| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Kevin R. Johnson |
Racial Segregation and Cultural Domination: a Rubin Trilogy on Title Vii |
11 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 142 (1996) |
Critical race theory reflects the perception that conventional legal scholarship fails to satisfactorily address the complexities of race and the law in the United States. Similarly, the ascent of feminist theory stems in large part from lingering gender discrimination in this country. Until a number of minority women recently began studying the; Search Snippet: ...WOMENS LAW JOURNAL Berkeley Women's Law Journal 1996 Book Review RACIAL RESTRICTIONS ON NATURALIZATION: THE RECURRING INTERSECTION OF RACE AND GENDER... |
1996 |
| Linda S. Gottfredson , University of Delaware |
Racially Integrated Education and the Role of the Federal Government |
2 Psychology, Public Policy, And Law 418 (September/December, 1996) |
Discrimination law and its aggressive enforcement by the U.S. Department of Justice both falsely assume that all racial-ethnic groups would pass job-related, unbiased employment tests at the same rate. Unreasonable law and enforcement create pressure for personnel psychologists to violate professional principles and lower the merit relatedness of; Search Snippet: ...AND LAW Psychology, Public Policy, And Law September/December, 1996 RACIALLY GERRYMANDERING THE CONTENT OF POLICE TEST TO SATISFY THE U.S... |
1996 |
| Robert L. Carter |
Racism and the Law: Slavery, Integration, and Modern Resegregation in America |
10-APR NBA National Bar Association Magazine 34 (March/April, 1996) |
The following is an excerpt of a statement made by Judge Robert L. Carter upon receiving the Federal Bar Council's Emory Buckner Medal on November 22, 1995. Although I did not know it at the time, the decision to become a civil rights activist and lawyer was probably made at age 16 in my senior year at East Orange High School when I attempted to... |
1996 |
| Paul M. Anderson |
Racism in the Adversary System: the Defendant's Use of Peremptory Challenges |
6 Marquette Sports Law Journal 357 (Spring 1996) |
To many people, the sports world is a place in which none of the normal problems of the real world could possibly exist. The participants seem to be rich beyond measure, many are educated and well spoken, and though there are disputes, they usually center around money--not trivial problems like poverty and homelessness. Many also believe that the... |
1996 |
| Barbara A. Noah |
Racist Racism: Complicating Whiteness Through the Privilege and Discrimination of Westerners in Japan |
48 Florida Law Review 357 (July, 1996) |
During the past few years, rationing has become an explicit feature in decisions concerning optimal delivery of health care services, and it poses difficult choices for health care providers and policymakers. Insurers and patients increasingly must balance the desire for access to every possible treatment against concerns about affordability; Search Snippet: ...1996 University of Florida College of Law Faculty Essay Issue RACIST HEALTH CARE? Barbara A. Noah [FNa1] Copyright (c) 1996 by... |
1996 |
| John Hayakawa Torok |
Recreational Marijuana Legalization in New Jersey: the Formula for a Bill That Accounts for Racial Injustice |
3 Asian Law Journal 55 (May, 1996) |
The Reconstruction amendments and civil rights law historically have been viewed in the context of African American emancipation, naturalization, and enfranchisement. However, Chinese immigrants' presence and the racial nativism they engendered in the white polity influenced the debates surrounding that legislation and the attendant Supreme Court... |
1996 |
| Andrew E. Taslitz , Sharon Styles-Anderson |
Regulating Racist Speech on Campus: a Modest Proposal? |
7 Professional Lawyer 10 (May, 1996) |
Agrowing number of states have adopted, or are considering, amendments to their lawyer disciplinary rules to discourage certain racist, sexist, and ethnic-biased conduct by lawyers. The rules and proposals vary widely, some reaching broadly to include purely private conduct unrelated to the practice of law (such as membership in certain; Search Snippet: ...Court: Why The First Amendment Is No Bar To Challenging Racism, Sexism, And Ethnic Bias In The Legal Profession , to be... |
1996 |
| Robert S. Chang |
Review of Doj-commissioned Report: Racial Disparity in Post-booker Sentencing |
23 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 1115 (Summer 1996) |
We should transform reverse racism from a curse to an injunction (Reverse racism!). --David Roediger I am a product of affirmative action. Thus, to imagine a world without affirmative action would require that I imagine a world without me, something that I am not inclined to do. I am reminded of a cartoon which depicts the philosopher Descartes... |
1996 |
| Vernellia R. Randall |
Slurred Speech: How the Nlrb Tolerates Racism |
15 Saint Louis University Public Law Review 191 (1996) |
I am a registered nurse and a family nurse practitioner. I have a master's degree in nursing. I practiced nursing for 15 years in Alaska and Washington. I write and work in the area of health care law. I understand the health care system and the legal system . . . I am African American and trust the health care system to work in ways that; Search Snippet: ...in Bioethics: Race, Gender, Class, and Culture SLAVERY, SEGREGATION AND RACISM: TRUSTING THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM AIN'T ALWAYS EASY! AN AFRICAN... |
1996 |
| Andrew E. Taslitz , Sharon Styles-Anderson |
Stop, Frisk, and Assault? Racial Disparities in Police Use of Force During Investigatory Stops |
9 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 781 (Spring, 1996) |
A large and growing number of states and the District of Columbia have recently produced task force reports on racial, ethnic and gender bias in the administration of justice. These reports have consistently found evidence of a wide range of discriminatory conduct by lawyers directed toward witnesses, other lawyers and court personnel; Search Snippet: ...COURT: WHY THE FIRST AMENDMENT IS NO BAR TO CHALLENGING RACISM, SEXISM AND ETHNIC BIAS IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION Andrew E... |
1996 |
| Julius Menacker, Ed.D. |
Telling the Difference: Nineteenth-century Legal Narratives of Racial Taxonomy |
107 West's Education Law Reporter 427 (May, 1996) |
An article in a 1994 issue of the Canadian Education & Law Journal described the positions taken by Canadian courts concerning teachers dismissed for racist speech. One case concerned racist expression within the classroom, while the other concerned a teacher's racist expression away from school. The author, P.T. Clarke, complained that while both; Search Snippet: ...LAW REPORTER West's Education Law Reporter May, 1996 Commentary TEACHER RACIST SPEECH: A CANADAUNITED STATES COMPARISON [FNa] Julius Menacker , Ed.D... |
1996 |
| Joseph Erasto Jaramillo |
The Consequences of Color-blind Health Policy for Older Racial and Ethnic Minorities |
9 La Raza Law Journal 195 (1996) |
As people of color continue to face racial and socioeconomic subordination in this country, one wonders when, if ever, the elusive quest for racial justice' will end. Intellectuals dedicated to the pursuit of racial justice have focused their work on unmasking the operation of racism and white privilege and recognizing the perspectives of the; Search Snippet: ...La Raza Law Journal 1996 Comment THE COMMUNITY-BUILDING PROJECT: RACIAL JUSTICE THROUGH CLASS SOLIDARITY WITHIN COMMUNITIES OF COLOR Joseph Erasto... |
1996 |
| Robert A. Sedler |
The Constitution in Context: the Continuing Significance of Racism |
75 Michigan Bar Journal 1160 (November, 1996) |
One of the consequences of the civil rights movement of the 1960s was the demand by African-Americans and other racial minorities that they be able to participate equally with whites in the legal profession, where racial minorities were seriously underrepresented. The law schools responded to this demand by adopting racially preferential admission; Search Snippet: ...1996 Feature Civil Rights in the Academy THE CONSTITUTION AND RACIAL PREFERENCE IN LAW SCHOOL ADMISSIONS Robert A. Sedler [FNa] Copyright... |
1996 |
| Nelson Lund |
The Constitutional Future of Race-neutral Efforts to Achieve Diversity and Avoid Racial Isolation in Elementary and Secondary Schools |
12 Georgia State University Law Review 1129 (June, 1996) |
The institution of slavery indubitably generated the most serious and intractable political problems that the United States has faced. It is much less obvious which American institution has provided the most effective leadership in coping with slavery's legacy. At least among lawyers, there would be considerable sentiment for awarding this honor to... |
1996 |
| Edward J. Rymsza |
The Courtroom as White Space: Racial Performance as Noncredibility |
1 New York City Law Review 481 (Fall, 1996) |
Election Day, November 8, 1994, was a turning point. Indeed it was. When the votes were counted throughout the country, the Republican Party (or GOP) found itself in control of the U.S. House of Representatives (the House), a Democrat stronghold for the past forty years, and the U.S. Senate. Much of the Republicans' success was primarily due; Search Snippet: ...Note THE CONTRACT WITH AMERICA: THE CRYSTALLIZATION OF THE GOP'S RACIAL AGENDA Edward J. Rymsza [FNa1] Copyright (c) 1996 New York... |
1996 |
| Frank R. Parker |
The Dark Heart of Eastern Europe: Applying the British Model to Football-related Violence and Racism |
45 American University Law Review 763 (February, 1996) |
Andrew Hacker, Professor of Political Science at Queens College in New York, asks white students how much financial compensation they would request if they were suddenly required to be black. White students do not think it is unreasonable to demand anything from $1 million to $50 million for each year in which they would have all the outward; Search Snippet: ...CONSEQUENCES OF THE REHNQUIST COURT'S COMMITMENT TO COLOR-BLINDNESS VERSUS RACIAL JUSTICE Frank R. Parker [FNa] Copyright (c) 1996 Washington College... |
1996 |
| Frank M. McClellan |
The Day the Music Died: Ward V. Rock Against Racism |
48 Rutgers Law Review 761 (Spring, 1996) |
[W]e were concerned about the effect of having black people come to an area where there are not many black people and expecting to get justice from a jury which is mostly white people. We decided to confront this issue and we asked you the questions this morning, and we were really pleased with the responses that we got and we think that this is an; Search Snippet: ...15, 1995 THE DARK SIDE OF TORT REFORM: SEARCHING FOR RACIAL JUSTICE Frank M. McClellan [FNa1] Copyright (c) 1996 by the... |
1996 |
| Loren L. Barr |
The End of War and Slavery Yields a New Racial Order |
36 Santa Clara Law Review 677 (1996) |
In The End of Racism, Dinesh D'Souza examines the origin and nature of racism in the United States, as well as the state of the current debate over race and racism. Like so many books by conservative authors, The End of Racism has been attacked by liberal commentators who have either obviously not read the book, or have chosen to shamelessly; Search Snippet: ...Santa Clara Law Review 1996 Books Received THE END OF RACISM. BY DINESH D'SOUZA. NEW YORK, NY: THE FREE PRESS. 1995... |
1996 |
| Edwin J. Peterson |
The Origins of Mass Incarceration: the Racial Politics of Crime and Punishment in the Post-civil Rights Era |
32 Willamette Law Review 609 (Summer 1996) |
The Oregon Supreme Court created the Task Force on Racial Issues in the Courts in May 1992 to identify problems faced by racial and ethnic minorities in the judicial system; to examine the concerns of racial and ethnic minorities in their treatment in and by the courts; and to propose a course of action to address the problems and concerns. The... |
1996 |
| Katheryn K. Russell |
The Racial Implications of the Telecommunications Act of 1996: the Congressional Mandate of Neighborhood Purity |
71 Indiana Law Journal 593 (Summer, 1996) |
INTRODUCTION. 594 I. THE PHENOMENON OF THE RACIAL HOAX. 596 A. Cases in Point. 596 B. The Sociology of the Racial Hoax. 599 II. RACISM AS CRIME. 601 A. Views of Commentators. 601 B. The Paradigm and the Racial Hoax. 604 III. THE LAW AS AFFIRMATION AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO CRIMINAL OFFENDING. 605 A. Affirmative Race Law. 605 B. Absence of Affirmative; Search Snippet: ...161808 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL Indiana Law Journal Summer, 1996 THE RACIAL HOAX AS CRIME: THE LAW AS AFFIRMATION Katheryn K. Russell... |
1996 |
| John E. Lee |
The Rise and Fall of Supreme Court Concern for Racial Minorities |
30 Suffolk University Law Review 153 (1996) |
(O)ne gets beyond racism by getting beyond it now: by a complete, resolute, and credible commitment never to tolerate in one's own life--or in the life or practices of one's government--the differential treatment of other human beings by race. Indeed, that is the great lesson for government itself to teach: in all we do in life, whatever we do in; Search Snippet: ...THE RISE (AND FALL?) OF RACE-CONSCIOUS REMEDIES AND BENIGN RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN PUBLIC EDUCATION John E. Lee Copyright (c) 1996... |
1996 |
| Paul Finkelman |
The Road to Reducing Racial Disparity in the Healthcare System: Affordable Care Act as Domestic Implementation of Cerd |
15 Yale Law and Policy Review 245 (1996) |
On December 7, 1995 two white soldiers from Fort Bragg went into nearby Fayetteville, North Carolina with semi-automatic weapons, hunting for blacks. The two soldiers succeeded in their intended goal. They shot Michael James, age 36, and Jackie Burden, age 27, in the head at close range, killing them. In the soldiers' rooms the police found a; Search Snippet: ...Policy Review 1996 Book Review THE RISE OF THE NEW RACISM Paul Finkelman [FNd] Copyright (c) 1996 Yale Law and Policy... |
1996 |
| Robert L. Hayman, Jr. , Nancy Levit |
The Technologies of Race: Big Data, Privacy and the New Racial Bioethics |
84 California Law Review 377 (March, 1996) |
Ask your own soul what it would say if the next census were to report that half of black America was dead and the other half dying. Black America, some people said, was dying. And they wondered what they would hear in the souls of white folk when white America heard the news. Part of the story, perhaps, was told in June 1995, by the Supreme Court; Search Snippet: ...TALES OF WHITE FOLK: DOCTRINE, NARRATIVE, AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF RACIAL REALITY The Rodrigo Chronicles: Conversations About America and Race. By... |
1996 |
| Constance Backhouse |
The Word and the Problem of Human Unconsciousness: an Analysis of Charles R. Lawrence's Meditation on Racism, Oppression, and Empowerment |
14 Law and History Review 315 (Fall, 1996) |
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, provided the setting, in May 1912, for two widely publicized trials that highlighted the explosive fusion between race, gender, and class in early twentieth-century Canada. The prosecutions were based on a Saskatchewan statute passed several weeks earlier, An Act to Prevent the Employment of Female Labour in Certain; Search Snippet: ...Review Fall, 1996 THE WHITE WOMEN'S LABOR LAWS: ANTI-CHINESE RACISM IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY CANADA Constance Backhouse Copyright (c) 1996... |
1996 |
| Robert J. Cottrol |
Through the Looking Glass: Racial Jokes, Social Context, and the Reasonable Person in Hostile Work Environment Analysis |
67 University of Colorado Law Review 909 (Fall 1996) |
When I was preparing this talk, for some reason it took me back to my graduate school days. For many this can be a nightmare or unpleasant experience, although I will freely confess that my memories of graduate school are on the whole quite happy ones. In any event, preparing for this talk caused me to remember when I was taking my orals in... |
1996 |
| Ugo Colella |
Turning a Blind (White) Eye in Legislating Mental Health Parity: the Unmet, Overlooked Needs of the Working Poor in Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities |
69 Temple Law Review 1081 (Fall 1996) |
I. Introduction. 1082 II. The California Experience with Reviewing Legislative Motivation. 1090 A. The Policy Justifications for Refusing to Compel Lawmakers to Reveal Their Subjective Decisionmaking Processes. 1090 1. Separation of Powers: Respect for Co-Equal Branches of Government and Political Accountability. 1090 2. The Problem of; Search Snippet: ...REVIEW OF LEGISLATIVE MOTIVATION AND THE PROBLEM OF PROVING A RACIALLY DISCRIMINATORY PURPOSE UNDER THE CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION [FNd] Ugo Colella [Fna... |
1996 |
| Lisa Kung |
Twelve Topics to Consider Before Opting for Racial Quotas |
22 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 724 (1996) |
Stephen Steinberg believes racism is prevalent in America, maintained by inertia and a deep, systemic relationship between race and economics. In the first part of his recent book Turning Back: The Retreat From Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy, Steinberg follows the vagaries of white liberal enthusiasm to sever this relationship. Books; Search Snippet: ...Social Change 1996 Book Annotation TURNING BACK: THE RETREAT FROM RACIAL JUSTICE IN AMERICAN THOUGHT AND POLICY. BY STEPHEN STEINBERG. BOSTON... |
1996 |
| Natsu Saito Jenga |
Unconventional Methods for a Traditional Setting: the Use of Virtual Reality to Reduce Implicit Racial Bias in the Courtroom |
81 Iowa Law Review 1503 (July 1, 1996) |
Race and racism in the United States today are rarely discussed without someone proposing that we resolve the problems associated with racism by simply rejecting consciously racist actions and proceeding in a colorblind manner. This Just Say No solution is appealing because it sounds so simple. It is also dangerous because it masks the real; Search Snippet: ...July 1996 Colloquy UNCONSCIOUS: THE JUST SAY NO RESPONSE TO RACISM Natsu Saito Jenga [FNa] Copyright (c) 1996 University of Iowa... |
1996 |
| Jack Pritchard |
Universities, Racist Speech and Democracy in America: an Essay for the Aclu |
47 Mercer Law Review 955 (Spring 1996) |
In United States v. Hays, the United States Supreme Court addressed the issue of whether individuals who reside outside racially gerrymandered districts have standing to sue on racial gerrymandering claims. In May 1992, Louisiana passed Act 42 of its Regular Session, which redrew its district boundaries to form two majority-minority districts --; Search Snippet: ...STATES V. HAYS: A WINNOWING OF STANDING TO SUE IN RACIAL GERRYMANDERING CLAIMS Jack Pritchard Copyright (c) 1996 Walter F. George... |
1996 |
| Calvin J. Allen, Esq. |
Using the Voting Rights Act to Discriminate: North Carolina's Use of Racial Gerrymanders, Two Racial Quotas, Safe Harbors, Shields, and Inoculations to Undermine MultiRacial Coalitions and Black Political Power |
10-FEB NBA National Bar Association Magazine 18 (January/February, 1996) |
Good Tax Management is more than just the large refund you receive on your tax return for 1995, it's an ongoing process. That means putting in place, with the help of your financial consultant and tax advisor, a sound tax savings strategy for 1996. What can you do better this year to protect your earnings and investments from increasing taxes?; Search Snippet: ...February, 1996 Feature USING THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE TO COMBAT RACIAL DISCRIMINATION Calvin J. Allen, Esq. [FNa1] Copyright (c) 1996 by... |
1996 |
| Dorothy E. Roberts |
West Virginia Race Relations at the Turn of the 21st Century: a New Historical Perspective and Legislative Study of Racial Disparities in Education, Health, Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Economic Development and Employment |
105 Yale Law Journal 1563 (April, 1996) |
Racial politics has so dominated welfare reform efforts that it is commonplace to observe that welfare has become a code word for race. When Americans discuss welfare, many have in mind the mythical Black welfare queen or profligate teenager who becomes pregnant at taxpayers' expense to fatten her welfare check. Although most welfare recipients; Search Snippet: ...Pp. viii, 419. $22.95. The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty. By Jill Quadagno. [FNaa] New... |
1996 |
| Rodney K. Smith |
When Political Domination Becomes Racial Discrimination: Naacp V. Mccrory and the Inextricable Problem of Race in Politics |
61 Missouri Law Review 329 (Spring 1996) |
In popular American parlance, we commonly refer to an athlete as a jock. The Random House Unabridged Dictionary notes that the formal definition of jock is a jockstrap. The informal definition, in turn, is an athlete. Using the term jock to describe an athlete certainly has sexist, and perhaps even racial, implications. Given this; Search Snippet: ...Spring 1996 WHEN IGNORANCE IS NOT BLISS: IN SEARCH OF RACIAL AND GENDER EQUITY IN INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS Rodney K. Smith [Fna... |
1996 |
| Steve Greenfield , Guy Osborn |
When Will Black Women Lawyers Slay the Two-headed Dragon; Racism and Gender Bias? |
6 Marquette Sports Law Journal 315 (Spring 1996) |
Interesting to see George Best sympathising in TV interviews about the racist abuse Cantona received. On January 12 during an Evening with George Best and Rodney Marsh at Croydon's Fairfield Halls, Best was asked about the Andy Cole sale. His reply? 7 million is a lot to pay for a nigger. The phenomenon of racism can be seen in two broad areas; Search Snippet: ...Journal Spring 1996 WHEN THE WHITES GO MARCHING IN? [FNd] RACISM AND RESISTANCE IN ENGLISH FOOTBALL Steve Greenfield [FNa] Guy Osborn... |
1996 |
| Leroy D. Clark |
A Deadly Response: Unconscious Racism and California's Provocative Act Doctrine |
73 Denver University Law Review 23 (1995) |
Professor Derrick A. Bell's book, Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism, challenges tenets and ideals deeply held by civil rights organizations and by the larger liberal-integrationist community. Professor Bell charges that white society has never relinquished, and more importantly, will never relinquish, a deep-rooted racism,; Search Snippet: ...OF PROFESSOR DERRICK A. BELL'S THESIS OF THE PERMANENCE OF RACISM AND HIS STRATEGY OF CONFRONTATION Leroy D. Clark [FNa] Copyright... |
1995 |
| Jamie B. Raskin |
Affirmative Action and Racial Segregation |
38 Howard Law Journal 521 (Summer 1995) |
[U]nder our Constitution there can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race. The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. The Supreme Court's ferocious assault last Term on affirmative action, school desegregation, and majority-minority electoral districts requires, in an ideological sense, willing detachment; Search Snippet: ...LAW JOURNAL Howard Law Journal Summer 1995 AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND RACIAL REACTION Jamie B. Raskin [FNa] Copyright (c) 1995 Howard University... |
1995 |
| Paul Brown |
Analyzing the Special Needs Designation and Accommodation of Parental Racial Preferences in Adoption |
23 American Journal of Criminal Law 231 (Fall 1995) |
In 1974, the Supreme Court effectively shut the door on race-based challenges to the death penalty with its decision in McCleskey v. Kemp. Since then, many legal scholars have deconstructed the McCleskey opinion in hopes of reinvigorating the claim that the death penalty operates in a discriminatory fashion. In his book The Death Penalty and Racial; Search Snippet: ...American Journal of Criminal Law Fall 1995 Book Note ANALYZING RACIAL BIAS CLAIMS AFTER MCCLESKEY The Death Penalty and Racial Bias: Overturning Supreme Court Assumptions. By Gregory Russell. Westport, CT... |
1995 |
| Brian K. Landsberg |
Banishing Bias: the Second Circuit's Draft Report on Gender, Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts |
30 Wake Forest Law Review 819 (Winter 1995) |
Professor Landsberg presents a responsive essay to Kirk Kennedy's Race-Exclusive Scholarships: Constitutional Vel Non . Professor Landsberg argues for the preservation of the Supreme Court's balanced approach to assessing the validity of affirmative action programs. Landsberg notes approvingly that the Court has carefully avoided absolutes in; Search Snippet: ...Forest Law Review Winter 1995 December, 1995 BALANCED SCHOLARSHIP AND RACIAL BALANCE Brian K. Landsberg [FNa] Copyright (c) 1995 Wake Forest... |
1995 |
| Mark S. Nagel |
Constructing a Criminal Justice System Free of Racial Bias: an Abolitionist Framework |
19 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 188 (Fall, 1995) |
Three Terms ago, the Supreme Court in Shaw v. Reno held a majority-black electoral district in North Carolina unconstitutional because the district's shape was so irrational on its face that it can be understood only as an effort to segregate voters into separate voting districts because of their race. The decision was seen as a major setback to... |
1995 |
| David Chi-Ping Liu |
Criminal Injustice: Continuing Racial Inequities in Death Penalty Sentencing |
63 George Washington Law Review 297 (January, 1995) |
The Civil War Amendments to the Constitution sought to guarantee civil rights, including the right to vote, to minority groups. Substantive voting equality has yet to be achieved, however, because of the continuing societal discrimination reflected in racially polarized voting by the majority white voters in some states. Early voting-rights claims; Search Snippet: ...OF MAJORITY-MINORITY DISTRICTS: A STEP TOWARD VOTING EQUALITY OR RACIAL SEGREGATION? David Chi-Ping Liu Copyright (c) 1995 George Washington... |
1995 |
| Ruben J. Garcia |
Critical Race Theory in Three Acts: Racial Profiling, Affirmative Action, and the Diversity Visa Lottery |
17 Chicano-Latino Law Review 118 (Fall 1995) |
In mid-1993, a group of concerned California residents were fed up. They were tired of the illegal aliens whom they blamed for sapping the state's resources. These aliens were everywhere: crowding their children out of public schools, crowding welfare offices, and crowding the emergency rooms of hospitals. To attack these problems, these angry; Search Snippet: ...Fall 1995 Comment CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND PROPOSITION 187: THE RACIAL POLITICS OF IMMIGRATION LAW Ruben J. Garcia [FNa] Copyright ©... |
1995 |
| Richard A. Boswell |
Cross-Racial Eyewitness Identification, Jury Instructions, and Justice |
6 Hastings Women's Law Journal 233 (Summer 1995) |
This trial of the century has given us some challenges of a lifetime -- challenges we seem emotionally unprepared to meet. -- Clarence Page, Sept. 8, 1995 It would hardly be an overstatement to say that the case against O.J. Simpson has been one of the most publicized trials in recent memory. While one could speculate whether the O.J. case,... |
1995 |
| Anthony V. Alfieri |
Defending the Racial Profiling Accusation: the Case for the Social Scientist as an Expert Witness |
95 Columbia Law Review 1301 (June, 1995) |
In September 1993 Damian Monroe Williams and Henry Keith Watson stood trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court on twelve charges of aggravated mayhem, felony assault, robbery, and attempted murder arising out of the April 29, 1992 beating of Reginald Denny and seven others during the South Central Los Angeles riots. Legal teams representing; Search Snippet: ...COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW Columbia Law Review June, 1995 Essay DEFENDING RACIAL VIOLENCE Anthony V. Alfieri [FNa] Copyright (c) 1995 Directors of... |
1995 |
| Stephen B. Bright |
Discriminatory Discipline: the Racial Crisis in America's Public Schools |
35 Santa Clara Law Review 433 (1995) |
Capital punishment, one of America's most prominent vestiges of slavery and racial violence, is flourishing once again in the United States. After a moratorium on executions in the 1960s and '70s, the execution of human beings by the state has become routine. Over 3,000 men, women and children are on death rows throughout the nation waiting to be; Search Snippet: ...Review 1995 Symposium DISCRIMINATION, DEATH AND DENIAL: THE TOLERANCE OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN INFLICTION OF THE DEATH PENALTY Stephen B. Bright... |
1995 |
| Henry J. Reske |
Dna, Racial Disparities, and Biases in Criminal Justice: Searching for Solutions |
81-MAY ABA Journal 44 (May, 1995) |
Five months after congressional Republicans began reshaping the nation's legislative agenda, the Supreme Court is again reviewing the shape of districting plans that can affect who gets elected to write the laws. In two sets of combined cases from Louisiana and Georgia, the Court is expected to clarify this spring how far states can go in creating; Search Snippet: ...May, 1995 Substantive Law At Issue DIVIDING UP THE VOTE Racially Drawn Congressional Districts Face Constitutional Challenge Henry J. Reske [FNa1... |
1995 |
| Paul Schoeman |
Economic and Racial Polarization in Twin Cities Schools |
30 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 543 (Summer, 1995) |
More than a century has passed since the adoption of the civil rights amendments to the Constitution and three decades since the passage of the significant civil rights legislation of the 1960s. Using either legal landmark as a reference point, it is undeniable that Americans are less overtly racist than they used to be. Perhaps they are now; Search Snippet: ...OF TOO MUCH JUSTICE: A COMPROMISE PROPOSAL TO REVISE THE RACIAL JUSTICE ACT Paul Schoeman [FNa] Copyright (c) 1995 by the... |
1995 |
| Richard R. Hesp |
Elie Hirschfeld Symposium on Racial Justice in the Child Welfare System Transcript |
1995 University of Chicago Legal Forum 409 (1995) |
Since Congress enacted the 1982 amendments to Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), courts have experienced difficulty interpreting its broad language. The existence of only one major Supreme Court decision interpreting that provision, Thornburg v Gingles, has hindered these efforts. Although the Gingles Court sought to aid judicial; Search Snippet: ...University of Chicago Legal Forum 1995 Comment ELECTORAL DATA IN RACIAL-BLOC ANALYSIS: A SOLUTION FOR STALENESS AND SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES PROBLEMS... |
1995 |
| Erwin Chemerinsky |
Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Medical Care |
35 Santa Clara Law Review 519 (1995) |
What if 65% of the applicants for positions in a government office were African-American, but 80% of those hired were white? A black applicant certainly could bring a suit under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and force the employer to show that race was not a factor in the hiring decisions. What if the prosecutor used peremptory challenges... |
1995 |
| Lawrence J. Straw, Jr. |
Environmental Racism and Biased Methods of Risk Assessment |
14 Virginia Environmental Law Journal 665 (Summer 1995) |
The United States system of government is based on the premise that elected legislators are responsible for establishing societal policies, goals, and objectives. Statutes enacted after public debate determine which activities should be prohibited, which should be promoted, and what should or should not receive government protection. Executive... |
1995 |
| Michael Fisher |
Environmental Racism Reconsidered |
25 Environmental Law 285 (Spring, 1995) |
Longsimmering [sic] resentment in the minority and Native American communities about environmental fairness could soon be one of the most politically explosive environmental issues yet to emerge. -- anonymous Bush administration official in confidential 1992 memo I. Introduction: What Is Environmental Racism? . 286 A. Defining Environmental; Search Snippet: ...1995 WL 372945 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW Environmental Law Spring, 1995 ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM CLAIMS BROUGHT UNDER TITLE VI OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT... |
1995 |
| Albert W. Alschuler |
Equal Justice |
81-DEC ABA Journal 36 (December, 1995) |
What does it mean to have a jury of your peers? The Supreme Court held in the 1986 Batson decision that peremptory challenges cannot be used to exclude jurors on the basis of race. But some scholars would like to take that a step further and grant minority defendants a right to juries with minority representation. In an age where accusations of... |
1995 |