| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Eniola O. Akinrinade |
Caught in the Trap: Pricing Racial Housing Preferences |
2 Texas A&M Law Review 135 (Fall 2014) |
In many instances, employers have an obligation to conduct criminal background checks on their applicants to ensure that the public that comes into contact with these employees shall not be harmed. In other instances, these criminal background checks are unnecessary as they prove to be of little relevance, yet they have the effect of causing a; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Fall 2014 Comment CAUGHT BETWEEN A ROCK, NEGLIGENCE, RACISM, AND A HARD PLACE: EXPLORING THE BALANCE BETWEEN THE EEOC'S... |
2014 |
| Richard Klein |
Civil Rights in Historical Context: in Defense of Brown |
14 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 163 (Fall 2014) |
Introduction. 165 I. Sixth Amendment Jurisprudence. 169 A. Expansion of the Sixth Amendment. 169 B. Practical Effects of Changes to Sixth Amendment Jurisprudence. 174 II. Determining the Requirements of Effective Representation. 176 A. Initial Lack of Clarity. 176 B. Strickland v. Washington. 177 III. Current Crisis in Representation Provided; Search Snippet: ...and Class Fall 2014 Article CIVIL RIGHTS IN CRISIS: THE RACIAL IMPACT OF THE DENIAL OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO... |
2014 |
| Leland Ware |
Color-blind Racism in Grutter and Gratz |
46 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 185 (2014) |
Immigration from former colonies in North and sub-Saharan Africa has had a significant effect on France's demographic composition. That nation now has the largest Muslim population in Europe and conflicts involving ethnic minority populations have increased dramatically. In 2004, the French parliament adopted a law prohibiting female students from; Search Snippet: ...Law & Policy 2014 Emerging Ideas in Law Article COLOR-BLIND RACISM IN FRANCE: BIAS AGAINST ETHNIC MINORITY IMMIGRANTS Leland Ware [FNa1... |
2014 |
| Christopher L. Griffin, Jr. , Frank A. Sloan , Lindsey M. Eldred |
Courageous Conversations about Race and Racism |
55 William and Mary Law Review 1365 (April, 2014) |
Much empirical analysis has documented racial disparities at the beginning and end stages of criminal cases. However, our understanding about the perpetuation of-and even corrections for-differential outcomes in the process remains less than complete. This Article provides a comprehensive examination of criminal dispositions using all DWI cases in; Search Snippet: ...William and Mary Law Review April, 2014 Article CORRECTIONS FOR RACIAL DISPARITIES IN LAW ENFORCEMENT Christopher L. Griffin, Jr. [FNa1] Frank... |
2014 |
| Andrew K. Frank |
Creating Space for Racial Difference: the Case for African-american Schools |
9 FIU Law Review 277 (Spring 2014) |
The conquest of nineteenth-century Florida required more than signing and enforcing problematic treaties and waging violent expansionist wars on Native Americans. The United States fought multiple wars with Florida's Indians, with three of them explicitly designed to address the Seminole problem, and it engineered and enforced several; Search Snippet: ...of Florida Tribal Governments CREATING A SEMINOLE ENEMY: ETHNIC AND RACIAL DIVERSITY IN THE CONQUEST OF FLORIDA Andrew K. Frank [FNa1... |
2014 |
| Ann Piccard |
Death Penalty of Stealthy Criminal Reversed and Remanded |
49 Gonzaga Law Review 137 (2013-2014) |
For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: His duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but also offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. I. Introduction; Search Snippet: ...2013-2014 Article DEATH BY BOARDING SCHOOL: THE LAST ACCEPTABLE RACISM AND THE UNITED STATES' GENOCIDE OF NATIVE AMERICANS Ann Piccard... |
2014 |
| John MacDonald, Jeremy Arkes, Nancy Nicosia, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula |
Deconstructing Legislative Consent Law: Organ Taking, Racial Profiling & Distributive Justice |
43 Journal of Legal Studies 155 (January, 2014) |
We assess whether black-white disparities in commitments to prison or diversions to treatment for drug offenders in California can be explained by differences in the characteristics of criminal cases and whether case characteristics are weighed differently by race. We also examine whether the influence of case characteristics changed after... |
2014 |
| Nejat Anbarci , Jungmin Lee |
Detentions of Political, Racial and Religious Persecutees and Dissenters: Asylum and Human Dignity |
38 International Review of Law & Economics 11 (June, 2014) |
Article history: Received 17 September 2013 Received in revised form 28 January 2014 Accepted 3 February 2014 Available online 12 February 2014 JEL classification: J70 K42 Keywords: Police discretion Racial bias Speeding tickets Speed discounting We focus on a particular kind of discretionary behavior on the part of traffic officers when issuing; Search Snippet: ...AND ECONOMICS International Review of Law & Economics June, 2014 DETECTING RACIAL BIAS IN SPEED DISCOUNTING: EVIDENCE FROM SPEEDING TICKETS IN BOSTON... |
2014 |
| Zane A. Umsted |
Detroit 1967 and Today: Spatial Racism and Ongoing Cycles of Oppression |
100 Iowa Law Review 431 (November, 2014) |
In 2013, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) published a report revealing stark racial disparities in the national enforcement of marijuana laws. The report suggested that police officers often use their law enforcement discretion to selectively patrol predominantly African American communities. This Note examines this and other; Search Snippet: ...IOWA LAW REVIEW Iowa Law Review November, 2014 Note DETERRING RACIAL BIAS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE THROUGH SENTENCING Zane A. Umsted [FNa1... |
2014 |
| Justin D. Levinson , Robert J. Smith , Danielle M. Young |
Did I Do That? An Argument for Requiring Pennsylvania to Evaluate the Racial Impact of Medicaid Policy Decisions Prior to Implementation |
89 New York University Law Review 513 (May, 2014) |
Stark racial disparities define America's relationship with the death penalty. Though commentators have scrutinized a range of possible causes for this uneven racial distribution of death sentences, no convincing evidence suggests that any one of these factors consistently accounts for the unjustified racial disparities at play in the; Search Snippet: ...May, 2014 Article DEVALUING DEATH: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF IMPLICIT RACIAL BIAS ON JURY-ELIGIBLE CITIZENS IN SIX DEATH PENALTY STATES... |
2014 |
| Osamudia R. James |
Diversity, Racism, and Professional Sports Franchise Ownership: Change must Come from Within |
71 National Lawyers Guild Review Rev. 1 (Spring, 2014) |
Spring of 2014 will bring an opinion in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, the Supreme Court's latest case implicating affirmative action in higher education. When issued, it will follow the Court's last pronouncement on affirmative action, made in June 2013 in Fisher v. University of Texas. In that opinion, the Supreme Court; Search Snippet: ...National Lawyers Guild Review Spring, 2014 DIVERSITY, DEMOCRACY AND WHITE RACIAL IDENTITY: SCHUETTE v. COALITION TO DEFEND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Osamudia R... |
2014 |
| Camille Gear Rich |
Electoral Data in Racial-bloc Analysis: a Solution for Staleness and Special Circumstances Problems |
102 Georgetown Law Journal 1501 (June, 2014) |
C1-3Table of Contents L1-2Introduction . L31502 I. Understanding Elective Race. 1508 a. understanding racial formation. 1509 b. understanding elective race: key propositions. 1511 1. Lay Definitions of Elective Race. 1512 2. Institutional Definitions of Elective Race. 1520 a. Formal Rules Changes. 1520 b. Interpreting the Formal Rules:; Search Snippet: ...Article ELECTIVE RACE: RECOGNIZING RACE DISCRIMINATION IN THE ERA OF RACIAL SELF-IDENTIFICATION Camille Gear Rich [FNa1] Copyright © 2014 by Camille... |
2014 |
| David Simson |
Exclusionary Zoning and Racial Segregation: a Reconsideration of the Mount Laurel Doctrine |
61 UCLA Law Review 506 (January, 2014) |
Punitive school discipline procedures have increasingly taken hold in America's schools. While they are detrimental to the wellbeing and to the academic success of all students, they have proven to disproportionately punish minority students, especially African American youth. Such policies feed into wider social issues that, once more,; Search Snippet: ...LAW REVIEW UCLA Law Review January, 2014 Comment EXCLUSION, PUNISHMENT, RACISM AND OUR SCHOOLS: A CRITICAL RACE THEORY PERSPECTIVE ON SCHOOL... |
2014 |
| Lawrence F. Dempsey |
Feminist Legal Method in Action: Challenging Racism, Sexism and Homophobia in Law School |
7 Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Law Review 109 (2014) |
A deadly epidemic is sweeping the United States. This new epidemic accounts for more deaths per year in the United States than car accidents, gun violence, natural disasters, suicide and a host of common illnesses. However, the deaths associated with this new epidemic are attributable to a fundamental feature of American life: food. New research; Search Snippet: ...LAW REVIEW Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Law Review 2014 Article FEEDING THE RACIAL DISPARITY IN DISEASE: HOW FEDERAL AGRICULTURAL SUBSIDIES CONTRIBUTE TO A RACIAL DISPARITY IN THE PREVALENCE OF DIET RELATED ILLNESS Lawrence F... |
2014 |
| Randall T. Shepard , Jon Laramore |
Fortitude in the Face of Adversity: Delta Sigma Theta's History of Racial Uplift |
57-APR Res Gestae 20 (April, 2014) |
Faegre Baker Daniels LLP hosted several programs on diversity and inclusion last year. One program focused on Conrad Baker, a governor of Indiana and founder of the firm Baker & Daniels, and his contributions to the progress of women and African Americans. The program consisted of an interview of former Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard, a; Search Snippet: ...Back FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE SHEPARD ON CONRAD BAKER'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO RACIAL & GENDER EQUALITY [FNa1] Randall T. Shepard [FNa2] Jon Laramore [FNa3... |
2014 |
| L. Song Richardson , Phillip Atiba Goff |
From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: the Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality, by Michael J. Klarman, Oxford University Press, New York, 2004; 655 Pages, Isbn: 0-19-512903-2 |
92 Texas Law Review 669 (February, 2014) |
ACCORDING TO OUR HEARTS: RHINELANDER V. RHINELANDER AND THE LAW OF THE MULTIRACIAL FAMILY. By Angela Onwuachi-Willig. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2013. 344 pages. $38.00. Introduction. 669 I. Interraciality: Protecting an Invisible Class. 671 A. The Rhinelanders' Doomed Relationship. 672 B. Current Manifestations. 673 C. The; Search Snippet: ...Texas Law Review February, 2014 Book Review FROM INTERRACIALITY TO RACIAL REALISM L. Song Richardson [FNa1] Phillip Atiba Goff [FNaa1] Copyright... |
2014 |
| Cheryl L. Wade |
Genetic Race? Dna Ancestry Tests, Racial Identity, and the Law |
26 Pace International Law Review 23 (Spring 2014) |
The excellent conference organized by Darren Rosenblum comparing global approaches to board diversity inspired me to think about how progress in this context has unfolded in the United States. Even though the issue of diversity on corporate boards has become a global issue, few U.S. boards have moved beyond mere tokenism when it comes to female... |
2014 |
| Nikita Parekh |
Hanging on to Justice: Why the Display of a Hangman's Noose in the Workplace Gives Rise to a Racially Hostile Work Environment |
13 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 599 (Fall, 2014) |
Her hands. Small, but faithful. They keep her whole. Opened: reaching outward, they welcome others forward. Her hands. Opened, soft and beautiful. They keep her whole. Remind her that she can give to others, selflessly, with all of her. But when he asks, Your ID please. Her hands tremble and fear seeps in like clouds of a newly formed storm; Search Snippet: ...the hands of a victim of police misconduct during a racial profiling incident to express the injustice in our colorblind system... |
2014 |
| Dayna Bowen Matthew |
Health in All or Profit for Some: Health and Racial Equity in All Policy for a Just Transition |
6 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives Persp. 3 (Spring, 2014) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 4 I. The Need for Reform. 9 A. Title VI and Health Care Equity. 12 B. The Shocking Inhumanity of Unjust Health Care. 13 1. Disparate Treatment Leads To Disparate Outcomes for Heart Disease Patients. 14 2. Disparate Treatment Leads To Disparate Outcomes for Renal Patients. 16 3. Disparate Treatment Leads To; Search Snippet: ...Race Perspectives Spring, 2014 Article HEALTH CARE, TITLE VI, AND RACISM'S NEW NORMAL Dayna Bowen Matthew [FNa1] Copyright © 2014 by Dayna... |
2014 |
| Anders Walker |
Housing in the Heartland: an Examination of the Hollman V. Cisneros Consent Decree, the Politics of Racial Concentration and the Possibilities Offered by Democratic Experimentalism |
34 Saint Louis University Public Law Review 127 (2014) |
For three weeks in August 2014, the unremarkable hamlet of Ferguson, Missouri exploded. Sparks flew first on August 9, when a white police officer shot an unarmed black teenager in broad daylight, prompting a coterie of witnesses to provide a kaleidoscopic portrait of what appeared to be a struggle, an attempted escape, a possible surrender, and a; Search Snippet: ...Law Review 2014 Article HOUSE TO HOUSE: MERGERS, ANNEXATIONS & THE RACIAL IMPLICATIONS OF CITY-COUNTY POLITICS IN ST. LOUIS Anders Walker... |
2014 |
| Preston C. Green III , Bruce D. Baker , Joseph O. Oluwole |
How the Proposed Hope Vi Reauthorization Ignores the Severe Distress of Racial Segregation |
53 Washburn Law Journal 439 (Summer, 2014) |
After the Brown v. Board of Education decision, black students have primarily used school desegregation and school finance litigation to attain equal educational opportunity. School desegregation litigation has focused primarily on breaking down the official barriers that prevented black students from attending public schools with white students; Search Snippet: ...Essays HOW THE KANSAS COURTS HAVE PERMITTED AND MAY REMEDY RACIAL FUNDING DISPARITIES IN THE AFTERMATH OF BROWN Preston C. Green... |
2014 |
| Kaitrin Vohs |
I Don't Know the Question, but Sex Is Definitely the Answer : the Over-simplification of Same-sex Sexual Harassment since Oncale V. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc. |
40 William Mitchell Law Review 1611 (2014) |
I. Introduction. 1612 II. Bringing a Claim Under Title VII. 1613 III. History of Title VII. 1615 A. Inclusion of Sex Discrimination. 1615 B. Inclusion of Sexual Harassment Based on Hostile Work Environment. 1616 C. Inclusion of Same-Sex Sexual Harassment. 1618 IV. Emerging Circuit Split. 1620 A. Narrow Reading of Oncale. 1621 B. Broad Readings of; Search Snippet: ...attributed to Woody Allen. Leon Rappoport, Punchlines: The Case for Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Humor 101 (2005). . JD Candidate, William... |
2014 |
| L. Song Richardson , Phillip Atiba Goff |
Interview with Viet Dinh, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center |
12 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 115 (Fall, 2014) |
INTRODUCTION. 115 I. Implicit Racial Bias. 120 A. In General. 120 B. Implicit Dehumanization. 121 II. Stereotype Threat. 124 A. In General. 124 B. Threat and Racial Violence. 126 III. Masculinity Threat. 128 A. In General. 128 B. In Police Departments. 131 C. Hypermasculinity and Hegemonic Racial Violence. 135 1. San Jose Report. 136 2. Justifying; Search Snippet: ...Race Theory and Criminal Justice: Looking Backward, Looking Forward INTERROGATING RACIAL VIOLENCE L. Song Richardson [FNa1] Phillip Atiba Goff [FNaa1] Copyright... |
2014 |
| Sheldon Bernard Lyke |
Is Tax Increment Financing Racist? Chicago's Racially Disparate Tif Spending |
109 Northwestern University Law Review Online 41 (August 13, 2014) |
Racism and oppression inhibit society and its actors and institutions from understanding the intricacies of ethnicity and race. This inhibition makes it more difficult for society to find solutions and remedy oppression. This Essay examines racism in the specific context of transjudicial communications. Anne-Marie Slaughter coined this term to; Search Snippet: ...August 13, 2014 IS RESISTANCE TO FOREIGN LAW ROOTED IN RACISM? Sheldon Bernard Lyke [FNa1] Copyright © 2014 Sheldon Bernard Lyke Introduction... |
2014 |
| Alan A. Aja, Ph.D. , Daniel Bustillo , Brooklyn College - City University of New York, Columbia University |
Judicial Impartiality & Recusal: Reflections on the Vexing Issue of Racial Bias |
36 Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy 26 (Fall, 2014) |
Over the last 40 years, the legal merits and parameters of affirmative action policies have been challenged exhaustively from state to federal courtrooms. In the most recent landmark case, Fisher v. University of Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to make a decision, instead it continued to allow universities to consider race as a factor in; Search Snippet: ...Public Law and Policy Fall, 2014 Article JUDICIAL HISTORIES AND RACIAL DISPARITIES: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND THE MYTH OF THE POST RACIAL Alan A. Aja , Ph.D. [FN1] Brooklyn College - City University of... |
2014 |
| Cedric Merlin Powell |
Justifying Racial Reform |
53 Washburn Law Journal 451 (Summer, 2014) |
Brown v. Board of Education is seismic in its societal implications: it is a multi-layered decision that shapes future national and international policies on human rights ; it overturns state-based segregation in the schools and reinvigorates the Fourteenth Amendment as a limit on the oppressive power of the state ; it is the first modern U.S; Search Snippet: ...Back, Looking Forward Articles & Essays JUSTICE THOMAS, BROWN, AND POST- RACIAL DETERMINISM Cedric Merlin Powell [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2014 Washburn Law... |
2014 |
| Geiza Vargas-Vargas |
Latinidad, White Supremacy, and Reforming First-year Moot Court Competitions to Confront Racial and Ethnic Bias |
36 Western New England Law Review 131 (2014) |
[T]heory alone can not wipe out racism. We do not experience racism, whether directed at ourselves or others, theoretically. Professor Derrick Bell's The Space Traders, a science fiction short story in his 1992 collection Faces at the Bottom of the Well, is both haunting and traumatic; while written as science fiction, the line between story,; Search Snippet: ...REVIEW Western New England Law Review 2014 LATIN@S, DISRUPTING RACIAL NORMATIVITY IN DERRICK BELL'S THE SPACE TRADERS Geiza Vargas-Vargas... |
2014 |
| 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... |
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| 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... |
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