... |
2014 |
| H. Mitchell Caldwell , Adrienne M. Hewitt |
Share and Share Alike? Considering Racial Discrimination in the Nascent Room-sharing Economy |
38 American Journal of Trial Advocacy 67 (Summer, 2014) |
This Article addresses the role stereotypes, particularly racial stereotypes, play in the process of jury selection in criminal cases. This Article discusses the law that has evolved since Batson and uses empirical data to provide added insight into the exercise of peremptory challenges. Further, the authors consider how current scholarship in... |
2014 |
| A. Mechele Dickerson |
Sources of Judicial Reluctance to Use Psychic Harm as a Basis for Suppressing Racist, Sexist and Ethnically Offensive Speech |
93 Texas Law Review 179 (November, 2014) |
Saving the Neighborhood provides a rich historical account of the methods white homeowners used to keep black homeowners out of their neighborhoods. The book primarily focuses on racially restrictive property covenants (racial covenants or RCs), i.e., private contracts where property owners agreed not to sell, lease, or give their homes to; Search Snippet: ...November, 2014 Book Review SORTING THE NEIGHBORHOOD Saving the Neighborhood: Racially Restrictive Covenants, Law, and Social Norms. By Richard R. W... |
2014 |
| John M. Powers |
Statistical Measures of Racially Identified School Systems |
102 Georgetown Law Journal 881 (March, 2014) |
C1-3Table of Contents L1-2Introduction . L3882 I. Racial Vote Dilution Under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 886 a. constitutional challenges to the application of section 2 in vote dilution cases. 886 b. the standard under section 2 for assessing the presence of racial bloc voting. 888 II. Racial Bloc Voting in the 2008 and 2012; Search Snippet: ...JOURNAL Georgetown Law Journal March, 2014 Note STATISTICAL EVIDENCE OF RACIALLY POLARIZED VOTING IN THE OBAMA ELECTIONS, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR SECTION... |
2014 |
| Natsu Taylor Saito |
Tales of Diversity: Lawyers' Narratives of Racial Equity in Private Firms |
10 Florida A & M University Law Review 1 (Fall 2014) |
Introduction. 3 I. Dreams Deferred. 9 A. Liberatory Visions. 9 B. Persistent Disparities. 13 C. Retrenchment and Repression. 16 D. Racial Realism and Colonial Relations. 20 II. Colonial relations. 22 A. Colonialism: An Overview. 23 B. Settler Colonization. 25 C. Triangulation. 28 III. Recasting the Narrative. 30 A. Settler Origin Stories. 31 B. The; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Fall 2014 Article TALES OF COLOR AND COLONIALISM: RACIAL REALISM AND SETTLER COLONIAL THEORY Natsu Taylor Saito [FNa] Copyright... |
2014 |
| Kareem U. Crayton |
The Asylum Process in Ireland: a Reflection of Racist and Xenophobic Sentiments? |
89 Chicago-Kent Law Review 689 (2014) |
When one refers to the art of dissent as it is often practiced in the judicial process, the point of the enterprise is to frame an alternative position that counters or competes with the majority's controlling viewpoint. The dissenter on a multi-member court is the one who registers disagreement with a decision taken by his colleagues, offering an... |
2014 |
| Michael A. Olivas |
The Canary-blind Constitution: must Government Ignore Racial Inequality? |
40 Journal of College and University Law 381 (2014) |
Russell K. Nieli's Wounds that Will Not Heal: Affirmative Action and our Continuing Racial Divide is published by Encounter Books and is described on the copyright page as an activity of Encounter for Culture and Education, Inc. The publishing company has recently released a series of conservative and libertarian books, including the following:; Search Snippet: ...WOUNDS THAT WILL NOT HEAL: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND OUR CONTINUING RACIAL DIVIDE & RANDALL KENNEDY'S FOR DISCRIMINATION: RACE, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, AND THE... |
2014 |
| Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides , Alexandra Aylward , Pedro A. Noguera |
The Emmett till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act: the Cold Case of Racism in the Criminal Justice System |
15 Journal of Law in Society 241 (Winter, 2014) |
I. Objectives. 242 II. Context. 242 III. Disproportionality in Special Education. 244 IV. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Disproportionality. 247 V. Sociology of Special Education: Exploring the Theoretical Underpinnings of Disproportionality. 247 VI. Site Selection. 253 VII. Dataset Description. 257 VIII. Theoretical; Search Snippet: ...TO THE LIKELIHOOD OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS BEING LEGALLY CITED FOR RACIAL DISPROPORTIONALITY IN SPECIAL EDUCATION Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides [FN1] Alexandra Aylward... |
2014 |
| William E. Thro |
The Future of Racial Redistricting in Voting: Clark V. Calhoun County, Mississippi. |
40 Journal of College and University Law 359 (2014) |
Introduction. 360 I. Kennedy's Moral Argument For Racial Preferences. 362 II. Nieli's Social Science Argument for an End to Racial Preferences. 365 III. The Constitutional Reality--Limiting, but Not Ending, Racial Preferences. 370 A. Racial Preferences After Fisher. 370 1. The Institution Must Prove Its Use of Race Is Constitutional. 372 2. Race Is; Search Snippet: ...College and University Law 2014 Book Review THE FUTURE OF RACIAL PREFERENCES: A REVIEW OF RUSSELL K. NIELI'S WOUNDS THAT WILL NOT HEAL: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND OUR CONTINUING RACIAL DIVIDE & RANDALL KENNEDY'S FOR DISCRIMINATION: RACE, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, AND THE... |
2014 |
| Barry H. Dyller |
The Gendered Racial Formation: Foreign Men, "Our" Women, and the Law |
50-OCT Trial 61 (October, 2014) |
After Civil Rights is John Skrentny's brave attempt to reevaluate employment discrimination based on race or national origin under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. This book does not instruct lawyers on how to bring or defend against antidiscrimination lawsuits. Instead, it suggests that Title VII is outdated and needs tweaks to align with; Search Snippet: ...Book THE GAP BETWEEN LAW AND REALITY AFTER CIVIL RIGHTS: RACIAL REALISM IN THE NEW AMERICAN WORKPLACE JOHN D. SKRENTNY PRINCETON... |
2014 |
| Christopher S. Elmendorf , Douglas M. Spencer |
The Georgia Death Penalty: a Need for Racial Justice |
102 California Law Review 1123 (October, 2014) |
The Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder (2013) effectively enjoined the preclearance regime of the Voting Rights Act. The Court deemed the coverage formula, which determines the jurisdictions subject to preclearance, insufficiently grounded in current conditions. This Article proposes a new, legally defensible approach to coverage based on... |
2014 |
| Andrew P. Cohen |
The Many Lives of Louis Brandeis: Progressive-reformer. Supreme Court Justice. Avowed Zionist. And a Racist? |
19 Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights 285 (Spring, 2014) |
I. Introduction. 286 II. A Vicious Triangle: Defining Direct, Structural and Cultural Violence. 288 A. Direct Violence. 288 B. Structural Violence. 288 C. Cultural Violence. 289 D. Direct, Structural, and Cultural Violence and the Loss of Identity. 289 III. Who Was James Scales?. 290 A. James Scales's Childhood. 290 B. James Scales's Navy Career; Search Snippet: ...SCALES: HOW THE FBI, THE DOJ, AND STATE AUTHORITIES WHITEWASHED RACIAL VIOLENCE IN BLEDSOE COUNTY, TENNESSEE Andrew P. Cohen [FNa1] Copyright... |
2014 |
| Andrew Martinez Whitson |
The Need for New Legislation and Liberalization of Current Laws to Combat Environmental Racism |
34 Boston College Journal of Law & Social Justice 195 (Winter, 2014) |
Police misconduct is still prevalent throughout the United States. Unfortunately for members of minority communities, this misconduct often comes in the form of racially discriminatory police practices. In many cases, such practices are deeply rooted in the police department's culture. It is imperative that all citizens are equipped with; Search Snippet: ...Justice Winter, 2014 Note THE NEED FOR ADDITIONAL SAFEGUARDS AGAINST RACIST POLICE PRACTICES: A CALL FOR CHANGE TO MASSACHUSETTS & ILLINOIS WIRETAPPING... |
2014 |
| Emily Chiang |
The New Racial Preferences |
41 Florida State University Law Review 835 (Summer, 2014) |
Since handing downWashington v. Davis andArlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development, the United States Supreme Court has significantly curtailed the ability of plaintiffs to bring disparate impact claims under the Equal Protection Clause. Many academics continue to talk about the standards governing intent and disparate impact. Some; Search Snippet: ...Florida State University Law Review Summer, 2014 Article THE NEW RACIAL JUSTICE: MOVING BEYOND THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE TO ACHIEVE EQUAL... |
2014 |
| William Sanders |
The Racist Roots of Gun Control |
40 Ohio Northern University Law Review 607 (2014) |
This paper is unique in its analysis of federal circuit cases that have dealt with the issue of aggregation of minority groups with regard to dilution claims under section 2 of the federal Voting Rights Act (the Act). When first enacted, section 2 was successful in helping to eradicate racial discrimination concerning the right to vote. However,... |
2014 |
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Toxins Targeted at Minorities: the Racist Undertones of "Environmentally-friendly" Initiatives |
55 Natural Resources Journal 236 (Fall 2014) |
Most people today are familiar with the basic contours of the environmental justice argument: racial and ethnic minorities and the poor are subjected to greater environmental risks and harm than other population groups. In Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility, Dorceta E. Taylor offers a much deeper; Search Snippet: ...Natural Resources Journal Fall 2014 Book Reviews TOXIC COMMUNITIES: ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM, INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION, AND RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY BY DORCETA E. TAYLOR (NEW... |
2014 |
| Catherine E. Polta |
Trumping the Race Card: Permitting Criminal Defendants to Remain Anonymous and Absent from Trial to Eliminate Racial Jury Bias |
6 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 273 (Fall, 2014) |
Alaska Natives face well-documented impediments to criminal justice and village public safety. Federal, state, and non-governmental investigative committees consistently report systemic racial injustice. Recommendations universally support localization of governance, either by enabling existing tribal entities to self-help or by extending the; Search Snippet: ...SOCIAL AND MINOR CRIMES: THE ONLY FEASIBLE RESOLUTION FOR INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IN ALASKAN CRIMINAL LAW ENFORCEMENT Catherine E. Polta [FNa1] Copyright... |
2014 |
| Mae Kuykendall , Charles Adside, III |
Unsecured (Black) Bodies: How Baltimore Foreshadows the Dangers of Racially Targeted Dragnet Policing Let Loose by Utah V. Strieff |
22 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 1011 (May, 2014) |
As typified by its recent decisions in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin and Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme Court's jurisprudence concerning race has long imposed strict judicial oversight over any use of race for the formulation of public policy. This top-down approach has invited various undesirable outcomes, the most pernicious of; Search Snippet: ...THE VOLUME: FISHER, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION JURISPRUDENCE, AND THE LEGACY OF RACIAL SILENCE Mae Kuykendall [FNa1] Charles Adside, III [FNaa1] Copyright ©... |
2014 |
| Stephen Menendian |
What Does Diversity Mean in Seattle?: Parents Involved in Community Schools V. Seattle School District Number 1 Strikes down the Use of a Racial Tiebreaker |
24 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review 81 (Fall 2014) |
The general rule against racial classifications forms a cornerstone of equal protection jurisprudence and constitutional law more broadly. In most cases decided by the Supreme Court involving this issue, the presence of a racial classification is presumed by the litigants and uncritically accepted by the Court. Recently, creative advocates seeking... |
2014 |
| Richard Rothstein |
What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: the Importance of Information in the Battle Against Environmental Class and Racial Discrimination |
40-AUG Human Rights Rts. 8 (August, 2014) |
School failure by African-American youth remains an important impediment to narrowing social and economic inequality. Years of school reform efforts have done little to narrow the black-white achievement gap, especially for the most disadvantaged black students. Partly it's because low-income African Americans have individual characteristics that; Search Snippet: ...RIGHTS Human Rights August, 2014 WHAT HAVE WE--DE FACTO RACIAL ISOLATION OR DE JURE SEGREGATION? Richard Rothstein [FNa1] Copyright © 2014... |
2014 |
| Rasheena Latham |
Who Shall Rule and Govern? Local Legislative Delegations, Racial Politics, and the Voting Rights Act |
8 Southern Journal of Policy and Justice 80 (Spring 2014) |
There has always been some sort of system in place to maintain white supremacy in America. This control mechanism has not been more apparent than in the criminal justice system. A critical review of America's criminal justice system shows the overwhelming prejudicial treatment of people of color. This disparate treatment can be seen through the... |
2014 |
| Lauren Hartley |
Young Lawyers Section Drives Formation of Racial Justice Coalition |
119 Penn State Law Review 583 (Fall 2014) |
The Roma people have faced centuries of discrimination and prejudice in Europe. Recent expansions of the European visa-free travel zone triggered yet another form of discrimination against Roma individuals. After Roma began making false asylum claims in the European Union, officials pressured the source nations to stem the tide of false asylum... |
2014 |
| Kristina M. Campbell |
1. Application of Voting Rights Act to Municipal Annexation Changing City's Racial Composition |
3 Wake Forest Journal of Law and Policy 367 (June, 2013) |
On June 25, 2012, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its landmark decision in Arizona v. United States, striking down three of the four provisions of Arizona's notorious Senate Bill (S.B.) 1070 challenged by the United States Department of Justice as preempted by federal immigration law. Despite agreeing with the government that the; Search Snippet: ...of Law and Policy June, 2013 Article (UN) REASONABLE SUSPICION: RACIAL PROFILING IN IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT AFTER ARIZONA v. UNITED STATES Kristina... |
2013 |
| Gabriel J. Chin |
A Chinaman's Chance in Court: Asian Pacific Americans and Racial Rules of Evidence |
3 UC Irvine Law Review 965 (December, 2013) |
Introduction. 966 I. Asians as Untrustworthy Witnesses. 967 A. Competency and Credibility Under State Law. 967 1. Incompetency. 967 2. Credibility. 970 B. Chinese Witnesses Under Federal Law. 972 1. Incompetency. 973 a. Residence certificates. 973 b. Returning merchants. 974 c. Pharmacy workers in China. 975 2. Credibility. 975 II. The Statutory; Search Snippet: ...A CHINAMAN'S CHANCE [FNa1] IN COURT: ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICANS AND RACIAL RULES OF EVIDENCE Gabriel J. Chin [FNaa1] Copyright (c) 2013... |
2013 |
| Hilary Weddell |
A Model State Racial Justice Act: Fighting Racial Bias Without Killing the Death Penalty |
33 Boston College Journal of Law & Social Justice 453 (Spring, 2013) |
The jury system is intended to instill fairness and increase confidence in the American legal system as a whole. Despite this goal, widespread discrimination remains in jury selection procedures. In order to adequately protect both a defendant's right to be tried by a jury of his peers and every citizen's right to participate in the legal; Search Snippet: ...Justice Spring, 2013 Note A JURY OF WHOSE PEERS?: ELIMINATING RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN JURY SELECTION PROCEDURES Hilary Weddell [FNa1] Copyright © 2013... |
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