Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
E. Tendayi Achiume |
RACIAL BORDERS |
110 Georgetown Law Journal 445 (March, 2022) |
This Article explores the treatment of race and racial justice in dominant liberal democratic legal discourse and theory concerned with international borders. It advances two analytical claims. The first is that contemporary national borders of the international order--an order that remains structured by imperial inequity--are inherently racial.... |
2022 |
Tonya L. Brito , Kathryn A. Sabbeth , Jessica K. Steinberg , Lauren Sudeall |
RACIAL CAPITALISM IN THE CIVIL COURTS |
122 Columbia Law Review 1243 (June, 2022) |
This Essay explores how civil courts function as sites of racial capitalism. The racial capitalism conceptual framework posits that capitalism requires racial inequality and relies on racialized systems of expropriation to produce capital. While often associated with traditional economic systems, racial capitalism applies equally to nonmarket... |
2022 |
Natè Simmons |
RACIAL CAPITALISM: COMPLEXITIES WITH ENFORCING CORPORATE COMMITMENTS TO END RACIAL INJUSTICE |
55 UIC Law Review 519 (Fall, 2022) |
I. Introduction. 519 II. Background. 521 A. Corporate Pronouncements Committing to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. 521 B. Colin Kaepernick's Protest for Racial Equality. 525 C. Corporate Gift Regulation. 528 D. Legislation on Diversifying Corporate Boards of Directors. 529 E. Tax Credits. 530 F. Racial Capitalism. 531 III. Analysis. 532 A.... |
2022 |
Stewart Chang |
RACIAL CONTAGION: ANTI-ASIAN NATIONALISM, THE STATE OF EMERGENCY, AND EXCLUSION |
9 Belmont Law Review 486 (Spring, 2022) |
Introduction. 486 I. Contagion, Yellow Peril, and Exclusion. 491 II. Korematsu, Internment, and the Enemy Within. 501 III. The Chinese Virus and the COVID-19 Travel Bans. 506 Conclusion. 510 |
2022 |
Kathryne M. Young , Jessica Pearlman |
RACIAL DISPARITIES IN LIFER PAROLE OUTCOMES: THE HIDDEN ROLE OF PROFESSIONAL EVALUATIONS |
47 Law and Social Inquiry 783 (August, 2022) |
One in seven people in prison in the US is serving a life sentence, and most of these people will eventually be eligible for discretionary parole release. Yet parole hearings are notoriously understudied. With only a handful of exceptions, few researchers have considered the ways in which race shapes decision-makers' perception of parole... |
2022 |
Allyson Crane |
RACIAL DISPARITIES IN MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT: HOW INDIANA MISSES THE MARK IN PROVIDING ACCESSIBLE AND QUALITY TREATMENT AMIDST THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC |
19 Indiana Health Law Review 427 (2022) |
Doctors, organizations, and citizens have expressed the importance of mental health, equating its significance to physical health. Despite the numerous conversations about mental health, treatment continues to fall short. This is especially the case for people of color. People of color are at a significant disadvantage in terms of access to quality... |
2022 |
Grace E. Driggers |
RACIAL DISPARITIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA'S JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM: WHY THEY EXIST AND HOW THEY CAN BE REDUCED |
73 South Carolina Law Review 1115 (Summer, 2022) |
I. Introduction. 1116 II. Background. 1119 A. The Root Cause: How Racial Disparities in Juvenile Justice Systems Develop. 1119 1. Differential Offending. 1119 2. Differential Selection. 1120 B. Why South Carolina's Legislature Should Explicitly Target Racial Disparities. 1125 III. The Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2020. 1127 IV. Models of Success.... |
2022 |
Patrick Ross |
RACIAL EQUITY IMPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HEALTH CARE |
77 Food & Drug Law Journal 265 (2022) |
Decision-making using artificial intelligence (AI) aims to reduce human error and bias in the clinical decision process. The advanced pattern-finding capabilities of AI and machine learning serve as both promise and pitfall, as pattern recognition can unintentionally cause algorithms to incorporate human biases, such as racial, gender, or... |
2022 |
Alyssa C. Mooney , Alissa Skog , Amy E. Lerman |
RACIAL EQUITY IN ELIGIBILITY FOR A CLEAN SLATE UNDER AUTOMATIC CRIMINAL RECORD RELIEF LAWS |
56 Law and Society Review 398 (September, 2022) |
States have begun to pass legislation to provide automatic relief for eligible criminal records, potentially reducing the lifelong collateral consequences of criminal justice involvement. Yet numerous historical examples suggest that racially neutral policies can have profoundly disparate effects across racial groups. In the case of criminal record... |
2022 |
Jennifer Rebholz |
RACIAL EQUITY'S LONG ROAD |
58-FEB Arizona Attorney 6 (February, 2022) |
This month is Black History Month, a celebration of important people and events in the history of the African diaspora. When I started to write this column, I struggled because I didn't think, as a white woman, I was the best person to highlight this and that I would be inserting myself into a story that wasn't really mine. I was going to play it... |
2022 |
Shauhin A. Talesh* |
RACIAL INEQUALITY, COVID-19, AND HEALTH AND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE: LESSONS LEARNED AND PATHWAYS FORWARD |
71 DePaul Law Review 635 (Spring, 2022) |
COVID-19 impacted the entire world, and the United States is no exception. In addition to pervasive death and illness, COVID-19 wreaked havoc on the U.S. economy. Many people in the United States lost their jobs, others worked remotely, and many essential workers continued working in their workplace settings at great risk to themselves. The public... |
2022 |
Sophia Z. Lee |
RACIAL JUSTICE AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE |
97 Chicago-Kent Law Review 161 (2022) |
This article argues that commemorating the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) should involve accounting for the role it has played in both advancing and thwarting racial justice, as well as the role racial justice advocates have played in shaping its interpretation. The APA was not designed to advance racial justice; indeed, its provisions... |
2022 |
Yuvraj Joshi |
RACIAL JUSTICE AND PEACE |
110 Georgetown Law Journal 1325 (June, 2022) |
The United States recently saw the largest racial justice protests in its history. An estimated 15 to 26 million people took to the streets over the police killings of Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, George Floyd, and countless other Black people. This Article explores how these protests and their chants of No Justice! No Peace! should lead us to... |
2022 |
Matthew J. Parlow |
RACIAL PROTEST AND RACIAL PROGRESS IN PROFESSIONAL SPORTS |
31 Southern California Review of Law & Social Justice 239 (Spring, 2022) |
The summer of 2020 marked significant changes in society, as seen through worldwide protests and an accompanying movement to address social injustice and systemic racism in America. That movement was amplified by and within professional sports as players, teams, and leagues sought to contribute to the goals of anti-racism by working to build a more... |
2022 |
Angela Onwuachi-Willig , Anthony V. Alfieri |
RACIAL TRAUMA IN CIVIL RIGHTS REPRESENTATION |
120 Michigan Law Review 1701 (June, 2022) |
Narratives of trauma told by clients and communities of color have inspired an increasing number of civil rights and antiracist lawyers and academics to call for more trauma-informed training for law students and lawyers. These advocates have argued not only for greater trauma-sensitive practices and trauma-centered interventions on behalf of... |
2022 |
Sharifa Garvey , Joshua Rosa , Dr. Maryam Jernigan |
RACIAL TRAUMA IN JUVENILE JUSTICE REFORM |
66 Boston Bar Journal 32 (2022) |
In recent years, the Massachusetts' juvenile justice system has adopted new practices based on adolescent brain development research and trauma informed care practices. While laudatory, these efforts have not addressed a critical component - racial trauma. Racial trauma describes the negative psychological and emotional impact of racism on youths... |
2022 |
Sara Hildebrand |
RACIALIZED IMPLICATIONS OF OFFICER GANG EXPERT TESTIMONY |
92 Mississippi Law Journal 155 (2022) |
Introduction. 156 I. The Rise of Police as Expert Witnesses. 159 II. Anti-Gang Legislation and Officers as Gang Experts. 163 III. Bases for Exclusion of Officer Gang Expert Testimony. 167 A. Excessive Judicial Deference to Police as Gang Experts. 168 1. Uncritical Judicial Assessment of Officer Qualifications. 169 2. Unreliable, Overbroad, and... |
2022 |
Erika K. Wilson |
RACIALIZED RELIGIOUS SCHOOL SEGREGATION |
132 Yale Law Journal Forum 598 (17-Nov-22) |
abstract. Carson v. Makin has several implications for the future of school-choice programs. This Essay explores one possibility: an increase in sectarian schools participating in state-funded school-choice programs, causing new forms of school segregation based on race and religion and impairing the democracy-enhancing functions of public... |
2022 |
Suzy J. Park |
RACIALIZED SELF-DEFENSE: EFFECTS OF RACE SALIENCE ON PERCEPTIONS OF FEAR AND REASONABLENESS |
55 Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 541 (Summer, 2022) |
Through a controlled experiment, this Note investigates the hypothesis that implicit references to racial stereotypes, such as subtle racial imagery, trigger mock jurors' implicit biases to a greater degree than explicit invocations of racial stereotypes. Across six conditions, 270 participants read facts resembling those of People v. Goetz, in... |
2022 |
Lili Levi |
RACIALIZED, JUDAIZED, FEMINIZED: IDENTITY-BASED ATTACKS ON THE PRESS |
20 First Amendment Law Review 147 (2022) |
The press is under a growing and dangerous form of attack through identity-based online harassment of journalists. Armies of online abusers are strategically using a variety of rhetorical tools (including references to lynching, the Holocaust, rape and dismemberment) to intimidate and silence non-white, non-male and non-Christian journalists. Such... |
2022 |
Felix B. Chang , Anisha Rakhra , Janelle Thompson |
RACIALLY COLLUSIVE BOYCOTTS: AFRICAN-AMERICAN PURCHASING POWER IN THE WIGS AND HAIR EXTENSIONS MARKET |
102 Boston University Law Review 1277 (May, 2022) |
This Essay analyzes expressive boycotts in the market for wigs and hair extensions, where consumers are primarily African Americans and producers are almost uniformly Korean Americans. This type of ethnically segmented and misaligned (ESM) market raises unique doctrinal and theoretical questions. Under antitrust case law, the treatment of a... |
2022 |
Elise C. Boddie |
RACIALLY TERRITORIAL POLICING IN BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS |
89 University of Chicago Law Review 477 (March, 2022) |
This Essay explores police practices that marginalize Black people by limiting their freedom of movement across the spaces of Black neighborhoods. In an earlier article, I theorized racial territoriality as a form of discrimination that excludes people of color from--or marginalizes them within--racialized White spaces that have a racially... |
2022 |
Mary Finley-Brook , Environmental Justice Researchers |
RACISM AND TOXIC BURDEN IN RURAL DIXIE |
46 William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review 603 (Spring, 2022) |
Rural pollution hotspots receive inadequate attention during impact assessments: low population density is strategically used to suggest rural areas lack critical importance. Local resistance led to a legal victory for Union Hill, Virginia, where a door-to-door household study of demographics and family heritage exposed data inequities and biases... |
2022 |
Ruhan Nagra, Jeanne Bergman, Jasmine Graham |
REGULATORY THEATER: HOW INVESTOR-OWNED UTILITIES AND CAPTURED OVERSIGHT AGENCIES PERPETUATE ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM |
25 CUNY Law Review 355 (Summer, 2022) |
Introduction. 355 I - The Perverse Incentive and Environmental Racism. 357 A. National Grid's Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Expansion. 357 B. The Perverse Incentive of Investor-Owned Utilities. 362 C. Environmental Justice and Climate Impacts. 365 II - Utility Rate Cases in New York. 374 A. Utility Rate Cases 101: The Process. 375 B. Utility Rate... |
2022 |
Adreanna B. Sellers |
RELIANCE ON A JUDICIAL LIFELINE: STATE v. ROBINSON AND NORTH CAROLINA'S PARTISAN BATTLE FOR THE RACIAL JUSTICE ACT |
2 North Carolina Civil Rights Law Review 163 (Spring, 2022) |
INTRODUCTION. 163 I. RJA HISTORY AND LEGISLATIVE INTENT. 166 II. STATE V. ROBINSON. 168 III. PROTECTION FROM DOUBLE JEOPARDY. 170 IV. APPLYING THE PROTECTIONS TO ROBINSON'S CASE. 172 CONCLUSION. 174 |
2022 |
René Reyes |
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, RACIAL JUSTICE, AND DISCRIMINATORY IMPACTS: WHY THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE SHOULD BE APPLIED AT LEAST AS STRICTLY AS THE FREE EXERCISE CLAUSE |
55 Indiana Law Review 275 (2022) |
This Article offers a critical comparative analysis of the Supreme Court's jurisprudence under the Free Exercise Clause and the Equal Protection Clause. In a number of recent cases, the Court has shown increasing solicitude for the rights of religious objectors and has upheld claims for exemptions from various laws--even in the absence of an intent... |
2022 |
Kendall Lawrenz |
REMEDYING THE HEALTH IMPLICATIONS OF STRUCTURAL RACISM THROUGH REPARATIONS |
90 George Washington Law Review 1018 (August, 2022) |
From the early introduction of slavery to the United States, not only did the economic prosperity of slavery depend on extracting reproductive labor from Black birthing people, but so did the field of medicine. Enslaved Black people were experimented on and forced to undergo inhumane procedures in the name of science, yet as the medical profession... |
2022 |
Martha M. Ertman |
REPARATIONS FOR RACIAL WEALTH DISPARITIES AS REMEDY FOR SOCIAL CONTRACT BREACH |
85 Law and Contemporary Problems 231 (2022) |
Acute crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2008 financial meltdown exposed and exacerbated chronic racial wealth disparities. Those disparities accumulated over time as government and private actions--often involving contracts--systemically benefitted White Americans and institutions at the expense of African-Americans. This Article focuses... |
2022 |
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REPORT OF THE OREGON SUPREME COURT TASK FORCE ON RACIAL/ETHNIC ISSUES IN THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM |
100 Oregon Law Review 425 (2022) |
May 1994 Office of the State Court Administrator Oregon Judicial Department The Oregon Supreme Court Task Force on Racial/Ethnic Issues in the Judicial System Chair Honorable Edwin J. Peterson Vice Chair M. Khalil Zonoozy Members Kathleen Bogan Honorable Nancy W. Campbell Kathryn H. Clarke Honorable Mercedes F. Deiz Marco A. Hernandez Douglas... |
2022 |
André Douglas Pond Cummings , Steven A. Ramirez |
ROADMAP FOR ANTI-RACISM: FIRST UNWIND THE WAR ON DRUGS NOW |
96 Tulane Law Review 469 (February, 2022) |
I. Introduction. 469 II. A Short History of the War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration. 475 III. The Devastation Suffered in Communities of Color. 486 A. Direct Economic Costs of the War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration. 487 B. Government Expenditures. 488 C. Economic and Psychological Costs on Families of Color. 490 D. Indirect Costs of the War on... |
2022 |
Lenni B. Benson |
SEEING IMMIGRATION AND STRUCTURAL RACISM: IT'S WHERE YOU PUT YOUR EYES |
66 New York Law School Law Review 277 (2021/2022) |
Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality. --James Baldwin Immigration law is frequently a proxy for racial and ethnic discrimination. The legal fictions and rules that generate our immigration laws would be unconstitutional in any other context. This essay asks you to interrogate your assumptions and to explore the... |
2022 |
Silvia M. Radulescu |
SEGREGATION, RACIAL HEALTH DISPARITIES, AND INADEQUATE FOOD ACCESS IN BROOKLYN |
29 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 251 (Winter, 2022) |
Despite remarkable medical advances and the steady rise of New Yorkers' overall life expectancies, striking health disparities exist among New Yorkers along racial and economic lines. Poor health is concentrated in predominantly Black and Hispanic poverty-stricken neighborhoods. Within just a ten-mile radius in Brooklyn, there is a decade-long... |
2022 |
Brendan Lantz, Marin R. Wenger, Zachary T. Malcom, College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University |
SEVERITY MATTERS: THE MODERATING EFFECT OF OFFENSE SEVERITY IN PREDICTING RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN REPORTING OF BIAS AND NONBIAS VICTIMIZATION TO THE POLICE |
46 Law and Human Behavior 15 (February, 2022) |
Objective: Previous research has noted contradictory findings regarding race and police notification, such that Black people indicate higher levels of distrust in the police yet report victimization to the police at rates similar to or higher than others. We investigated the role of offense severity in accounting for these discrepancies.... |
2022 |
Richard Chused |
STRATEGIC THINKING ABOUT RACISM IN AMERICAN ZONING |
66 New York Law School Law Review 307 (2021/2022) |
This essay arises out of my experience participating in New York Law School's unique seminar on Race, Bias, and Advocacy described in Professor Edward A. Purcell, Jr.,'s introductory essay. In that piece, Purcell notes that one of the basic hypotheses underlying the seminar is that the neutral and colorblind nature of the formal law does not... |
2022 |
Florence Wagman Roisman |
STUMBLING STONES AT LEVITTOWN: WHAT TO DO ABOUT RACIAL COVENANTS IN THE UNITED STATES |
30 Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 461 (2022) |
Racially restrictive covenants blanketed much of the housing in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Although these covenants are most noted for forbidding the ownership or occupancy of land by Black people (except when they were domestic servants), covenants also forbade ownership or occupancy by, among others, Indians,... |
2022 |
Osamudia James |
SUPERIOR STATUS: RELATIONAL OBSTACLES IN THE LAW TO RACIAL JUSTICE AND LGBTQ EQUALITY |
63 Boston College Law Review 199 (January, 2022) |
Introduction. 200 I. Equality Stalled. 206 A. Education. 206 B. Marriage. 212 II. Status in Equality Movements. 217 A. Social Status. 218 1. The Architecture of Status. 218 2. Discrimination, Animus, Status. 222 B. Status in Movements. 226 1. Public School Integration. 226 2. Same-Sex Marriage. 233 III. Accounting for Status. 241 A. Law and... |
2022 |
Gabrielle Ploplis |
SYSTEMATIC RACISM, ABORTION AND BIAS IN MEDICINE: ALL THREADS WOVEN IN THE CLOTH OF RACIAL DISPARITY FOR MOTHERS AND INFANTS |
35 Journal of Law and Health 370 (30-May-22) |
C1-3TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION 372 II. Legal History: Discrimination in Medical Care for Racial and Ethnic Minorities 375 III. Disparities in Health Outcomes for Black and Indigenous Women: Maternal and Infant Mortality 385 IV. Potential Causes of Racial Disparities in Maternal and Infant Mortality Rates: Why do minority communities suffers... |
2022 |
Kevin R. Johnson |
SYSTEMIC RACISM IN THE U.S. IMMIGRATION LAWS |
97 Indiana Law Journal 1455 (Spring, 2022) |
This Essay analyzes how aggressive activism in a California mountain town at the tail end of the nineteenth century commenced a chain reaction resulting in state and ultimately national anti-Chinese immigration laws. The constitutional immunity through which the Supreme Court upheld those laws deeply affected the future trajectory of U.S.... |
2022 |
Lauren Reznick |
TAKING ON PAST INJUSTICES: NEW LAND COURT PROCEDURE OFFERS SOLUTIONS TO HOMEOWNERS FOR RACIALLY RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS IN LAND RECORDS |
66-WTR Boston Bar Journal 19 (Winter, 2022) |
No part of the land hereby conveyed or any of the improvements thereon shall ever be sold, leased, traded, deeded or donated to any one other than of the Caucasian race. These above words live within Massachusetts land records and remind us of a not-too-distant shameful past. Throughout the early twentieth century, racially restrictive covenants,... |
2022 |
Ted Hutchinson |
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LAW, MEDICINE & ETHICS AND ANTI-RACISM |
50 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 8 (Spring, 2022) |
Keywords: Antiracism, Social Justice, Access to Care, American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics Abstract: This foreword explores the history of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics and its role in promoting access to care and antiracism. The parent organization of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics,... |
2022 |
Brandon Hasbrouck |
THE ANTIRACIST CONSTITUTION |
102 Boston University Law Review 87 (February, 2022) |
Our Constitution, as it is and as it has been interpreted by our courts, serves white supremacy. The twin projects of abolition and reconstruction remain incomplete, derailed first by openly hostile institutions, then by the subtler lie that a colorblind Constitution would bring about the end of racism. Yet, in its debut in Supreme Court... |
2022 |
Henry Cohen |
THE BLACK MAN'S PRESIDENT: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, AFRICAN AMERICANS, & THE PURSUIT OF RACIAL EQUALITY, BY MICHAEL BURLINGAME, PEGASUS BOOKS, LTD., 2021, 313 PAGES; $29.95; A HOUSE BUILT BY SLAVES: AFRICAN AMERICAN VISITORS TO THE LINCOLN WHITE HOUSE, BY JONATHA |
69-APR Federal Lawyer 65 (March/April, 2022) |
On Aug. 14, 1862, Abraham Lincoln became the first U.S. president to invite a group of African Americans to the White House for an interview. Then he proceeded to lecture his guests--five men who were all well-educated members of Washington's black elite, as Jonathan W. White describes them in A House Built by Slaves--telling them that African... |
2022 |
Andrew Scherer |
THE CASE AGAINST SUMMARY EVICTION PROCEEDINGS: PROCESS AS RACISM AND OPPRESSION |
53 Seton Hall Law Review 1 (2022) |
The Right to counsel in evictions helps level the playing field, but it's time to revise the rules of the game. Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all. --Adam Smith... |
2022 |
Tom I. Romero, II |
THE COLOR OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT: OBSERVATIONS OF A BROWN BUFFALO ON RACIAL IMPACT STATEMENTS IN THE MOVEMENT FOR WATER JUSTICE |
25 CUNY Law Review 241 (Summer, 2022) |
This Article advocates for the adoption of racial impact statements (RIS) in local government decision making, particularly among water utilities. Situated in the larger history of water and climate injustice in Colorado and the arid American West, this Article examines ways that racially minoritized communities engage and contest legal and... |
2022 |
Maytal Gilboa |
THE COLOR OF PAIN: RACIAL BIAS IN PAIN AND SUFFERING DAMAGES |
56 Georgia Law Review 651 (Spring, 2022) |
For more than half a century, our legal system has formally eschewed race-based discrimination, and nearly every field of law has evolved to increase protections for minority groups historically burdened by racial prejudice. Yet, even today, juries in tort actions routinely consider a plaintiff's race when calculating compensatory tort damages, and... |
2022 |
Christina Morris |
THE CORRECTIVE VALUE OF PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION: REDUCING RACIAL BIAS THROUGH SCREENING, COMPASSION, AND EDUCATION |
31 Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 275 (Summer, 2022) |
Introduction. 276 I. Implicit Bias in the Criminal Justice System. 278 A. What is Implicit Bias?. 278 B. Measuring Implicit Bias. 279 C. Implicit Bias and the Criminal Justice System. 281 II. The Role of the Prosecutor in Perpetuating Racial Injustice. 283 III. Current Solutions are Inadequate. 287 IV. Moving Forward: Addressing the Unconscious.... |
2022 |
Tiffany Hilton |
THE DANGER OF UNFAIR PREJUDICE: RACIAL DISPARITIES IN THE FEDERAL RULES OF EVIDENCE |
52 Stetson Law Review 153 (Fall, 2022) |
The chasm between the principles upon which this Government was founded . and those which are daily practiced under the protection of the flag, yawns so wide and deep. - Mary Church Terrell, 1906 The year 2020 brought about many new challenges in America. The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a nationwide sense of unease and uncertainty that... |
2022 |
Amanda L. Jones |
THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA: ANTITRUST LAW vs. THE ANTIQUATED NCAA COMPENSATION MODEL PERPETUATING RACIAL INJUSTICE |
116 Northwestern University Law Review 1319 (2022) |
Abstract--Two crises in 2020 fueled the fire underlying a debate that has been smoldering for years: whether student athletes should be compensated. The COVID-19 pandemic coincided with the Black Lives Matter movement and drew unprecedented attention to systemic racism permeating society, including college sports that rely disproportionately on... |
2022 |
Shannon Malone Gonzalez , Samantha J. Simon , Katie Kaufman Rogers |
THE DIVERSITY OFFICER: POLICE OFFICERS' AND BLACK WOMEN CIVILIANS' EPISTEMOLOGIES OF RACE AND RACISM IN POLICING |
56 Law and Society Review 477 (September, 2022) |
Diversifying police forces has been suggested to improve police-minority relations amidst national uprisings against police violence. Yet, little research investigates how police and black civilians--two groups invoked in discourse on police-minority relations--understand the function of diversity interventions. We draw on 100 in-depth... |
2022 |
Sarah Moore Johnson , Raymond C. Odom |
THE FORGOTTEN 40 ACRES: HOW REAL PROPERTY, PROBATE & TAX LAWS CONTRIBUTED TO THE RACIAL WEALTH GAP AND HOW TAX POLICY COULD REPAIR IT |
57 Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Journal 1 (Spring, 2022) |
Authors' Synopsis: American racial history has been intertwined with land and wealth since the dawn of our nation. Slavery and the country's continued policies of institutionalized racism have resulted in a median ten-to-one wealth disparity between White and Black Americans. Throughout history, reparations have been a recognized method for... |
2022 |