Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
Starla J. Williams, J.d., Ll.m. |
A View of Racism |
16 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 235 (Winter 2013) |
[E]ven if eradicating racism is an impossible goal, the fight for tolerance and equality carries an inherent value. Post-racial America is redefining diversity in the legal academy. Despite the views of many observers that the election of the first African-American President of the United States ushered the nation into an era of racial idealism,; Search Snippet: ...VALUES-BASED PEDAGOGY FOR THE LEGAL ACADEMY IN A POST- RACIAL ERA Starla J. Williams , J.d., Ll.m. [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2013... |
2013 |
Cara Davis |
A. Permitting Unsubstantiated Own-race Bias Arguments in Summation Invites Juror Confusion and Irrelevant Racial Considerations into Criminal Trials |
40 Southern University Law Review 367 (Spring, 2013) |
[I]n order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently. - Justice Blackmun Affirmative action was born on March 6, 1961. It was conceived by the pen of President John F. Kennedy within Executive Order 10925. This Order, which created the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, mandated that government employers take; Search Snippet: ...PERCENT LAW IS THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL USE OF RACE AND A RACIAL QUOTA IN DISGUISE Cara Davis [FN1] Copyright © 2013 Southern University... |
2013 |
Robin Steinberg , The Bronx Defenders, 360 East 161st Street, Bronx, NY 10451, 718-838-7878, Fax 718-665-0100, E-mail: info@bronxdefenders.org |
Addressing Racial Profiling in the States: a Case Study of the "New Federalism" in Constitutional Criminal Procedure |
37-JUL Champion 51 (July, 2013) |
Racial disparity in the criminal justice system is a problem with which public defenders are intimately familiar. They see it every day in courthouses across the country where people of color from low income communities line the crowded hallways, fill the courtroom benches, and sit at the defense table in staggering and disproportionate numbers; Search Snippet: ...WL 5402044 CHAMPION Champion July, 2013 Feature Racial Disparity ADDRESSING RACIAL DISPARITY IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM THROUGH HOLISTIC DEFENSE Robin... |
2013 |
Camille Gear Rich |
Affirmative Action Survives the Test: Racial and Ethnic Diversity a Benefit to Higher Education |
102 Georgetown Law Journal 179 (November, 2013) |
This Essay uses the current controversy over the racial self-identification decisions of former Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren as an occasion to explore incipient cultural and legal anxieties about employers' ability to define race under affirmative action programs. The Essay characterizes Warren's racial self-identification decisions as... |
2013 |
Zachary L. Guyse |
Alien and Non-alien Alike: Citizenship, "Foreignness," and Racial Hierarchy in American Law |
65 Alabama Law Review 519 (2013) |
Introduction. 519 I. Playing Limbo: Alabama's Property Tax Structure. 521 II. The History of the 1901 Constitution & The Lid Bill. 524 A. The Alabama Constitutional Convention of 1901. 524 B. The Lid Bill. 527 III. The First Crusade: Knight v. Alabama. 529 A. Findings of Fact. 529 B. Conclusions of Law. 530 IV. The Second Crusade: Lynch v. Alabama; Search Snippet: ...Alabama Law Review 2013 Note ALABAMA'S ORIGINAL SIN: PROPERTY TAXES, RACISM, AND CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN ALABAMA Zachary L. Guyse Copyright ©... |
2013 |
D. Wendy Greene |
All Peoples Have a Right to Self-determination: Henry J. Richardson Iii's Liberatory Perspective on Racial Justice |
4 California Law Review Circuit 179 (November, 2013) |
As the son of a white American mother and a Kenyan father, President Barack Obama's mixed-race parentage not only sparked a public fascination with his multiracial and multinational family tree but also, for average Americans, an increased interest in their own as well as others' multiracial lineages. In part, the allure of President Obama's and; Search Snippet: ...Review Circuit November, 2013 ALL IN THE FAMILY: INTERRACIAL INTIMACY, RACIAL FICTIONS, AND THE LAW D. Wendy Greene [FNa1] Copyright © 2013... |
2013 |
Emerson Beishline |
An Exploration of the Efficacy of Class-based Approaches to Racial Justice: the Cuban Context |
4 William Mitchell Law Raza Journal J. 2 (Spring, 2013) |
While intimate partner violence (IPV) was once seen as an exclusively private family matter, it is increasingly being seen as an integral aspect of a larger system of social domination against women, the poor, people of color, sexual minorities, and immigrants. These groups often experience significantly higher rates of IPV than whites,... |
2013 |
Barbara O'Brien , Catherine M. Grosso |
Beyond Identity and Racial Politics: Asian Americans and the Campaign Fund-raising Controversy |
46 U.C. Davis Law Review 1623 (June, 2013) |
Introduction. 1625 I. Race Bias, Racial Diversity, and Jury Selection. 1628 A. The Emergence of the Batson Regime. 1630 B. The Racial Justice Act: A Different Tact. 1633 II. Studying the First Seven Cases. 1635 A. Data and Methods. 1635 B. Results. 1637 1. Comparison of Strike Patterns. 1637 2. Comparison of Strike Patterns -- Cases Five Years Pre-; Search Snippet: ...American Law Schools BEYOND BATSON'S SCRUTINY: A PRELIMINARY LOOK AT RACIAL DISPARITIES IN PROSECUTORIAL PREEMPTORY STRIKES FOLLOWING THE PASSAGE OF THE NORTH CAROLINA RACIAL JUSTICE ACT Barbara O'Brien [FNa1] Catherine M. Grosso [FNaa1] Copyright... |
2013 |
Patricia A. Broussard |
Blind Injustice: the Supreme Court, Implicit Racial Bias, and the Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System |
16 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 373 (Spring 2013) |
One hot summer's day in the late 1950s, a young mother put her three young children down for a nap. She also bathed and prepared four of her sister's children for naptime. This young woman had volunteered to care for her nephew and nieces while their mother, her younger sister, was in the hospital delivering her fifth child. A short while after; Search Snippet: ...TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY REMNANT OF SLAVERY, JIM CROW, AND SYSTEMIC RACISM--WHO WILL TELL HER STORIES? Patricia A. Broussard [FNa1] Copyright... |
2013 |
Shana M. Scott, MPH |
Bringing Racial Justice to the Courtroom and Community: Race Matters for Juvenile Justice and the Charlotte Model |
22 Annals of Health Law Advance Directive 74 (Spring, 2013) |
Evidence of racial and ethnic health disparities have been documented in the American healthcare system for decades. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defined health disparities as preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially; Search Snippet: ...TITLE VI GAP: HOW CAN THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT ADDRESS RACIAL INEQUITY IN NURSING HOMES? Shana M. Scott MPH [FNa1] Copyright... |
2013 |
Leland Ware |
Color Struck: Intragroup and Cross-Racial Color Discrimination |
13 Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal 75 (Fall-Winter, 2013) |
If you is white, You's alright, If you's brown, Stick around, But if you's black, oh, brother, Get back, get back, get back. Pop singer Michael Jackson's features changed and the color of his skin lightened dramatically during the final decades of his life. Jackson denied changing his skin color to improve his appearance and claimed that he; Search Snippet: ...Journal Fall-Winter, 2013 Article COLOR STRUCK: INTRAGROUP AND CROSS- RACIAL COLOR DISCRIMINATION Leland Ware [FNd1] Copyright (c) 2013 Connecticut Public... |
2013 |
Caitlin Naidoff |
Confronting the Invisible Witness: the Use of Narrative to Neutralize Capital Jurors' Implicit Racial Biases |
19 Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights 169 (Fall 2013) |
Texas should enact a Racial Justice Act. The Supreme Court has acknowledged the constitutional framework's inability to adequately address racial discrimination in the application of the death penalty. Instead, the Court encouraged legislatures to respond to this racial injustice. North Carolina responded with the North Carolina Racial Justice Act; Search Snippet: ...OF TOO MUCH JUSTICE: [FN1] THE NEED FOR A TEXAS RACIAL JUSTICE ACT Caitlin Naidoff [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2014 Texas Journal... |
2013 |
Cedric Merlin Powell |
Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court. By Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. 272 Pp. $24.00 Hardcover |
52 University of Louisville Law Review 105 (2013) |
The doctrinal linchpin of the Roberts Court's post-racial constitutionalism is neutrality. This commentary advances a critique of neutrality in three jurisprudential contexts: school desegregation-integration cases, the First Amendment and the marketplace of ideas, and affirmative action by theorizing that neutrality promotes inequality. This; Search Snippet: ...SCHOOLS, THE FIRST AMENDMENT, AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN A POST- RACIAL WORLD Cedric Merlin Powell [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2013 University of... |
2013 |
Anietie Maureen-Ann Akpan |
Darkness Made Visible: Law, Metaphor, and the Racial Self |
11 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 1123 (Spring, 2013) |
It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things. - James Baldwin 1943. Rural Alabama. The rays of the sun stream down mercilessly hot on your back, and perspiration darkens your shirt. It had been another long day of; Search Snippet: ...MEDICINE: HOW THE NATIONAL RESEARCH ACT HAS FAILED TO ADDRESS RACIST PRACTICES IN BIOMEDICAL EXPERIMENTS TARGETING THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN [FN1] COMMUNITY... |
2013 |
Vinay Harpalani |
Destabilizing Racial Classification Based on Insights Gleaned from Trademark Law. By Alex M. Johnson, Jr. 84 California Law Review 887-952, July 1996. (Order From: University of California Press, 2120 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, California 94720.) |
69 New York University Annual Survey of American Law 77 (2013) |
This Article analyzes the racial ambiguity of South Asian Americans--peoples whose ancestry derives from the Indian subcontinent--and has two major aims. First, it provides a comprehensive account of the racialization of South Asian Americans (Desi) a group that legal scholars have not considered at any length in the rubric of American racial... |
2013 |
Daniel J. Losen |
Discounting the Error Costs |
51 Family Court Review 388 (July, 2013) |
Research has found that, in 2006, over 28 per cent of Black male middle school students had been suspended at least once, nearly three times the rate for White males. Other research has revealed racial disparities in discipline, including disproportionately high numbers of Black students being removed from class on discretionary discipline grounds,; Search Snippet: ...Out of Court Special Issue Article DISCIPLINE POLICIES, SUCCESSFUL SCHOOLS, RACIAL JUSTICE, AND THE LAW [FNa1] Daniel J. Losen [FNa2] Copyright... |
2013 |
Kim Forde-Mazrui |
Does the Lsat Mirror or Magnify Racial and Ethnic Differences in Educational Attainment?: a Study of Equally Achieving "Elite" College Students |
17 Lewis & Clark Law Review 987 (2013) |
In Fisher v. University of Texas, the Supreme Court declined to revisit the constitutionality of race-based admissions policies in higher education. The Court instead remanded the case to the lower court to re-evaluate whether the University's use of race as an admissions factor is necessary to achieve the benefits of student-body diversity. The; Search Snippet: ...Race & Civil Rights 2013 Martin Luther King, Jr., Lecture DOES RACIAL DIVERSITY PROMOTE CULTURAL DIVERSITY?: THE MISSING QUESTION IN FISHER V... |
2013 |
Deborah Peterson Small , Break the Chains, 918 Parker Street, Suite A-21, Berkeley, CA 94710, 510-280-3774, E-mail: deborah@breakchains.org |
Eliminating Racism and the Diversity Gap in the Video Game Industry |
37-JUL Champion 55 (July, 2013) |
On March 30, 1908, Green Cottenham was arrested by the Shelby County, Ala., sheriff and charged with vagrancy. After three days in the county jail, the 22-year-old African American was sentenced to an unspecified term of hard labor. The next day, he was handed over to a unit of U.S. Steel Corporation and put to work with hundreds of other convicts; Search Snippet: ...WL 5402046 CHAMPION Champion July, 2013 Feature Racial Disparity ELIMINATING RACIAL DISPARITIES IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM Deborah Peterson Small [FNa1... |
2013 |
Christopher Cerullo |
Evidence of Racial Discrimination in the Use of the Death Penalty: a Story from Southwest Arkansas (1990-2005) with Special Reference to the Case of Death Row Inmate Frank Williams, Jr. |
82 Fordham Law Review 127 (October, 2013) |
Since its enactment as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII's main purpose has been to end all forms of employment discrimination. Through a flexible judicial interpretation of Title VII that reached newly discovered forms of discrimination, and through occasional intervention by Congress to update the statute, Title VII has been largely; Search Snippet: ...Fordham Law Review October, 2013 Note EVERYONE'S A LITTLE BIT RACIST? RECONCILING IMPLICIT BIAS AND TITLE VII Christopher Cerullo [FNa1] Copyright... |
2013 |
Abbey L. Thompson |
Evolution of the Racial Identity of Children of Loving: Has Our Thinking about Race and Racial Issues Become Obsolete? |
37 American Journal of Trial Advocacy 225 (Summer, 2013) |
Federal Rule of Evidence 606(b) faces potential constitutional hurdles when, after the verdict has been rendered, a juror attempts to provide evidence or testify about racial prejudices during jury deliberations. Rule 606(b) provides, [d]uring an inquiry into the validity of a verdict or indictment, a juror may not testify about any statement made; Search Snippet: ...CONSTITUTIONAL WHEN IT IS APPLIED TO BAR TESTIMONY ABOUT JURY RACIAL BIAS?--UNITED STATES v. SHALHOUT, 507 F. APP'X 201 (3D... |
2013 |
Tom I. Romero, II |
Foreword: Sixty Years after the Internment: Civil Rights, Identity Politics, and Racial Profiling |
90 Denver University Law Review 1023 (2013) |
This Essay serves as the foreword to the Denver University Law Review 2013 Symposium: Forty Years Since Keyes v. School District No. 1: Equality of Educational Opportunity and the Legal Construction of Metropolitan America. Through the lens of Professor Romero's experiences being born, raised, bused, and ultimately returning home to work and raise... |
2013 |
Cynthia E. Jones |
Give Us Free: Addressing Racial Disparities in Bail Determinations |
16 NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 919 (2013) |
This article considers racial disparities that occur nationally in the bail determination process, due in large part to the lack of uniformity, resources, and information provided to officials in bail proceedings. It argues that the almost unbridled decision making power afforded to bail officials is often influenced by improper considerations such... |
2013 |
Thomas W. Mitchell |
Growing up a Suspect: an Examination of Racial Profiling of Black Children and Effective Strategies to Reduce Racial Disparities in Arrests |
56 Howard Law Journal 849 (Spring 2013) |
INTRODUCTION. 850 I. OVERALL TRENDS IN INCOME AND WEALTH INEQUALITIES. 852 A. Trends in Income Inequality. 853 B. Trends in Wealth Inequality. 856 C. Racial Income and Wealth Gaps. 857 1. Racial Income Gaps. 857 2. Racial Wealth Gaps. 857 II. AS INEQUALITY HAS RISEN, ECONOMIC MOBILITY HAS DECLINED. 861 A. Trends in Economic Mobility in the United; Search Snippet: ...JOURNAL Howard Law Journal Spring 2013 Article GROWING INEQUALITY AND RACIAL ECONOMIC GAPS Thomas W. Mitchell [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2013 Howard... |
2013 |
L. Song Richardson, Phillip Atiba Goff |
Implicit Racial Biases in Prosecutorial Summations: Proposing an Integrated Response |
122 Yale Law Journal 2626 (June, 2013) |
Despite the promise of Gideon, providing the guiding hand of counsel to indigent defendants remains unmanageable, largely because the nation's public defender offices are overworked and underfunded. Faced with overwhelming caseloads and inadequate resources, public defenders must engage in triage, deciding which cases deserve attention and which; Search Snippet: ...JOURNAL Yale Law Journal June, 2013 Gideon Symposium Essay IMPLICIT RACIAL BIAS IN PUBLIC DEFENDER TRIAGE L. Song Richardson Phillip Atiba... |
2013 |
Jonathan A. Rapping |
Improving Culture to End Racism |
16 NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 999 (2013) |
This article examines the power of implicit racial bias on all major players in the criminal justice system, focusing specifically on the criminal defense attorney--whose role in defending his or her client makes racial bias particularly devastating to the criminal justice system we would like to believe we have. If a criminal defense attorney is... |
2013 |
Angela J. Davis |
In the Beltway |
16 NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 821 (2013) |
This article examines the role of prosecutors in establishing and maintaining racial disparities in the criminal justice system, and examines efforts of the Prosecution and Racial Justice Program of the Vera Institute of Justice to enact reform within prosecutors' offices. After providing an overview of the debate on causes of such racial... |
2013 |
Amara S. Chaudhry-Kravitz |
Is Classism the New Racism? Avoiding Strict Scrutiny's Fatal in Fact Consequences by Diversifying Student Bodies on the Basis of Socioeconomic Status |
20 Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice Just. 3 (Fall, 2013) |
I. Introduction. 4 II. Defining Our Terms. 5 III. Where We Are: Post-9/11 Criminalization of American Muslim Identity. 8 A. In a Post-9/11 World, American Muslim Identity Has Been Criminalized. 8 B. Is This Criminalization a Result of a Racialization of American Muslim Identity?. 11 IV. Where We've Been: Legal Constructs, and Consequences, of; Search Snippet: ...FN1] AMERICAN MUSLIMS, INHERENT PROPENSITY FOR VIOLENCE, [FN2] AND AMERICA'S RACIAL HISTORY Amara S. Chaudhry-Kravitz [FN3] Copyright (c) 2013 Washington... |
2013 |
Cynthia Lee |
Making Sense of the Census: the Decennial Census Debate and its Meaning for America's Ethnic and Racial Minorities |
91 North Carolina Law Review 1555 (June, 2013) |
This Article uses the Trayvon Martin shooting to examine the operation of implicit racial bias in cases involving self-defense claims. Judges and juries are often unaware that implicit racial bias can influence their perceptions of threat, danger, and suspicion in cases involving minority defendants and victims. Failure to recognize the effects of... |
2013 |
Sonja B. Starr, M. Marit Rehavi |
Manipulated Doctrines, Improper Distinctions, and the Law of Racial Vote Dilution |
123 Yale Law Journal 2 (October, 2013) |
This Article presents new empirical evidence concerning the effects of United States v. Booker, which loosened the formerly mandatory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, on racial disparities in federal criminal cases. Two serious limitations pervade existing empirical literature on sentencing disparities. First, studies focus on sentencing in isolation,... |
2013 |
Jeffrey C. Sun , Philip T.K. Daniel |
May Examination Schools Use Racial Preferences in Their Admissions Process?: Wessmann V. Gittens |
41 Fordham Urban Law Journal 557 (December, 2013) |
L1-2Introduction . L3558 I. Legislation and Regulations Governing Students with Disabilities. 562 A. Early Education Laws Placing Attention on Students with Disabilities. 563 B. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Amendments. 567 C. Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA) and No Child Left Behind (NCLB); Search Snippet: ...MATH AND SCIENCE ARE CORE TO THE IDEA: BREAKING THE RACIAL AND POVERTY LINES Jeffrey C. Sun [FNa1] Philip T.K. Daniel... |
2013 |
Jonathan Feingold , Doug Souza |
Mention of Racial Issue in Campaign Not Grounds for Invalidating Union Election |
15 Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy 71 (2013) |
Consider the following hypothetical. Two law students recently completed their first year at a prestigious American law school. The first student, Anne, is a single mother of two young children, Erin and Max. Anne receives several loans that cover the majority of her law school fees, but must also work part-time to cover living expenses for herself; Search Snippet: ...Journal of African-American Law & Policy 2013 Article MEASURING THE RACIAL UNEVENNESS OF LAW SCHOOL Jonathan Feingold [FNa1] Doug Souza [FNaa1... |
2013 |
Roger Clegg |
Mississippi Goddamn: Flowers V Mississippi's Cheap Racial Justice |
14 Engage: The Journal of the Federalist Society Practice Groups 88 (February 1, 2013) |
Timing is important, and it is hard to imagine when two books have been better timed than the two that are being reviewed here. Here's why: On October 10, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas, in which that school's use of racial and ethnic preferences in undergraduate admissions has been challenged as... |
2013 |
Robin Walker Sterling |
On Terror, Drugs and Racial Profiling |
91 Denver University Law Review 211 (2013) |
They had done it. After three long years, three of the members of the graduating class of 2035 of Denver Law sat together over burgers at Crimson & Gold, the local student hangout that had sustained them through countless hours of studying, memorizing, outlining, and learning. Geneva Johnson could not believe that she had just graduated from law... |
2013 |
Congressman John Lewis, Bryan Stevenson |
On the Road from Environmental Racism to Environmental Justice |
40-DEC Human Rights 15 (December, 2013) |
After serving forty-two years in an Arizona prison for a crime he didn't commit, a fifty-eight-yearold man was finally released in April 2013. When Louis Taylor was just sixteen, he ventured out of his comfort zone to try a happy hour advertised by an upscale Tucson hotel, a typical foray for an adventurous teenage boy. Unfortunately, that night a; Search Snippet: ...to enlist the private bar's leadership and resources in combating racial discrimination and the resulting inequality of opportunity-- work that continues... |
2013 |
Margo Schlanger |
Prison Time and Fines: Explaining Racial Disparities in Sentencing for White-collar Criminals |
18 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 241 (Spring 2013) |
The Michigan Journal of Race & Law's symposium, Inhumane and Ineffective: Solitary Confinement in Michigan and Beyond, was held on February 2, 2013, at the University of Michigan Law School; it brought together a dozen speakers on the topic of solitary confinement in three panels (Isolation and Mental Health; Crisis in Michigan; and Strategies... |
2013 |
Tanya Asim Cooper |
Racial Bias in Medical Treatment |
97 Marquette Law Review 215 (Winter, 2013) |
In disproportionately high numbers, Native American and African American children find themselves in the American foster care system. Empirical data establish that these children are removed from their families at greater rates than other races and stay in foster care longer, where they are often abused, neglected, and then severed from their; Search Snippet: ...REVIEW Marquette Law Review Winter, 2013 December, 2013 Lead Article RACIAL BIAS IN AMERICAN FOSTER CARE: THE NATIONAL DEBATE Tanya Asim... |
2013 |
Nancy Leong |
Racial Cartels |
126 Harvard Law Review 2151 (June, 2013) |
Introduction. 2153 I. Valuing Race. 2158 A. Whiteness as Property. 2158 B. Diversity as Revaluation. 2161 C. The Worth of Nonwhiteness. 2169 II. A Theory of Racial Capitalism. 2172 A. Race as Social Capital. 2175 B. Race as Marxian Capital. 2183 C. Racial Capitalism. 2190 III. Critiquing Racial Capitalism. 2198 A. Commodification. 2199 B. Harm to; Search Snippet: ...3462358 HARVARD LAW REVIEW Harvard Law Review June, 2013 Article RACIAL CAPITALISM Nancy Leong [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2013 Harvard Law Review... |
2013 |
Swati Prakash |
Racial Discrimination Against the Majority in Hiring Practices: Courts' Misguided Attempts to Make Race-conscious Law Color Blind |
101 California Law Review 1437 (October, 2013) |
Nearly fifty years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, race-based residential segregation remains remarkably persistent, as do significant racial disparities in economic well-being. This Comment argues that one contributing factor to the persistence of segregation is different access to legal protections for property value enjoyed by; Search Snippet: ...5322547 CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW California Law Review October, 2013 Comment RACIAL DIMENSIONS OF PROPERTY VALUE PROTECTION UNDER THE FAIR HOUSING ACT... |
2013 |
Roland G. Fryer, Jr. , Devah Pager , Jörg L. Spenkuch , Harvard University, Princeton University, Northwestern University |
Racial Disparities in Maternal Mortality |
56 Journal of Law & Economics 633 (August, 2013) |
The extent to which discrimination can explain racial wage gaps is one of the most divisive issues in the social sciences. Using a newly available data set, this paper develops a simple empirical test that, under plausible (but not innocuous) conditions, provides a lower bound on the extent of discrimination in the labor market. Taken at face... |
2013 |
Tristin K. Green |
Racial Emotions and the Feeling of Equality |
86 Southern California Law Review 959 (July, 2013) |
Almost everyone in the United States is likely to experience or have experienced racial emotion in the workplace. One person feels uncomfortable making conversation with her coworkers of a different race for fear that she will use the wrong name or say something that is perceived as biased or offensive; another is anxious that his colleague will; Search Snippet: ...CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW Southern California Law Review July, 2013 Article RACIAL EMOTION IN THE WORKPLACE Tristin K. Green [FNa1] Copyright ©... |
2013 |
F. Michael Higginbotham |
Racial Equality in the Twenty-first Century: What's Tax Policy Got to Do with It? |
72 Maryland Law Review 1106 (2013) |
Chief Judge Robert Bell is so well known for his groundbreaking efforts in support of access to justice programs--whether through expanding lawyer assistance opportunities or creating problem-solving courts--that his other significant legal accomplishments are often overlooked. The quest for racial equality in jury selection is one aspect in which; Search Snippet: ...Law Review 2013 Tributes to Chief Judge Robert M. Bell RACIAL EQUALITY IN JURY SELECTION F. Michael Higginbotham [FNa1] Copyright ©... |
2013 |
Deborah Zalesne |
Racial Inequities in Mortality and Access to Health Care |
3 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 23 (2013) |
Today's students live in an era that dominant social voices declare to be a post-racial society. Issues of discrimination, it follows, are simply isolated incidents easily addressed by the panoply of existing civil rights laws. This belief creates expectations on the part of first-year law students who may dismiss or ignore the existence of... |
2013 |
Peter Arcidiacono , Esteban Aucejo, Andrew Hussey, Kenneth Spenner, Duke University, London School of Economics, University of Memphis, Duke University |
Racial Slur Incurs Suspension |
56 Journal of Law & Economics 1039 (November, 2013) |
This paper examines sorting into interracial friendships at selective universities. We show significant friendship segregation, particularly for blacks. Indeed, blacks' friendships are no more diverse in college than in high school, despite the fact that the colleges that blacks attend have substantially smaller black populations. We demonstrate... |
2013 |
Andrew E. Taslitz |
Racial Union: Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama, 1865-1954. By Julie Novkov. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. Pp. 368. $75.00 Cloth; $26.95 Paper |
41 American Journal of Criminal Law L. 1 (Winter 2013) |
I. Introduction. 2 II. Empathy, Race, and the Capital Jury. 5 A. Overview. 6 1. Racial Bias in Black Offender-White Victim Dyads Undermines Empathy for the Defendant. 6 2. Lost Empathy for the Defendant Deindividuates His Character and Suffering. 7 a. Stereotypes and Racial Threat. 7 b. Retribution and Racial Insult. 8 B. Empathy-Relevant Features; Search Snippet: ...2013 Mass Incarceration and the Death Penalty Symposium Issue Article RACIAL THREAT VERSUS RACIAL EMPATHY IN SENTENCING--CAPITAL AND OTHERWISE Andrew E. Taslitz [FNa1... |
2013 |
Neda N. Brisport |
Racism 4.0, Civity, and Re-constitution |
70 National Lawyers Guild Review 17 (Spring, 2013) |
President Obama began his letter regarding the Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act with this very poignant statement: Every child in America deserves a world-class education. Although the Constitution does not directly address the notion of education, the federal government and judiciary have made it clear through; Search Snippet: ...NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD REVIEW National Lawyers Guild Review Spring, 2013 RACISM & POWER: THE INACCESSIBILITY OF OPPORTUNITY IN THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN... |
2013 |
Xiaoxiang Deng |
Reaction To: the Fallacious Rhetorica of Racism the Challenges of Applying "Reliable Social Science" |
5 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 29 (Spring, 2013) |
In this Article, Patrick B.N. Solomon analyzes the various logical fallacies in the rhetoric of the Supreme Court's decisions concerning racial issues. To rectify these logical fallacies, Solomon proposes that the Justices should ground their logic in the more objective findings of social scientists, instead of their own socially embedded; Search Snippet: ...Fallacious Rhetorica of Racism REACTION TO: THE FALLACIOUS RHETORICA OF RACISM Xiaoxiang Deng [FNa1] Copyright © 2013 by Xiaoxiang Deng In this... |
2013 |
Bret D. Asbury |
Reaction To: the Gray Area: Exploring the Black-white Binary's Exploitation of the Multi-Racial Identity |
5 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 27 (Spring, 2013) |
Observing that logically coherent, unanimous decisions concerning racial classifications are possible when members of the [Supreme] Court have credited the more objective findings of social scientists instead of relying on their own socially embedded views, Patrick B.N. Solomon's The Fallacious Rhetorica of Racism endeavors to demonstrate the; Search Snippet: ...Fallacious Rhetorica of Racism REACTION TO: THE FALLACIOUS RHETORICA OF RACISM THE CHALLENGES OF APPLYING RELIABLE SOCIAL SCIENCE Bret D. Asbury... |
2013 |
David A. Strauss |
Recognizing Race and the Elusive Ideal of Racial Neutrality |
113 Columbia Law Review Sidebar 1 (January 16, 2013) |
Response to: Justin Driver, Recognizing Race, 112 Colum. L. Rev. 404 (2012). In 1960, Louisiana enacted a statute requiring that the race of any candidate for office be listed on the ballot opposite the candidate's name. In Anderson v. Martin, the Supreme Court had no difficulty declaring that statute unconstitutional. The Court said that the case; Search Snippet: ...January 16, 2013 RECOGNIZING RACE AND THE ELUSIVE IDEAL OF RACIAL NEUTRALITY David A. Strauss [FNa1] Copyright © 2013 by Columbia Law... |
2013 |
Vanita Gupta , Kara Dansky , ACLU, 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10004, 212-549-2500, E-mail: vgupta@aclu.org, ACLU, 915 15th Street NW, Washington, DC 20005, 202-715-0824, E-mail: kdansky@aclu.org |
Reducing Racially Disparate Policing Outcomes: Is Implicit Bias Training the Answer? |
37-JUL Champion 47 (July, 2013) |
After a century of stability, the last 40 years have witnessed an American penal system dominated by unrelenting growth; mass incarceration has been aggressively implemented at almost every stage of the justice process. Under this punitive regime, penal reform faced an impenetrable wall of resistance, and the consequences are well documented: a; Search Snippet: ...WL 5402041 CHAMPION Champion July, 2013 Feature Racial Disparity REDUCING RACIAL DISPARITIES THROUGH STRUCTURAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORMS Vanita Gupta [FNa1] ACLU... |
2013 |
Nancy Leong |
Reflections on Racism and World Order |
127 Harvard Law Review Forum 32 (November, 2013) |
In my article Racial Capitalism, I expressed concern about the ongoing process of racial exploitation in which white people and predominantly white institutions derive value from the racial identity of people of color. I see this process as troubling and undesirable. Rendering racial identity a commodity harms people of color in many ways: by; Search Snippet: ...Review Forum November, 2013 Forum and Response Response REFLECTIONS ON RACIAL CAPITALISM Nancy Leong [FNa1] Copyright © 2013 Harvard Law Review Association... |
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