| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Brett G. Johnson |
Prejudice and Property, U.s. Department of Justice (Brief Against Racial Covenants Submitted to the U.s. Supreme Court by Tom C. Clark and Philip B. Perlman, Public Affairs Press, 1948) |
20 Communication Law and Policy 55 (Winter, 2015) |
Race is very important in Brazil, but only because it is not supposed to be important. Brazilian conventional wisdom holds that the country is a racism-free racial democracy, yet the enduring presence of racism in Brazil forces the law to fight to protect the country's racism-free image. The purpose of this article is to analyze Brazil's laws; Search Snippet: ...Law and Policy Winter, 2015 Article PREJUDICE AGAINST BEING PREJUDICED: RACIST SPEECH AND THE SPECTER OF SEDITIOUS LIBEL IN BRAZIL Brett... |
2015 |
| Darren Lenard Hutchinson |
Preventing Racial Profiling and Ensuring Professional Traffic Stops |
22 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law L. 1 (Winter, 2015) |
Introduction. 4 I. Balkanization and Equal Protection. 12 A. Balkanization: The Empirical Claim. 12 1. Colorblindness, Affirmative Action, and Balkanization. 12 2. Discriminatory Intent Rule. 15 3. The End of Suspect Classes. 16 a. Failure to Recognize New Suspect Classes. 16 b. Class-to-Classification Shift. 19 B. Dignity and the Supreme Court. 20; Search Snippet: ...and the Law Winter, 2015 Article PREVENTING BALKANIZATION OR FACILITATING RACIAL DOMINATION: A CRITIQUE OF THE NEW EQUAL PROTECTION Darren Lenard... |
2015 |
| Kevin Woodson |
Race and Religion in the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination |
83 Fordham Law Review 2557 (April, 2015) |
Over the past two decades, clients and other constituencies have pushed large law firms to pursue greater racial diversity in attorney hiring and retention. Although these firms have devoted extraordinary resources toward better recruiting and retaining attorneys of color, and despite a proliferation of best practices guides and diversity policy; Search Snippet: ...An International and Comparative Perspective RACE AND RAPPORT: HOMOPHILY AND RACIAL DISADVANTAGE IN LARGE LAW FIRMS Kevin Woodson [FNa1] Copyright ©... |
2015 |
| Richard L. Hasen |
Racial Hate Speech: a Comparative Analysis of the Impact of International Human Rights Law upon the Law of the United Kingdom and the United States |
67 Alabama Law Review 365 (2015) |
Like history, the racial gerrymandering cause of action has repeated itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. In the 1990s, conservative members of the Supreme Court recognized a new cause of action, grounded in the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause, of an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The claim was not; Search Snippet: ...2015 Symposium 2015: 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act RACIAL GERRYMANDERING'S QUESTIONABLE REVIVAL Richard L. Hasen [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2016... |
2015 |
| Dawinder S. Sidhu |
Racial Origins of Doctrines Limiting Prisoner Protest Speech |
17 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 1335 (May, 2015) |
Racial mirroring refers to efforts by one group to match the primary racial composition of another group. In contrast to racial balancing, which takes place when two groups are adjusted simultaneously to achieve a desired degree of racial equilibrium between them, racial mirroring occurs when the racial makeup of one group is adjusted so as to; Search Snippet: ...University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law May, 2015 Article RACIAL MIRRORING Dawinder S. Sidhu [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2015 The University... |
2015 |
| Kevin R. Johnson |
Racial Profiling Legalized in Arizona |
48 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 967 (Summer, 2015) |
In Moncrieffe v. Holder, the Supreme Court held that the Board of Immigration Appeals could not remove a long-term lawful permanent resident from the United States based on a single misdemeanor conviction for possession of a small amount of marijuana. The decision clarified the meaning of an aggravated felony for purposes of removal, an important; Search Snippet: ...University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform Summer, 2015 Article RACIAL PROFILING IN THE WAR ON DRUGS MEETS THE IMMIGRATION REMOVAL... |
2015 |
| Palma Joy Strand |
Racism and Community Planning: Building Equity or Waiting for Explosions |
42 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 763 (Summer 2015) |
The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice. ~The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I begin this essay with a personal introduction. All of us understand the world through our own stories. And the stories that we send out into the world are most useful in contributing to our collective story if we honestly acknowledge that... |
2015 |
| Rita Hazlett |
Reaction To: Jury Discretion and Racism: the Stray Away from Furman and the Persistence of Racial Disparities in the Death Penalty |
7 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 43 (Spring, 2015) |
Coulson's article focuses on an important subject. As he states in the article, Thind is a case that helped define race relations in the United States even as the outcome was partially dictated by the existing policy of segregation. Thind reflects the idea that rather than living in a world of black and white, in the United States, Americans live; Search Snippet: ...REACTION TO: BRITISH IMPERIALISM, THE INDIAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT, AND THE RACIAL ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS IN THE NATURALIZATION ACT: UNITED STATES v. THIND... |
2015 |
| Gabriel J. Chin , Charles J. Vernon |
Reassessing American Democracy: the Enduring Challenge of Racial Exclusion |
83 George Washington Law Review 882 (April, 2015) |
In Whren v. United States, the Supreme Court held, unanimously, that Fourth Amendment analysis was so radically objective that an otherwise legitimate search or arrest would not be invalidated even if an officer's decision to act was based on race. Although the Court has adhered to the view that the Fourth Amendment is applied objectively, the; Search Snippet: ...George Washington Law Review April, 2015 Article REASONABLE BUT UNCONSTITUTIONAL: RACIAL PROFILING AND THE RADICAL OBJECTIVITY OF WHREN V. UNITED STATES... |
2015 |
| Jessica Westerman |
Reckoning with Employment Discrimination in a "Post Racial" Era |
22 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 355 (Winter, 2015) |
Enacted with the express long-term goal of closing racial and other achievement gaps in public education, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 has so far disappointed proponents who previously had considered it a triumph for civil rights. The law's revolutionary reporting requirements mandate that state and local educational agencies disseminate; Search Snippet: ...NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND: UTILIZING DISAGGREGATED DATA TO ADDRESS THE RACIAL ACHIEVEMENT GAP Jessica Westerman [FNa1] Copyright © 2015 by Jessica Westerman... |
2015 |
| Robert J. Smith |
Reducing Recidivism or Misclassifying Offenders?: How Implementing Risk and Needs Assessment in the Federal Prison System Will Perpetuate Racial Bias |
37 University of Hawaii Law Review 295 (Spring, 2015) |
While public defenders, civil rights organizations, and academics have long championed the reduction of racially disparate policing outcomes, their chorus has added some transformational actors recently. Attorney General Eric Holder, for instance, has called for rigorous new standards to help end racial profiling. The police chief of Richmond,... |
2015 |
| Alfred L. Brophy, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill |
Reno |
33 Law and History Review 1022 (November, 2015) |
In September 1963, several years before I was born, a vicious set of men, angered by the march of the Civil Rights Movement, planted a bomb at the steps of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The bomb left four young girls dead. As an adult I attended the trial of Bobby Frank Cherry, the last of the bombers to face trial. Shortly; Search Snippet: ...and History Review November, 2015 Book Review RENEE C. ROMANO, RACIAL RECKONING: PROSECUTING AMERICA'S CIVIL RIGHTS MURDERS, CAMBRIDGE, MA: HARVARD UNIVERSITY... |
2015 |
| Nick J. Sciullo |
Riding into the Sunset in a "Post-Racial" World: Lessons in Equal Educational Opportunity and College Admissions Schemes in France and the United States |
37 Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal (COMM/ENT) 201 (2015) |
I. Introduction. 201 II. The Richard Sherman Interview in Theory. 204 III. The Rhetoric of Black Danger. 206 IV. Racial Animus in Sports Media. 212 V. The Rebirth of the Bogeyman Myth. 220 A. The Legend of the Bogeyman; or, a Chance at Weak Ontology. 221 B. Francisco Goya y Que viene el Coco. 225 C. Wer Hat Angst Vorm Schwarzen Mann?. 227 VI; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal (COMM/ENT) 2015 Article RICHARD SHERMAN, RHETORIC, AND RACIAL ANIMUS IN THE REBIRTH OF THE BOGEYMAN MYTH Nick J... |
2015 |
| Xia Wang , Daniel P. Mears |
Sentencing Disparities and the Dangerous Perpetuation of Racial Bias |
49 Law and Society Review 883 (December, 2015) |
Sentencing studies have incorporated social context in studying sentencing decisions, but to date the bulk of prior work has focused almost exclusively on county context. An unresolved question is whether there also may be state-level effects on sentencing. Drawing from the minority threat perspective, we examine (1) whether state-level racial and; Search Snippet: ...and Society Review December, 2015 Article SENTENCING AND STATE-LEVEL RACIAL AND ETHNIC CONTEXTS [FNa1] Xia Wang [FNa2] Daniel P. Mears... |
2015 |
| Michael Todisco |
Sharing Economy Inequality: How the Adoption of Class Action Waivers in the Sharing Economy Presents a Threat to Racial Discrimination Claims |
67 Stanford Law Review Online 121 (March 14, 2015) |
The motel's neon vacancy sign lures the weary traveler from the freeway. She enters and inquires after a room. The receptionist, without looking up from his crossword, slides a clipboard across the front desk. An application? When did motels become prep schools? The traveler scribbles in the requested information. Name: Monique Jackson. Reason you... |
2015 |
| Abra S. Mason |
Shopping While Black: Applying 42 U.s.c. § 1981 to Cases of Consumer Racial Profiling |
17 Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy 116 (2015) |
Shelby County v. Holder, the latest Supreme Court decision on voting rights, is the product of the post-racial movement. As Professor Gilda R. Daniels has explained, the post-racial movement is founded on the belief that President Obama's election in 2008 symbolized the fact that we have reached a place in our society where race has lessened in; Search Snippet: ...SHELBY COUNTY v. HOLDER: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE POST- RACIAL MOVEMENT'S RELATIONSHIP TO BYSTANDER DENIAL AND ITS EFFECT ON PERCEPTIONS... |
2015 |
| Sam Erman, Gregory M. Walton |
Stereotype Threat and Racial Differences in Citizens' Experiences of Police Encounters |
88 Southern California Law Review 307 (January, 2015) |
A new generation of social science research creates new opportunities to increase fairness and reduce racial inequality in education. This research raises important questions for antidiscrimination law. Over the past twenty years, research conducted around the world has established that for students subject to pervasive negative intellectual; Search Snippet: ...THREAT AND ANTIDISCRIMINATION LAW: AFFIRMATIVE STEPS TO PROMOTE MERITOCRACY AND RACIAL EQUALITY IN EDUCATION Sam Erman Gregory M. Walton [FNa1] Copyright... |
2015 |
| Cynthia J. Najdowski , Bette L. Bottoms , Phillip Atiba Goff , University at Albany, State University of New York, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of California, Los Angeles |
Sticks and Stones Will Break My Bones, but Will Racist Humor?: a Look Around the World at Whether Police Officers Have a Free Speech Right to Engage in Racist Humor |
39 Law and Human Behavior 463 (October, 2015) |
We conducted 2 studies to investigate how cultural stereotypes that depict Blacks as criminals affect the way Blacks experience encounters with police officers, expecting that such encounters induce Blacks to feel stereotype threat (i.e., concern about being judged and treated unfairly by police because of the stereotype). In Study 1, we asked... |
2015 |
| André Keeton |
Structural Racism and "The Wire": Reproducing Racial Inequality on the Small Screen |
21 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 55 (Fall, 2015) |
In 2012, the Supreme Court of the United States decided Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Burlington. The Court held that full strip searches, including cavity searches, are permissible regardless of the existence of basic reasonable suspicion that the arrestee is in possession of contraband. Further, the Court held that law; Search Snippet: ...Fall, 2015 Article STRIP SEARCHING IN THE AGE OF COLORBLIND RACISM: THE DISPARATE IMPACT OF FLORENCE V. BOARD OF CHOSEN FREEHOLDERS... |
2015 |
| DeLeith Duke Gossett |
Taking a Stand?: an Initial Assessment of the Social and Racial Effects of Recent Innovations in Self-defense Laws |
55 Santa Clara Law Review 261 (2015) |
A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view. ~ Robert Frost Introduction. 262 I. Race and Colorblindness in America. 266 A. Colorblindness as an Aspirational Goal. 268 B. Co-opting Colorblindness to Keep the Status Quo. 272 1. Restrictive v. Structural Racism. 272 2. Bell's Interest Convergence; Search Snippet: ...BLINDERS: HOW IGNORING THE HAGUE CONVENTION'S SUBSIDIARITY PRINCIPLE FURTHERS STRUCTURAL RACISM AGAINST BLACK AMERICAN CHILDREN DeLeith Duke Gossett [FNa1] Copyright ©... |
2015 |
| Mario L. Barnes |
Taking a Step Back: Racial Injustice in America |
83 Fordham Law Review 3179 (May, 2015) |
[I]t's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods. These laws try to fix something that was never broken. There has always been a legal defense for using deadly force if -- and the if is important -- no safe retreat is available. Perhaps, not surprisingly, the; Search Snippet: ...TAKING A STAND?: AN INITIAL ASSESSMENT OF THE SOCIAL AND RACIAL EFFECTS OF RECENT INNOVATIONS IN SELF-DEFENSE LAWS Mario L... |
2015 |
| Shamena Anwar, Hanming Fang |
Testing Racial Profiling: Empirical Assessment of Disparate Treatment by Police |
44 Journal of Legal Studies Stud. 1 (January, 2015) |
We develop a model of a parole board contemplating whether to grant parole release to a prisoner who has finished serving his minimum sentence. The model implies a simple outcome test for racial prejudice that is based on the released inmate's rate of recidivism and is robust to the inframarginality problem. Our model has several testable... |
2015 |
| Sarah Jane Forman |
The (Un)compelling Interest for Underrepresented Minority Students: Enhancing the Education of White Students Underexposed to Racial Diversity |
109 Northwestern University Law Review Online 171 (February 23, 2015) |
It is a warm autumn night in St. Louis. The Cardinals are celebrating a 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in game four of the National League Championship Series. The bitter racial divisions that have erupted in this city following the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown momentarily dissolve into a sea of red and white as fans dressed; Search Snippet: ...2015 THE #FERGUSON EFFECT: OPENING THE PANDORA'S BOX OF IMPLICIT RACIAL BIAS IN JURY SELECTION Sarah Jane Forman [FNa1] Copyright © 2015... |
2015 |
| William Y. Chin |
The American Dreamers: Racial Prejudices and Discrimination as Seen Through the History of American Immigration Law |
16 Rutgers Race & the Law Review Rev. 1 (2015) |
Change and permanence can coexist. Witness the arc of racism in America as it evolves from overt to covert manifestations even as it remains a permanent feature of the American landscape. America is now in the age of covert racism. Such surreptitious racism is difficult, but not impossible, to discern. Its ubiety can be apprehended at the; Search Snippet: ...Race & the Law Review 2015 Article THE AGE OF COVERT RACISM IN THE ERA OF THE ROBERTS COURT DURING THE WANING... |
2015 |
| Richard R.W. Brooks |
The Bar Examination and the Dream Deferred: a Critical Analysis of the Mbe, Social Closure, and Racial and Ethnic Stratification |
124 Yale Law Journal 2626 (May, 2015) |
Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock in White Advantage BY DARIA ROITHMAYR NEW YORK: NYU PRESS, 2014, PP. 205, $25.00 INTRODUCTION. 2628 I. MODELS AND METAPHORS. 2631 II. AND ACTUAL CARTELS. 2635 III. RACIAL COVENANTS AND WHITE PRIMARIES: THE CENTRAL ACCOUNTS. 2637 IV. WEALTH, NETWORKS, AND FEEDBACK LOOPS. 2642 A. The Racial; Search Snippet: ...Yale Law Journal May, 2015 Book Review THE BANALITY OF RACIAL INEQUALITY Richard R.W. Brooks [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2015 Yale Law... |
2015 |
| Dianne Post |
The Great Rural Boon: Racial Politics and the Criminalization of the Urban Poor |
51-FEB Arizona Attorney 40 (February, 2015) |
Racism is a pigment of the imagination. --Ruben Rumbaut A hundred and ten years ago, race, religion and children's rights collided in a mining town in Arizona. The rift between communities, between the rich and poor, between the whites and non-whites, played out in a case that focused on states' rights and parens patriae and went all the way to; Search Snippet: ...ATTORNEY Arizona Attorney February, 2015 Feature THE GREAT ORPHAN ABDUCTION Racism, Religion, States' Rights Dianne Post [FNa1] Copyright © 2015 by the... |
2015 |
| Tom I. Romero, II |
The Last Line of Defense: a Comparative Analysis of United States Supreme Court and New Jersey Supreme Court Approaches to Racial Bias in the Imposition of the Death Penalty |
20 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 415 (Spring, 2015) |
This Article advocates for a fundamental re-understanding about the way that the history of race is understood by the current Supreme Court. Represented by the racial rights opinions of Justice John Roberts that celebrate racial progress, the Supreme Court has equivocated and rendered obsolete the historical experiences of people of color in the... |
2015 |
| Jeanne L. Reid |
The Racial Antecedents to Federal Sentencing Guidelines: How Congress Judged the Judges from Brown to Booker |
119 Penn State Law Review 645 (Winter 2015) |
As public policy attention has focused on families' access to preschool, both federal and state policymakers are concerned with the quality of public preschool. Discerning the components of preschool quality, measured by how much children learn, is therefore an important task for early education researchers. Whether and how preschool class; Search Snippet: ...LAW REVIEW Penn State Law Review Winter 2015 Symposium THE RACIAL AND ETHNIC COMPOSITION OF PRE-KINDERGARTEN CLASSROOMS AND CHILDREN'S LANGUAGE... |
2015 |
| Luis Fuentes-Rohwer |
The Racial Gap in Ability: from the Fifteenth Century to Grutter and Gratz |
2015 Michigan State Law Review 1473 (2015) |
This Article examines the recent turn in Justice Kennedy's race jurisprudence. The shift is palpable, from a narrow and uncompromising approach to the use of race by state actors to a more nuanced and contextual understanding of the role that race plays in American society. This is no small change, best explained by Justice Kennedy's status on the... |
2015 |
| Clifford D. Dawkins, Jr. |
The Racial Politics of Protection: a Critical Race Examination of Police Militarization |
16 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 117 (2015) |
The gap in the racial views of the justice system has a fundamental effect on the lives of citizens, particularly where race serves as our variable. This work challenges the criminal justice system's pronounced predilection for colorblindness in the ruling process by asking, [i]f the people that make up our legal system harbor passive prejudices... |
2015 |
| Cheryl Nelson Butler |
The Racial Wealth Divide Through the Eyes of the Younger Family: Undoing America's Legacy of Wealth Inequality in Search of the Elusive American Dream Utilizing a Sankofa Model of Transitional Justice |
62 UCLA Law Review 1464 (August, 2015) |
This Article explores the role of race in the prostitution and sex trafficking of people of color, particularly minority youth, and the evolving legal and social responses in the United States. Child sex trafficking has become a vital topic of discussion among scholars and advocates, and public outcry has led to safe harbor legislation aimed at... |
2015 |
| Christian Briggs |
The Relegation of Polarization |
88 Southern California Law Review 379 (January, 2015) |
Claudia, a Mexican American with family roots in the United States since the mid-1800s, walked out of a grocery store, happily chatting with her three young children in Spanish as they walked toward her car. Before arriving at her car, she was stopped by government officials and asked for proof of citizenship. Speaking to the officers in; Search Snippet: ...SUSPICION: THE FOURTH AMENDMENT AND THE COSTS AND BENEFITS OF RACIAL PROFILING IN IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT Christian Briggs [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2015... |
2015 |
| Jeannine Bell |
There Is No Santa Claus: the Challenge of Teaching the next Generation of Civil Rights Lawyers in a "Post-Racial" Society |
20 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 349 (Spring, 2015) |
At first glance hate murders appear wholly anachronistic in post-racial America. This Article suggests otherwise. The Article begins by analyzing the periodic expansions of the Supreme Court's interpretation of the protection for racist expression in First Amendment doctrine. The Article then contextualizes the case law by providing evidence of how; Search Snippet: ...of Race and Law Spring, 2015 Article THERE ARE NO RACISTS HERE: THE RISE OF RACIAL EXTREMISM, WHEN NO ONE IS RACIST Jeannine Bell [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2015 University of Michigan Law... |
2015 |
| Dayna Bowen Matthew |
Toward a Sui Generis View of Black Rights in Canada? Overcoming the Difference-denial Model of Countering Anti-black Racism |
25 Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine 61 (2015) |
C1-2Contents Introduction. 61 I. Background. 64 II. The Social Science Record on Implicit Bias in Health Care. 66 III. The Shortcomings of the Symbolic Interactionism Perspective. 73 IV. Toward a New Paradigm. 81 Conclusion. 84; Search Snippet: ...Law-Medicine 2015 Symposium TOWARD A STRUCTURAL THEORY OF IMPLICIT RACIAL AND ETHNIC BIAS IN HEALTH CARE Dayna Bowen Matthew [FNd1... |
2015 |
| Martha E. Lang, Ph.D., Chloe E. Bird, Ph.D. |
Understanding Discrimination in a "Post-Racial" World |
25 Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine 109 (2015) |
C1-2Contents Introduction. 110 I. Health Disparities, Constrained Choice, and Intersectionality. 112 A. Morbidity & Mortality Disparities. 112 B. Constrained Choice. 115 C. Intersectionality. 118 II. Guiding Propositions of an Intersectional Constrained Choice Approach to Health Disparities. 119 A. Neighborhood Effects. 119 B. The Role of; Search Snippet: ...Medicine 2015 Symposium UNDERSTANDING AND ADDRESSING THE COMMON ROOTS OF RACIAL HEALTH DISPARITIES: THE CASE OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE & HIV/AIDS IN... |
2015 |
| Lewis M. Wasserman , John P. Connolly |
United States V. Greer: Is a Racial Inquiry Necessary for an Adequate Voir Dire? |
47 Urban Lawyer Law. 1 (Winter, 2015) |
On May 17, 1954, United States Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered a unanimous ruling in the landmark civil liberty case Brown v. Board Of Education. The Court held that de jure segregation of public schools was a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. In Brown, the; Search Snippet: ...2015 Article UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT JUSTICES' VOTING IN SYSTEMIC RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CASES IN EDUCATION Lewis M. Wasserman [FNa1] John P... |
2015 |
| Ian Vandewalker, Keith Gunnar Bentele |
Vultures in Eagles' Clothing: Conspiracy and Racial Fantasy in Populist Legal Thought |
18 Harvard Latino Law Review 99 (Spring, 2015) |
In Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme Court rendered one of the most potent antidiscrimination provisions of American law a dead letter: the preclearance regime of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). Shelby County held that the formula determining which jurisdictions are required to obtain federal approval for voting law changes was outdated and; Search Snippet: ...Harvard Latino Law Review Spring, 2015 Article VULNERABILITY IN NUMBERS: RACIAL COMPOSITION OF THE ELECTORATE, VOTER SUPPRESSION, AND THE VOTING RIGHTS... |
2015 |
| Jacob J. Key |
Wanted: a White Leader Able to Free Whites of Racism |
39 American Journal of Trial Advocacy 131 (Summer 2015) |
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch summarized the importance of juries: A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up. Dating back to 1875, the United States Supreme Court began striking down statutes excluding African Americans from jury service. Although measures have been taken to minimize; Search Snippet: ...Note WALKING THE FINE LINE OF ADMISSIBILITY: SHOULD STATEMENTS OF RACIAL BIAS FALL UNDER AN EXCEPTION TO FEDERAL RULE OF EVIDENCE... |
2015 |
| Stephanie Groff |
Where We've Been, Where We're Going: a Vision of Racial Justice in the 1990's |
26 George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal 87 (Fall 2015) |
In the early morning of September 19, 2006, a large group of men gathered in Kennedy Park, Danbury, Connecticut, seeking work as day laborers. Unbeknownst to these individuals, the Danbury Police Department (DPD) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents began arriving at the park with the intention of carrying out a sting operation. The; Search Snippet: ...APPLICATION OF THE FOURTH AMENDMENT IN IMMIGRATION PROCEEDINGS AND THE RACIAL PROFILING EXCEPTION Stephanie Groff [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2015 George Mason... |
2015 |
| Jonathan Bailyn |
A Critique of Professor Derrick A. Bell's Thesis of the Permanence of Racism and His Strategy of Confrontation |
16 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice 725 (2014) |
I. Introduction. 725 II. History: Limited Supreme Court Guidance. 726 III. Corporate Racial Standing Doctrine. 727 IV. Race. 728 A. Paradigms. 728 B. Classification Schemes. 730 V. Corporations. 731 A. Shareholder Theory. 731 B. Contractarian Theory. 733 VI. Application. 735 A. Shareholder Identity. 735 B. The Problem of Heterogeneity. 737 C; Search Snippet: ...Justice 2014 Articles A CRITICAL RACE THEORIST ACCOUNT OF CORPORATE RACIAL STANDING Jonathan Bailyn [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2014 The Scholar: St... |
2014 |
| Rees Alexander |
A More Perfect Nation: Ending Racial Profiling |
24 George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal 113 (Spring 2014) |
Although most Americans report that they are comfortable with the death penalty, presumably they do not support a death sentencing system in which the color of a defendant's skin significantly influences whether a defendant is sentenced to die. Yet, throughout most of the country, courts limit how defendants facing death sentences (capital; Search Snippet: ...Civil Rights Law Journal Spring 2014 Article A MODEL STATE RACIAL JUSTICE ACT: FIGHTING RACIAL BIAS WITHOUT KILLING THE DEATH PENALTY Rees Alexander [FNa1] Copyright... |
2014 |
| Rogers M. Smith |
Act Now to Stop War and End Racism Coalition V. District of Columbia |
123 Yale Law Journal 2906 (June, 2014) |
Bruce Ackerman's The Civil Rights Revolution makes a signal contribution by documenting how the major civil rights statutes of the 1960s, especially the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and the 1968 Fair Housing Act, pragmatically employed diverse means, many facially race-neutral, some race-conscious, in order to pursue; Search Snippet: ...June, 2014 Essay ACKERMAN'S CIVIL RIGHTS REVOLUTION AND MODERN AMERICAN RACIAL POLITICS Rogers M. Smith [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2014 Yale Law... |
2014 |
| Olena Yatsunska, PhD, Foreign Law Consultant, Law Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. USA |
Adarand Constructors Inc. V. Pena: a Colorblind Remedy Eliminating Racial Preferences |
42 International Journal of Legal Information 562 (Winter 2014) |
This book was written by two professors of law and internationally recognized scholars of race studies: Devon Carbado of UCLA School of Law and Mitu Gulati of Duke Law School. The authors contend that racial judgments are not just based on skin color but also on how a person conforms to behaviors or stereotypes associated with a certain race.... |
2014 |
| David Kusnetz |
Addressing the "Emerging Majority": Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Law Librarianship in the Twenty-first Century |
47 Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 245 (Spring, 2014) |
Anti-discrimination legal efforts are evolving in an effort to address pervasive racism that continues to infect our social institutions. With our society transitioning away from the acceptance of first generation (i.e. overt and deliberate) racism, we still have to contend with second generation racism that exists in the structures of social; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Law and Social Problems Spring, 2014 ADDRESSING STRUCTURAL RACISM IN JUVENILE JUSTICE THROUGH EXPERIMENTALISM David Kusnetz [FNa1] Copyright © 2014... |
2014 |
| Latonja Sinckler |
And We Are Not Saved: the Elusive Quest for Racial Justice. By Derrick A. Bell. New York: Basic Books. 1987. Pp. Xii, 288. $19.95 |
22 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 857 (2014) |
I. Introduction. 858 II. Background. 862 A. Justifications for Race-Based Casting. 862 1. Authenticity. 862 2. Marketability. 869 B. Stereotyping and Supporting Roles for Minorities. 876 III. Analysis. 878 A. Title VII and the BFOQ Exception. 878 B. Customer Preference. 879 C. Changing the Industry: Analyzing the Success of a Title VII Claim. 881; Search Snippet: ...A LOOK AT RACE-BASED CASTING AND HOW IT LEGALIZES RACISM, DESPITE TITLE VII LAWS Latonja Sinckler [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2014... |
2014 |
| Camille Gear Rich |
Annual Report of the Election Law and Reapportionment Subcommittees-colorblind Jurisprudence: the Demise of Racial Rorschachism and Separatism |
102 California Law Review 1027 (August, 2014) |
This Festschrift Essay uses the Trayvon Martin controversy as an opportunity to reflect on the insights Angela Harris's scholarship provides about the dialogic relationship between race, masculinity, and the criminal law. After surveying Harris's contributions to critical race theory, masculinity studies, and feminist legal theory, this Essay... |
2014 |
| Rachel D. Godsil |
Anti-chinese Racism at Berkeley: the Case for Renaming Boalt Hall |
286-FEB New Jersey Lawyer, the Magazine 44 (February, 2014) |
A law firm partner is working for the first time with a young black associate. The partner is cognizant that this associate is the only African American, and one of just a handful of women, among the first-year associates-- and also aware of the dearth of people of color among senior associates and partners. The young associate is assigned her; Search Snippet: ...Rights Feature ANSWERING THE DIVERSITY MANDATE Overcoming Implicit Bias and Racial Anxiety Rachel D. Godsil [FNa1] Copyright © 2014 by New Jersey... |
2014 |
| William M. Wiecek , Judy L. Hamilton |
Bias Behind Closed Doors |
74 Louisiana Law Review 1095 (Summer, 2014) |
Since 1967, sociologists have produced a compelling body of literature on structural racism that explains why severe racial disparities persist throughout American society in all social domains: employment, education, residential patterns, wealth accumulation, and so on. Structural racism perpetuates the effects of past, overt discrimination; Search Snippet: ...Articles BEYOND THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964: CONFRONTING STRUCTURAL RACISM IN THE WORKPLACE William M. Wiecek [FNa1] Judy L. Hamilton... |
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| John Tyler Clemons |
Blind Leading the "Colorblind:" the Evisceration of Affirmative Action and a Dream Still Deferred |
51 American Criminal Law Review 689 (Summer, 2014) |
The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race. This statement by Chief Justice John Roberts in 2007 is alluring in both its grammatical symmetry and its logical simplicity. Yet it encapsulates the naiveté of the view of racial discrimination currently held by the majority of the justices of the... |
2014 |
| Tamar W. Carroll, Rochester Institute of Technology |
Bridging the Confluence of Water and Immigration Law |
32 Law and History Review 444 (May, 2014) |
Brian Purnell's important Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings chronicles the Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) from 1960 to 1964. In these years, Brooklyn CORE's interracial membership launched creative, nonviolent, direct action campaigns that sought to make visible and to eliminate racial discrimination in housing, employment,; Search Snippet: ...JIM CROW IN THE COUNTY OF KINGS: THE CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY IN BROOKLYN, LEXINGTON: UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY, 2013, PP... |
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