| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Tina Anne Syring |
Over-disciplining Students, Racial Bias, and the School-to-prison Pipeline |
14 Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy 97 (Fall, 1993) |
Restrictive codes . may be expedient, even grounded in conviction, but the university cannot submit the two cherished ideals of freedom and equality to the legal system and expect both to return intact. At Emory University a black freshman found her dormitory room vandalized when she discovered her teddy bear slashed, her clothes soaked with; Search Snippet: ...Policy Fall, 1993 Current Public Law and Policy Issues OVERCOMING RACISM ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES BY RESTRICTING SPEECH: IS THIS EFFECTIVE? Tina... |
1993 |
| Vednita Nelson |
Protection of Civil Rights: a Constitutional Mandate for the Federal Government |
1 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 81 (1993) |
Black women find themselves in a unique and extremely difficult position in our society. They are forced to deal with the oppression that arises from being Black in a white-supremacist culture and the oppression that arises from being female in a male-supremacist culture. In order to examine the experience of being Black and female, this paper; Search Snippet: ...1993 Symposium Issue Prostitution: From Academia to Activism PROSTITUTION: WHERE RACISM & SEXISM INTERSECT [FNd1] Vednita Nelson [FNa1] Copyright (c) 1994 by... |
1993 |
| Stephen Eisdorfer |
Pursuing Environmental Justice: Obstacles and Opportunities--lessons from the Field |
24 Seton Hall Law Review 937 (1993) |
The history of public education in America has been, almost from the beginning, the history of efforts to reform public education. This is both understandable and appropriate. Public education is the means through which we shape the American polity for the next generation. Debates about public education are debates about what the America of the... |
1993 |
| Michael H. Cardozo |
Racial Discrimination in Medicine Versus Race-based Medicine: the Ethical, Legal and Policy Implications on Health Disparities |
43 Journal of Legal Education 79 (March, 1993) |
The long road to the holding that racial discrimination in education is unconstitutional came to a dramatic end in 1954 with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education. Starting four years before that decision, law teachers in the member schools of the AALS had engaged in a protracted, agonizing debate on that very... |
1993 |
| Samuel L. Myers, Jr. |
Racial Disparities in Subprime Home Mortgage Lending in New York City: Meaning and Implications |
64 University of Colorado Law Review 781 (1993) |
I. Introduction Of the many functions of punishment in a demoncratic society, consider two extremes: punishment as a means of controlling crime, and punishment as a means of just deserts. The former is concerned with altering the behavior of individual criminals so as to achieve the desired social end of lower levels of criminal activity. As such,; Search Snippet: ...Review 1993 A Symposium on Sentencing Reform in the States RACIAL DISPARITIES IN SENTENCING: CAN SENTENCING REFORMS REDUCE DISCRIMINATION IN PUNISHMENT... |
1993 |
| Alfred Blumstein |
Racial Distinctions in Medicine |
64 University of Colorado Law Review 743 (1993) |
Introduction Over the past two decades, the growth in prison populations in the United States has been astonishing. The trend in prison populations over the fifty year period from the mid-1920s to the mid-1970s (shown in Figure 1) had been impressively stable. The nation's incarceration rate averaged about 110 per 100,000 population, with a; Search Snippet: ...Review 1993 A Symposium on Sentencing Reform in the States RACIAL DISPROPORTIONALITY OF U.S. PRISON POPULATIONS REVISITED Alfred Blumstein [FNa1] Copyright... |
1993 |
| Sheri Lynn Johnson |
Racial Images of the "Criminal": a Cognitive Disorder |
67 Tulane Law Review 1739 (June, 1993) |
I. The Prevalence and Perniciousness of Racial Imagery in Criminal Cases. 1743 A. The Source and Setting of Racial Imagery. 1743 1. Pretrial Publicity. 1744 2. Before the Evidence-Voir Dire and Opening Statements. 1745 3. Testimony. 1746 4. Closing Arguments and Jury Instructions. 1748 5. Deliberations. 1749 B. Specific Stereotypes and Fears. 1750; Search Snippet: ...Review June, 1993 Symposium: Criminal Law, Criminal Justice, and Race RACIAL IMAGERY IN CRIMINAL CASES Sheri Lynn Johnson [FNa] Copyright ©... |
1993 |
| Nancy J. King |
Racial Justice and Equity for African-american Males in the American Educational System: a Dream Forever Deferred |
68 New York University Law Review 707 (October, 1993) |
Racial and ethnic minorities continue to be substantially underrepresented on criminal juries. At all stages of jury selectionvenue choice, source list development, qualified list development, and jury panel and foreperson selectiontraditional methods of selection exclude a disproportionate number of minorities. In response, a growing number of; Search Snippet: ...UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW New York University Law Review October, 1993 RACIAL JURYMANDERING [FNa1] : CANCER OR CURE? A CONTEMPORARY REVIEW OF AFFIRMATIVE... |
1993 |
| Jane Patterson Auld |
Racial Migrations |
27 Family Law Quarterly 447 (Fall, 1993) |
Byron, an African-American boy, was born in a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania hospital, weighing five pounds, exposed to crack cocaine and heroin. Six days after his birth, Byron was placed with a foster family. Over the next five months, Byron gained fifteen pounds and prospered emotionally in the family's care. The foster family grew to love Byron and; Search Snippet: ...Fall, 1993 Special Symposium Issue on the Rights of Children RACIAL MATCHING vs. TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION: PROPOSING A COMPROMISE IN THE BEST... |
1993 |
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Racial Voice Identification: Judicially Condoning the Bogus Science of 'Hearing Color' |
106 Harvard Law Review 1926 (June, 1993) |
Violence is always an outgrowth of milder states of mind. - Gordon Allport, The Nature of Prejudice Although comprehensive national statistics are unavailable, government commissions and Asian American communities agree that Asian Americans are frequently victimized by violent crime. In analyzing these crimes, this Note examines the catalytic role... |
1993 |
| Dorothy E. Roberts |
Racism and Race Relations in the University |
1 American University Journal of Gender & the Law 1 (Spring, 1993) |
It is now commonplace for feminist scholars to acknowledge the differences among women. This is a critical observation that is transforming feminist thought. The racial critique of gender essentialism in feminist theory has inspired the ongoing reconstruction of a feminist jurisprudence that includes the historical, economic, and social diversity; Search Snippet: ...LAW American University Journal of Gender & the Law Spring, 1993 RACISM AND PATRIARCHY IN THE MEANING OF MOTHERHOOD Dorothy E. Roberts... |
1993 |
| V.A. Richelle |
Racism as Subjectification |
67 Tulane Law Review 2357 (June, 1993) |
I. Introduction. 2357 II. Elements of Appeal and Judicial Responses. 2358 A. Preserving the Error for Appeal. 2359 B. What Constitutes Racial Bias. 2362 C. Harmless-Error Analysis. 2367 III. Conclusion. 2369; Search Snippet: ...1993 Symposium: Criminal Law, Criminal Justice, and Race Student Commentary RACISM AS A STRATEGIC TOOL AT TRIAL: APPEALING RACE-BASED PROSECUTORIAL... |
1993 |
| Vernellia R. Randall |
Racist Health Care? |
3 Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine 127 (Spring, 1993) |
Racist and racism are provocative words in American society. To some, these words have reached the level of curse words in their offensiveness. Yet, racist and racism are descriptive words of a reality that cannot be denied. Ethnic-Americans live daily with the effects of both institutional and individual racism. Race issues are so; Search Snippet: ...LAW MEDICINE Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine Spring, 1993 RACIST HEALTH CARE: REFORMING AN UNJUST HEALTH CARE SYSTEM TO MEET... |
1993 |
| Brian Owsley |
Racist Speech and Lawyer Discipline |
24 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 323 (Summer, 1993) |
[I]f we view first amendment values as a system, so that a victory for free speech anywhere is a victory for free speech everywhere, then the same view applies to racism a victory for racism anywhere bolsters racism in society in general. J.M. Balkin I am not arguing against the first amendment; what I am insisting upon is some appreciation for; Search Snippet: ...RIGHTS LAW REVIEW Columbia Human Rights Law Review Summer, 1993 RACIST SPEECH AND REASONABLE PEOPLE: A PROPOSAL FOR A TORT REMEDY... |
1993 |
| Donald E. Lively |
Racist Speech on Campus |
1 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 1 (Spring, 1993) |
The nation's traditions and conscience have evolved among other things as sources of constitutional controversy and resolution. Discerning what is a core ideal or established premise of society is an exercise that is as vexing as it is disputed. Especially in a pluralistic society, a multitude of values and beliefs circulate, but few are... |
1993 |
| Malissia Lennox |
Regional Differences in Racial Polarization in the 2012 Presidential Election: Implications for the Constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act |
45 Stanford Law Review 687 (February, 1993) |
We are asking why you treat us this way. Is it because we are Negroes? Why are you letting us suffer this way, America? Don't you have a father's heart? Haven't you thought we were humans, that we had a heart to suffer with and a soul that could be wounded? Give us back our freedom. Why among all the nations that emigrate to the United States have... |
1993 |
| Frederick M. Lawrence |
Responding to Mccleskey and Batson: the North Carolina Racial Justice Act Confronts Racial Peremptory Challenges in Death Cases |
68 Notre Dame Law Review 673 (1993) |
Despise evil and ungodliness, but not men of ungodliness or evil. These, understand. Not since the Nazis threatened to march in Skokie, have we focused so much on the hate crimes/hate speech paradox. How is it possible to protect victims of bias-motivated violence while also protecting the right of the racist to express his beliefs? The paradox has; Search Snippet: ...HATE CRIMES/HATE SPEECH PARADOX: PUNISHING BIAS CRIMES AND PROTECTING RACIST SPEECH Frederick M. Lawrence [FNa1] Copyright (c) 1993 by the... |
1993 |
| David E. Bernstein |
Rough Terrain Ahead: a New Course for Racial Preference Programs |
43 American University Law Review 85 (Fall, 1993) |
[A] colored worker who is denied the protection and the benefits of organized labor because they will not take him in, has only one place of redress in case his right of employment is assailed, and that is in our courts. Harry E. Davis, Member, Ohio House of Representatives, 1928 [I]nstead of taking the part of the Negro and helping him toward; Search Snippet: ...THE DECLINE OF LAISSEZ-FAIRE JURISPRUDENCE AND THE RISE OF RACIST LABOR LEGISLATION David E. Bernstein [FNa1] Copyright (c) 1993 by... |
1993 |
| Laura A. Lazarus |
Statistical Analysis for the Second Circuit Task Force on Gender, Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts |
13 Bridgeport Law Review 1043 (Winter 1993) |
It is essential for our courts to be cognizant of how racial prejudice manifests itself in today's society; awareness of this problem is the only way to eradicate it. Individuals today infrequently voice their racism in a public forum. However, racist attitudes can be uncovered through a person's opinion on interracial marriage. Whites frequently; Search Snippet: ...1993 December, 1993 Comment STATE V. SMITH: THE PRESENCE OF RACISM IN VOIR DIRE Laura A. Lazarus Copyright (c) 1993 by... |
1993 |
| Patricia M. Egan |
Surviving Implicit Bias: Why the Appellate Court's Interpretation of the 2012 Amendment to the Racial Justice Act Will Be a Life or Death Decision for North Carolina Death Row Prisoners |
60 Defense Counsel Journal 264 (April, 1993) |
THE PEREMPTORY challenge, once considered a litigator's powerful tool in jury selection, has been scrutinized and severely limited by recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions extending the principles enunciated in the landmark case of Batson v. Kentucky, which prohibited prosecutors from using peremptory challenges to strike jurors solely because they... |
1993 |
| Lawrence Vogelman |
The Black/white Binary Paradigm of Race: the "Normal Science" of American Racial Thought |
20 Fordham Urban Law Journal 571 (Spring, 1993) |
Nearly everyone had a reaction to the verdict in the Rodney King Case some ignored the trial and concentrated on the riots in Los Angeles; others, with broad strokes, dismissed the population of Ventura County, California, as obviously stupid, blind and racist; others maintained it was just another example of the criminal justice system's; Search Snippet: ...MAN SYNDROME: THE RODNEY KING TRIAL AND THE USE OF RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN THE COURTROOM Lawrence Vogelman [FNa1] Copyright (c) 1993... |
1993 |
| Elizabeth Roth |
The Codification of Racism: Blacks, Criminal Sentencing, and the Legacy of Slavery in Georgia |
19 Law Practice Management 26 (September, 1993) |
When we are trying to interpret legislation, we lawyers often talk about the intent of drafters. Once in a great while, it is clear what such intent was. One February day 29 years ago, certain southern members of the U.S. House of Representatives had a jocular debate about sex. Hoping to defeat the Civil Rights Act of 1964, they decided, as a joke,... |
1993 |
| Robert J. Hunter , Paige Heather Ralph , James Marquart |
The Debate over Regulation of Racist Speech: R.a.v. V. City of St. Paul |
20 American Journal of Criminal Law 313 (Spring, 1993) |
C1-3Table of Contents I. 314 II. Introduction. 315 III. Rape and Punishment in the Pre-Furman Era. 316 A. Research Through 1973. 316 B. Recent Examinations of Prior Data. 318 IV. Methodology. 319 A. Death Row Data. 320 B. Comparison Group Data (term-sentenced). 321 V. Analysis of Data. 322 VI. Findings. 323 A. Rapists: Offender's Race,; Search Snippet: ...SENTENCING OF RAPISTS IN PRE-FURMAN TEXAS (1942-1971): THE RACIAL DIMENSION Robert J. Hunter [FNa1] Paige Heather Ralph [FNaa1] James... |
1993 |
| Shannon L. Taylor |
The Defendant's Challenge to a Racial Criterion in Jury Selection: a Study in Standing, Due Process and Equal Protection |
41 University of Kansas Law Review 137 (1993) |
Recently, racial tensions have again been brought to the forefront of our nation's consciousness. The violence unleashed in the wake of the first Rodney King verdict has given the public a new sense of fear and appreciation for the damaging effects wrought on this country by the ills of bigotry and discrimination. In addition, these events have; Search Snippet: ...1993 Criminal Procedure Edition Note THE DEBATE OVER REGULATION OF RACIST SPEECH: R.A.V. v. CITY OF ST. PAUL [FNa1] Shannon L... |
1993 |
| Emily Prescott |
The Geography of Racial Stereotyping: Evidence and Implications for Vra Preclearance after Shelby County |
20 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 877 (Summer, 1993) |
When Congress passed the 1991 Civil Rights Act, its intent was to overturn seven recent Supreme Court civil rights cases. In addition, the Act contained a provision specifically prohibiting one type of conductrace norming. Race norming is the practice of adjusting minority employment test scores so that a minority test-taker's score is based on a... |
1993 |
| Athornia Steele |
The Myth of Black Juror Nullification: Racism Dressed up in Jurisprudential Clothing |
22 Capital University Law Review 589 (Summer, 1993) |
Therefore Justice is far from us, And righteousness does not reach us; We wait for light, and Lo! there is darkness; And for brightness, but we walk in gloom. We grope like the blind along a wall, Groping like those who have no eyes; We stumble at noon as in the twilight, Among the vigorous as we were dead. We all growl like bears; Like doves we... |
1993 |
| Xavier Carlos Vasquez |
The North Carolina Racial Justice Act: an Essay on Substantive and Procedural Fairness in Death Penalty Litigation |
34 Harvard International Law Journal 357 (Spring, 1993) |
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) promises to create the world's largest free market. As NAFTA integrates the economic sectors of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, it will also create a foundation for the integration of the three states' environmental policies. There has been, however, considerable concern that NAFTA's provisions... |
1993 |
| David Robert Baron |
The Racism Is Permanent Thesis: Courageous Revelation or Unconscious Denial of Racial Genocide |
13 Boston College Third World Law Journal 1 (Winter, 1993) |
I. Introduction II. Racially Disparate Impact of Abortion Funding Restrictions: The Factual Case A. Qualifying for Public Funding B. Paying for an Abortion Out-of-Pocket C. Paying for an Illegal Abortion D. Carrying an Unwanted Pregnancy to Term III. Equal Protection In The Abortion Context: Government's Non-Obligation to Provide Abortion Services; Search Snippet: ...JOURNAL Boston College Third World Law Journal Winter, 1993 THE RACIALLY DISPARATE IMPACT OF RESTRICTIONS ON THE PUBLIC FUNDING OF ABORTION... |
1993 |
| Derrick Bell |
The Racist Algorithm? |
22 Capital University Law Review 571 (Summer, 1993) |
For the last four months since the publication of my new book of allegorical stories, Faces at the Bottom of the Well, I have been defending the book's major message contained in its sub-title: The Permanence of Racism. In this article, I want to offer a summary of my arguments for the proposition that American racism is not, as Gunnar Myrdal; Search Snippet: ...LAW REVIEW Capital University Law Review Summer, 1993 Essay THE RACISM IS PERMANENT THESIS: COURAGEOUS REVELATION OR UNCONSCIOUS DENIAL OF RACIAL GENOCIDE Derrick Bell [FNa1] Copyright (c) 1993 by Derrick Bell... |
1993 |
| Chandler Davidson |
The Washington Lawyers' Committee's Fifty-year Battle for Racial Equality in Places of Public Accommodation |
13 Chicano-Latino Law Review 1 (Summer 1993) |
During the last few decades, the United States has witnessed a remarkable transformation of the voting rights of citizens who are members of racial and ethnic minority groups. The dimensions of the transformation are only now beginning to emerge, thanks in part to a recent surge of scholarly interest in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The present; Search Snippet: ...1993 Introduction THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT: PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF RACIAL AND LANGUAGE MINORITIES IN THE ELECTORAL PROCESS Chandler Davidson [Fnd... |
1993 |
| Daniel D. Polsby , Robert D. Popper |
Ulysses S. Grant and the Lost Opportunity for Racial Justice: Grant. By Ron Chernow. New York: Penguin Press. 2017. Pp. Xvii + 1074. $40.00 |
92 Michigan Law Review 652 (December, 1993) |
If you have to ask, you can't afford it. Attributed to J.P. Morgan How ugly is too ugly? Shaw v. Reno examines that important question in the course of rejecting North Carolina's 1990 effort to comply with the preclearance provisions in section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). But the problem presented is a general one that is apt to arise; Search Snippet: ...Shaw v. Reno UGLY: AN INQUIRY INTO THE PROBLEM OF RACIAL GERRYMANDERING UNDER THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT Daniel D. Polsby [FNa1... |
1993 |
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Under the Shadow of Weimar: Democracy, Law, and Racial Incitement in Six Countries. Edited by Louis Greenspan & Cyril Levitt. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 1993. Pp. Viii, 248. $55.00. |
17 Maryland Journal of International Law and Trade 267 (FALL 1993) |
In this era of escalating racial tensions worldwide, a comparison of the approaches taken by the world's leading democracies to curb racial violence has timely appeal. In Under the Shadow of Weimar: Democracy, Law and Racial Incitement , editors Louis Greenspan and Cyril Levitt have compiled a series of illuminating essays that provide glimpses; Search Snippet: ...FALL 1993 UNDER THE SHADOW OF WEIMAR: DEMOCRACY, LAW, AND RACIAL INCITEMENT IN SIX COUNTRIES EDITED BY LOUIS GREENSPAN AND CYRIL... |
1993 |
| Audrey Wright |
Unequal Racial Access to Kidney Transplantation |
39 Wayne Law Review 1725 (Summer, 1993) |
In recent years, numerous reports and studies have concluded that racial minorities are disproportionately affected by the nation's environmental hazards. According to one recent study, three out of five African-Americans and Latinos live in communities with one or more hazardous waste sites. Other studies have revealed that it takes twenty percent; Search Snippet: ...PROTECTION UNDER THE ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS: REVIEWING THE EVIDENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM AND THE INEQUITIES OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION Audrey Wright Copyright ©... |
1993 |
| Ian Ayres , Laura G. Dooley , Robert S. Gaston |
Unexpected Racial Assertions: a Counter-reply to David Horowitz |
46 Vanderbilt Law Review 805 (May, 1993) |
I. Introduction. 806 II. Antigen Matching. 813 A. The UNOS Policies for Mandated Sharing of Well-Matched Kidneys. 813 1. An Introduction to Antigen Compatibility. 815 2. Mandatory National Sharing of Six-Antigen-Matched Kidneys. 817 3. The Mandatory Local Point System. 818 B. The Costs of Matching: Disparate Access to Cadaveric Kidneys. 820 C. The; Search Snippet: ...243674 VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW Vanderbilt Law Review May, 1993 UNEQUAL RACIAL ACCESS TO KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION Ian Ayres [FNa] Laura G. Dooley... |
1993 |
| S.J. Meltzer |
United States V. Hatahley: a Legal Archaeology Case Study in Law and Racial Conflict |
67 Tulane Law Review 1700 (May, 1993) |
Defendants Sean Tarrant, Christopher Greer, Jon Jordan, Daniel Wood, and Michael Lawrence were members of the Confederate Hammerskins, an organization that advocated white supremacy, forced separation of the races, and anti-Semitism. On September 28, 1989, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, a federal grand jury; Search Snippet: ...May, 1993 Recent Development UNITED STATES v. GREER: IS A RACIAL INQUIRY NECESSARY FOR AN ADEQUATE VOIR DIRE? S.J. Meltzer Copyright... |
1993 |
| Jerome McCristal Culp, Jr. |
Weaponized Racial Fear |
26 Connecticut Law Review 209 (Fall, 1993) |
Clarence Thomas, second African-American appointed to the United States Supreme Court, to a largely white audience at Mercer Law School: When I left Georgia over 25 years ago, the familiar sources of unkind treatment and incivility were the bigots. Today, ironically, a new brand of stereotypes and ad hominem assaults are surfacing across the; Search Snippet: ...Commentary WATER BUFFALO AND DIVERSITY: NAMING NAMES AND RECLAIMING THE RACIAL DISCOURSE Jerome McCristal Culp, Jr. [FNa1] Copyright (c) 1993 by... |
1993 |
| Wilma Williams Pinder |
Where Do Mixed Babies Belong? Racial Classification in America and its Implications for TransRacial Adoption |
20 Pepperdine Law Review 1053 (1993) |
Racism remains the most debilitating virus in the American system and the consequences spill over into almost every facet of life. Lawyers are often analogized to knights because of the many characteristics they share. Both groups of warriors dedicate themselves to causes for which they fight. Skill and courage are essential characteristics in; Search Snippet: ...WHEN WILL BLACK WOMEN LAWYERS SLAY THE TWO-HEADED DRAGON; RACISM AND GENDER BIAS? Wilma Williams Pinder [FNa] Copyright (c) 1993... |
1993 |
| Willie Abrams |
A Report of the Perceptions and Experiences of Lawyers, Judges, and Court Employees Concerning Gender, Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Federal Courts of the Second Circuit of the United States |
24 Connecticut Law Review 517 (Winter, 1992) |
PROFESSOR Derrick Bell's Racial Realism is a weary despair about the efficacy of traditional civil rights litigation, legislative advocacy, and politics as strategies in the struggle for freedom, justice, and dignity for black Americans. Since its formation in 1909, the principal goal of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Winter, 1992 Commentary A REPLY TO DERRICK BELL'S RACIAL REALISM Willie Abrams [FNa] Copyright (c) 1992 by the Connecticut... |
1992 |
| Amy B. Bloom |
A. Section 1981 and Termination of Contracts Due to Racial Discrimination: Gersman V. Group Health Ass'n. |
26 Suffolk University Law Review 850 (Fall, 1992) |
The Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal treatment to all citizens permits only those racial classifications that withstand strict scrutiny analysis. In Stuart v. Roache, the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit considered whether a consent decree that favored minority police officers for promotions solely because of their race remained... |
1992 |
| Michael J. Cayer |
Aba Judicial Ratings Draw Fire |
33 Boston College Law Review 428 (March, 1992) |
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 guarantees certain enumerated rights to all people within the jurisdiction of the United States. First among these is the same right . . . to make and enforce contracts . . . as is enjoyed by white citizens. Thus, this provision, codified at 42 U.S.C. § 1981, prohibits discriminatory conduct in contract affairs; Search Snippet: ...A. [FNa1] SECTION 1981 AND TERMINATION OF CONTRACTS DUE TO RACIAL DISCRIMINATION: GERSMAN v. GROUP HEALTH ASS'N. [FN1] Michael J. Cayer... |
1992 |
| Naikang Tsao |
American Bar Association Policy 104d: Cross-Racial Identification |
67 New York University Law Review 366 (May, 1992) |
One striking feature of our nation's landscape is the prevalence of toxic waste dumps in areas where racial minorities and the poor live. According to a 1987 study, more than 15 million of the nation's 26 million blacks, and over 8 million of the 15 million Hispanics, live in communities with one or more uncontrolled toxic waste sites. In addition,; Search Snippet: ...New York University Law Review May, 1992 Note AMELIORATING ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM: A CITIZENS' GUIDE TO COMBATTING THE DISCRIMINATORY SITING OF TOXIC... |
1992 |
| Elizabeth L. Earle |
Banking, Finance, and Community Economic Empowerment: Structural Economic Theory, Procedural Civil Rights, and Substantive Racial Justice |
92 Columbia Law Review 1212 (June, 1992) |
With their client's execution imminent, defense lawyers for James Russell worked feverishly on briefs for submission to the Texas courts, to the lower federal courts, and ultimately to the United States Supreme Court. They alleged, inter alia, that the county prosecutor in Russell's capital murder trial had injected the issue of race into the... |
1992 |
| Linda S. Greene |
Civil Rights in Crisis: the Racial Impact of the Denial of the Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel |
24 Connecticut Law Review 499 (Winter, 1992) |
ONCE again Derrick Bell takes up the task of the prophet and warns us of the dangers that lie along our current civil rights path. He suggests that it is both naive and unproductive for blacks to ignore the role of law and courts as instruments for preserving the status quo. For Bell, judicial events such as Regents of the University of; Search Snippet: ...RIGHTS AT THE MILLENNIUMA RESPONSE TO BELL'S CALL FOR RACIAL REALISM Linda S. Greene [FNa] Copyright (c) 1992 by the... |
1992 |
| Amy E. Haddad |
Constitutional Law-hernandez V. New York: Did the Supreme Court Intend to Overrule Batson's Standard of "Racially Neutral"? |
60 Tennessee Law Review 229 (Fall, 1992) |
Thomas McCollum, William Joseph McCollum, and Ella Hampton McCollum were charged with the aggravated assault and simple battery of two black persons, Jerry and Myra Collins. The McCollums, respondents in this action, are white. Prior to the selection of the jury, the prosecution, petitioner here, moved that respondents be prohibited from exercising... |
1992 |
| Christopher Steskal |
Creation of Majority-minority Districts: a Step Toward Voting Equality or Racial Segregation? |
27 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 187 (Winter, 1992) |
On September 3, 1991, the City of Milwaukee opened its highly publicized African-American Immersion School, a coeducational elementary school that focuses primarily upon the needs of African-American males. The Detroit Board of Education authorized the creation of the Male Academy on February 26, 1991. The schools opened in coeducational form on; Search Snippet: ...Civil Liberties Law Review Winter, 1992 Note CREATING SPACE FOR RACIAL DIFFERENCE: THE CASE FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN SCHOOLS Christopher Steskal Copyright... |
1992 |
| Alex M. Johnson, Jr. |
Defining Racial Profiling in a Post-september 11 World |
1992 University of Illinois Law Review 1043 (1992) |
In this article I take the controversial position that the implementation of mandatory quotas or strict numerical goals in the admission process for colleges and professional schools is a necessary remedial tool given the invidious nature of discrimination and the manipulation of the concept of merit in our society to maintain the favored; Search Snippet: ...Scholarship DEFENDING THE USE OF QUOTAS IN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: ATTACKING RACISM IN THE NINETIES Alex M. Johnson, Jr. [FNa1] Copyright ©... |
1992 |
| Richard Delgado |
Derrick Bell's Radical Realism |
24 Connecticut Law Review 527 (Winter, 1992) |
DERRICK Bell's Racial Realism is likely to be met with a predictable responsefrom his readers of majority race, at any rate. Why such a somber message, some will ask? Yes, yes, we know the Supreme Court has been handing down a series of unfriendly decisions, but has not the Congress reversed most of them? And do not some statistics, at least,; Search Snippet: ...LAW REVIEW Connecticut Law Review Winter, 1992 Commentary DERRICK BELL'S RACIAL REALISM: A COMMENT ON WHITE OPTIMISM AND BLACK DESPAIR Richard... |
1992 |
| Tracy E. Higgins |
Derrick Bell's Re-sounding: W. E. B. du Bois, Modernism, and Critical Race Scholarship |
61 Fordham Law Review 683 (December, 1992) |
Black people will never gain full equality in this country. Even those herculean efforts we hail as successful will produce no more than temporary peaks of progress, short-lived victories that slide into irrelevance as racial patterns adapt in ways that maintain white dominance. This is a hard-to-accept fact that all history verifies. Professor; Search Snippet: ...FACES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WELL: THE PERMANENCE OF RACISM. BY DERRICK BELL. BASIC BOOKS: NEW YORK, 1992. PP. 222... |
1992 |
| Paul Finkelman |
Gay Rights, Religious Liberty, and the Misleading Racism Analogy |
78 Iowa Law Review 89 (October, 1992) |
This is the Court of Chancery; . Suffer any wrong that can be done you, rather than come here! The legal community accepts, almost without question, that justice delayed is justice denied. Certainly that is true for most cases. Without her day in court a civil plaintiff cannot win deserved damages. Until a trial brings out the truth of the... |
1992 |
| Tara S. Taggart |
Iii. Racial Discrimination on the Beat: Extending the Racial Critique to Police Conduct |
44 South Carolina Law Review 25 (Autumn, 1992) |
In State v. Grandy the South Carolina Supreme Court held that under Batson v. Kentucky, a prosecutor's unexplained desire to seat a different venireperson on a petit jury does not justify exercising a peremptory strike upon a black venireperson. Although the court's analysis was minimal, the Grandy opinion further defines the current contours of; Search Snippet: ...Constitutional Law III.PROSECUTOR MUST MEET HEIGHTENED BURDEN IN DEMONSTRATING RACIALLY NEUTRAL EXPLANATION FOR USE OF PEREMPTORY STRIKES Tara S. Taggart... |
1992 |