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Kevin Yuill, University of Sunderland Is American Law Inherently Racist? 48 American Journal of Legal History 327 (July, 2006) Among myriad titles dealing with affirmative action, this book immediately stands out for its fresh approach to what can be a tedious debate. Chiefly, it is a reanalysis of the period prior to the first affirmative action policies, but it also contains historical justifications for affirmative action today and suggestions for reshaping policy. To; Search Snippet: ...KATZNELSON. WHEN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION WAS WHITE: AN UNTOLD HISTORY OF RACIAL INEQUALITY. NEW YORK: W. W. NORTON, 2005. XV, 238 PP... 2006
Emma Coleman Jordan Just like a Tree Planted by the Waters, I Shall Not Be Moved: Charles Ogletree, Jr., and the Plain Virtues of Lawyering for Racial Equality 22 Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal 121 (Spring, 2006) It was a moment of unbelievable risk, a precipice of career suicide, a decision that would challenge the careful planning of more timid lawyers. His wife urged caution; a Harvard colleague explored back channels with the Senate Judiciary Committee to telegraph warning to him of unseen torpedoes that might lie in his path. Even he hesitated in the; Search Snippet: ...CHARLES OGLETREE, JR., AND THE PLAIN VIRTUES OF LAWYERING FOR RACIAL EQUALITY [FNa1] Emma Coleman Jordan [FNaa1] Copyright © 2006 by the... 2006
L. Darnell Weeden Justice Blackmun and Racial Justice 33 Southern University Law Review 469 (Fall 2006) I consider it a significant professional honor to be given an opportunity to comment on Justice Samuel Alito's involvement with race-based affirmative action at this forum, which is being taped by C-Span for future viewing by a national audience. According to one commentator, President George W. Bush's decision to name Justice Alito to Justice; Search Snippet: ...Special Edition Alito Nomination JUSTICE ALITO AND THE ISSUE OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION: FROM RACIAL SEGREGATION TO RACIAL DIVERSITY L. Darnell Weeden [FNa1] Copyright © 2006 Southern University Law... 2006
Myron Orfield Latin@s, Disrupting Racial Normativity in Derrick Bell's the Space Traders 33 Fordham Urban Law Journal 877 (March, 2006) As metropolitan areas spread over huge stretches of land, residents living at the core, particularly poor Blacks and Latinos, become increasingly isolated from the jobs and other life opportunities that are rapidly dispersing among increasingly far-flung suburbs. The concentration of existing affordable housing in central cities and older suburbs; Search Snippet: ...LAND USE AND HOUSING POLICIES TO REDUCE CONCENTRATED POVERTY AND RACIAL SEGREGATION Myron Orfield [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2006 Fordham Urban Law... 2006
John Nussbaumer Mitigating Jurors' Racial Biases: the Effects of Content and Timing of Jury Instructions 80 Saint John's Law Review 167 (Winter 2006) Efforts during the past ten years to diversify America's law schools by enrolling more African-American students have failed because those responsible for law school admissions and accreditation practices have created a de facto and racially discriminatory quota system that restricts African-American access to the legal profession; Search Snippet: ...and Minority Admissions MISUSE OF THE LAW SCHOOL ADMISSIONS TEST, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, AND THE DE FACTO QUOTA SYSTEM FOR RESTRICTING AFRICAN... 2006
Michael I. Norton , Joseph A. Vandello , Samuel R. Sommers , John M. Darley , Harvard Business School, University of South Florida, Tufts University, Princeton University Mixed Motives: Regarding Race and Racial Fortuity 12 Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 36 (February, 2006) Recent high-profile court rulings addressing the influence of illegitimate informationsuch as raceon decision making have highlighted the difficulty of establishing whether and when discrimination has occurred. One factor complicating such efforts is that decision makers are often simultaneously influenced by racial and nonracial information. The; Search Snippet: ...Public Policy, and Law February, 2006 Article MIXED MOTIVES AND RACIAL BIAS The Impact of Legitimate and Illegitimate Criteria on Decision... 2006
Kathleen A. Bergin Modern Racism but Old-fashioned Iied: How Incongruous Injury Standards Deny "Thick Skin" Plaintiffs Redress for Racism and Ethnoviolence 23 Constitutional Commentary 271 (Summer 2006) In April 2006, the Nebraska state legislature passed the Learning Community Reorganization Act to improve the faltering educational system in Omaha City. Rejecting a bid to merge majority-white suburban districts with the mostly minority city schools, the legislature instead voted to divide the formerly unified Omaha City School System into three; Search Snippet: ...Commentary Summer 2006 Book Reviews MIXED MOTIVES: REGARDING RACE AND RACIAL FORTUITY Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled HOPES FOR RACIAL REFORM. By Derrick Bell. [FN1] Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp... 2006
Lindsay Perez Huber, Robin N. Johnson, Rita Kohli Narrative Braids: Performing Racial Literacy 26 Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review 183 (Spring 2006) Internalized racism describes the conscious and unconscious acceptance of a racial hierarchy where whites are consistently ranked above People of Color. Although scholars across multiple disciplines have discussed this concept, the role of schools in instilling and perpetuating internalized racism within Students of Color has very rarely been; Search Snippet: ...Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review Spring 2006 Articles NAMING RACISM: A CONCEPTUAL LOOK AT INTERNALIZED RACISM IN U.S. SCHOOLS Lindsay Perez Huber Robin N. Johnson Rita... 2006
Deborah A. Morgan Not Separate but Not Equal: How Should the United States Address its International Obligations to Eradicate Racial Discrimination in the Public Education System? 15 Law and Sexuality: A Review of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Legal Issues 135 (2006) I. Introduction. 135 II. Background. 137 A. Racism and Homophobia in the Immigration Process. 138 B. The Asylum Process. 139 C. Characteristics of Asylum Applicants. 141 D. Not Gay Enough for the Government: The Case of Mohammad . 144 III. Uncovering Bias in Sexual Orientation Asylum Decisions. 147 A. Racial Stereotypes and Essentialism. 148 B; Search Snippet: ...Michael Greenberg Writing Competition NOT GAY ENOUGH FOR THE GOVERNMENT: RACIAL AND SEXUAL STEREOTYPES IN SEXUAL ORIENTATION ASYLUM CASES Deborah A... 2006
Harry J. Holzer, Steven Raphael, Michael A. Stoll, Georgetown Public Policy Institute, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles Perceptions of Racial Profiling: Rap Music, Utah, and Police in American Culture 49 Journal of Law & Economics 451 (October, 2006) In this paper, we analyze the effect of employer-initiated criminal background checks on the likelihood that employers hire African Americans. We find that employers who check criminal backgrounds are more likely to hire African American workers, especially men. This effect is stronger among those employers who report an aversion to hiring those; Search Snippet: ...Economics October, 2006 PERCEIVED CRIMINALITY, CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS, AND THE RACIAL HIRING PRACTICES OF EMPLOYERS [FNa1] Harry J. Holzer Georgetown Public... 2006
Max Schanzenbach , Michael L. Yaeger Private Race Preferences in Family Formation 96 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 757 (Winter, 2006) Do criminals of different races, sexes, or socio-economic status receive different sentences? If so, why? For decades, these have been among the predominant questions in the academic and political discussion of sentencing. There was at least one study of sentencing disparity conducted in the 1920s, and many other studies were undertaken over the; Search Snippet: ...FINES, AND FEDERAL WHITE-COLLAR CRIMINALS: THE ANATOMY OF A RACIAL DISPARITY Max Schanzenbach [FNa1] Michael L. Yaeger [FNaa1] Copyright ©... 2006
Mustafa El-Farra Race and the Law, or How the Courts and the Law Have Been Warped by Racial Injustice 4 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 219 (Fall 2006) In 1984, a woman named Gayle Lewis Daniels was the only African American on a jury in Columbus, Georgia, that was deciding whether to impose the death penalty on an African-American man named William Henry Hance. Some may argue that having an African American on the jury would be beneficial to Mr. Hance and decrease the chance that he would be; Search Snippet: ...Poverty Law Journal Fall 2006 Note RACE AND THE JURY: RACIAL INFLUENCES ON JURY DECISION-MAKING IN DEATH PENALTY CASES Mustafa... 2006
Robert F. Castro, California State University at Fullerton Racial Cumulative Disadvantage: the Cumulative Effects of Racial Bias at Multiple Decision Points in the Criminal Justice System 29 PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 331 (November, 2006) Ford has written a bold and provocative book in Racial Culture: A Critique. He artfully uses humor, personal narratives, and legal analysis to challenge the foundation of difference discourse and, in the process, pushes critical race theorists and champions of multiculturalism to defend inconsistencies that Professor Ford interprets as; Search Snippet: ...PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review November, 2006 Book Review RACIAL CULTURE: A CRITIQUE RICHARD T. FORD (PRINCETON: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS... 2006
Katharine Inglis Butler Racial Fairness Commission Gets Unfair Treatment 57 South Carolina Law Review 749 (Summer 2006) I. Introduction. 750 II. Bizarre Districts Capture the Attention of the Somnambulistic Public. 751 III. Geographic Representation and Traditional Districting Standards: The Transition from Districts Closely Aligned with Identifiable Geography to Districts Incapable of Geographic Description. 756 A. One Person, One Vote. 761 B. The Voting Rights; Search Snippet: ...of Voter Equality: Examining the Voting Rights Act at Forty RACIAL FAIRNESS AND TRADITIONAL DISTRICTING STANDARDS: OBSERVATIONS ON THE IMPACT OF... 2006
Alexander Polikoff Racial Inequality in Contracting: Teaching Race as a Core Value 1 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 1 (Summer, 2006) Shortly after the Katrina hurricane, David Broder observed that the capacity of affluent white Americans to put aside lasting concern about those isolated from mainstream society by poverty and race is almost limitless. Perhaps this is so because many Americans assume that the consequences of the isolation are confined to the isolated. If more; Search Snippet: ...SOCIAL POLICY Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy Summer, 2006 RACIAL INEQUALITY AND THE BLACK GHETTO [FNa1] Alexander Polikoff Copyright © 2006... 2006
Floyd D. Weatherspoon Racial Justice and Federal Habeas Corpus as Postconviction Relief from State Convictions 29 North Carolina Central Law Journal L.J. 1 (2006) I. Introduction. 1 II. Impact of Brown on the Desegregation of Public Schools. 6 III. Re-segregation of Public Schools: A Return to Plessy. 8 IV. The Failure of Brown to Ensure Equity and Quality Education for African-American Males. 13 A. Graduation Rates. 15 B. Dropout Rates. 17 C. Disproportionate Suspensions and Expulsions. 19 D. Exclusion from; Search Snippet: ...CENTRAL LAW JOURNAL North Carolina Central Law Journal 2006 Article RACIAL JUSTICE AND EQUITY FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALES IN THE AMERICAN... 2006
Steven R. Wolfson Racial Profiling in the Era of Black De-constitutionalism 8 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues 117 (Spring 2006) I. Introduction. 118 II. What is Racial Profiling?. 124 III. Literature Review. 142 IV. Data. 167 V. Statistical Analysis. 173 A. Statewide Cross - Tabulation Comparisons of Searches. 179 1. 2002. 179 2. 2003. 179 B. Statewide Cross-Tabulation Comparisons of Hit Rates. 180 1. 2002. 180 2. 2003. 181 C. Summary Interpretation of Search and Hit Rates; Search Snippet: ...St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues Spring 2006 Article RACIAL PROFILING IN TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY TRAFFIC STOPS: RACE... 2006
  Racial Slurs by Jurors as Grounds for Impeaching a Jury's Verdict: State V. Shillcutt 12 CITYLAW 40 (March/April, 2006) Despite testimony that he was only joking, Sanitation worker suspended for 10 days. Ronald Lugo, a Sanitation worker of mixed Hispanic and African-American ancestry, told his supervisor and coworkers, you all niggers stick together when his assignment was revoked. A coworker filed a complaint, and Sanitation filed disciplinary charges against; Search Snippet: ...March/April, 2006 PUBLIC EMPLOYEES DISCIPLINE OFFENSIVE REMARKS RACIAL SLUR INCURS SUSPENSION Copyright (c) 2006 by Center for New... 2006
Paul Butler Reimagining the First Amendment: Racist Speech and Equal Liberty 74 George Washington Law Review 1019 (August, 2006) I take a dim view of this pathological search for discrimination . . . and as a result I now have a mental block against this case. - William Rehnquist More questions have been raised about the race bias of the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist than of any other recent member of the Supreme Court. This Essay describes the evidence of; Search Snippet: ...the Legacy of the Rehnquist Court Criminal Justice Panel REHNQUIST, RACISM, AND RACE JURISPRUDENCE Paul Butler [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2006 George... 2006
Mark Nadel Rethinking Colorblind State Action: a Thought Experiment on Racial Preferences 80 Saint John's Law Review 323 (Winter 2006) Introduction. 324 I. Earlier Intervention to Aid Those Most Harmed by Past Racial Discrimination. 334 A. College & University Traditions of Serving Communities. 337 B. Mentoring & Tutoring K-12 Students in Disadvantaged Minority Communities. 338 1. Selecting Communities to Serve. 339 2. Selecting Applicants. 340 a. Committing to Serve. 340 b; Search Snippet: ...ACTION: A PROGRAM TO SERVE THOSE MOST HARMED BY PAST RACISM AND AVOID INTRACTABLE PROBLEMS TRIGGERED BY PER SE RACIAL PREFERENCES Mark Nadel [FNd1] Copyright (c) 2006 St. John's Law... 2006
Luke W. Cole , Caroline Farrell Structural Racism: Building upon the Insights of John Calmore 20 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 265 (2006) Any serious attempt to address the issues of poverty, wealth and the working poor would do well to learn from the Environmental Justice movement, a broad-based national social movement that has emerged from the ground up over the past twenty years. The movement operates at the intersection of race, poverty and the environment, and offers hope in an; Search Snippet: ...Poverty, Justice, and Community Lawyering: Interdisciplinary and Clinical Perspectives STRUCTURAL RACISM, STRUCTURAL POLLUTION AND THE NEED FOR A NEW PARADIGM Luke... 2006
John M. Conley Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk of Racial Profiling: a Study of Automobile Checkpoint Law in Three Nations 31 Law and Social Inquiry 831 (Fall, 2006) This article reports on what an interview study of the legal profession has revealed about diversity in private law firms. The study can be fairly described as an accidental research project--more specifically, a professional responsibility course that turned into an empirical study of the legal profession. After ten years of teaching this course,... 2006
Yoram Margalioth , Tomer Blumkin Task Force Studies Racial and Economic Bias in the Justice System 24 Yale Law and Policy Review 317 (Spring 2006) Imagine that you are a police officer stopping cars for a drug search and that you have reliable statistical information that African Americans are more likely to engage in drug trafficking. Most people believe that in such a case it would be efficient to search more African Americans compared to the rest of the population. Some object to targeting; Search Snippet: ...and Policy Review Spring 2006 Article TARGETING THE MAJORITY: REDESIGNING RACIAL PROFILING Yoram Margalioth [FNd1] Tomer Blumkin [FNdd1] Copyright (c) 2006... 2006
Jon Hanson, Kathleen Hanson The Burden of Persuasion: Affirmative Action, Legacies, and Reconstructing History: a Review of Russell K. Nieli's Wounds That Will Not Heal: Affirmative Action and Our Continuing Racial Divide & Randall Kennedy's for Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Act 41 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 413 (Summer, 2006) C1-5Table of Contents I. L2-4,T4Introduction 415 II. L2-4,T4Peculiar . Cravings . of the Human Creature 418 A. L3-4,T4The Psychology of Blame-Framing 418. B. L3-4,T4The Errors Illuminate 425. III. L2-4,T4The Confusion of Our Forebears 429 A. L3-4,T4Native Americans 429. B. L3-4,T4African American 432. 1. Justifying Separate but Unequal. 432; Search Snippet: ...Liberties Law Review Summer, 2006 Article THE BLAME FRAME: JUSTIFYING ( RACIAL) INJUSTICE IN AMERICA Jon Hanson Kathleen Hanson [FNa1] Copyright © 2006... 2006
Renee Ann Cramer The Community Relations Service's Work in Preventing and Responding to Unfounded Racially and Religiously Motivated Violence after 9/11 31 Law and Social Inquiry 313 (Spring, 2006) Anti-Indian racism, as typified by anticasino backlash, is a part of the common sense of race relations in the United States, which increasingly impacts federal administrative procedures used to acknowledge the existence of tribal status. Using ethnographic and archival research, this article shows that the backlash over Mashantucket Pequot; Search Snippet: ...Inquiry Spring, 2006 Article THE COMMON SENSE OF ANTI-INDIAN RACISM: REACTIONS TO MASHANTUCKET PEQUOT SUCCESS IN GAMING AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT Renee... 2006
Suhrid S. Gajendragadkar The Constitutionality of Racial Classifications in Public School Admissions 106 Columbia Law Review 144 (January, 2006) Over the past fifteen years, public charter schools have emerged as an influential, if controversial, school choice model. Charter schools seek to reform America's underperforming public education system by stimulating curricular innovation, increasing parental and community involvement in education, and competing with traditional public schools; Search Snippet: ...REVIEW Columbia Law Review January, 2006 Notes THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF RACIAL BALANCING IN CHARTER SCHOOLS Suhrid S. Gajendragadkar Copyright (c) 2006... 2006
William E. Thro, M.A., J.D. and Charles J. Russo, Ed.D., J.D. The Constitutionality of Racial Redistricting: a Critique of Shaw V. Reno 211 West's Education Law Reporter 537 (October 5, 2006) Brown v. Board of Education established a constitutional obligation to eliminate the vestiges of de jure segregation to the extent practicable. Even so, there is no such mandate to eliminate de facto segregation. Indeed, de facto segregation does not have constitutional implications. It is both beyond the authority and beyond the practical ability; Search Snippet: ...Education Law Reporter October 5, 2006 Commentary THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF RACIAL PREFERENCES IN K12 EDUCATION AFTER GRUTTER GRATZ [FNa] William... 2006
Willis D. Hawley The Need for Additional Safeguards Against Racist Police Practices: a Call for Change to Massachusetts & Illinois Wiretapping Laws 67 Ohio State Law Journal 145 (2006) In this Article, research is reviewed that provides the bases for a strategic plan for ending racial and ethnic prejudice and discrimination while enhancing the academic learning opportunities for all students. Such a plan involves four types of actions: (1) creating and sustaining racially and ethnically heterogeneous schools and classrooms; (2); Search Snippet: ...NEED FOR A COMPREHENSIVE MULTI-YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN FOR ENDING RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION: A FOCUS ON SCHOOLS Willis D. Hawley... 2006
Naomi Murakawa The Racial Bias Exception to the General Rule That Precludes Jurors from Offering Testimony to Impeach Their Own Verdict 11 Roger Williams University Law Review 473 (Winter 2006) On January 12, 2005, the Supreme Court held in United States v. Booker that Federal Sentencing Guidelines violate the Sixth Amendment jury-trial right, and thereafter judges must only consider the Guidelines as advisory. Booker therefore ended the eighteen-year era of mandatory Federal Sentencing Guidelines, in which judges were required to plot; Search Snippet: ...REVIEW Roger Williams University Law Review Winter 2006 Symposium THE RACIAL ANTECEDENTS TO FEDERAL SENTENCING GUIDELINES: HOW CONGRESS JUDGED THE JUDGES... 2006
Lorie M. Graham The Racial Disproportionality Movement in Child Welfare: False Facts and Dangerous Directions 42 Tulsa Law Review 103 (Fall, 2006) Robert A. Williams, Jr., Like a Loaded Weapon: The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights and the Legal History of Racism in America (U. Minn. Press 2005). What if Brown v. Board of Education had continued to affirm the infamous legal fiction of Plessy v. Ferguson separate but equal or, even worse, reaffirmed the racially repulsive ideas of Dred Scott v; Search Snippet: ...LAW REVIEW Tulsa Law Review Fall, 2006 Book Review THE RACIAL DISCOURSE OF FEDERAL INDIAN LAW Lorie M. Graham [FNa1] Copyright... 2006
Richard H. Sander The Racial Placebo Effect and the Consequences of Institutional Denial: How Henderson Promotes Liberty and Justice for All 84 North Carolina Law Review 1755 (June 1, 2006) Although nonwhites now account for nearly one-fifth of new attorneys, they still make up less than four percent of the partners at large law firms. Most commentators have blamed some combination of firm discrimination and minority disinterest for this disparity. In this Article, the author uses several new sources of data to explore this; Search Snippet: ...Legal Profession: What Do We Know about Lawyers' Lives? THE RACIAL PARADOX OF THE CORPORATE LAW FIRM Richard H. Sander [FNa1... 2006
Karen Rothenberg , Alice Wang The Second Generation of Racial Profiling 69-SPG Law and Contemporary Problems 343 (Winter/Spring 2006) Imagine that a scientist from the state university asks you and your family to participate in a study on a particular gene variant associated with alcoholism. The project focuses on your ethnic group, the Tracy Islanders, who have a higher incidence of alcoholism, as well as a higher incidence of the gene variant, than the general population. You; Search Snippet: ...Special Editors THE SCARLET GENE: BEHAVIORAL GENETICS, CRIMINAL LAW, AND RACIAL AND ETHNIC STIGMA Karen Rothenberg [FNa1] Alice Wang [FNaa1] Copyright... 2006
Paul Moke , Richard B. Saphire The Voting Rights Act: Protecting the Rights of Racial and Language Minorities in the Electoral Process 58 Hastings Law Journal L.J. 1 (November, 2006) The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different. -- Lyndon Baines Johnson Recent presidential and gubernatorial elections have exposed serious flaws in the process by which American voters participate in the democratic franchise.... 2006
Pat K. Chew , Robert E. Kelley Upholding Racial Diversity in the Classroom as a Compelling Interest 27 Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 49 (2006) I. Introduction. 50 A. Rogers as the Beginning of the Harassment Doctrine. 55 B. Limited Development of Racial Harassment Jurisprudence. 56 II. Characteristics of Racial Harassment Cases. 61 A. Dispute Resolution Process for Racial Harassment Claims. 61 B. The Parties and Setting. 63 1. Plaintiffs' Profile. 63 2. Defendants' Profile. 67 3. Novel; Search Snippet: ...Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 2006 Article UNWRAPPING RACIAL HARASSMENT LAW Pat K. Chew [FNd1] Robert E. Kelley [FNdd1... 2006
Charles R. Lawrence III Who Really Murdered Trayvon? A Critical Analysis of the Relationship Between Institutional Racism in the Criminal Justice System and Trayvon Martin's Death 39 Suffolk University Law Review 699 (2006) The headline reads, Bush Marks School Law's 2nd Anniversary: White House uses visit to announce budget increases. In the photograph just below the headline, George Bush is sitting on a wooden bench with three black children. On the blackboard behind them someone has printed the words No Child Left Behind with white chalk in large block letters.... 2006
Frank Adams Why Modest Proposals Offer the Best Solution for Combating Racial Profiling 39 John Marshall Law Review 1371 (Summer 2006) The plaintiff's burden is to show, either through circumstantial evidence of a district's shape and demographics or more direct evidence going to legislative purpose, that race was the predominant factor motivating the legislature's decision to place a significant number of voters within or without a particular district. To make this showing, a... 2006
Susan Seitz Women and Aids -- Racism, Sexism, and Classism 8 Lawyers Journal J. 6 (December 8, 2006) This article is the third in a series of articles about issues surrounding women attorneys. On Oct. 24, 2006 the Rivers Club played host to a well-attended symposium sponsored by the ACBA's Women in the Law Division. The purpose of the program, entitled Three Years Later: A Progress Report on Addressing Racial, Ethnic and Gender Bias in the... 2006
  2. Maintaining Racial Segregation Through State Criminal Trespass Prosecution 119 Harvard Law Review 228 (November, 2005) For most of our nation's history, prisoners occupied a legal status comparable to that of slaves. It was said that the Constitution stopped at the jailhouse wall. But in the middle of the twentieth century, the Court began to chip away at that wall, granting prisoners an expanding list of constitutional protections. In the years that followed, the; Search Snippet: ...Law D. Equal Protection 2. APPLICATION TO INCARCERATED PERSONS--INMATE RACIAL SEGREGATION Copyright (c) 2005 Harvard Law Review Association For most... 2005
Patrick M. Garry A History of the Racial Disparities Legal Education in South Africa 42 Idaho Law Review 209 (2005) A little more than five decades have passed since the Supreme Court's monumental ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. In the Court's most recent decision on race, where it upheld the University of Michigan Law School's use of a race-based admissions program, the Court laid out a twenty-five-year timetable for the use of racial; Search Snippet: ...A HALF-CENTURY SINCE BROWN: THE LEGAL ACADEMY'S VIEWS OF RACISM Patrick M. Garry [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2005 Idaho Law Review... 2005
Dayna Bowen Matthew A New Sword to Slay the Dragon: Using New York Law to Combat Environmental Racism 9 DePaul Journal of Health Care Law 793 (2005) Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane. - Martin Luther King, Jr. The statistical and anecdotal evidence of racial inequality in American healthcare is undisputable. Since 2003 when the Institute of Medicine report entitled Unequal Treatment widely circulated a compelling body of research and; Search Snippet: ...Unequal Health Care Treatment Article A NEW STRATEGY TO COMBAT RACIAL INEQUALITY IN AMERICAN HEALTH CARE DELIVERY Dayna Bowen Matthew [FN1... 2005
James D. Leach A Silver Bullet: Could Data Linking Urban Heat Islands to Housing Discrimination Curtail Environmental Racism? 50 South Dakota Law Review 244 (2005) A century after the Wounded Knee massacre, the late Governor George Mickelson recognized the racial, geographic, cultural, economic, and social distance between Native Americans and whites in South Dakota by proclaiming 1990 as a year of reconciliation. A little over a decade later, South Dakota sought to fund a large shooting range within earshot; Search Snippet: ...2005 Article A SHOOTING RANGE AT BEAR BUTTE: RECONCILIATION OR RACISM? James D. Leach [FNd1] Copyright (c) 2005 South Dakota Law... 2005
R. Richard Banks , Su Jin Gatlin Afro-mexicans and the Chicano Movement: the Unknown Story 11 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 115 (Fall 2005) INTRODUCTION. 115 Part I: The Components of the Marriage Gap. 118 A. First Marriage. 119 B. Divorce. 120 C. Remarriage. 123 Part II: Marriage and African American Men. 123 A. The Marriage Gap among Men. 124 B. The Marriageable Male Explanation. 125 C. Two Sexual Bargaining Models. 126 1. The Sex Ratio Theory. 127 2. The Sexual Matching Approach; Search Snippet: ...in Critical Race Theory Symposium Essay AFRICAN AMERICAN INTIMACY: THE RACIAL GAP IN MARRIAGE R. Richard Banks [FNa1] Su Jin Gatlin... 2005
Lawrence R. Baca American Racial Justice on Trial--again: African American Reparations, Human Rights, and the War on Terror 48 Howard Law Journal 971 (Spring 2005) In one of the most seminal cases involving American Indians, the Supreme Court determined whether cases involving Native Americans have original jurisdiction in the U.S. Supreme Court because Indian tribes are constitutionally mandated foreign states. The opinion authored by Chief Justice Marshall, declared that American Indian tribes were not; Search Snippet: ...Branton-Howard Law Journal Memorial Symposium Article AMERICAN INDIANS, THE RACIAL SURPRISE IN THE 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT: THEY MAY, MORE... 2005
Nanette R. Elster, JD, MPH Article 3 of Interpol's Constitution: Balancing International Police Cooperation with the Prohibition on Engaging in Political, Military, Religious, or Racial Activities 9 DePaul Journal of Health Care Law 719 (2005) According to the National Center for Health Statistics about ten percent (10%) of the population of childbearing age suffer from infertility, which is defined as the inability to conceive after one year of unprotected intercourse. Overall, the prevalence of infertility in married couples is 7.1%; in Black married couples, 10.5%; and in Hispanic; Search Snippet: ...of Unequal Health Care Treatment Article ART FOR THE MASSES? RACIAL AND ETHNIC INEQUALITY IN ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES [FNa1] Nanette R... 2005
Katherine Y. Barnes Assimilation, Pluralism and Multiculturalism: the Policy of Racial/ethnic Identity in America 54 Duke Law Journal 1089 (March, 2005) This Article investigates the costs and benefits of racial profiling in the context of drug interdiction. I begin by reviewing the empirical economic and civil rights literature regarding the existence and rationality of racial profiling and then build an explicit model of a trooper's decision to search a stopped vehicle. Estimating the model using... 2005
Maurice R. Dyson B. Extending to White Potential Jurors the Equal Protection Right to a Racially Neutral Jury Selection Process 83 Washington University Law Quarterly 575 (2005) In his latest book, Democracy Matters, Cornel West contends that a perfect storm is in the making, one which has the greatest potential to destroy American democracy. This includes three combined anti-democratic dogmas that have collectively operated to deprive everyday Americans of the ability to critically analyze not only their own state of; Search Snippet: ...beacon of egalitarian freedom and a bulwark of imperialism and racial subordination. The phrase was also popularized by Robert Tucker and... 2005
Molly McDonough Balanced Scholarship and Racial Balance 4 ABA Journal E-Report E-Report 1 (January 7, 2005) When the leader of a white supremacy group encouraged members to call, write and e-mail opponents and opposing counsel to protest rulings in an intellectual property case, he crossed a line with the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Lawyers for Kirkland & Ellis report being bombarded with hundreds of letters, e-mail messages and after-hours voice... 2005
Thomas E. Kleven Building an AntiRacist Organization Is No Easy Task -- or Did Kindergarten Teach Us How? 5 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 43 (Spring, 2005) Brown v. Board of Education represented a great victory in the struggle for racial justice in the United States. Brown ended American apartheid, the explicit use of law to promote white supremacy and the perpetual subordination of African Americans in a caste-like status. This subordination was carried out in the most undemocratic way possible,; Search Snippet: ...IS NOT THE QUESTION, BUT HOW TO ACHIEVE A NON- RACIST SOCIETY Thomas E. Kleven [FNa1] Copyright © 2005 by University of... 2005
A. Mechele Dickerson Challenges and Dilemmas of Racial and Ethnic Identity in American and Post-apartheid South African Affirmative Action 103 Michigan Law Review 1273 (May, 2005) The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers & Fathers Are Going Broke (With Surprising Solutions That Will Change Our Children's Futures). By Elizabeth Warren & Amelia Warren Tyagi. New York: Basic Books. 2004. Pp. xv, 255. $26.00. In The Two-Income Trap, Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Warren and business consultant Amelia Warren Tyagi... 2005
Paul Finkelman Civil Rights: Racial Preferences in Higher Education 118 Harvard Law Review 973 (January, 2005) When it was decided fifty years ago, Brown v. Board of Education seemed like a revolution in law and justice. Justice Stanley Reed of Kentucky, the last holdout on the Court to endorse Chief Justice Earl Warren's opinion, said a few weeks after the Term that it was the most important case in his fifteen years on the bench and that if it was not... 2005
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