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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
Randall L. Kennedy Equal Opportunity, Not Equal Results: Benign Racial Favoritism to Remedy Mere Statistical Disparate Impact Is Never Constitutionally Permissible 81-DEC ABA Journal 37 (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
Frank R. Parker Georgetown Hallways 1995-96 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 137 (November 17, 1995) The Texas legislature in 1991 drew three new congressional districts that were based on race, but also on protection of incumbents and other nonracial factors. At issue in this case is whether the use of nonracial factors, such as incumbent protection, makes race less than a predominant factor in redistricting and, if not, whether the new districts... 1995
Hugh J. Marbury Heading Back to the Thicket 28 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 251 (March, 1995) During the last decade, the United Nations and other international organizations have been struggling with the issue of hazardous waste exportation to developing countries. At the same time, the United States has been grappling with environmental racism. However, critics of both hazardous waste exportation and environmental racism have overlooked; Search Snippet: ...1995 Note HAZARDOUS WASTE EXPORTATION: THE GLOBAL MANIFESTATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM Hugh J. Marbury Copyright (c) 1995 by the Vanderbilt University... 1995
Lino A. Graglia Hopwood V. Texas: the Beginning of the End for Racial Preference Programs in Higher Education 45 Journal of Legal Education 79 (March, 1995) For over twenty-five years, the University of Texas School of Law has practiced affirmative action-a euphemism for racial discrimination-in admissions in order greatly to increase the number of blacks and Mexican-Americans in the entering class. In Hopwood v. Texas, four white applicants denied admission, who would have been automatically; Search Snippet: ...EDUCATION Journal of Legal Education March, 1995 HOPWOOD v. TEXAS: RACIAL PREFERENCES IN HIGHER EDUCATION UPHELD AND ENDORSED Lino A. Graglia... 1995
  Iii. Prosecutor must Meet Heightened Burden in Demonstrating Racially Neutral Explanation for Use of Peremptory Strikes 20 University of Dayton Law Review 653 (Winter 1995) In April 1994, the House of Representatives approved H.R. 4092, known as the Racial Justice Act (RJA), as part of its omnibus Crime Bill. This was the second time the Racial Justice Act had passed the full House, the first being in 1990 as part of the Comprehensive Crime Control Act. The 1994 version of the Racial Justice Act met with the same fate; Search Snippet: ...Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 II. THE RACIAL JUSTICE ACT Copyright (c) 1995 University of Dayton Law Review... 1995
Bill Ong Hing In the Racial Crosshairs: Reconsidering Racially Targeted Predatory Lending under a New Theory of Economic Hate Crime 47 Stanford Law Review 901 (May 1, 1995) Traditional legal ethics require a lawyer to defer to her client's wishes as long as they are within legal bounds. If an attorney is aware that a course of action chosen by the client may have negative effects on others or on society, she may counsel her client to not pursue such an action, but if the client refuses, the lawyer must acquiesce to... 1995
Florence Wagman Roisman Internal Revenue Service--tax Exemptions--irs Acted Within its Authority in Determining That Racially Discriminatory Non-profit Private Schools Are Not "Charitable" Institutions Entitled to Tax-exempt Status 143 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1351 (May, 1995) Schill and Wachter's The Spatial Bias of Federal Housing Law and Policy: Concentrated Poverty in Urban America is a rich and stimulating article on a vitally important topic: the role of federal housing law and policy in creating the concentrations of poverty that devastate our society. The authors of this article and the organizers of this; Search Snippet: ...Symposium: Shaping American Communities: Segregation, Housing & The Urban Poor INTENTIONAL RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND SEGREGATION BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AS A PRINCIPAL... 1995
Asher D. Isaacs InterRacial Marriage in the Shadows of Jim Crow: Racial Segregation as a System of Racial and Gender Subordination 14 National Black Law Journal 126 (Fall 1995) I am the product of an interracial adoption. My birth father is Black and my birth mother is white. At the age of eighteen months, I was adopted by a white Jewish family which lived in a predominately white suburb of Buffalo, New York. My adoptive parents believed that the world should be color blind, so they raised me in the same way as they did; Search Snippet: ...Black Law Journal Fall 1995 INTERRACIAL ADOPTION: PERMANENT PLACEMENT AND RACIAL IDENTITY -- AN ADOPTEE'S PERSPECTIVE Asher D. Isaacs [FNa1] Copyright ©... 1995
Richard Klein Law and the Boundaries of Place and Race in InterRacial Marriage: Interstate Comity, Racial Identity, and Miscegenation Laws in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, 1860's-1960's 18 Hastings International and Comparative Law Review 223 (Winter, 1995) As 1997 nears, and the British government prepares to hand over land it has ruled since 1842 to the People's Republic of China, the nature of the British control of Hong Kong -- a world renowned symbol of capitalism -- must be understood. The British portrayal of themselves, in these final years of governance, as the promoters and champions of; Search Snippet: ...Hastings International and Comparative Law Review Winter, 1995 LAW AND RACISM IN AN ASIAN SETTING: AN ANALYSIS OF THE BRITISH RULE... 1995
Aimee D. Latimer Miller-el 27 Loyola University Chicago Law Journal 97 (Fall, 1995) The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution guarantee all Americans in the United States equal protection under the laws and the right to vote. Despite the passage of these amendments, historically, African Americans suffered from widespread discrimination in the voting process. Only after the passage of the Voting... 1995
Debra L. Dailey Minnesota's Felon Disenfranchisement: an Historical Legal Relic, Rooted in Racism, That Fails to Satisfy a Legitimate Penological Interest 1995 Federal Sentencing Reporter 843517 (October 1, 1995) Minnesota's guidelines were created to embody the principle that sentencing should be neutral with respect to the race, gender, social, and economic status of convicted felons. Despite this goal, there is widespread reluctance in Minnesota, as in other places, to discuss issues surrounding race in the criminal justice system. This stems from many; Search Snippet: ...October, 1995 DEBRA L. DAILEY MINNESOTA'S CONTINUING EFFORTS TO ADDRESS RACIAL DISPARITIES IN SENTENCING October 1, 1995 Debra L. Dailey [FN... 1995
Linda L. Ammons MultiRacial Identity, MonoRacial Authenticity & Racial Privacy: Towards an Adequate Theory of MultiRacial Resistance 1995 Wisconsin Law Review 1003 (1995) Introduction. 1004 I. Battered Woman Syndrome and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. 1008 A. Plight of Battered Black Women. 1017 II. The African Woman in America. 1030 A. Paternalism, Pedestals and Presumptions: No Mirror Images for African-American Women. 1034 III. Stereotypes: The Impact of Historical Cultural Representations. 1045 IV. Stereotypes; Search Snippet: ...Wisconsin Law Review 1995 MULES [FNa] , MADONNAS, BABIES, BATH WATER, RACIAL IMAGERY AND STEREOTYPES: THE AFRICAN -AMERICAN WOMAN AND THE BATTERED... 1995
Robert J. Cottrol , Raymond T. Diamond Never Intended to Be Applied to the White Population: Firearms Regulation and Racial Disparity -- the Redeemed South's Legacy to a National Jurisprudence? 70 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1307 (1995) I know something of the history of this legislation. The original Act of 1893 was passed when there was a great influx of negro laborers in this State drawn here for the purpose of working in turpentine and lumber camps. . . . [[[T]he Act was passed for the purpose of disarming the negro laborers and to thereby reduce the unlawful homicides that; Search Snippet: ...TO BE APPLIED TO THE WHITE POPULATION: FIREARMS REGULATION AND RACIAL DISPARITY -- THE REDEEMED SOUTH'S LEGACY TO A NATIONAL JURISPRUDENCE? [Fna... 1995
Carrie E. Johnson Policy Reform at the Forefront of Racial Justice 10 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 134 (1995) The welfare state is not just a mechanism that intervenes in, and possibly corrects, the structure of inequality; it is, in its own right, a system of stratification. It is an active force in the ordering of social relations. The persistent correlation between race and economic prosperity is undeniable. Historically, African Americans have been... 1995
Leroy D. Percy Popular Memory, "Revisionism," and the Process of Justice 65 Mississippi Law Journal 385 (Winter 1995) Gerrymandering is the process by which lawmakers, when reapportioning voting districts, manipulate district boundaries and place certain voters in certain districts to secure a desired result in elections. This comment deals with two types of gerrymandering, political and racial, both of which the United States Supreme Court has found in certain; Search Snippet: ...Mississippi Law Journal Winter 1995 December, 1995 Comments POLITICAL AND RACIAL GERRYMANDERING: A PROPOSAL FOR COMPARABLE CAUSES OF ACTION Leroy D... 1995
Chaka M. Patterson Race and the Jury: Racial Influences on Jury Decision-making in Death Penalty Cases 2 Texas Wesleyan Law Review 45 (Summer, 1995) This article discusses the tension between individualized justice and equality in death penalty cases, and how the defendant's race influences these decisions. Racially neutral standards ensure some notion of equality and fair treatment, but at the expense of losing individualization. This pressure is similar to the tension manifested in the... 1995
Charles Lewis Nier III Racial Hierarchy, Asian Americans and Latinos as "Foreigners," and Social Change: Is Law the Way to Go? 13 Dickinson Journal of International Law 241 (Winter, 1995) I. Introduction On the night of October 29, 1993, several members of the U.S. luge team went to a pub to celebrate a teammate's birthday. The team was in Oberhof, Germany, a small town about 150 miles southwest of Berlin, to train for the World Cup tour and the 1994 Winter Olympic games. Shortly after arriving at the bar, Duncan Kennedy was alerted; Search Snippet: ...OF INTERNATIONAL LAW Dickinson Journal of International Law Winter, 1995 RACIAL HATRED: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE HATE CRIME LAWS OF... 1995
Anthony D. Taibi Racial Justice in the New Millennium; from Brown to Grutter: Methods to Achieve Non-discrimination and Comparable Racial Equality 44 Duke Law Journal 928 (March, 1995) When a struggle can be resolved legally, it is certainly not dangerous; it becomes so precisely when the legal equilibrium is recognised to be impossible. (Which does not mean that by abolishing the barometer one can abolish bad weather.) Antonio Gramsci We are in the midst of radical changes in the structure of the economy and social life, changes... 1995
Jeffrey P. Lisenby Racial Preference and Affirmative Action in Law School Admissions: Reactions from Minnesota Law Schools and Ramifications for Higher Education in the Wake of Grutter V. Bollinger 46 Alabama Law Review 641 (Winter 1995) Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. The right to vote is the citizen's source of power in a democracy. The United States Supreme Court has deemed this right fundamental . . . because (it is) preservative of all rights. Although the majority rule of democracy may operate to exclude minority; Search Snippet: ...293199 ALABAMA LAW REVIEW Alabama Law Review Winter 1995 Commentary RACIAL POLITICS ALIVE AND WELL IN ALABAMA: THE IMPACT OF RECENT... 1995
Albert W. Alschuler Racial Quotas Versus Seniority Rights 44 Duke Law Journal 704 (February, 1995) Few statements are more likely to evoke disturbing images of American criminal justice than this one: The defendant was tried by an all-white jury. This statement might bring to mind the Scottsboro boys--uneducated African-American youths riding on a freight train through Jackson County, Alabama, in 1931; victors in a fight with white youths on; Search Snippet: ...WL 427638 DUKE LAW JOURNAL Duke Law Journal February, 1995 RACIAL QUOTAS AND THE JURY Albert W. Alschuler [FNd] Copyright ©... 1995
Paul Butler Racially Bias Sat I/act Blocks College Access: Is it Constitutional for College Officials to Condition Admission on a Racially Bias Assessment? 105 Yale Law Journal 677 (December, 1995) Wonders do not confuse. We call them that And close the matter there. But common things surprise us. They accept the names we give with calm, and keep them. Easy-breathing then We brave our next small business. Well, behind Our backs they alter. How were we to know. Gwendolyn Brooks [T]he time that we're living in now is not an era where one who... 1995
Hava B. Villaverde Racism in the Juvenile Justice System: a Critical Perspective 50 University of Miami Law Review 209 (October, 1995) I. Introduction . 209 II. What Does Research Indicate? . 212 A. Population Case Studies . 212 B. Analysis and Changes in State Law . 219 C. Standards and Burdens of Proof . 224 D. Guilty but Mentally Ill . 226 E. Abolishing the Insanity Defense and Reconciling the Results . 227 F. Should the Results Be Any Different? . 229 III. What Does Case Law; Search Snippet: ...LAW REVIEW University of Miami Law Review October, 1995 Comment RACISM IN THE INSANITY DEFENSE Hava B. Villaverde [FNa] Copyright ©... 1995
Ronald D. Rotunda Racist Speech Management: the High Risks of Low Achievement 6 Professional Lawyer Law. 1 (February, 1995) The American Bar Association should be a strong lobbying force for freedom of speech and the First Amendment. Just as the ABA has become a force to educate the general public about the need for the Fifth Amendment and the Fourth Amendment, it should emphasize to the public the need for the First Amendment, even if -- in a given case -- the popular; Search Snippet: ...1995 WL 841556 PROFESSIONAL LAWYER Professional Lawyer February, 1995 Feature RACIST SPEECH AND LAWYER DISCIPLINE Ronald D. Rotunda Copyright (c) 1995... 1995
  Scalping the Redskins: Can Trademark Law Start Athletic Teams Bearing Native American Nicknames and Images on the Road to Racial Reform? By Bruce C. Kelber. 17 Hamline Law Review 533-88, Summer 1994. (Order From: Hamline University School of Law, 1536 Hew 85 The Trademark Reporter 596 (September-October, 1995) This student comment advocates cancellation of registrations for Native American names as athletic team trademarks under Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act proscribing immoral, deceptive, scandalous, or disparaging matter. The author believes that use of Native American trademarks such as Redskins® is racist and argues that Section 2(a) is an... 1995
Paul Siegel Secrecy and Dishonesty: the Supreme Court, Racial Preferences, and Higher Education 9 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 185 (1995) Marine Colonel Fred Peck earned his fifteen minutes of fame back in May of 1993 when he was one of several witnesses testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee chaired by Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia. Peck's Senate appearance played prominently on the network television news programs. His name and photo adorned front page stories the next; Search Snippet: ...Public Policy 1995 Symposium on Sexual Orientation SECOND HAND PREJUDICE, RACIAL ANALOGIES AND SHARED SHOWERS: WHY DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL WON'T... 1995
Paul Reidinger Setting the Record Straight: a Proposal for Handling Prosecutorial Appeals to Racial, Ethnic or Gender Prejudice During Trial 81-DEC ABA Journal 86 (December, 1995) By Michael Tonry Oxford University Press New York City 209 pages; $25 By Patricia Williams Harvard University Press Cambridge, Mass. 243 pages; $22 If there was a decisive moment in weighting the scales of justice to disfavor African Americans, it occurred during the Reagan administration, argues Michael Tonry in his new book, Malign Neglect; Search Snippet: ...LIVES TWO NEW BOOKS ARGUE THAT PUBLIC POLICY PERPETUATES A RACIAL SCHISM Paul Reidinger Copyright (c) 1995 by the American Bar... 1995
Mojgan Sasson Sheff V. O'neill: the Connecticut Supreme Court Attacks Racial Isolation in the Hartford Schools 29 New England Law Review 345 (Winter 1995) Two of the most sensitive and complex areas in constitutional law intersected in Shaw v. Reno. The two areas were the voting rights of racial minorities and the affirmative action legislation designed to protect those rights. Shaw also proved to be one of the more controversial cases from the United States Supreme Court because, beneath all the... 1995
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