| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Timothy Davis |
Whose Common Good? Racism in the Political Community |
28 Pacific Law Journal 341 (Winter, 1997) |
In Black and White: Race and Sports in America. By Kenneth L. Shropshire. New York and London: New York University Press, 1996. Pp. xxvii, 212. $24.95. Professor Kenneth Shropshire's important book In Black and White examines the controversial issue of racism in professional sports. Like scholars before him, Professor Shropshire argues that sports,; Search Snippet: ...Winter, 1997 Book Review Essay WHO'S IN AND WHO'S OUT: RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN SPORTS Timothy Davis [FNa1] Copyright (c) 1997 by... |
1997 |
| John C. Brittain |
Why White Privilege Is a Necessary Part of Any Conversation on Racism |
30 Connecticut Law Review 211 (Fall 1997) |
The decision by the Connecticut Supreme Court in Sheff v. O'Neill represents a landmark in school desegregation law. A majority of justices departed from existing federal common law doctrine to find an explicit state constitutional prohibition against de facto racial and ethnic segregation of schoolchildren in public schools in the state's capital; Search Snippet: ...IS A LANDMARK DECISION Finding a way to cross the racial and ethnic divide has never been more important than it... |
1997 |
| Anita R. Brown-Graham |
A New Ride: Using Title Ii as a Civil Rights Vehicle to American Society's Elusive "Level Playing Fields" |
28 Urban Lawyer 667 (Fall, 1996) |
Deeply imbedded in our concept of liberty is the understanding that the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects individuals against governmental action that restricts speech, even odious, racist speech. A new notion is emerging, from the other side of the coin, that the First Amendment may protect the government when it speaks, even if; Search Snippet: ...in Government Liability Law A NEW FIRST AMENDMENT DEFENSE FOR RACIALLY DISCRIMINATORY ACTIONS BY THE GOVERNMENT? Anita R. Brown-Graham Copyright... |
1996 |
| Kimberlianne Podlas |
A Not Quite Color-blind Constitution: Racial Discrimination and Racial Preference in Justice O'connor's "Newest" Equal Protection Jurisprudence |
23 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1283 (Summer 1996) |
The campaign against environmental injustice is still in its developmental stage, particularly with regard to identifying viable legal strategies. Legal scholarship on the topic has largely been confined to recounting failed attempts to litigate environmental racism claims under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment and, recently,; Search Snippet: ...SLAY THE DRAGON: USING NEW YORK LAW TO COMBAT ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM Kimberlianne Podlas [FNa] Copyright (c) 1996 Fordham University School of... |
1996 |
| Jen-L A. Wong |
Addressing Racial Bias in the Jury System: Another Failed Attempt? |
18 University of Hawaii Law Review 939 (Summer/Fall, 1996) |
Today's decision marks a deliberate and giant step backward in this Court's affirmative-action jurisprudence. Justice Marshall's prophetic warning in his Croson dissent was confirmed in the Supreme Court's 1995 decision in Adarand Constructors Inc. v. Pena. In Adarand, the United States Supreme Court addressed whether a Congressionally authorized... |
1996 |
| Katharine Inglis Butler |
Affirmative-action Jurisprudence Reflects American Racial Animosity but Is Also Unhappy in its Own Special Way |
26 Cumberland Law Review 313 (1995-1996) |
INTRODUCTION. 315 A. Recent Cases. 315 B. Rhetoric: The Critics. 316 I. WHITE LEGISLATURES GO TO EXTREMES TO CREATE MAJORITY BLACK DISTRICTS. 318 II. THE STATE'S USE OF RACE AND THE CONSTITUTION. 322 A. Racial Classifications, Racial Motives and Racial Impacts. 322 1. State Action Having No Function Other Than To Promote Racial Outcomes. 323 a; Search Snippet: ...285604 CUMBERLAND LAW REVIEW Cumberland Law Review 1995-1996 AFFIRMATIVE RACIAL GERRYMANDERING: RHETORIC AND REALITY Katharine Inglis Butler [FNa] Copyright ©... |
1996 |
| Donna M. Gitter |
As Long as They Don't Move next Door: Segregation and Racial Conflict in American Neighborhoods |
17 Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 165 (1996) |
The abstracts section, a regular feature of the Journal, contains summaries of recent labor- and employment-related articles, comments and notes published in law reviews and journals nationwide. In addition, the section lists citations to recent articles of interest which are not summarized. The article summaries and citations are categorized under; Search Snippet: ...in Employment ARTICLE ABSTRACTS Donna M. Gitter, French Criminalization of Racial Employment Discrimination Compared to the Imposition of Civil Penalties in... |
1996 |
| Roberta M. Harding |
Atticus Finch as Racial Accommodator: Answering Malcolm Gladwell |
2 Race and Ethnic Ancestry Law Digest 26 (Spring, 1996) |
June 12th of 1995 marked a somber occasion in the annals of school desegregation litigation. On that day, the United States Supreme Court sent disturbing messages in its opinion in Missouri v. Jenkins. The Court's decision hinders achievement of the objective of school desegregation litigation--providing equal educational opportunities for; Search Snippet: ...Nightmare of the 1990s AT LOGGERHEADS: THE SUPREME COURT AND RACIAL EQUALITY IN PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION AFTER MISSOURI v. JENKINS Roberta... |
1996 |
| Laura A. Giantris |
Backdooring Batson: the Improper Use of Racial Memory and Other "Peculiar" Characteristics in Juror Challenges |
55 Maryland Law Review 615 (1996) |
In the wake of the Rodney King and O.J. Simpson trials, jury racial bias has become a fast-growing topic of social and legal debate. In Hill v. State, the Court of Appeals rendered a decision aimed at combating racially biased juries. The court reversed the conviction of an African-American Baltimore resident convicted of drug possession on the; Search Snippet: ...Maryland Court of Appeals B. THE NECESSITY OF INQUIRY INTO RACIAL BIAS IN VOIR DIRE Laura A. Giantris Copyright (c) 1996... |
1996 |
| Angela J. Davis |
Benign Racial Classifications: a Guide for Transportation Attorneys |
94 Michigan Law Review 1660 (May, 1996) |
In October 1995, two black male teenagers were shopping in a clothing store in Prince George's County, Maryland. A white security guard, who was also an off-duty police officer, approached one of the teens and questioned him about the shirt that he was wearing. The youth explained that he had bought the shirt in that same store the previous week; Search Snippet: ...May, 1996 III. Crime and Punishment BENIGN NEGLECT [FNa] OF RACISM IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM Malign Neglect: Race, Crime, And... |
1996 |
| Sharon E. Rush |
Beyond Batson V. Kentucky: a Proposed Ethical Rule Prohibiting Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection |
48 Florida Law Review 373 (July, 1996) |
In the late 1940s, Mr. G.W. McLaurin, a Black man, was admitted to the graduate school at the University of Oklahoma. Although he had already received a Master's Degree in education, he aspired to earn a doctorate in that field as well. He gained admission to the University after a federal court found that an Oklahoma law that prohibited Blacks and; Search Snippet: ...of Florida College of Law Faculty Essay Issue BEYOND ADMISSIONS: RACIAL EQUALITY IN LAW SCHOOLS Sharon E. Rush [FNa1] Copyright ©... |
1996 |
| Nkechi Taifa |
Beyond Protecting Genetic Privacy: Understanding Genetic Discrimination Through its Disparate Impact on Racial Minorities |
10–OCT NBA National Bar Association Magazine 13 (September/October, 1996) |
During heated debate on the floor of the House of Representatives on the crack cocaine issue last year, Representative Maxine Waters conveyed comments of frustration from her constituents disparaging the prevalence of crack cocaine in their communities: Ms. Waters, why do they not get the big drug dealers?, she quoted them as asking. What is; Search Snippet: ...National Bar Association Magazine September/October, 1996 Feature BEYOND INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM: THE GENOCIDAL IMPACT OF EXECUTIVE, LEGISLATIVE & JUDICIAL DECISIONMAKING IN... |
1996 |
| Wallace Warfield |
Building Economic and Racial Equity in D.c. Through Cooperative Businesses |
1996 Journal of Dispute Resolution |
Racial conflict in America is widespread. No attempt to homogenize American political culture out of an amalgam of egalitarian values can mask its occasionally virulent manifestations. Despite the introduction of large numbers of new immigrant groups in the decades after 1965 and the new profiles of intergroup conflict that have emerged, the; Search Snippet: ...DISPUTE RESOLUTION Journal of Dispute Resolution 1996 BUILDING CONSESUS FOR RACIAL HARMONY IN AMERICAN CITIES: CASE MODEL APPROACH Wallace Warfield [Fna... |
1996 |
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C. Martin Lawyer, Iii |
22 Journal of Contemporary Law 172 (1996) |
In Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena, the United States Supreme Court held that strict scrutiny is the proper standard of review for benign race-based legislation imposed by federal, state, or local government. Writing for the majority, Justice O'Connor overruled Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission which previously; Search Snippet: ...v. PENA: STRICT SCRUTINY--ONE STANDARD OF REVIEW FOR ALL RACIAL CLASSIFICATION LEGISLATION [FNa] Copyright (c) 1996 Journal of Contemporary Law... |
1996 |
| Christopher A. Ford |
Challenges to Racial Redistricting in the New Millennium: Hunt V. Cromartie as a Case Study |
43 UCLA Law Review 1953 (August, 1996) |
I. Affirmative Action in South Africa. 1960 A. Constitutional Law. 1961 B. Positions of the Parties. 1964 1. The African National Congress. 1964 2. The National Party. 1965 3. The New Constitution. 1967 C. Affirmative Action in South African Practice. 1969 1. The Public Sector. 1970 2. The Private Sector. 1973 3. Resource Constraints. 1975 D. Some; Search Snippet: ...August, 1996 Symposium on Affirmative Action CHALLENGES AND DILEMMAS OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC IDENTITY IN AMERICAN AND POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICAN... |
1996 |
| Verna Myers |
Chapter 11 Racism from the Perspective of the Brazilian Courts of Justice: a Critical Analysis |
40-DEC Boston Bar Journal B.J. 7 (November/December, 1996) |
Undeniably, Boston's legal community and the profession as a whole have become more diverse over the last half of this century. Although the profession's acceptance of members of different groups, especially in its most prestigious firms, has been slow and uneven. In recent years, with some success, a good deal of attention has been given to... |
1996 |
| Julie A. Ellis |
Constitutional Law--fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause-- Racial Preferences in College and University Admissions |
34 Duquesne Law Review 403 (Winter 1996) |
In 1989 Mountain Gravel and Construction Company (Mountain Gravel) was awarded the prime contract for a highway construction project in Colorado. The award was given by the Central Federal Lands Highway Division, a unit of the United States Department of Transportation. Subsequently, Mountain Gravel solicited bids from subcontractors for the; Search Snippet: ...LAW--FIFTH AMENDMENT--FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT--EQUAL PROTECTION--STANDARD OF REVIEW-- RACIAL CLASSIFICATIONS --The United States Supreme Court held that racial classifications imposed by either federal, state or local governments must... |
1996 |
| William D. Green |
Critical Mass Is Fifteen Colored's! De Facto & De Jure Policies of Racial Isolation in St. Paul's Schools and Housing Patterns During the 19th Century, and Beyond |
17 Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy 299 (Spring, 1996) |
For ten years, during the period when America was embroiled in the Civil War, St. Paulthe capital of one of the most liberal states in the Unionpersistently embarked on a policy that segregated black children from white children. It was a policy that reflected the times when northern blacks lived a paradoxical existence of being tolerated by; Search Snippet: ...MASS IS FIFTEEN COLORED'S! DE FACTO & DE JURE POLICIES OF RACIAL ISOLATION IN ST. PAUL'S SCHOOLS AND HOUSING PATTERNS DURING THE... |
1996 |
| Alex M. Johnson, Jr. |
Detecting Bias: Using Statistical Evidence to Establish Intentional Discrimination in Racial Profiling Cases |
84 California Law Review 887 (July, 1996) |
As I stepped onto the bus one early morning, the driver, a young black man, said I was a dime short. I was positive I had deposited the proper fare. I did a slight burn, though concealed. To avoid an unpleasant exchange, I fished out another dime and dropped it into the box. My annoyance, trivial though the matter was, stayed with me for the rest; Search Snippet: ...California Law Review July, 1996 Symposium: Race-Based Remedy DESTABILIZING RACIAL CLASSIFICATIONS BASED ON INSIGHTS GLEANED FROM TRADEMARK LAW Alex M... |
1996 |
| Loren Page Ambinder |
Displacing the Common Sense Intrusion of Whiteness from Within and Without: "The Chicano Fight for Justice in East L.a." |
64 George Washington Law Review 342 (January, 1996) |
Mr. Cab Driver won't stop to let me in Mr. Cab Driver don't like my kind of skin Mr. Cab Driver you're never gonna win . . . Mr. Cab Driver don't like the way I look He don't like dreads he thinks we're all crooks Mr. Cab Driver reads too many story books Mr. Cab Driver pass me up with eyes of fire Mr. Cab Driver thinks we're all 165ers Mr. Cab; Search Snippet: ...Law Review January, 1996 Note DISPELLING THE MYTH OF RATIONALITY: RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN TAXICAB SERVICE AND THE EFFICACY OF LITIGATION UNDER... |
1996 |
| Kenneth L. Shropshire |
Diversity's Divergence: a Post-grutter Examination of Racial Preferences in Public Employment |
67 University of Colorado Law Review 47 (1996) |
No sector of American society is free from racism. Unfortunately, intolerant beliefs and actions are an ingrained part of our culture and national psyche. The laws have changed to outlaw certain types of flagrant discrimination, yet discriminatory practices continue. One commentator has appropriately expressed the view of many that r acial; Search Snippet: ...COLORADO LAW REVIEW University of Colorado Law Review 1996 DIVERSITY, RACISM, AND PROFESSIONAL SPORTS FRANCHISE OWNERSHIP: CHANGE MUST COME FROM WITHIN... |
1996 |
| Myron Orfield |
Eddie Murphy and the Dangers of Counterfactual Causal Thinking about Detecting Racial Discrimination |
17 Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy 271 (Spring, 1996) |
Schools are the first victim and the most powerful perpetuator of metropolitan polarization. Local schools become socioeconomically distressed before neighborhoods themselves become poor. Hence, increasing poverty in a city's school children is a prophecy for the city. First, the city's children become its adults. Second, middle-class families, who; Search Snippet: ...and Policy Spring, 1996 Policy Dialogue on Desegregation ECONOMIC AND RACIAL POLARIZATION IN TWIN CITIES SCHOOLS Myron Orfield Copyright (c) 1996... |
1996 |
| Daniel C. Wigley , Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette |
Environmental Racism and Black Theology: James H. Cone Instructs Us on Whiteness |
7 Risk: Health, Safety and Environment 55 (Winter, 1996) |
In 1982, Reverend Benjamin Chavis, executive director of the United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice (CRJ) was arrested for blocking the path of trucks carrying toxic PCBs to a newly designated hazardous-waste landfill near a small southern town of predominately black residents. In 1987, a milestone CRJ report showed that the most; Search Snippet: ...AND ENVIRONMENT Risk: Health, Safety and Environment Winter, 1996 ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM AND BIASED METHODS OF RISK ASSESSMENT Daniel C. Wigley [FNa1... |
1996 |
| Lynn E. Blais |
Environmental Racism with a Faint Green Glow |
75 North Carolina Law Review 75 (November, 1996) |
The rallying cry of the environmental justice movement has been its leaders' claim that minority and poor communities throughout the United States have been forced to bear more than their share of the environmental burdens that accompany the toxic by-products of our industrialized society. In this article, Professor Lynn Blais argues that the... |
1996 |
| Johan Leman |
Everyone's a Little Bit Racist? Reconciling Implicit Bias and Title Vii |
18 Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Journal 603 (June, 1996) |
On different levels, the European Union (EU) stresses the importance of democratic values and respect for fundamental rights. The Union Treaty exemplifies this by noting that respecting fundamental rights must be a general principle of Community Law. Other documents express the EU's desire to become a union that entitles all people to rights and; Search Snippet: ...Comparative Law Journal June, 1996 Essay EUROPE'S CONSULTATIVE COMMISSION ON RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA AND THE SLOW PROGRESS TOWARDS A EUROPEAN ANTIRACISM OBSERVATORY Johan Leman [FNa] Copyright (c) 1996 Loyola of Los... |
1996 |
| Joan E. Imbriani |
Fourteenth Amendment--due Process, Equal Protection and Law Against Discrimination--material Issue of Fact as to Whether County Sheriff Engaged in Discriminatory Harassment by Uttering One Racial Epithet That Was Sufficiently Severe to Create a Hostile Wo |
6 Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal 911 (Spring 1996) |
Last year, the United States Supreme Court delivered an opinion tampering with a significant portion of well-established law prohibiting race-based peremptory challenges. Purkett v. Elem, 115 S. Ct. 1769 (1995) (per curiam). The Court found that the Batson v. Kentucky prohibition against equal protection violations in jury selections is not; Search Snippet: ...ONLY BE RACE-NEUTRAL, NOT PERSUASIVE OR PLAUSIBLE, WHERE INTENTIONAL RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IS ALLEGED - PURKETT v. ELEM, 115 S. CT. 1769... |
1996 |
| Richard D. Kahlenberg |
Getting it Wrong: Hopwood V. Texas and its Implications for Racial Diversity in Legal Education and Practice |
45 American University Law Review 721 (February, 1996) |
If you ask Americans whether it is time to get beyond racial preferences, the vast majority will say yes. If you ask, instead, the question posed to Panel III of the conference, The Rehnquist Court and the American Dilemma, -- Is it time to get beyond race? -- the answer may be more ambivalent. The two questions are quite different, and the; Search Snippet: ...REVIEW American University Law Review February, 1996 Essay GETTING BEYOND RACIAL PREFERENCES: THE CLASS-BASED COMPROMISE Richard D. Kahlenberg [FNa] Copyright... |
1996 |
| Cecil J. Hunt, II |
Guilty as Charged: Malcolm X and His Vision of Racial Justice for African Americans Through Utilization of the United Nations International Human Rights Provisions and Institutions |
23 Florida State University Law Review 721 (Winter, 1996) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 722 II. THE ABSENCE OF DATA. 726 A. State Practices. 726 B. State Studies. 728 C. Law School Admission Council Bar Study. 729 III. JUDICIAL CHALLENGES TO THE BAR EXAMINATION ON THE BASIS OF UNLAWFUL RACIAL DISCRIMINATION. 733 A. The Judicial Record. 733 1. Tyler v. Vickery. 734 2. Parrish v. Board of Commissioners of the Alabama; Search Snippet: ...Review Winter, 1996 GUESTS IN ANOTHER'S HOUSE: AN ANALYSIS OF RACIALLY DISPARATE BAR PERFORMANCE Cecil J. Hunt, II [FNa] Copyright ©... |
1996 |
| Richard C. Reuben |
Health Care, Title Vi, and Racism's New Normal |
82-JAN ABA Journal 40 (January, 1996) |
The late Justice Felix Frankfurter once referred to the thorny constitutional questions raised by legislative districting as a political thicket the Supreme Court ought to avoid. Frankfurter offered the advice in 1946, and it has been ignored ever since. Rather, the Court has plunged right into that thicket in recent years with a heavy docket of... |
1996 |
| Wendy Irvine |
Ian Haney Lopez. Racism on Trial: the Chicano Fight for Justice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, 2003. X, 324 Pp. $16.95 |
4 Circles: Buffalo Women's Journal of Law and Social Policy 66 (1996) |
Ken Saro-Wiwa, world-renowned author and Nigerian activist, was executed on November 10, 1995 despite pressure from the international community on the Nigerian government to stay the execution. Saro-Wiwa, who had been designated an Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience, was leader of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP),; Search Snippet: ...Law and Social Policy 1996 International Column HUMAN RIGHTS, ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM: THE NIGERIAN EXECUTIONS AND THE CASE FOR THE OGONI Wendy... |
1996 |
| Samuel Issacharoff , Thomas C. Goldstein |
If He Hollers Let Him Go: Regulating Racist Speech on Campus |
1 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 47 (1996) |
The pace of change in the desegregation of American politics is sometimes overlooked by those immersed in the struggles over issues of minority representation. Gauged from afar, the aptly termed Quiet Revolution in legally enforced minority voting rights is properly viewed as a stunning vindication of the transformative power of law. In one... |
1996 |
| Dinesh D'Souza |
In Appreciation of Professor Starla Williams, Champion for Racial Equity in Child Welfare |
19 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 785 (Spring, 1996) |
My last book, The End of Racism: Principles for a Multiracial Society, found itself immersed in controversy even before it hit the bookstores. My book discusses the politics of race and gender on campus, but I have eliminated the issue of gender from this Article because gender does not result in the same degree of social balkanization as race. But; Search Snippet: ...Federalist Society Lawyers Convention Closing Address IMPROVING CULTURE TO END RACISM Dinesh D'Souza [FNa1] Copyright (c) 1996 by the Harvard Society... |
1996 |
| Steven A. Light , Kathryn R.L. Rand |
It's Not Easy Bein' Green: the Psychology of Racism, Environmental Discrimination, and the Argument for Modernizing Equal Protection Analysis |
2 Michigan Journal of Race and Law L. 1 (Fall 1996) |
The legal academy has embraced litigation under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as the new litigation strategy in the struggle for environmental justice. This Article examines the question of whether Title VI really is the magic bullet against environmental racism that its proponents claim. Specifically, the authors examine the... |
1996 |
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Jailhouse Rocked: the Second Circuit Confronts a Racially Hostile Work Environment in a Correctional Facility: Snell V. Suffolk County |
22 Journal of Contemporary Law 274 (1996) |
In United States v. Hays, the United States Supreme Court reaffirmed the judicially imposed self-limits of standing for racial gerrymandering claims. In doing so, the Court refused to consider a racial gerrymandering challenge against Louisiana's congressional redistricting scheme. Specifically, the Hays decision required citizens claiming racial; Search Snippet: ...Contemporary Law 1996 Recent Development J. UNITED STATES v. HAYS: RACIAL GERRYMANDERING AND STANDING [FNa] Copyright (c) 1996 Journal of Contemporary... |
1996 |
| Lincoln Caplan |
Judging Racism |
82-SEP ABA Journal 68 (September, 1996) |
Five years ago, Judge A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. moved from the calm of judicial eminence to the tumult of celebrity when he wrote an open letter to Clarence Thomas. During the thick of controversy about the new justice, the letter prescribed how Thomas could become a thoughtful and worthy successor to the recently retired Thurgood Marshall, whom; Search Snippet: ...JOURNAL ABA Journal September, 1996 Profile JUDGING LEON HIGGINBOTHAM A Racial Conscience for America is Back in the Ring Lincoln Caplan... |
1996 |
| Adina Schwartz |
Just Take Away Their Guns: the Hidden Racism of Terry V. Ohio |
23 Fordham Urban Law Journal 317 (Winter 1996) |
Noted social scientist James Q. Wilson recently argued that the best way to deal with illegal gun-carrying in the United States is to increase police use of stops and frisks, i.e. detaining individuals forcibly and patting down the outer surfaces of their clothing for weapons. Wilson conceded that if his proposal were instituted, [i]nnocent people; Search Snippet: ...Journal Winter 1996 JUST TAKE AWAY THEIR GUNS: THE HIDDEN RACISM OF TERRY V. OHIO Adina Schwartz [FNa] Copyright (c) 1996... |
1996 |
| Randall Kennedy |
Justice or Jurymander? Confronting the Underrepresentation of Racial Groups in the Jury Pool of New York's Eastern District |
74 Texas Law Review 1245 (1996) |
When asked to name my favorite judicial opinion, I immediately narrowed the question by considering only the court whose opinions I know best--the Supreme Court of the United States--and the area of law I know best--the law of race relations. I then discovered that there are distressingly few Supreme Court opinions in the area of race relations law... |
1996 |
| Susanne H. Vikoren |
Justice Redefined: Minority-targeted Scholarships and the Struggle Against Racial Oppression |
27 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 605 (Spring 1996) |
The Sixth Amendment to the Constitution guarantees defendants in criminal prosecutions the right to trial by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed. The Supreme Court, in construing the Sixth Amendment, has unambiguously declared that the American concept of the jury trial contemplates a jury... |
1996 |
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Lethal Discrimination 2: Repairing the Remedies for Racial Discrimination in Capital Sentencing |
12 Georgia State University Law Review 687 (April, 1996) |
Judge John H. Ruffin, Jr., Court of Appeals Mr. Paul Kilpatrick, Jr., Attorney-at-Law Ms. Josie A. Alexander, Attorney-at-Law Mr. Ralph T. Bowden, Jr., Solicitor, State Court of DeKalb County Mr. Thomas Young Choi, Attorney-at-Law Professor Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Emory University Law School Dr. Thomas W. Cole, Jr., President, Clark Atlanta; Search Snippet: ...DONE: EQUALLY, FAIRLY, AND IMPARTIALLY Georgia Supreme Court Commission on Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Court System [FNd] Copyright ©... |
1996 |
| Vicki Quade |
Living Their Legal Commitments:paideic Communities, Courts, and Robert Cover |
23-WTR Human Rights 10 (Winter, 1996) |
On a hot summer evening in August of 1930, when he was just 16, James Cameron agreed to go along with two of his teenaged friends and find someone to rob. That decision has defined his life, making the now 81-year-old a national figure in the debate over civil rights. As the founder and director of the country's only museum dedicated to what; Search Snippet: ...RIGHTS Human Rights Winter, 1996 LIVING ON STRANGE FRUIT When Racism Defines Your Life, You Fight Back by Making Sure No... |
1996 |
| Darin R. Doak |
Miller V. Johnson: the Supreme Court Eases the Burden of Proving Racial Gerrymandering |
17 Northern Illinois University Law Review 155 (Fall, 1996) |
Though often the object of a cartoonist's pen, political redistricting is a serious process by which group and individual interests are balanced. Intensely political and involving a complex accommodation of geographic, historic, economic and social interests, redistricting has long been considered the legislature's responsibility. Though the... |
1996 |
| R. Richard Banks |
Nondiscriminatory Perpetuation of Racial Subordination |
76 Boston University Law Review 669 (October, 1996) |
Colorblindness is currently the fundamental principle of equal protection jurisprudence as it pertains to race. As a constitutional principle, colorblindness mandates that the state not allocate burdens or benefits on the basis of race. I contend that both the legal and political arguments for a colorblind state turn in part on its perceived; Search Snippet: ...University Law Review October, 1996 Book Review NONDISCRIMINATORY PERPETUATION OF RACIAL SUBORDINATION Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality by Melvin L. Oliver [FNa] and Thomas M. Shapiro... |
1996 |
| Palma Repole |
One Year Later: a Reflection on Parents Involved in Community Schools V. Seattle School District and the Pursuit of Racial Representation in Public Elementary and Secondary Public Schools |
1 Great Plains Natural Resources Journal 129 (Spring 1996) |
I. Introduction. 129 II. Commercial Waste Vendors Attracted to Vulnerable Communities. 131 III. Improved Indian Lands and the Regulatory Loophole. 133 IV. Residence to Tribal Government Filling the Loophole. 136 V. An Argument for State Regulatory Authority Over Tribes. 137 VI. The Campo Model Closes the Loophole and Preserves Sovereignty. 138 A; Search Snippet: ...OF A COMMERCIAL WASTE FACILITY IN THE WAKE OF ENVIRONMENT RACISM Palma Repole [FN1] Copyright (c) 1996 University of South Dakota... |
1996 |
| Keith W. Watters, President, National Bar Association |
Only Connect: the Right to Community and the Individual Liberty Interest in State-sponsored Racial Integration |
10-FEB NBA National Bar Association Magazine 1 (January/February, 1996) |
The information super highway is spreading an epidemic of racial hatred all over the world. Groups with such names as the Aryan Nation, Skinheads USA, American Resistance, British National Party, and Canadian Patriot Network are all utilizing the Internet's World Wide Web to spread their vile message of racial hatred and religious intolerance.... |
1996 |
| Phoebe Weaver Williams |
Performing Racial and Ethnic Identity: Discrimination by Proxy and the Future of Title Vii |
6 Marquette Sports Law Journal 287 (Spring 1996) |
As I was about to complete this article, I thought I should make it clear to the reader that I acknowledge that there are concerns about exploring this subject. In our society, athletes often receive more positive attention than many other persons who embark on worthwhile endeavors. Some consider athletes as well paid, often catered to, and too; Search Snippet: ...JOURNAL Marquette Sports Law Journal Spring 1996 PERFORMING IN A RACIALLY HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT Phoebe Weaver Williams [FNa] Copyright (c) 1996 Marquette... |
1996 |
| Paul Knepper, Ph.D. |
'Race, Racism, and American Law': a Seminar from the Indigenous, Black, and Immigrant Legal Perspectives |
24 Southern University Law Review 71 (Fall, 1996) |
Canada's public debate about the collection of race-coded crime statistics has entered its seventh year. In 1992, the Justice Information Council issued a moratorium on the release of national race-crime statistics. The announcement followed the furor that erupted two years earlier when the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics announced that it; Search Snippet: ...UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW Southern University Law Review Fall, 1996 RACE, RACISM AND CRIME STATISTICS Paul Knepper , Ph.D. [FNa1] Copyright (c) 1996... |
1996 |
| David B. Sentelle |
Racial Gerrymandering after Rucho V. Common Cause: Untangling Race and Party |
45 Catholic University Law Review 1249 (Summer 1996) |
In April of 1993, the Supreme Court issued the decision in Shaw v. Reno. That decision holds: only that appellants have stated a claim under the Equal Protection Clause by alleging that the North Carolina General Assembly adopted a reapportionment scheme so irrational on its face that it can be understood only as an effort to segregate voters into; Search Snippet: ...UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW Catholic University Law Review Summer 1996 Speech RACIAL GERRYMANDERING David B. Sentelle [FNa] Copyright (c) 1996 Catholic University... |
1996 |
| Samuel Issacharoff |
Racial Gerrymandering Law after Shaw V. Reno: Stigmatic Harms and the Use of Race as a Factor but Not the Factor |
45 Catholic University Law Review 1257 (Summer 1996) |
In his characteristic easy-going manner, Judge Sentelle leads off his discussion of the complex and contentious issue of race and redistricting by proclaiming that Shaw v. Reno was completely unremarkable and unsurprising. Insofar as Shaw is read to hold only that claims of racial gerrymandering are subject to federal constitutional scrutiny,; Search Snippet: ...UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW Catholic University Law Review Summer 1996 Reply RACIAL GERRYMANDERING IN A COMPLEX WORLD: A REPLY TO JUDGE SENTELLE... |
1996 |
| Laura J. Corbin |
Racial Gerrymandering's Questionable Revival |
21 Oklahoma City University Law Review 577 (Summer/Fall 1996) |
In its 1993 decision, Shaw v. Reno, the United States Supreme Court expanded racial gerrymandering law by creating a new voting rights claim under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This Note examines racial gerrymandering law before and after Shaw v. Reno. Special emphasis is given to the stigmatic harm concept recognized in; Search Snippet: ...Review Summer/Fall 1996 A Symposium on Domestic Terrorism Note RACIAL GERRYMANDERING LAW AFTER SHAW V. RENO: STIGMATIC HARMS AND THE... |
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| Derrick Bell |
Racial Matching Vs. TransRacial Adoption: an Overview of the TransRacial Adoption Debate |
36 Washburn Law Journal L.J. 1 (Fall 1996) |
Well, I met my sister de other day, Give her my right han', Jes' as soon as ever my back was turned she took'n' scandalize' my name Do you call dat a sister? No! No! scandalize' my name. The reference to kin--sister, brother, and preacher--in the verses of the spiritual Scandalize' my Name, reflects a form of artistic prudence the slave singers... |
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