| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Jack Jones |
DEFENDING RACE-CONSCIOUS POLICY: NEW YORK STATE'S CRITERIA FOR IDENTIFYING DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES |
49 Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 425 (2024) |
Beginning in the 1980s, a coalition of community groups, activists, and non-profits loosely referred to as the environmental justice movement campaigned to draw awareness to the disproportionate distribution of environmental burdens to low-income communities of color. These burdens cause severely negative health impacts, reduce property values... |
2024 |
| Cassandra Jones Havard |
DIGITAL FOOTPRINTS: TECHNOLOGY, RACE, AND JUSTICE |
45 Cardozo Law Review 1177 (April, 2024) |
Data aggregation is ubiquitous. To widen credit access, lenders now use nonconventional sources of personal technological information to measure borrower creditworthiness. Alternative data credit scoring is touted as a useful solution for borrowers with little or no credit history or thin credit files. The supposedly neutral algorithm provides a... |
2024 |
| Benjamin A. Barsky , Craig Konnoth , Michael Ashley Stein |
DISABILITY, RACE, AND HEALTH BEYOND THE CARCERAL STATE |
122 Michigan Law Review 1261 (April, 2024) |
Embodied Injustice: Race, Disability, and Health. By Mary Crossley. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. 2022. Pp. xi, 246. $34.99. In Embodied Injustice: Race, Disability, and Health (Embodied Injustice), Professor Mary Crossley argues that attending to race-and-disability intersections (at both individual and social movement... |
2024 |
| Tania N. Valdez |
DISABILITY, RACE, AND IMMIGRATION: THE INTERSECTIONAL IMPACT OF POLICING |
65 Boston College Law Review 1981 (June, 2024) |
Introduction. 1983 I. Background. 1989 A. Key Definitions. 1989 B. The Current Mental Health Care Crisis. 1992 C. Mental Illness & Policing. 1996 1. Roots of Police Violence. 1996 2. Case Studies. 1999 3. An Introduction to Intersectionality's Effect on Policing Outcomes. 2002 II. An Overlooked Intersecting Issue: How Noncitizens with Disabilities... |
2024 |
| Matthew Poliakoff |
DISENTANGLING RACE AND POLITICS: RACIAL GERRYMANDERING IN SOUTH CAROLINA'S FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT |
19 Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy Sidebar 56 (4/4/2024) |
In November 2018, South Carolina's First Congressional District (CD-1) elected a Democratic representative for the first time since 1980 in a major political upset. The district then became a significant target of the National Republican Congressional Committee's campaigning efforts to reclaim seats lost in 2018. In 2020, the Republican... |
2024 |
| Diann Rust-Tierney |
DISMANTLING STRUCTURAL RACISM TO END CAPITAL PUNISHMENT |
67 Howard Law Journal 275 (Spring, 2024) |
History, as nearly no one seems to know, is not merely something to be read. And it does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do. James Baldwin... |
2024 |
| Evan Kuluk |
DISPARATE RACIAL IMPACT OF DISCRETIONARY PROSECUTORIAL CHARGING DECISIONS IN GANG-RELATED MURDER CASES: LITIGATING THE RACIAL JUSTICE ACT IN PEOPLE v. WINDOM |
29 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 71 (2024) |
Introduction. 71 I. Using Data To Establish a California Racial Justice Act Violation. 73 II. Expert Testimony and the Odds Ratio Prove a Racial Disparity is Statistically Significant. 75 III. Prosecutorial Discretion in Charging Increases the Likelihood of CRJA Violations Due to Implicit Bias. 78 Conclusion. 80 |
2024 |
| Kevin Brown , Sukhadeo Thorat |
DISTINGUISHING THE CASTE--RACE DEBATE IN THE UNITED STATES FROM SOUTH ASIA |
66 Arizona Law Review 915 (Winter 2024) |
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were more than 6.5 million people of South Asian descent in the United States in 2022. Like all immigrants, they do not journey solely as biological entities but bring their socio-cultural understandings as well. Among those understandings are the ones associated with the caste system. Historically, those... |
2024 |
| Thomas W. Simon |
DOES BLACK LEGAL THEORY MATTER? CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND A REVIVED RADICALISM |
18 Southern Journal of Policy and Justice 137 (May, 2024) |
C1-2Contents A. Introduction. 139 B. Alternative Histories. 141 C. Theory. 156 D. Methods. 160 E. Liberal Diversions. 168 F. Intersectionality. 195 G. Radical CRT. 209 H. Conclusion. 212 |
2024 |
| Chaz Arnett |
DYSTOPIAN DREAMS, UTOPIAN NIGHTMARES: AI AND THE PERMANENCE OF RACISM |
112 Georgetown Law Journal 1299 (June, 2024) |
This Essay draws connections between Octavia Butler's Parable series (Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents), HBO's Westworld, and Derrick Bell's Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism to highlight how the reconfiguration and transmutation of race through technological change is facilitated by corresponding shifts in... |
2024 |
| Roxana Rosas Fregoso |
EL REPUDIO Y LA AVERSIÓN A LO ÉTNICO, CONFRONTANDO A LA DISCRIMINACIÓN RACIAL EN MÉXICO |
39 American University International Law Review 449 (2024) |
IDEAS PRELIMINARES. 450 I. RELACIÓN EPISTÉMICA ENTRE LO ÉTNICO, LO RACIAL Y LA IGUALDAD Y NO DISCRIMINACIÓN. 451 II. UNA APROXIMACIÓN A LA DISCRIMINACIÓN COMO CONCEPTO JURÍDICO. 463 III. TIPOS DE DISCRIMINACIÓN, ANÁLISIS DE LAS CATEGORÍAS JURÍDICAS RELEVANTES EN RELACIÓN CON LA DISCRIMINACIÓN RACIAL. 467 A. Discriminación directa e indirecta. 467... |
2024 |
| Jarienn A. James |
ELIMINATING RACIAL ASSAULT OF BLACK BODIES IN LAW SCHOOL THROUGH CRT BASED PROFESSIONALISM |
72 UCLA Law Review Discourse 150 (2024) |
The failure of the legal academy to create professional law school environments embracing the tenets of Critical Race Theory (CRT) sustains racial assault on Black Bodies. Embracing the tenets of CRT can help to improve law school environments, because CRT examines systemic racism and causes individuals to rethink policies and procedures with an... |
2024 |
| Patience A. Crowder , Tom I. Romero, II |
EMBEDDING RACIAL JUSTICE IN THE WORK OF ENVIRONMENTAL NON-PROFITS |
22 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 803 (Spring, 2024) |
A shift is occurring as social justice activists are leveraging the climate emergency to address social justice and climate activists are leveraging Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and other social justice movements to motivate climate action. -Jennie Stevens In response to the national and worldwide protests against racial violence and the health... |
2024 |
| Emi MacLean |
EMBRACING "TOO MUCH JUSTICE": REALIZING THE POTENTIAL OF THE CALIFORNIA RACIAL JUSTICE ACT |
29 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 89 (2024) |
Introduction. 89 I. Early Legal Victories. 91 II. Unique Challenges of Disparity-Based Claims Under the RJA. 94 III. Importance of Prosecutorial Transparency for the Implementation of the Racial Justice Act. 95 IV. Bridging the Chasm Between Defense Practitioners and Data Analysts. 99 Conclusion: The Tremendous Potential of the Law, Beginning to Be... |
2024 |
| Amanda Agan, Sonja Starr |
EMPLOYERS' NEIGHBORHOODS AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION |
53 Journal of Legal Studies 115 (January, 2024) |
Using a field experiment, we show that the racial composition of employers' neighborhoods predicts discrimination patterns in a direction suggesting in-group bias. Second, building on prior work on ban-the-box laws, we show that employers in less-Black neighborhoods appear much likelier to stereotype Black applicants as potentially criminal when... |
2024 |
| GianCarlo Canaparo , Jameson Payne |
EQUAL PROTECTION AND RACIAL CATEGORIES |
34 George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal 225 (Spring, 2024) |
A touchstone of justice is the principle that like things must be treated alike, and different things differently. A thread of universal agreement on this point runs from Aristotle to the jurists, moralists and philosophers of our own day. This principle is enshrined in the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause (as interpreted ), which... |
2024 |
| Michael Z. Green |
EXPANDING THE BAN ON FORCED ARBITRATION TO RACE CLAIMS |
72 University of Kansas Law Review 455 (March, 2024) |
When Congress passed the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act (EFASASHA) in March 2022, it signaled a major retreat from the Supreme Court's broad enforcement of agreements to force employees and consumers to arbitrate discrimination claims. But the failure to cover protected discriminatory classes other than sex,... |
2024 |
| J. Benton Heath |
FETCH THE BOLT CUTTERS: REFLECTIONS ON RACIAL CAPITALISM AND THE NAFTA/USMCA |
49 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 449 (2024) |
Thank you for this opportunity to speak on the subject of race and trade in the US--Mexico--Canada Agreement (USMCA). I mean for this presentation to be an introduction to many of the issues that are on my mind as a scholar of investment and trade. It is also an introduction to the work of many others who have thought deeply about the relationships... |
2024 |
| James Thuo Gathii |
FINANCING CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH A RACIAL CAPITALISM LENS |
41 Wisconsin International Law Journal 521 (Summer, 2024) |
In this Essay, I argue that the climate crisis has provided the global finance industry an opportunity to make exorbitant profits from majority Black and Brown countries in the Global South. I show how the global finance industry is leveraging its muscle over climate-vulnerable and heavily indebted countries in the Global South through complex... |
2024 |
| Lindsey Webb |
FROM A RPL IN THE CLASSROOM TO A WAVE IN THE WORLD: COURSEWORK FOCUSED ON RACE, PLACE & LAW |
101 Denver Law Review 477 (Spring, 2024) |
In the ten years since a collection of faculty and staff members at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law (Sturm) founded the Rocky Mountain Collective on Race, Place & Law (RPL), the world has been repeatedly thrown into chaos. We have witnessed the beginning of marriage equality and the end of Roe v. Wade; white supremacist marches and... |
2024 |
| Lex Kirkwood |
FROM DEATH ROW TO FREEDOM: THE STRUGGLE FOR RACIAL JUSTICE IN THE PITTS-LEE CASE BY PHILLIP A. HUBBART |
98-APR Florida Bar Journal 50 (March/April, 2024) |
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s declaration--that the arc of the moral universe is long, but that it bends toward justice--comes to mind when reading Judge Phillip A. Hubbart's opus From Death Row to Freedom: The Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts-Lee Case. In this case, the arc was both excruciatingly long for two wrongly accused and convicted... |
2024 |
| Cathy L. Purvis Lively |
FROM DEATH ROW TO FREEDOM: THE STRUGGLE FOR RACIAL JUSTICE IN THE PITTS-LEE CASE, BY PHILIP A. HUBBART |
98-OCT Florida Bar Journal 59 (September/October, 202) |
From Death Row to Freedom: The Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts-Lee Case is a must-read! Phillip A. Hubbart masterfully explains a complicated legal system in plain language as he tells the chilling story of his journey to justice on behalf of Freddie Pitts and Wilbert Lee, two Black men wrongfully convicted of murdering two white victims.... |
2024 |
| Samuel Moyn |
FROM ONE PARADIGM TO ANOTHER: THE JEWISH HISTORY OF RACE AND RELIGION IN INTERNATIONAL LAW |
118 AJIL Unbound 114 (2024) |
Rabiat Akande's article, An Imperial History of Race-Religion in International Law, draws attention to the gap in frameworks of protection from religious discrimination, on the compelling rationale that much contemporary discrimination continues to work through racialization. And she provides a genealogy to show that this gap is not there by... |
2024 |
| Katherine Steefel |
FROM WHITEBOARD TO STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLECTIVE ON RACE, PLACE & LAW'S PRINCIPLES |
101 Denver Law Review 455 (Spring, 2024) |
Several weeks into my first fall semester as a faculty member at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law (Sturm), I received an email from Professor Rashmi Goel. The email, addressed to new faculty members, introduced the Rocky Mountain Collective on Race, Place & Law (RPL) and invited us to participate in the group. The barrier to entry was... |
2024 |
| David McKnight |
HALFWAY HOME: RACE, PUNISHMENT, AND THE AFTERLIFE OF MASS INCARCERATION BY REUBEN JONATHAN MILLER, BACK BAY BOOKS (2022) |
48-JUL Champion 57 (July, 2024) |
The word justice suggests some harm repaired or some truth revealed . [but] it is clear to anyone paying attention that the legal system does not administer anything resembling justice but instead manages the nation's problemed population. Thus opens the book Halfway Home, announcing its basic premise. Omitted from this quote and peppered... |
2024 |
| Gabriela Dionisio |
HENDERSON AND THE OBJECTIVE OBSERVER STANDARD: THE FUTURE OF RACE-CONSCIOUS STANDARDS POST-STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS |
48 Seattle University Law Review 255 (Fall, 2024) |
[The Supreme Court majority] upend the status quo based on their policy preferences about what race in America should be like, but is not, and their preferences for a veneer of colorblindness in a society where race has always mattered and continues to matter in fact and in law. --Justice Sotomayor C1-2Contents Introduction. 256 I. History and... |
2024 |
| Aziza Ahmed |
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT: REDEFINING THE FIELD OF NATIONAL SECURITY, RACE AND NATIONAL SECURITY. EDITED BY MATIANGAI SIRLEAF. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2023 |
15 Harvard National Security Journal 371 (2024) |
Throughout his campaign for presidency, Trump called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States. As President, he kept his word. Only days after he took office, the new administration released the first version of the Executive Order: Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States. The first Executive Order, however,... |
2024 |
| Emma McMillan |
HOW EXISTING PATENT REGULATIONS ENCOURAGE COMPETITION IN THE "SUPER SHOE" RACE |
2024 Boston College Intellectual Property & Technology Forum 1 (5/15/2024) |
Abstract: Since Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile barrier in the mid-1950s, the American public has become increasingly obsessed with achieving the impossible. In 2016, the U.S. Patent Office approved Nike's ground-breaking and controversial patent on its first of many super shoes, the Vaporfly, a shoe utilizing a new lightweight foam... |
2024 |
| The Hon. Marcia L. Silva (Ret.), Silva & Stahl, LLC |
HOW TO BECOME AN ANTI-RACIST LAWYER |
351-DEC New Jersey Lawyer, the Magazine 10 (December, 2024) |
Racial justice and racial equity lawyering are important concepts nationally and especially in New Jersey. The New Jersey State Bar Association has taken concerted efforts on improving diversity, equity and inclusion through committees, education and trainings statewide. As a diversity committee member of the NJSBA, I am often asked how to apply... |
2024 |
| Randall K. Johnson |
HOW TO LIMIT THE DOWNSTREAM COSTS OF RACIALLY RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS |
72 University of Kansas Law Review 587 (May, 2024) |
This article, which is part of the University of Kansas Law Review Symposium on the seventy-fifth anniversary of Shelley v. Kraemer, is the first to explain how a current successor in interest to a racially restrictive covenant may limit more of their own downstream costs through the use of self-help options. Downstream costs are any expenses that... |
2024 |
| Christina Scott , Amanda Cole |
IMAGINATION, HOPE, AND JOY: BUILDING RESILIENCE THROUGH TRAUMA-INFORMED TEACHING AND SELF-CARE IN ANTI-RACIST CLINICS |
52 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 271 (Summer, 2024) |
Keywords: Teaching, Anti-Racism, Self-Care, Trauma-Informed Teaching, Law Abstract: Teaching students to build resilience is necessary to keep imagining and fighting for a path towards social justice. To do so, clinicians can draw from the communities facing oppression and examine how they remain resilient despite oppression. Norrinda Brown Hayat... |
2024 |
| Jack Glaser |
IMPLICIT BIAS, SCIENCE, AND THE RACIAL JUSTICE ACT |
29 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 17 (2024) |
Introduction. 17 I. Implicit Bias is Real.. 18 II. Implicit Bias Measures Are Not Clinically Diagnostic Tools.. 19 III. Implicit Bias and the Racial Justice Act. 21 IV. A Note on Statistical Significance. 25 Conclusion. 26 |
2024 |
| Alex H. Serrurier |
INDIGENEITY IN THE CLASSROOM: AVENUES FOR NATIVE AMERICAN STUDENTS TO CHALLENGE ANTI-CRITICAL RACE THEORY LAWS |
57 Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 543 (2024) |
Native American students in public schools face barriers to educational achievement due to racism, prejudice, and ignorance from fellow students, teachers, and administrators. Native students have endured various forms of discrimination that range from forcible cutting of braids by peers to administrative bans on traditional regalia at graduation... |
2024 |
| Jordana R. Goodman , Paul R. Gugliuzza , Rachel Rebouché |
INEQUALITY ON APPEAL: THE INTERSECTION OF RACE AND GENDER IN PATENT LITIGATION |
58 U.C. Davis Law Review 829 (December, 2024) |
Today, roughly 40% of U.S. lawyers are women, 15% are people of color, and 8% are women of color. Yet people of color, and women of all racial identities, rarely climb to the most elite levels of law practice. This Article, based on a first-of-its-kind, hand-coded dataset of the gender and perceived race of thousands of lawyers and case outcomes,... |
2024 |
| Lev E. Breydo |
INEQUITABLE INFRASTRUCTURE: AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT OF FEDERALISM, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM |
102 North Carolina Law Review 1035 (May, 2024) |
This Article explains a critical, yet unexplored issue: How are some communities like Jackson--the 80% Black capital of Mississippi--often left without water or electricity, while their mostly white neighbors are not? The Article maps uncharted territory by interrogating the underlying causes of this disparity, untangling how three seemingly... |
2024 |
| Danielle M. Conway |
INSTITUTIONAL ANTIRACISM AND CRITICAL PEDAGOGY: A QUANTUM LEAP FORWARD FOR LEGAL EDUCATION AND THE LEGAL ACADEMY |
75 Alabama Law Review 717 (2024) |
Introduction. 718 I. A Quantum Leap Back to the Start of Formal Legal Education. 724 II. A Quantum Leap Regression Owing To A Color Blind Eye. 731 III. Quantum Leap Toward Progress: Unapologetically Engage Institutional Antiracism and Critical Pedagogy. 734 A. Unapologetically Engage Institutional Antiracism. 734 B. Unapologetically Engage... |
2024 |
| S. James Anaya , Adrien K. Wing |
INTRODUCTION TO THE SYMPOSIUM ON RABIAT AKANDE, "AN IMPERIAL HISTORY OF RACE-RELIGION IN INTERNATIONAL LAW" |
118 AJIL Unbound 103 (2024) |
Global efforts are underway to formulate a protocol to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) that would extend its protections to religious discrimination. With momentum coming from national and international levels, the effort seeks an intersectional approach to address what Rabiat Akande... |
2024 |
| Chesa Boudin |
INTRODUCTION: RACIAL JUSTICE ACT SYMPOSIUM |
29 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 1 (2024) |
Racial disparities in the criminal legal system are extreme, longstanding, and well-documented. To many observers [r]ace and racism seem pervasive in the criminal-justice system. Yet, since at least 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that even stark racial disparities are not sufficient to establish an equal protection violation or obtain... |
2024 |
| Christoph Engel , Eyal Zamir |
IS TRANSPARENCY A BLESSING OR A CURSE? AN EXPERIMENTAL HORSE RACE BETWEEN ACCOUNTABILITY AND EXTORTIONARY CORRUPTION |
78 International Review of Law & Economics 1 (June, 2024) |
JEL Classifications: C91 D02 D63 D73 H11 H26 H83 Keywords: transparency anonymity experiment sequential game tax evasion extortionary corruption If it is disclosed to a citizen which public official handles her case, this creates accountability. If the official abuses her authority, the citizen can report this misconduct to higher authority, which... |
2024 |
| Dayle Chung |
JEW v. UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: TITLE VII AND RACIALIZED SEXUAL HARASSMENT |
27 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 91 (Winter, 2024) |
Professor Jean Jew successfully waged a landmark gender discrimination lawsuit in federal district court after her colleagues targeted her with racialized and sexually explicit rumors. The case expanded the scope of sexual harassment jurisprudence, which had previously been limited to cases concerning sexual advances. This Article engages in an... |
2024 |
| Ash Kalra |
KEYNOTE SPEECH: RACIAL JUSTICE ACT SYMPOSIUM |
29 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 7 (2024) |
Good evening, everyone. I want to start by thanking the Berkeley Criminal Law & Justice Center and the Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law for their work in hosting the 2024 Racial Justice Act Symposium. When I introduced the California Racial Justice Act in 2020, I did not expect that we would be having symposiums on this someday. It is a testament... |
2024 |
| Dewi Carolina Zamora Mendoza |
LA RELACIÓN ENTRE LA DISCRIMINACIÓN RACIAL Y LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS EN EL SISTEMA INTERAMERICANO DE DERECHOS HUMANOS: ESTÁNDARES ESTABLECIDOS VINCULADOS AL PRINCIPIO DE IGUALDAD Y NO DISCRIMINACIÓN |
39 American University International Law Review 547 (2024) |
I. INTRODUCCIÓN. 548 II. ALCANCES DEL PRINCIPIO DE IGUALDAD Y NO DISCRIMINACIÓN. 552 III. ESTÁNDARES DE ACUERDO CON LOS INSTRUMENTOS DEL SISTEMA INTERAMERICANO DE DERECHOS HUMANOS. 555 A. Declaración Americana de los Derechos y Deberes del Hombre. 555 B. Convención Americana sobre Derechos Humanos. 557 C. Convención Interamericana contra el... |
2024 |
| Louise Grégoire |
LAW ENFORCEMENT USE OF FACIAL RECOGNITION--A COMPARATIVE APPROACH BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE TO TACKLE THE RACIAL BIAS OF FACIAL RECOGNITION AGAINST PEOPLE OF COLOR |
39 American University International Law Review 415 (2024) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 416 II. FACIAL RECOGNITION USE BY LAW ENFORCEMENT AND ITS THREAT TO PEOPLE OF COLOR. 418 A. Racial Bias Within the Technology. 419 B. The Reinforcement of Racial Bias Within Law Enforcement. 424 III. HUMAN RIGHTS' IMPACTS. 427 A. Right to Privacy. 427 B. The Right of Assembly and Free Speech. 429 IV. THE INSUFFICIENCIES OF THE... |
2024 |
| John E. Rumel |
LET'S GET CRITICAL: THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF SCHOOL DISTRICT STAKEHOLDERS UNDER STATE LAWS LIMITING OR BANNING DISCUSSION OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY IN K-12 CLASSROOMS |
2024 Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal 33 (April, 2024) |
Critical Race Theory has moved from the halls of academia to the center of a national debate about the role of teachers in instructing students about race, race relations and the United States' troubled history concerning those subjects. Addressing growing concerns over Critical Race Theory from the political right, state legislatures have... |
2024 |
| John Nidiry, Ruth Friedman |
LONG OVERDUE: THE NEED FOR AN EXAMINATION OF THE SPECTER OF RACIAL BIAS IN THE FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY SYSTEM |
67 Howard Law Journal 225 (Spring, 2024) |
The specter of racial bias in the federal government's administration of the death penalty over the past thirty-five years has been long apparent yet insufficiently scrutinized. Scholars have studied the racially disparate application of capital punishment at the state level and linked those disparities to a history of racialized violence. The... |
2024 |
| Jose Atiles, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, Email: jatiles@illinois.edu |
MAKING NEVER-NEVER LAND: RACE AND LAW IN THE CREATION OF PUERTO RICO. BY MÓNICA A. JIMÉNEZ. CHAPEL HILL: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINE PRESS, 2024. PAPERBACK, ISBN 978-1-032-62881-3; HARDCOVER, ISBN 978-1-4696-7844-3 |
58 Law and Society Review 696 (December, 2024) |
Over the past decade, Puerto Rico (PR) has become a focal point for US media, politics, and academia. Since 2014, PR has endured an economic crisis, bankruptcy, hurricanes, earthquakes, and the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2016, the US Congress enacted the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), imposing the Financial... |
2024 |
| Eric Petterson |
MASS INCARCERATION, VIOLENT CRIMES, AND LENGTHY SENTENCES: USING THE RACE-CLASS NARRATIVE AS A MESSAGING FRAMEWORK FOR SHORTENING PRISON SENTENCES |
55 Saint Mary's Law Journal 475 (2024) |
Introduction. 477 I. A Brief History of Prisons and Sentencing Policy in America. 480 A. Pre-Modern Prisons and Sentencing. 481 B. The Civil War Era. 482 C. Tough on Crime Racial Politics and the Rise of Mass Incarceration. 483 II. International Comparison of Sentencing Policy and Crime Rates. 487 A. America's Tough on Crime Policies Lead to... |
2024 |
| Prithika Balakrishnan |
MASS SURVEILLANCE AS RACIALIZED CONTROL |
71 UCLA Law Review 478 (July, 2024) |
Incarceration has become the norm for those who assert their innocence. A staggering number of defendants are incarcerated prior to the adjudication of their cases--a reality that has become a central paradox of an American criminal justice system which holds axiomatic the presumption of innocence. Recent attempts to address pretrial mass... |
2024 |
| Akilah Folami |
MEERA E. DEO, UNEQUAL PROFESSION: RACE AND GENDER IN LEGAL ACADEMIA, REDWOOD CITY, CALIFORNIA: STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2019, 256 PP., $26.00 (HARDCOVER) |
73 Journal of Legal Education 254 (Fall, 2024) |
Meera Deo's book Unequal Profession: Race and Gender in Legal Academia provides the empirical data for what legal academics of color have professed for decades. We knew it was so, and Deo now proves it is so--it being the slights, the biases, the inequity in treatment, the invisibility (or, in my case, hypervisibility) of women of color academics... |
2024 |
| Paul J. Larkin , Charles D. Stimson , Thomas W. Spoehr |
MILITARY NECESSITY AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION |
22 Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy 547 (Summer, 2024) |
C1-3Table of Contents L1-2Introduction . L3548 I. The Military Service Academies' Admissions Policies. 552 A. The Federal Service Academies. 552 B. Oversight and Admissions. 555 C. Nominations and Appointments to Military Academies. 556 D. Admission to the USCGA and USMMA. 559 E. Additional Rules Requiring Race as a Consideration. 560 II. The... |
2024 |