| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| E. Tendayi Achiume |
DIGITAL RACIAL BORDERS |
115 AJIL Unbound 333 (2021) |
It is the core and intended function of borders to discriminate. Descriptively, their purpose is to differentiate or distinguish among different categories of persons, sorting those who may enter and belong from those who may not. But it is also a core function of modern borders to discriminate in the normatively prejudicial sense--they allocate... |
2021 |
| Alison Siegler, William Admussen |
DISCOVERING RACIAL DISCRIMINATION BY THE POLICE |
115 Northwestern University Law Review 987 (2021) |
Abstract--For decades, it was virtually impossible for a criminal defendant to challenge racial discrimination by the police or prosecutors. This was because in United States v. Armstrong, 517 U.S. 456 (1996), the Supreme Court set an insurmountable standard for obtaining discovery in support of a selective prosecution claim. Equating the roles of... |
2021 |
| Justice Steven David, Angka Hinshaw |
DISCUSSING RACISM AND INEQUITIES WITH LEADERS OF INDIANA SUPREME COURT AND INDIANA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION |
64-APR Res Gestae 16 (April, 2021) |
Unlike most years, many people ended 2020 exhausted, defeated and ready for change. Many of those individuals are ready to shift gears and recalibrate old ways. These New Year's resolutions are not focused on recalibrating the physical body, but the mind. 2020 left many, particularly people of color, hurt, betrayed, unheard, and feeling others... |
2021 |
| Melissa Ballengee Alexander |
DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE AND RACIAL HEALTH EQUITY: WHAT COVID-19 TEACHES ABOUT MEDICARE'S BLANKET PRIORITY FOR AMERICANS OF ADVANCED AGE |
51 University of Memphis Law Review 823 (Summer, 2021) |
I. Introduction. 824 II. The United States Rations Health Care Based on Ability to Pay While Providing Special Assistance to Individuals of Advanced Age. 828 A. A Third of Americans Lack Access to Needed, Beneficial Care Because They Cannot Afford to Pay. 828 B. The Government Funds Care for Individuals of Advanced Age Regardless of Wealth, While... |
2021 |
| Jennifer M. Lechner , B. Leigh Wicclair |
DRIVEN TO DESPAIR: CONFRONTING RACIAL INEQUITY IN NORTH CAROLINA'S LICENSE SUSPENSION PRACTICES |
43 Campbell Law Review 203 (2021) |
Hundreds of thousands of North Carolina drivers have a suspended license for unpaid traffic court fines and fees. The practice of suspending drivers' licenses for unpaid fines and fees is inequitable and counterproductive. This practice disenfranchises rural drivers and those facing poverty and creates a significant obstacle to employment.... |
2021 |
| Andrew T. Hayashi |
DYNAMIC PROPERTY TAXES AND RACIAL GENTRIFICATION |
96 Notre Dame Law Review 1517 (March, 2021) |
Many jurisdictions determine real property taxes based on a combination of current market values and the recent history of market values, introducing a dynamic aspect to property taxes. By design, homes in rapidly appreciating neighborhoods enjoy lower tax rates than homes in other areas. Since growth in home prices is correlated with--and may be... |
2021 |
| Gary J. Simson |
ELECTION LAWS DISPROPORTIONATELY DISADVANTAGING RACIAL MINORITIES, AND THE FUTILITY OF TRYING TO SOLVE TODAY'S PROBLEMS WITH YESTERDAY'S NEVER VERY GOOD TOOLS |
70 Emory Law Journal 1143 (2021) |
In the final weeks leading up to the 2020 national election, scarcely a day seemed to pass without news of a challenge to, or court decision on, a state election law that, though race-neutral on its face, was likely to disproportionately disadvantage racial minorities. Sadly, state legislative activities since the election have offered little... |
2021 |
| Paul Heaton |
ENHANCED PUBLIC DEFENSE IMPROVES PRETRIAL OUTCOMES AND REDUCES RACIAL DISPARITIES |
96 Indiana Law Journal 701 (Spring, 2021) |
Numerous jurisdictions are working to reform pretrial processes to reduce or eliminate money bail and decrease pretrial detention. Although reforms such as the abandonment of bail schedules or adoption of actuarial risk assessment tools have been widely enacted, the role of defense counsel in the pretrial process has received less attention. This... |
2021 |
| Kevin Woodson |
ENTRENCHED RACIAL HIERARCHY: EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITY FROM THE CRADLE TO THE LSAT |
105 Minnesota Law Review Headnotes 481 (Spring, 2021) |
For my contribution to this special issue of the Minnesota Law Review, I will attempt to situate the problem of black underrepresentation at Americas law schools within the broader context of racial hierarchy in American society. The former has generated an extensive body of legal scholarship and commentary, centering primarily on the racial impact... |
2021 |
| Kevin Woodson |
ENTRENCHED RACIAL HIERARCHY: EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITY FROM THE CRADLE TO THE LSAT |
47 Mitchell Hamline Law Review 224 (November, 2021) |
For my contribution to this special issue of the Minnesota Law Review, I will attempt to situate the problem of black underrepresentation at America's law schools within the broader context of racial hierarchy in American society. The former has generated an extensive body of legal scholarship and commentary, centering primarily on the racial... |
2021 |
| Andie J. Sweeden |
ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM IN INDIAN COUNTRY: AN ANALYSIS OF ITS IMPACTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES AND ITS CONNECTION TO THE DIMINISHMENT OF TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY |
12 Arizona Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 107 (Fall, 2021) |
This note seeks to discuss environmental racism and its connection to the diminishment of tribal sovereignty. First, there will be a discussion on the history and origin of tribal sovereignty, and the presence of tribes and Indigenous peoples in the United States. Second, there will be an examination of how the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts have... |
2021 |
| Vivian D. Wesson |
ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM: HOW LAWYERS CAN HELP CLOSE THE CLIMATE GAP |
93-FEB New York State Bar Journal 34 (January/February, 2021) |
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the Gulf Coast region of the United States. The category 3 storm brought wind speeds in excess of 120 mph and a storm surge as high as 19 feet. For cities in the storm's path, like New Orleans, officials ordered mandatory evacuations. Many New Orleans residents, though, lacked the financial... |
2021 |
| William C.C. Kemp-Neal J.D. |
ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM: USING ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING TO LIFT PEOPLE OUT OF POVERTY, AND RE-SHAPE THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE & POLLUTION IN COMMUNITIES OF COLOR |
32 Fordham Environmental Law Review 295 (Symposium-Spring, 2021) |
Long before the phrase I can't breathe became a rallying cry for Black Lives Matter activists protesting the deaths of Black people at the hands of police, environmental-justice activists warned that pollution was choking and killing people of color in the U.S. In the mid-1900s the United States began to see a rise in concern for environmental... |
2021 |
| Gracen Eiland |
ERASING RACE: THE ROLE OF REPUBLICANISM AND RACISM IN FRENCH CONSTITUTIONAL JURISPRUDENCE |
35 Temple International and Comparative Law Journal 167 (Summer, 2021) |
In the summer of 2018, France's parliament voted to remove the word race from the country's constitution in an effort to pursue its colorblind approach to combatting racism. Traditional French secularism stresses the non-existence of race, but by refusing to acknowledge race, France also refuses to acknowledge the reality of racism within its... |
2021 |
| Gustavo Ribeiro |
EVIDENTIARY POLICIES THROUGH OTHER MEANS: THE DISPARATE IMPACT OF "SUBSTANTIVE LAW" ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF ERRORS AMONG RACIAL GROUPS |
2021 Utah Law Review 441 (2021) |
This Article develops an analytical framework to investigate novel ways in which legal reforms disguised as substantive can affect procedural due process safeguards differently among racial groups. Scholars have long recognized the impact evidence rules have on substantive policies, such as modifying primary incentives or affecting the... |
2021 |
| Andre Vitale , New Jersey Office of the Public Defender, Jersey City, New Jersey, 201-795-8949, Email andre.vitale@opd.nj.gov |
FIGHTING RACIAL BIAS BY THE POLICE THROUGH SUPPRESSION LITIGATION |
45-JUL Champion 12 (July, 2021) |
Every day, criminal defense lawyers see the negative impact of racial bias in the criminal court system. It can be seen in every decision, starting with police encounters and continuing to discrepancies in sentencing. People of color are far more likely to be stopped and arrested than white people. Police target enforcement and surveillance efforts... |
2021 |
| T. Alexander Aleinikoff |
FOREWORD TO THE REPUBLICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION IN CONTEXT: THE CONTINUING SIGNIFICANCE OF RACISM |
92 University of Colorado Law Review 1315 (Special Issue 2021) |
It is disturbing--to say the least--that an article written nearly three decades ago based on an assertion of the continuing existence of racism in the United States can be seen as meriting republication, not for its historical interest but because of its current relevance. The article began with descriptions of the brutal murder of Emmet Till in... |
2021 |
| Norrinda Brown Hayat |
FREEDOM PEDAGOGY: TOWARD TEACHING ANTIRACIST CLINICS |
28 Clinical Law Review 149 (Fall, 2021) |
Like other sectors of society, legal education is undergoing a reckoning in the wake of the 2020 murder of George Floyd, demands for racial justice from the Movement for Black Lives, and related demands for abolitionism and defunding the police. Through the lens of a formal call to action issued by the Rutgers Law School faculty and the author's... |
2021 |
| Dr. Donald F. Tibbs |
FROM TIKTOK TO RACIAL VIOLENCE: ANTI-BLACKNESS IN THE GENDERED SPHERE |
33 Saint Thomas Law Review 198 (Spring, 2021) |
The impact of Covid-19 on racial and social consciousness during 2020 was significant. While much of the world was in social incapacitation, we passed the time by tuning into our televisions and social devices. The local and national news told stories of the rising number of deaths lost to the virus. Particularly hard hit by the virus were people... |
2021 |
| Amber Joy Powell , Michelle S. Phelps |
GENDERED RACIAL VULNERABILITY: HOW WOMEN CONFRONT CRIME AND CRIMINALIZATION |
55 Law and Society Review 429 (September, 2021) |
Prior research illustrates how race-class subjugated communities are over-policed and under-protected, producing high rates of victimization by other community members and the police. Yet few studies explore how gender and race structure dual frustration, despite a long line of Black feminist scholarship on the interpersonal, gender-based, and... |
2021 |
| Gabrielle Kolencik |
HARMONY BETWEEN MAN AND HIS ENVIRONMENT: REVIEWING THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S CHANGES TO THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT IN THE CONTEXT OF ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM |
9 Joule: Duquesne Energy & Environmental Law Journal 1 (Spring, 2021) |
In 1970, Congress passed, with strong bipartisan support, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for the purpose of requiring federal agencies to engage in efforts which will prevent or eliminate damage to the environment and biosphere and stimulate the health and welfare of man. For over fifty years, NEPA had propelled towards the... |
2021 |
| Todd Anthony Walker |
HEALING RACISM'S WOUNDS: ON RACIAL RECKONING & OBAMA'S "A PROMISED LAND" |
6 Columbia Human Rights Law Review Online 34 (November 11, 2021) |
Legal controversies surrounding race and racism have persisted in America from its inception, but not without intervention. Supreme Court decisions in Dred Scott, Plessy and Brown trace the Court's jurisprudential evolution while, legislatively, the passage of the post-civil rights Amendments, and, more recently, The Civil Rights Act of 1964,... |
2021 |
| Peggy Cooper Davis , Zachary Mason |
HIDDEN VOICES: REIMAGINING RACIAL VIOLENCE |
44 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 217 (Spring, 2021) |
Searching for Stories of the Past. 217 A Leap of Invention. 221 The Story of Ella Buford. 223 Changes of Perspective. 245 |
2021 |
| Jerry Klaristenfeld |
HIGH PRESS: STAKEHOLDERS AND THE LEGAL FIGHT AGAINST RACISM IN WORLD FOOTBALL |
100 Texas Law Review 189 (November, 2021) |
Death to the Arabs. Forever Pure. War. These have been but a few of the hateful slogans cried out in Teddy Stadium by members of La Familia, Beitar Jerusalem Football Club's far-right nationalist supporters group. Racism in football is not a recent, nor regional, development. While the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)... |
2021 |
| Andrea Giampetro-Meyer |
HOW ANTIRACIST LAWYERS CAN PRODUCE POWER AND POLICY CHANGE |
24 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 237 (Spring, 2021) |
with contributions from Sydney Brooke and Janae James I. Introduction. 238 II.Antiracism and Integrated Advocacy. 240 A. Antiracism. 240 B. Integrated Advocacy. 241 III. Prohibiting Hair Discrimination. 242 A. Litigation and Legislative Advocacy. 243 B. Media Engagement, Community Organizing, and Interdisciplinary Collaborations. 247 IV. Abolishing... |
2021 |
| Martin Guggenheim |
HOW RACIAL POLITICS LED DIRECTLY TO THE ENACTMENT OF THE ADOPTION AND SAFE FAMILIES ACT OF 1997--THE WORST LAW AFFECTING FAMILIES EVER ENACTED BY CONGRESS |
11 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 711 (July, 2021) |
This Article is part of a celebration of the magnificent work of Dorothy Roberts who, more than any other scholar, has brilliantly demonstrated both the highly destructive qualities of the United States' family regulation system and its relationship to the country's legacy of slavery. The most vicious feature of the current family regulation system... |
2021 |
| Brendan W. Williams |
HUNGER GAMES: RACIAL POLITICS AND THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE |
43 North Carolina Central Law Review 103 (2021) |
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) was established by a law signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862, with the benign charge to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and... |
2021 |
| Karla M. McKanders |
IMMIGRATION AND RACIAL JUSTICE: ENFORCING THE BORDERS OF BLACKNESS |
37 Georgia State University Law Review 1139 (Summer, 2021) |
Black immigrants are invisible at the intersection of their race and immigration status. Until recently, conversations on border security, unlawful immigration, and national security obscured racially motivated laws seeking to halt the blackening and browning of America. This Article engages with the impact of immigration enforcement at the... |
2021 |
| Aila Hoss |
INDIANA'S INDIAN LAWS: INDIGENOUS ERASURE AND RACISM IN THE LAND OF THE INDIANS |
30-SPG Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 184 (Spring, 2021) |
In response to a request for funding on Tribal and Indian law research, a director level position from Indiana University who reviewed a draft of the proposal stated that the author needed to clear why a team from the middle of Indiana is positioned to conduct this research and that it is her job to point out the obvious. In the author's... |
2021 |
| Susan Ayres |
INSIDE THE MASTER'S GATES: RESOURCES AND TOOLS TO DISMANTLE RACISM AND SEXISM IN HIGHER EDUCATION |
21 Journal of Law in Society 20 (Winter, 2021) |
INTRODUCTION. 21 I. DISMANTLING THE MASTER'S HOUSE: RESOURCES. 28 II. SUBSTANCE OF FIRE AND THE STORYTELLING MOVEMENT. 31 A. The Backstory. 31 B. Overview of Substance of Fire. 33 C. The Case for Storytelling. 35 III. SUBSTANCE OF FIRE: NARRATIVES AND COUNTER-STORYTELLING. 37 A. Lack of Mentors, Microaggressions. 38 B. Performing Gender, Safe... |
2021 |
| Tanya Katerí Hernández , © 2020 |
IS THERE A "MULATTO ESCAPE HATCH" OUT OF RACISM?: A REFLECTION ON MULTIRACIAL EXCEPTIONALISM DURING A TIME OF #BLACKLIVESMATTER |
34 Journal of Civil Rights & Economic Development 65 (Spring, 2021) |
A mulatto escape hatch is an escape from the disabilities of blackness for some colored people. To have a symposium organized to review the ideas in my book, Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination, is an honor, and the JCRED editors, along with their dynamic Faculty Advisors Elaine Chiu and Rosa Castello, have my... |
2021 |
| David A. Grenardo |
IT'S WORTH A SHOT: CAN SPORTS COMBAT RACISM IN THE UNITED STATES? |
12 Harvard Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law 237 (Spring, 2021) |
Racism has stained this country throughout its history, and racism persists today in the United States, including in sports. Sports represent a reflection of society and its ills, but they can also provide a powerful means to combat racism. This article examines the state of racism in society and sports both historically and today. It also provides... |
2021 |
| Anna Harvey, Sidak Yntiso |
JUDICIAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND RACIAL DISPARITY IN CRIMINAL APPEALS |
50 Journal of Legal Studies 261 (June, 2021) |
Existing research indicates that retention through election induces larger effects on judicial votes in criminal cases than retention through appointment. Yet such research has addressed neither case selection effects across retention institutions nor heterogeneous treatment effects by defendants' and judges' race. Leveraging the unique retention... |
2021 |
| Merideth J. Hogan , Diana Stanley |
KANSAS BAR ASSOCIATION DIVERSITY COMMITTEE'S RESPONSE TO RACIAL INJUSTICE |
90-DEC Journal of the Kansas Bar Association 42 (November/December, 2021) |
In February 2021, the Kansas Bar Association Diversity Committee proposed six initiatives to the Board of Governors. These initiatives are the collective work of many legal practitioners in our state and focus on remedying racial injustice. Happily, the Board of Governors approved the initiatives with high support. This article serves as an update... |
2021 |
| Eric J. Miller |
KNOWING YOUR PLACE: THE POLICE ROLE IN THE REPRODUCTION OF RACIAL HIERARCHY |
89 George Washington Law Review 1607 (December, 2021) |
The enforcement of criminal law by the public police is justified as enforcing civility: codes of public conduct that ensure civilians can walk down the street feeling confident about their safety and security. Civility is, however, a socially contingent phenomenon, one that often reinforces demands to acknowledge and respect some person's social... |
2021 |
| Samuel Vincent Jones |
LAW SCHOOLS, CULTURAL COMPETENCY, AND ANTI-BLACK RACISM: THE LIBERTY OF DISCRIMINATION |
21 Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy 84 (2021) |
Introduction. 84 I. Do Law Schools Have Liberty to Discriminate Against Black Law Students?. 86 A. The Black Law Student Experience. 87 B. Law Schools and the Liberty to Foster Anti-Black Racism. 90 II. Should Law Schools Require Cultural Competency Instruction as a Means to Curtail Anti-Black Racial Discrimination?. 96 A. Cultural Competency... |
2021 |
| Sama Kahook |
LEFT TO THEIR OWN DEVICES: ADDRESSING RACIAL BIASES IN THE FDA APPROVAL PROCESS FOR MEDICAL DEVICES |
30 Annals of Health Law Advance Directive 153 (Spring, 2021) |
Unconscious bias plagues the medical field and threatens the diagnosis, treatment, and physician-patient relationship between doctors and patients of color. The disparities affecting people of color in the United States include access to health care, the quality of care received, and health outcomes. Healthcare disparities are exacerbated by... |
2021 |
| Michele Goodwin |
LESSONS IN RACE AND RACISM IN THE LEGAL ACADEMY: NOTES ON PAULI MURRAY |
73 Rutgers University Law Review 913 (Spring, 2021) |
C1-3Table of Contents I. Revisiting Theories on Inequality. 915 II. Pipelines of Discrimination. 918 III. Conclusion. 921 |
2021 |
| Justice Steven David, Angka Hinshaw |
LET US TALK ABOUT RACISM |
64-JUN Res Gestae 26 (June, 2021) |
Since January 2021, hundreds of attorneys, judges, and law students have journeyed with us as we discussed racism. The featured panelists in ISBA's Open Conversations program have opened their hearts and shared intimate experiences of racism. All of the panelists are successful individuals, but you would never know the struggles they faced and... |
2021 |
| Elizabeth Kronk Warner |
LIVING IN TWO WORLDS |
73 Rutgers University Law Review 933 (Spring, 2021) |
Anti-racism calls us to work toward ending racial hatred, bias, systemic racism, and the oppression of marginalized groups. For many of us working in higher education leadership, this means that we are actively creating space for marginalized voices both in classrooms and through research. But the question of who should be included does not always... |
2021 |
| Steven T. Taylor |
MCDERMOTT PARTNER MANAGES TWO OFFICES, PRACTICES EMPLOYMENT LAW, AND ADVOCATES FOR DIVERSITY/RACIAL EQUALITY |
40 Of Counsel 24 (February, 2021) |
It didn't take the partners at Chicago-based McDermott Will & Emery long to see the talents that Pankit Doshi brings to their firm. In the two and half years he's been with the partnership, Doshi's risen to the leadership ranks, serving as the managing partner of McDermott's San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices. He advocates for diversity and... |
2021 |
| Colleen Campbell |
MEDICAL VIOLENCE, OBSTETRIC RACISM, AND THE LIMITS OF INFORMED CONSENT FOR BLACK WOMEN |
26 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 47 (Winter, 2021) |
This Essay critically examines how medicine actively engages in the reproductive subordination of Black women. In obstetrics, particularly, Black women must contend with both gender and race subordination. Early American gynecology treated Black women as expendable clinical material for its institutional needs. This medical violence was animated by... |
2021 |
| James S. Liebman , Kayla C. Butler , Ian Buksunski |
MINE THE GAP: USING RACIAL DISPARITIES TO EXPOSE AND ERADICATE RACISM |
30 Southern California Review of Law & Social Justice 1 (Winter, 2021) |
For decades, lawyers and legal scholars have disagreed over how much resource redistribution to expect from federal courts and Congress in satisfaction of the Fourteenth Amendment's promise of equal protection. Of particular importance to this debate and to the nation given its kaleidoscopic history of inequality, is the question of racial... |
2021 |
| James T. Smith |
NURTURING THE BABY BOND PROPOSAL: HOW TAX PRINCIPLES CAN CLOSE THE RACIAL WEALTH GAP IN THE UNITED STATES |
94 Temple Law Review 147 (Fall, 2021) |
[T]he problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power. Every day I'm trying to play catch-up, said Kourtney McGowan--a Black mother from California who became unemployed after her company refused to accommodate her work schedule during the COVID-19 pandemic.... |
2021 |
| Emily E. Harrison |
ODOR IN THE COURT! AND IT SMELLS LIKE ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM: HOW BIG PORK IS LEGALLY ABUSING POOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA |
11 Wake Forest Journal of Law and Policy 433 (2021) |
Over 500 plaintiffs across eastern North Carolina have filed twenty-six separate lawsuits against Murphy-Brown, LLC (Murphy-Brown), a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, which is a Chinese-owned company. Smithfield Foods is the largest pork and hog producer in the world, generating 8.6 billion pounds of pork and 18.9 million hogs in 2016 alone. The... |
2021 |
| Michael McCann , Filiz Kahraman |
ON THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF LIBERAL AND ILLIBERAL/AUTHORITARIAN LEGAL FORMS IN RACIAL CAPITALIST REGIMES . THE CASE OF THE UNITED STATES |
17 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 483 (2021) |
legal orders, race and inequality, labor, capitalism, authoritarianism, liberalism Scholars conventionally distinguish between liberal and illiberal, or authoritarian, legal orders. Such distinctions are useful but often simplistic and misleading, as many regimes are governed by plural, dual, or hybrid legal institutions, principles, and practices.... |
2021 |
| Lori A. Young |
ONE JOURNEY TOWARD RACIAL JUSTICE: THE POWER OF ME, THE POWER OF WE |
24 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 5 (Spring, 2021) |
I remember being emotionally traumatized when I learned of Trayvon Martin. Then came Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Later, seeing the video of Philando Castille was gut-wrenching. I couldn't even watch the entire eight minute and 46 second video of George Floyd's killing. These stories--these images--of Black men senselessly killed without... |
2021 |
| Renee Nicole Allen |
OUR COLLECTIVE WORK, OUR COLLECTIVE STRENGTH |
73 Rutgers University Law Review 881 (Spring, 2021) |
This essay considers the collective strength of women of color in two contexts: when we are well represented on law school faculties and when we contribute to accomplishing stated institutional diversity goals. Critical mass is broadly defined as a sufficient number of people of color. Though the concept has been socially appropriated, its origins... |
2021 |
| Lauren McLane |
OUR LOWER COURTS MUST GET IN "GOOD TROUBLE, NECESSARY TROUBLE," AND DESERT TWO PILLARS OF RACIAL INJUSTICE--WHREN v. UNITED STATES AND BATSON v. KENTUCKY |
20 Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal 181 (Spring, 2021) |
We must get in trouble, good trouble . use the law, use the law, use the Constitution to bring about a nonviolent revolution. - Rep. John Lewis On July 10, 2015, Sandra Bland was on the way to her alma mater, Prairie View A&M University, a historically Black university in Texas, to take a new job. When Trooper Encinia's patrol car got into the lane... |
2021 |
| Leah K. Burton, Noelle G. Hicks |
OVERCOMING RACISM IN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS: ATTORNEYS AS AGENTS OF CHANGE |
37 Practical Real Estate Lawyer 3 (September 1, 2021) |
Racism exists in community associations. We all know it does. How many times have you been on the phone with a board of directors discussing a covenant violation when all of a sudden one of the board members chimes in with a comment about the race of the homeowner at issue? Before you even have a chance to bring up the Fair Housing Act and remind... |
2021 |