| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Aderson Bellegarde François |
Oops! Racism as Mistake: Lessons from Corporate Law |
112 Penn State Law Review 985 (Symposium 2008) |
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. On June 28, 2007, the United States Supreme Court used two companion decisions captioned Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, and; Search Snippet: ...TO COMMUNITY AND THE INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY INTEREST IN STATE-SPONSORED RACIAL INTEGRATION Aderson Bellegarde François [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2008 The Dickinson... |
2008 |
| Richard Delgado |
Opening the Suburbs to Racial Integration: Lessons for the 21st Century |
118 Yale Law Journal Pocket Part 67 (October 28, 2008) |
In Minorities, Shareholder and Otherwise, Anupam Chander points out that the law treats discrimination by corporate insiders against minority shareholders with suspicion. Yet discrimination against ordinary minorities, in buying or selling a house or applying for a job, for example, receives increasingly lax treatment from color-blind courts; Search Snippet: ...PART Yale Law Journal Pocket Part October 28, 2008 OOPS! RACISM AS MISTAKE: LESSONS FROM CORPORATE LAW Richard Delgado [FNa1] Copyright... |
2008 |
| José A. Lindgren Alves |
Race and Representation Revisited: the New Racial Gerrymandering Cases and Section 2 of the Vra |
42 University of San Francisco Law Review 941 (Spring 2008) |
IN TODAY'S POSTMODERN WORLD, where previously cherished socio-political utopias give way to disbelief in universal values, religion has reemerged as a central component of secular activity. With that in mind, all institutions dealing with social matters must try to correctly understand and direct this seemingly anachronistic phenomenon towards; Search Snippet: ...RELIGION IN THE UNITED NATIONS COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION José A. Lindgren Alves [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2008 University... |
2008 |
| Bekah Mandell |
Race and the Death Penalty after Mccleskey: a Case Study of Kentucky's Racial Justice Act |
10 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 1 (Special Edition 2008) |
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), with its focus on conditioning welfare benefits on workforce participation, marked a complete overhaul of sixty years of federal social policy in the U.S. In the wake of the 1996 welfare reform and the national shift towards the recommodification of welfare ,... |
2008 |
| Alfred Dennis Mathewson |
Race Ipsa Loquitur: of Reasonable Racists, Intelligent Bayesians, and Involuntary Negrophobes |
23 Saint John's Journal of Legal Commentary 667 (Fall 2008) |
This article is about the discourse in law school classes in which non-white students are in classes with white students. I recall the integration of race in one of my first year law classes. I was one of a handful of Black students in Professor Geoffrey Hazard's Civil Procedure class at Yale Law School. Professor Hazard had supplemented the... |
2008 |
| Ruth Singer |
Race Liberalism and the Deradicalization of Racial Reform |
1 DePaul Journal for Social Justice 293 (Spring 2008) |
The History of Racial Profiling. 295 Public Attitude Toward Racial Profiling. 299 Effectiveness of Racial Profiling Outside the Context of Terrorism. 301 Effectiveness of Racial Profiling in the Context of Terrorism. 306 Could Racial Profiling Have Prevented 9/11?. 306 Responsive to the Assessed Threat . 309 Cultural Alienation. 312 Racial... |
2008 |
| James D. Unnever, Francis T. Cullen, Cheryl Lero Jonson |
Race, Redistricting, and Representation: the Unintended Consequences of Black Majority Districts by David T. Canon, Published by University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Il, 1999. 324 Pages, $50.00 (Cloth), $18.00 (Paper). |
37 Crime and Justice 45 (2008) |
There is a clear racial divide in support for the death penalty, with whites favoring and blacks opposing this sanction. This divide has persisted for decades and remains statistically and substantively significant even when controls are introduced for the known correlates of death penalty attitudes. A meaningful portion of this chasm is explained,... |
2008 |
| Eddie Bruce-Jones |
Race-based Political Exclusion and Social Subjugation: Racial Gerrymandering as a Badge of Slavery |
39 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 423 (Spring 2008) |
Conventional knowledge in France and Germany would suggest that race does not play a significant role in social stratification and has been dealt with by legal prohibitions on discrimination. This Note explores the role of race and anti-discrimination law in France and Germany. In doing so, it highlights the need for racial recognition and; Search Snippet: ...Review Spring 2008 Notes RACE, SPACE, AND THE NATION-STATE: RACIAL RECOGNITION AND THE PROSPECTS FOR SUBSTANTIVE EQUALITY UNDER ANTI-DISCRIMINATION... |
2008 |
| |
Racial Disparities in Fatal Police Shootings: an Empirical Analysis Informed by Critical Race Theory |
6 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 591 (Spring/Summer, 2008) |
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: John Brittain, Callie Kozlak, Michelle Woolley, Kenneth Chandler, Denise Ballesteros, and Francis Nugent Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University Washington College of Law: Amelia Parker Leitner Center for International Law and Justice, International Law and the Constitution; Search Snippet: ...Journal for Social Justice Spring/Summer, 2008 Race and Education RACIAL DISPARITIES IN EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES IN THE UNITED STATES Copyright © 2008... |
2008 |
| Scott Phillips |
Racial Disparities in the Capital System: Invidious or Accidental? |
45 Houston Law Review 807 (Summer 2008) |
I. Introduction. 808 II. Race and Capital Punishment. 812 III. Research Methods. 816 A. Dependent Variables: Trajectory and Disposition. 816 B. Race/Ethnicity. 819 C. Controls. 822 1. Defendant Social Characteristics. 822 2. Victim Social Characteristics. 824 3. Legal Dimensions of Case. 824 D. Modeling. 827 E. Limitations. 829 IV. Results. 829 A; Search Snippet: ...4639695 HOUSTON LAW REVIEW Houston Law Review Summer 2008 Article RACIAL DISPARITIES IN THE CAPITAL OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Scott Phillips [FNa1... |
2008 |
| Carol A. Brook |
Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare: False Logic and Dangerous Misunderstandings |
35 Litigation 15 (Fall, 2008) |
Every fall I teach constitutional law to high school students from the Chicago Public Schools. The students are mostly African-American and Hispanic. When I ask them whether they believe the criminal justice system is fair to people of color, they mostly say no. My clients, also mostly African-American and Hispanic, say the same thing. Where did; Search Snippet: ...15 2008 WL 5226617 LITIGATION Litigation Fall, 2008 Just Deserts RACIAL DISPARITY UNDER THE FEDERAL SENTENCING GUIDELINES Carol A. Brook [FNa1... |
2008 |
| Derrick Bell |
Racial Equity in Algorithmic Criminal Justice |
94 Virginia Law Review 495 (April, 2008) |
I agreed to review Professor Risa Goluboff's book, The Lost Promise of Civil Rights, in the hope that it might explain or at least place in historical perspective the unwavering commitment of so many liberals to school integration. To a substantial degree--although perhaps not as she intended--she has done that. A scholar of history as well as law,; Search Snippet: ...VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW Virginia Law Review April, 2008 Book Review RACIAL EQUALITY: PROGRESSIVES' PASSION FOR THE UNATTAINABLE The Lost Promise of... |
2008 |
| Roozbeh (Rudy) B. Baker |
Racial Free-riding on the Coattails of a Dream Deferred: Can I Borrow Your Social Capital? |
10 Journal of Law in Society 1 (Fall, 2008) |
This article will use the experience of the Quebecois in Canada to survey the linkage between cultural formation and race in Quebecois racial identity. It will then map out these linkages and their relations to the political and legal discourse that has emerged in Canada on the place of the Quebecois in the country. Cultural formation and racial... |
2008 |
| Tucker Culbertson |
Racial Mind-games and Reapportionment: When Can Race Be Considered (Legitimately) in Redistricting? |
20 Saint Thomas Law Review 449 (Spring 2008) |
The following three articles by Dominique Legros, Robert Koulish, and César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández concern laws, politics, and philosophies involving transnational migration. Individually and in sum, these articles productively engage with the radical multidimensionality of both racial identity and racial governance. In this introduction, I... |
2008 |
| Bekah Mandell |
Racial Releases, Involuntary Separations, and Employment At-will |
28 Boston College Third World Law Journal 289 (Spring, 2008) |
Scientists have warned of the dangers of climate change for decades, yet no meaningful steps have been taken to address its underlying causes; instead, ineffective strategies to reduce CO2 emissions incrementally have become popular because they do not disturb the racial hierarchy that sustains the social, economic, and legal structure of; Search Snippet: ...JOURNAL Boston College Third World Law Journal Spring, 2008 Article RACIAL REIFICATION AND GLOBAL WARMING: A TRULY INCONVENIENT TRUTH Bekah Mandell... |
2008 |
| Derrick Bell |
Racism Creates Barriers to Effective Community Policing |
86 North Carolina Law Review 621 (March, 2008) |
Hurling racism!--at a group or an individual--as an epithet is both common and easy to do. Seriously getting to the roots of racism--that is, the favoring of one group, the white, over minority groups--and pulling up those roots to eradicate them is, however, extraordinarily difficult. This is so despite the progress that supposedly has been made; Search Snippet: ...Review March, 2008 A Tribute to Professor John O. Calmore RACISM AS THE ULTIMATE DECEPTION [FNa1] [FN1] Derrick Bell [FNaa1] Copyright... |
2008 |
| Danielle Ward Mason |
Racism or Economics? |
12 Jones Law Review 169 (Spring, 2008) |
The reality of race relations in this country is such that we simply may not presume impartiality Racism in this country is like the elephant in the room that everyone sees but no one dares acknowledge. Perhaps the lack of acknowledgment is due to the fact that the face of racism since the Civil Rights Movement has changed to one of style rather... |
2008 |
| |
Relations Before Transactions: a New Paradigm for Racial Discrimination Theory |
44 Criminal Law Bulletin ART 3 (2008) |
J.D., Santa Clara University School of Law, 2008. I would like to thank the late Professor David Lawyer, Jr., who taught me the difference between prejudice and discrimination and whose lectures gave me the inspiration and confidence to point out inconsistent treatment among equals. Thank you to Professor Allen Hammond for encouraging me to write; Search Snippet: ...Fall 2008 Criminal Law Bulletin Reinforcing Batson Defining the Peculiar: Racial Profiling as an Impermissible Ground for Peremptory Challenge Allison A... |
2008 |
| Erica Frankenberg |
School Violence and Race: the Problem of Peer Racial Harassment Against Asian Pacific American Students in Schools |
6 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 533 (Spring/Summer, 2008) |
The racial contexts of schools have changed dramatically since the Supreme Court first began considering the issue of school segregation. Racial contexts is used in this article to describe the multiple dimensions of students: racial composition, comparison of school composition to district, and change in racial composition over time. School... |
2008 |
| William Y. Chin |
Science Fictions and Racial Fables: Navigating the Final Frontier of Genetic Interpretation |
10 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues 333 (Spring 2008) |
I. Introduction. 335 II. Peer Racial Harassment Against APA Students Is A Evasive and Serious Problem. 336 A. Racial Harassment of APA Students at Lafayette High School. 336 B. Racial Harassment of APA Students at Skyline High School. 339 C. Racial Harassment of APA Students at Other Schools. 340 D. Research Data Revealing Enduring and Pervasive; Search Snippet: ...Voiceless Articles SCHOOL VIOLENCE AND RACE: THE PROBLEM OF PEER RACIAL HARASSMENT AGAINST ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN STUDENTS IN SCHOOLS William Y... |
2008 |
| Stephen P. Garvey |
Sense and Nonsense: Standing in the Racial Districting Cases as a Window on the Supreme Court's View of the Right to Vote |
11 New Criminal Law Review 119 (Winter, 2008) |
How should the law of a liberal state respond when one person (D) kills another person (V), who is black, because D believes that V is about to kill him, but D would not have believed that V was about to kill him if V had been white? Should D be exonerated on grounds of self-defense? Some commentators argue that D's claim of self-defense should be; Search Snippet: ...Reasonable Person in Criminal Law SELF-DEFENSE AND THE MISTAKEN RACIST Stephen P. Garvey [FNa1] Copyright © 2008 by the Regents of... |
2008 |
| Amanda K. Baumle , Mark Fossett , Warren Waren |
Strip Searching in the Age of Colorblind Racism: the Disparate Impact of Florence V. Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Burlington |
24 Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal 81 (Spring 2008) |
In July 2006, President Bush signed the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, following heated congressional debates concerning the relevance and efficacy of the Act. Given the reauthorization, with few revisions, of the Act's preexisting provisions, we examine in this article whether its provisions have been effective in curtailing; Search Snippet: ...Spring 2008 Article STRATEGIC ANNEXATION UNDER THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT: RACIAL DIMENSIONS OF ANNEXATION PRACTICES Amanda K. Baumle [FNa1] Mark Fossett... |
2008 |
| john a. powell |
Student Surveillance, Racial Inequalities, and Implicit Racial Bias |
86 North Carolina Law Review 791 (March, 2008) |
This Article builds upon the insights of Professor Calmore in fashioning a structural model for conceptualizing racism in its contemporary form. This model extends beyond our commonly understood, traditional model of racism as either a product of individual intentional racism or formally race-neutral policies and practices that have the effect of... |
2008 |
| Toni Lester |
Talking about Sexual Orientation, Teaching about Homophobia'-negotiating the Divide Between Religious Belief and Tolerance for Lgbt Rights in the Classroom 2008
The Law Recognizes Racial Instinct": Tucker V. Blease and the Black-- White Paradigm in the J |
15 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 399 (August, 2008) |
The question of whether or not people in the LGBT community should be able to enjoy certain fundamental rights taken for granted by most Americans is a contentious issue. While a large number of people agree that same sex sexuality should no longer be criminalized and that gay men and lesbians should be allowed to participate in civil unions, a... |
2008 |
| Michael B. de Leeuw , Megan K. Whyte , Dale Ho , Catherine Meza , Alexis Karteron |
The Curse of Ham: Disarmament Through Discrimination - the Necessity of Applying Strict Scrutiny to Second Amendment Issues in Order to Prevent Racial Discrimination by States and Localities Through Gun Control Laws |
13 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 337 (Spring 2008) |
The United States government accepted a number of obligations related to housing when it ratified the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD). For example, the United States government must ensure that all people enjoy the rights to housing and to own property, without distinction as to race; cease... |
2008 |
| Michael Ryan |
The European Union Combats Racism and Xenophobia by Forbidding Expression: an Analysis of the Framework Decision |
20 Florida Journal of International Law 245 (December, 2008) |
Unlike in America, where there has been a substantial decrease in the incidence of spectator racism at sporting events over the last thirty years, racially motivated incidents still occur frequently at European soccer matches. The prevalence of racist abuse varies from match to match, but at times it can get quite brutal. In one famous episode,... |
2008 |
| John J. Garman |
The Evolution of Gender Employment Rate Differentials Within Racial Groups in the United States |
39 University of Toledo Law Review 843 (Summer 2008) |
THROUGHOUT history, supporters of a free and democratic society recognized the vital importance of a basic human right, freedom of expression. However, it has also long been thought in the European Union (EU) that some freedoms must be given up to ensure the public safety necessary to maintain an ordered society. Even under American First... |
2008 |
| Michael Mears |
The Gestalt of the School-to-prison Pipeline: the Duality of Overrepresentation of Minorities in Special Education and Racial Disparity in School Discipline on Minorities |
1 John Marshall Law Journal 71 (2008) |
I. Introduction. 71 II. The Georgia Racial Justice Act - First Attempt. 73 III. Continuing Need for the Racial Justice Act in Georgia. 74 IV. Kentucky's Racial Justice Act. 76 V. The Background Concerning Racial Justice. 77 VI. Executions and Relevant Studies. 79 A. The Baldus Study. 79 B. Atlanta Journal-Constitution Death Penalty Study. 82 VII; Search Snippet: ...Imposed Punishment Article THE GEORGIA DEATH PENALTY: A NEED FOR RACIAL JUSTICE Michael Mears [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2008 The Law Review... |
2008 |
| Lorraine H. Weber |
The History of Japanese Racism, Japanese American Redress, and the Dangers Associated with Government Regulation of Hate Speech |
25 Thomas M. Cooley Law Review 139 (2008) |
Good afternoon, I am both proud and a little amazed at the opportunity that I had early on in Michigan to be a part of this movement, and, as you might have gleaned from my introduction, I regret to say that I am indeed old enough to have been there pretty much from the beginning. As I look around this room, I see the faces of some who were there; Search Snippet: ...Equality: Are We There Yet? Transcript THE HISTORY OF GENDER, RACIAL, AND ETHNIC INITIATIVES IN MICHIGAN-WHERE WE HAVE BEEN, WHERE... |
2008 |
| Preston C. Green, III, J.D., Ed.D. and Joseph O. Oluwole |
The Implicit Racial Bias in Sentencing: the next Frontier |
229 West's Education Law Reporter 309 (April 17, 2008) |
Since 1992, forty states and the District of Columbia have enacted charter school legislation. Charter schools are public schools that are developed by a charter between a sponsoring authority and those persons who wish to operate a school. Charter schools receive a great deal of freedom from the regulations that apply to traditional public; Search Snippet: ...2008 Commentary THE IMPLICATIONS OF PARENTS INVOLVED FOR CHARTER SCHOOL RACIAL BALANCING PROVISIONS [FNa] Preston C. Green, III , J.D., Ed.D. and... |
2008 |
| Phillip C. Blackman |
The Need for a Comprehensive Multi-year Strategic Plan for Ending Racial and Ethnic Discrimination: a Focus on Schools |
15 UCLA Entertainment Law Review 225 (Summer 2008) |
I. Introduction. 227 II. The History of Academic Reform in Collegiate Athletics. 230 III. The Structure and Function of the Academic Progress Rate. 237 IV. Why Does the APR Have a Disparate Discriminatory Impact on HBCUs?. 242 V. Potential Legal Challenges and Enjoining the NCAA's Use of the APP & APR. 244 A. Protection for Student-Athletes Under; Search Snippet: ...Articles THE NCAA'S ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE PROGRAM: ACADEMIC REFORM OR ACADEMIC RACISM? Phillip C. Blackman [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2008 Regents of the... |
2008 |
| Devon W. Carbado, Cheryl I. Harris |
The New Racially Restrictive Covenant: Race, Welfare, and the Policing of Black Women in Subsidized Housing |
96 California Law Review 1139 (October, 2008) |
Michigan's Proposal 2 and California's Proposition 209 both prohibit their state governments from discriminating or granting preferential treatment . on the basis of race. Both initiatives were aimed at eliminating state promulgated race-based affirmative action programs. For advocates of Proposal 2 and Proposition 209, affirmative action is the; Search Snippet: ...CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW California Law Review October, 2008 THE NEW RACIAL PREFERENCES [FNa1] Devon W. Carbado Cheryl I. Harris [FNd1] Copyright... |
2008 |
| Jennie Bauman |
The Oregon Supreme Court Task Force on Racial Issues in the Courts: a Call for Self-examination |
60 Baylor Law Review 1023 (Fall 2008) |
Chief Justice Roberts concluded a recent opinion with these words: The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race. Although a plurality, Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 is the newest opinion in a line of cases demonstrating the Court's gradual aversion to; Search Snippet: ...Comments THE ONLY WAY: ROBERTS' STAND ON THE PREVENTION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION Jennie Bauman [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2008 Baylor Law Review... |
2008 |
| Kenneth W. Mack |
The Role of the Courts in Creating Racial Identity in Early New Orleans |
18 Widener Law Journal L.J. 1 (2008) |
In 1894, W. Justin Carter moved to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and became only the second black lawyer to practice there. From an unlikely beginning as the son of former slaves, and in this unlikely city, Carter would soon become one of the foremost lawyers in his state. Living in the small city of Harrisburg, he established a diverse clientele and; Search Snippet: ...2008 Article THE ROLE OF LAW IN THE MAKING OF RACIAL IDENTITY: THE CASE OF HARRISBURG'S W. JUSTIN CARTER Kenneth W... |
2008 |
| Melissa Whitney |
The Status Quo of Racial Discrimination in Japan and the Republic of Korea and the Need to Provide for Anti-discrimination Laws |
49 Boston College Law Review 263 (January, 2008) |
This Note summarizes and synthesizes developments in statistical analyses of racial profiling data and the legal response to the use of such methods in civil rights cases. Researchers have developed new strategies specifically designed to measure statistical associations between a driver's race and the frequency of vehicle stops and; Search Snippet: ...College Law Review January, 2008 Note THE STATISTICAL EVIDENCE OF RACIAL PROFILING IN TRAFFIC STOPS AND SEARCHES: RETHINKING THE USE OF... |
2008 |
| Devon W. Carbado , Rachel F. Moran |
The Story of the Jena Six: the Interplay of History, Hate Crimes, Racial Inequality, and Legal Justice in Jena, Louisiana |
76 UMKC Law Review 851 (Spring, 2008) |
How does one tell a story about establishing an American race law cannon? This was precisely the question that confronted us as we conceived Race Law Stories, an edited volume of essays on important cases on race and the law. At the outset, we had to engage the question of whether we even need a race law canon. The answer is not obviously yes; Search Snippet: ...Practice, Experience, and Education THE STORY OF LAW AND AMERICAN RACIAL CONSCIOUSNESS: BUILDING A CANON ONE CASE AT A TIME Devon... |
2008 |
| Kathryn M. Caretti , N. Pieter M. O'Leary |
The Struggle for Racial Justice: the Personal, the Political, and the Economic |
1 Human Rights & Globalization Law Review 3 (Fall, 2007/Spring, 2008) |
High school campuses typically buzz with the activity of students rushing from one class to another, extra-curricular activities, or sporting events. Moreover, all campuses have their unique gathering areas where students congregate before, during, and after class to socialize and gossip. For white students on the campus of Jena High School in; Search Snippet: ...OF THE JENA SIX: THE INTERPLAY OF HISTORY, HATE CRIMES, RACIAL INEQUALITY, AND LEGAL JUSTICE IN JENA, LOUISIANA Kathryn M. Caretti... |
2008 |
| Leonard M. Baynes |
The Uses of History in Struggles for Racial Justice: Colonizing the past and Managing Memory |
1 the crit: a Critical Studies Journal 121 (2008) |
For over ten years, I have taught a course in Race and Racism in the Law at several American law schools. The course is part legal history and part jurisprudence. I use the Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America as my casebook as well as my own supplemental readings. The classes are often the most racially diverse class in the; Search Snippet: ...USE OF REFLECTION PAPERS AND STUDENT AUTOBIOGRAPHIES IN TEACHING RACE, RACISM AND THE LAW Leonard M. Baynes [FN1] Copyright © 2008 the... |
2008 |
| Reginald Leamon Robinson |
The Workman Case: Racial Equality in Nineteenth-century Michigan |
40 CONNtemplations CONNtemplations 1 (Spring, 2008) |
Charles R. Lawrence's Word, a form of liberation theology, gives its practitioners an intrinsic tool for empowering and liberating those who have been silenced and marginalized by the dominant legal narrative and by racism and sexism. As victims, oppression is external to, independent of, and happening to minorities and women. Yet, relying on; Search Snippet: ...HUMAN UNCONSCIOUSNESS: AN ANALYSIS OF CHARLES R. LAWRENCE'S MEDITATION ON RACISM, OPPRESSION, AND EMPOWERMENT Reginald Leamon Robinson [FNa1] Copyright © 2008 Connecticut... |
2008 |
| |
The Workplace in a Racially Diverse Society: Preliminary Thoughts on the Role of Labor and Employment Law |
87-DEC Michigan Bar Journal S8 (December, 2008) |
The second significant Michigan Supreme Court decision confirmed that the state prohibited racial segregation in Detroit public schools. The Court decided People ex rel. Joseph Workman v The Board of Education of Detroit in the same year (1869) that Michigan ratified the Fifteenth Amendment, which prohibited states from depriving citizens of the... |
2008 |
| Daria Roithmayr |
Theorizing Race and Racism: Preliminary Reflections on the Medical Curriculum |
27 Mississippi College Law Review 373 (2007-2008) |
In 2004, sociologists Robert Sampson and Jeffrey Morenoff published a remarkable study on the persistence of poverty in Chicago neighborhoods from 1970 to 1990. The authors made several important findings. First, those neighborhoods that were poor in 1970 were almost all poor twenty years later in 1990. Even as poverty rates dramatically increased; Search Snippet: ...book develops a theoretical model-the lock-in model of racial inequality--to explain why racial disparities have persisted even after the passage of civil rights... |
2008 |
| Howard Ball |
Tiptoeing Through the Junkyard: Three Approaches to the Moral Dilemma of Racist Hate Speech |
27 Mississippi College Law Review 335 (2007-2008) |
Are you scared? Of what? How about the gas chamber? Now, Jake, that's why I got you. I don't plan to go to the gas chamber. I saw you get Lester off, now you just get me off. You can do it, Jake. It's not that easy, Carl Lee You did with Lester. But every case is different. And the big difference here is that you killed two white boys; Search Snippet: ...America's Most Celebrated Jurists Article THURGOOD MARSHALL'S FORLORN BATTLE AGAINST RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE DEATH PENALTY: THE MCCLESKEY... |
2008 |
| K.J. Greene |
Trampling Whose Rights? Democratic Majority Rule and Racial Minorities: a Response to Chin and Wagner |
58 Syracuse Law Review 431 (2008) |
Introduction. 431 I. Trademark Law Racial Dynamics. 433 A. Economic Analysis, Trademark Law and Racial Dynamics. 434 B. Trademark and Racial Classifications. 436 C. Section 2 of the Lanham Act and the Marketplace of Racial Norms. 437 D. Moral Rights and Trademark Law. 438 E. A History of Distortion by Stereotyping. 440 F. Stereotyping as a; Search Snippet: ...Reformation of Intellectual Property Law and Policy TRADEMARK LAW AND RACIAL SUBORDINATION: FROM MARKETING OF STEREOTYPES TO NORMS OF AUTHORSHIP K.J... |
2008 |
| Taunya Lovell Banks |
Transitions to Justice: Prisoner Reentry as an Opportunity to Confront and Counteract Racism |
43 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 127 (Winter, 2008) |
There is no thinking of America except as a body politic haunted by the historic presence of the African.. It has always been impossible to vote in the United States . without symbolically casting a ballot for or against American racism .. In his tribute to the legendary singer James Brown, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert wrote that Brown's... |
2008 |
| Roslyn Arlin Mickelson |
Two Hundred Ninety-four Months and Counting? |
69 Ohio State Law Journal 1173 (2008) |
In 2007 the United States Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of Seattle's and Louisville's voluntary desegregation plans. In Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, the Court concluded that the ways Seattle and Louisville school districts used an individual student's race as a component of their voluntary; Search Snippet: ...Racial Equality Articles TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SOCIAL SCIENCE ON SCHOOL RACIAL DIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES Roslyn Arlin Mickelson [FNa1] Copyright ©... |
2008 |
| Charles Lawrence III |
Unconscious: the "Just Say No" Response to Racism |
40 Connecticut Law Review 931 (May, 2008) |
Twenty years ago, Professor Charles Lawrence wrote The Id, The Ego, and Equal Protection: Reckoning With Unconscious Racism. This article is considered a foundational document of Critical Race Theory and is one of the most influential and widely cited law review articles. The article argued that the purposeful intent requirement found in Supreme... |
2008 |
| Michael J. Klarman |
Unfinished Business: Racial, Ethnic and Gender Issues Still Confront Bench and Bar |
93 Virginia Law Review In Brief 249 (February 18, 2008) |
Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American History. By Michael J. Klarman. New York: Oxford University Press. 2007. In Unfinished Business, Professor Michael J. Klarman highlights a variety of social and political factors that have influenced the path of racial progress--wars, migrations, urbanization, shifting political coalitions--and he... |
2008 |
| Denise Cortes |
United States Immigration Law as We Know It: El Clandestino, the American Gulag, Rounding up the Usual Suspects |
9 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 443 (2008) |
Unions occupy a long and tumultuous place in the history of the American labor movement. Over time, the face of the union has undergone change. While many labor unions, like the Steelworkers Union, the Carpenters Union, the Coal Miners Union, and the Stonemakers, were pivotal to the success of the Industrial Revolution, others, comprised primarily... |
2008 |
| Jeffrey Smith McLeod |
Unmuting the Volume: Fisher, Affirmative Action Jurisprudence, and the Legacy of Racial Silence |
15 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 545 (Spring 2008) |
Introduction. 545 I. Environmental Racism on Trial. 551 A. R.I.S.E., Inc. v. Kay. 553 B. Bean v. Southwestern Waste Management Corporation. 553 C. East Bibb Twiggs Neighborhood Ass'n v. Macon-Bibb County Planning & Zoning Commission. 554 II. Justifying Inaction. 554 III. Applying the Lens of Critical Race Theory. 557 A. Reevaluating Judicial; Search Snippet: ...2008 UNMASKING THE PROCESSES AND JUSTIFICATIONS THAT LEAD TO ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM: A CRITIQUE OF JUDICIAL DECISION-MAKING, POLITICAL AND PUBLIC AMBIVALENCE... |
2008 |
| Shalini R. Deo |
Where Race and Political Behavior Highly Correlate Within a Congressional District, it Is Unlikely That the District Will Be Held to Be an Unconstitutional Racial Gerrymander: Easley V. Cromartie |
11 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 409 (Spring 2008) |
Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, Malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix. This nation has a moral and ethical obligation to fulfill; Search Snippet: ...CONTINUING RELEVANCE OF THE MOVEMENT FOR A MULTIRACIAL CATEGORY AND RACIAL CLASSIFICATION AFTER PARENTS INVOLVED IN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS V. SEATTLE SCHOOL... |
2008 |