Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
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... |
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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 |
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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 |
Camille A. Nelson |
Constance Backhouse, Colour-coded: a Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. Pp. Xiii + 485. $60.00 Cloth (Isbn 0-8020-4712-2); $27.50 Paper (Isbn 0-8020-8286-6). |
9 DePaul Journal of Health Care Law 905 (2005) |
My own view is that we did brilliantly up until about the [19]60s and then we lost it. I think the pain of racism really hasn't been fully articulated yet. We talk about various changes and all of that, but we've underestimated the psychological damage American slavery and its legacy has wrought upon the lives of Blacks in general. The recent; Search Snippet: ...The Realities of Unequal Health Care Treatment Article CONSIDERING TORTIOUS RACISM Camille A. Nelson [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2005 DePaul University; Camille... |
2005 |
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Constitutional Law - Equal Protection of the Laws - Award of Damages for Breach of Racial Restrictive Covenant Denied as Violation of Fourteenth Amendment |
118 Harvard Law Review 1387 (February, 2005) |
Two years ago, when the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative action program in Grutter v. Bollinger, advocates of civil rights in education proclaimed victory. Yet the long-term impact of the Court's ruling was uncertain, especially outside of the context of admissions to elite... |
2005 |
Jonathan Kahn |
Controlling Racial and Religious Profiling: Article 14 Echr Protection V. U.s. Equal Protection Clause Prosecution |
54 DePaul Law Review 755 (Spring 2005) |
In 1905, Paolo Pavesich, an artist living in Georgia, brought an action against the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company (New England Mutual) of Boston, Massachusetts for, among other things, invasion of his right to privacy. New England Mutual published an advertisement in the Atlanta Constitution that included a photograph of Pavesich; Search Snippet: ...Maintaining, and Protecting Personhood Articles CONTROLLING IDENTITY: PLESSY, PRIVACY, AND RACIAL DEFAMATION Jonathan Kahn [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2005 DePaul University; Jonathan... |
2005 |
Thomas W. Joo |
Correcting the Harms of Slavery: Collective Liability, the Limited Prospects of Success for a Class Action Suit for Slavery Reparations, and the Reconceptualization of White Racial Identity |
79 Saint John's Law Review 955 (Fall 2005) |
What can advocates for racial justice learn from the study of corporate governance? The neoclassical economic analysis of law purportedly seeks to maximize social welfare. Yet mainstream corporate governance scholarship, which is dominated by neoclassical law-and-economics, tends to confine itself to maximizing shareholder welfare rather than... |
2005 |
Maria Greco Danaher, For The Lawyers Journal |
Decomposing Racial Disparities in Prison and Drug Treatment Commitments for Criminal Offenders in California |
7 Lawyers Journal J. 3 (November 25, 2005) |
Under Title VII, failure to hire an individual because of a person's race or national origin constitutes illegal discrimination. If an employee can present credible direct evidence that racial discrimination was a substantial factor in the adverse employment decision, it becomes the employer's burden to show that the same decision would have been... |
2005 |
Molly McDonough |
Democracy and the Intersection of Prisons, Racism and Capital |
91-MAR ABA Journal 52 (March, 2005) |
Sara lee corp. general counsel roderick palmore halts a second when asked to come up with a fresh anecdote, some new concrete example of why diversity matters in the legal profession. He's been making the business case for diversity for so long, these questions are irritating. So, switching gears, he answers with a story about an employee who; Search Snippet: ...Feature The Profession DEMANDING DIVERSITY Corporate Pressure Is Changing the Racial Mix at Some Law Firms Molly McDonough [FNa1] Copyright © 2005... |
2005 |
Michael R. Smith |
Derivative Racial Discrimination |
15 George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal 219 (Spring 2005) |
The last several years have seen a growing crescendo of voices concerned over racial discrimination by America's law enforcement agencies. As a result, racial profiling, a term virtually unheard of five years ago, is now part of the national lexicon. Intimately tied to notions of fairness and constitutional standards of equality, concerns over... |
2005 |
Nicola Persico , David A. Castleman |
Detecting Racial Bias in Speed Discounting: Evidence from Speeding Tickets in Boston |
2005 University of Chicago Legal Forum 217 (2005) |
In ordering an investigation into possible racial profiling, President Clinton condemned the practice as the opposite of good police work where actions are based on hard facts, not stereotypes. But precisely what police work should be considered lawful because based on hard facts, as opposed to unlawful because based on stereotypes? Some; Search Snippet: ...DETECTING BIAS: USING STATISTICAL EVIDENCE TO ESTABLISH INTENTIONAL DISCRIMINATION IN RACIAL PROFILING CASES Nicola Persico [FNd1] David A. Castleman [FNd2] Copyright... |
2005 |
Brandon M. Carey |
Diversity in the Age of Terror: How Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the U.s. Intelligence Community Enhances National Security |
30 Oklahoma City University Law Review 329 (Summer 2005) |
Diversity is one of the most important, interesting, and controversial topics facing American society, and indeed world society, at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Diversity covers many different fields, some of the most notable being culture, race, and religion. Events in the latter half of the twentieth century forced most Americans to; Search Snippet: ...THE SUPREME COURT HAS AVOIDED APPLYING TRUE STRICT SCRUTINY TO RACIAL CLASSIFICATIONS IN COLLEGE ADMISSIONS Brandon M. Carey [FNa1] Copyright ©... |
2005 |
Ralph C. Anzivino |
Donning Judicial Robes, Cloaking Racial Views: Judicial Speech on Matters Involving Race, Especially on the Jena Six |
2004-05 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 128 (November 28, 2005) |
Two corporations contracted for construction services. One of the corporations was solely owned by a minority entrepreneur who was the president and sole shareholder. During the performance of contracts, the minority entrepreneur allegedly received racially discriminatory statements from officers of the other corporation. The minority entrepreneur... |
2005 |
Anthony E. Mucchetti |
Dual Minority Mixed Race Activists and the Cultivation of Cross-Racial/ethnic Coalitions in the Post-loving Era |
8 Harvard Latino Law Review Rev. 1 (Spring, 2005) |
Bonnie Castro's Montana license plate read PUREMEX and was intended as an expression of pride in her family heritage. We didn't think it would make us a target, she later explained after having been detained for almost forty minutes in ninety-degree weather while holding her five-month-old son as police canines searched her car for illegal; Search Snippet: ...Spring, 2005 Article DRIVING WHILE BROWN: A PROPOSAL FOR ENDING RACIAL PROFILING IN EMERGING LATINO COMMUNITIES Anthony E. Mucchetti [FNa1] Copyright... |
2005 |
Rebecca Tsosie |
Enhancing Access to Health Care and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Status: a Compelling Case for Health Professions Schools to Implement Race-conscious Admissions Policies |
11 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 21 (Fall 2005) |
INTRODUCTION. 21 I. Understanding CRT as a Vehicle for Transformative Thought. 22 II. The Relationship of Justice to the Law. 27 III. The Native Hawaiian Case. 29 A. Historical Background. 30 B. Contemporary Politics. 33 IV. Racial Healing and the Role of Transformational Thought. 39 CONCLUSION. 47; Search Snippet: ...in Critical Race Theory Symposium Essay ENGAGING THE SPIRIT OF RACIAL HEALING WITHIN CRITICAL RACE THEORY: AN EXERCISE IN TRANSFORMATIVE THOUGHT... |
2005 |
Frederick McBride, Meredith Bell-Platts |
Eyewitness Testimony and Cross-Racial Identification |
1 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 327 (August, 2005) |
I. Introduction. 328 II. The Voting Rights Act. 333 III. The Necessity of Racial Consideration. 340 IV. Partisan Consideration: Lasik Surgery on Colorblindness?. 344 V. One Standard Of Beauty: Traditional Redistricting Principles Defined. 349 VI. Nip/Tuck: Mid-Decade Redistricting in Georgia. 360 VII. You Clean Up Nicely: Lessons from South; Search Snippet: ...Civil Rights & Civil Liberties August, 2005 Practitioner's Note EXTREME MAKEOVER: RACIAL CONSIDERATION AND THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT IN THE POLITICS OF... |
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