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Azadeh Shahshahani, Divya Babbula REPARATIONS OWED TO THE SURVIVORS OF THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR 47 Harbinger 67 (3/22/2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   This article explores the obligations of the United States under international law to provide reparations--specifically in the form of reconstruction, refuge, and monetary damages--to the survivors of the Global War on Terror. Part I will set out the scope of the war on terror and who its survivors are for the purposes of reparations under... 2023
Trevor Reed RESTORATIVE JUSTICE FOR INDIGENOUS CULTURE 70 UCLA Law Review 516 (August, 2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   One still unresolved aspect of North American colonization arises out of the mass expropriation of Indigenous peoples' cultural expressions to European-settler institutions and their publics. Researchers, artists, entrepreneurs, missionaries, and many others worked in partnership with major universities, museums, corporations, foundations, and... 2023
Antony Anghie RETHINKING INTERNATIONAL LAW: A TWAIL RETROSPECTIVE 34 European Journal of International Law 7 (February, 2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   This EJIL Foreword is a personal retrospective of the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) movement. It provides an account of the origins of TWAIL and the political and intellectual context in which it emerged during the 1990s. It outlines some of the key themes and concerns of TWAIL--including colonial continuities', capitalism,... 2023
Brett G. Roberts RETURNING THE LAND: NATIVE AMERICANS AND NATIONAL PARKS 21 Ave Maria Law Review 148 (Spring, 2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The best things we experience, the best things we know are immaterial things. They're ideas or emotions . if you look at the earth, there are certain places that seem to have power, and we don't know what kind of power it is except you have a different feeling, you feel energized .. How do you approach that, take something that's larger in yourself... 2023
Diana Verm Thomson, Kayla A. Toney SACRED SPHERES: RELIGIOUS AUTONOMY AS AN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHT 72 Catholic University Law Review 151 (Spring, 2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   How should courts resolve thorny human rights disputes that arise within religious groups? According to an emerging international consensus, they shouldn't. When a case involves sensitive internal decisions by a religious organization, such as choosing who is qualified to teach the faith, courts are increasingly taking a hands-off approach. This... 2023
Naomi Murakawa SAY THEIR NAMES, SUPPORT THEIR KILLERS: POLICE REFORM AFTER THE 2020 BLACK LIVES MATTER UPRISINGS 69 UCLA Law Review 1430 (September, 2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Since the unprecedented Summer 2020 uprisings against policing and racism, many elites have embraced an anti-woke politics that openly celebrates law-and-order authoritarianism, heteropatriarchy, and white nationalism. This Article attends to a different but reinforcing response to the George Floyd uprisings: repression through a politics of... 2023
F. Michael Higginbotham SHADES OF JUSTICE: RACIAL PROFILING THEN AND NOW 94 University of Colorado Law Review 533 (Spring, 2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Introduction. 533 I. Knowing Where You Come From. 534 II. The First Racial Profile. 538 III. The Presumption Continues. 541 Conclusion. 546 2023
Adjoa A. Aiyetoro SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF RACE UNDERGIRDS RACISM BY PROVIDING UNDUE ADVANTAGES TO WHITE PEOPLE, DISADVANTAGING BLACK PEOPLE AND OTHER PEOPLE OF COLOR, AND VIOLATING THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF ALL PEOPLE OF COLOR 94 University of Colorado Law Review 415 (Spring, 2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   INTRODUCTION. 416 I. The Social Construction of Race and White Supremacy. 419 II. The Lethal Nature of the Construction of the Racial Hierarchy and White Supremacy. 426 A. Slavery. 426 B. Post Slavery Violence and Terrorism: The Tulsa Race Massacre. 428 C. Ending the Human and Structural Internalization of the Lie of a Racial Hierarchy and White... 2023
Aneil Kovvali STARK CHOICES FOR CORPORATE REFORM 123 Columbia Law Review 693 (April, 2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   For decades, corporate law scholars insisted on a simple division of responsibilities. Corporations were told to focus exclusively on maximizing financial returns to shareholders while the government tended to all other concerns by adopting new regulations. As reformers challenged this orthodoxy by urging corporations to take action on pressing... 2023
Roy L. Brooks SYMPOSIUM INTRODUCTION: WALKING WITH DESTINY 60 San Diego Law Review 455 (August-September, 2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 455 II. Redress Frames. 461 A. Models of Redress. 462 B. Forms of Reparations. 465 C. Transitional Justice. 466 III. The Interim Report. 468 IV. Framing the Interim Report. 471 V. Conclusion. 478 2023
Angela A. Allen-Bell TAKING EXCEPTION TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORMS THAT FAIL TO TRANSFORM: USING TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE TO END THE CARCERAL STATE 11 Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs 1 (2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 1 II. About TJ. 4 III. Truth-seeking Pillar: Race, the Carceral State & Human Rights. 7 IV. Memorialization Pillar: Honoring Blacks for International Efforts & Documenting the U.S.' Lack of Fidelity to the UN Process. 24 V. Prosecution Pillar. 35 VI. Reparations Pillar. 38 VII. Legal and Policy Reforms Pillar.... 2023
Alexander A. Boni-Saenz THE AGE OF RACISM 100 Washington University Law Review 1583 (2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   This Essay introduces the concept of aged racism, a distinct species of systemic racism characterized by its intersection with age. This subject has yet to receive significant theoretical attention in the legal scholarship, despite the social importance of both age and race and the many ways in which they are embedded in the law and legal... 2023
Jamila Jefferson-Jones THE ANTI-WOKE AND THE BLACK AMERICAN (WAKING) DREAM 17 Florida A & M University Law Review xv (Spring, 2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   This essay, though not a direct transcript, is based largely upon the keynote address given by the author on February 24, 2023, at the The American Dream Belongs to All of Us Symposium sponsored by the Florida A&M University (FAMU) Law Review and the FAMU Hispanic American Law Student Association (HALSA) at FAMU College of Law. The author... 2023
Samantha Rudelich THE DETROIT LAND BANK AUTHORITY: A MODERN TOOL PERPETUATING RACISM & CLASSISM IN THE CITY 30 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 619 (Spring, 2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Detroit has a long history of pushing out local residents and limiting their land ownership; a history rooted in racism and classism. This has led to large amounts of land in the city not under the control of residents and long-time Detroiters, but under the control of the city itself. Cities with large amounts of vacant and foreclosed land across... 2023
Brenda D. Gibson THE HEIRS' PROPERTY PROBLEM: RACIAL CASTE ORIGINS AND SYSTEMIC EFFECTS IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY 26 CUNY Law Review 172 (Summer, 2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I. Introduction. 173 II. The American Property Ownership Model Versus the Black Property Ownership Model. 176 A. The American Property Ownership Model. 177 B. The History of Black Property Ownership in the South. 179 III. Black Land Loss and Impediments to Black Land Ownership (and Wealth). 183 A. White Hands in Black Land Loss in the South. 185 1.... 2023
Joshua J. Schroeder THE IMAGINATION UNBOUND: ON THE NEW ANTI-RIGHTS TRAJECTORY OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT 50 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 187 (May, 2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   In the summer of 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled an individual right for the first time in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Org. The Dobbs Court also suggested that several rights-affirming decisions including Loving v. Virginia, Griswold v. Connecticut, and Obergefell v. Hodges should be systematically reviewed to similarly determine their... 2023
Mariya Denisenko THE IMPACT OF GOVERNMENT SPONSORED SEGREGATION ON HEALTH INEQUITIES: ADDRESSING DEATH GAPS THROUGH REPARATIONS 80 Washington and Lee Law Review 1687 (Fall, 2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Government sponsored segregation of urban neighborhoods has detrimentally impacted the health of Black Americans. Over the last century, federal, state, and local governments have promulgated racist laws and policies that shaped the racial divide of communities in major metropolitan cities. This divide has contributed to poor health outcomes and... 2023
Leilani Stacy THE MOVEMENT FOR BLACK LIVES: A CASE STUDY OF CONSTITUTIONAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF QUALIFIED IMMUNITY AND THE ARGUMENT FOR A LEGISLATED CONSTITUTION 32 Southern California Review of Law & Social Justice 201 (Spring, 2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   C1-2TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION. 202 II. A BRIEF HISTORY OF QUALIFIED IMMUNITY JURISPRUDENCE AND RECENT CALLS FOR ITS END. 205 III. AN OVERVIEW OF BLM AS A SOCIAL MOVEMENT AND POSITION ON QUALIFIED IMMUNITY. 209 IV. EXISTING THEORIES OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS' INFLUENCE ON THE CONSTITUTION. 213 A. Frameworks to Help Guide an Understanding of the... 2023
Megan Buechler THE NEVER-ENDING DROUGHT FOR BLACK FARMERS: THE LASTING EFFECTS OF PIGFORD AND THE CONTINUANCE OF USDA DISCRIMINATION 61 University of Louisville Law Review 223 (Spring, 2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The government may have admitted guilt and wrote a check but that is not what these farmers wanted. They wanted to be heard. They wanted their stories to be told, they wanted to protect future generations, Black and White, from ever letting this happen again. --Greg A. Francis Forty acres and a mule--William Sherman promised this redistribution... 2023
Martha M. Ertman THE NEW PRIVATE LAW THIRTY YEARS AFTER 100 Denver Law Review 533 (Spring, 2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 533 I. Contract as a Private Way Station. 535 II. Contractual Purgatory and Beyond. 535 III. Reparations for Racial Injustice. 538 Conclusion. 540 2023
Erin Bloom , Lisa K. Dicker THE POLITICS OF JUSTICE: ANALYZING THE POLITICIZATION OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE PROCESSES 38 Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution 303 (2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I. Introduction A. About Transitional Justice B. The Risks of Politicization II. Politicization of the Transitional Justice Narrative A. Competing Narratives B. Compromised Narratives C. Defining Victims and Perpetrators D. Conclusion III. Political Interests in Designing Transitional Justice Processes A. Selecting the Mechanisms B. Determining the... 2023
Joseph William Singer THE RIGHT TO HAVE PROPERTY 10 Texas A&M Law Review 713 (Summer, 2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Laura Underkuffler has kindly commented on my progressive, social-relations approach to property and property law. I feel humbled, honored, and seen. She notices the core moral commitments manifested in that work. She focuses on my scholarship on discrimination in public accommodations, the violent dispossession and persisting sovereignty of Native... 2023
Lisa J. Laplante THE WILD WEST OF COMPANY-LEVEL GRIEVANCE MECHANISMS: DRAWING NORMATIVE BORDERS TO PATROL THE PRIVATIZATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS REMEDIES 64 Harvard International Law Journal 311 (Spring, 2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   This Article is the first to present a normative framework that challenges the privatization of remedies established by corporations to resolve human rights violations which they contribute to or cause. The need to draw such normative borders responds to an unprecedented innovation of ordinary company complaint mechanisms to handle human rights... 2023
Tiffany D. Atkins THESE BRUTAL INDIGNITIES: THE CASE FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY IN BLACK AMERICA 111 Kentucky Law Journal 61 (2022-2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   L1-2Table of Contents . R361. L1-2Abstract . R362. L1-2Introduction . R363. I. The Historical Evidence. 66 A. Origins of Genocide. 68 B. Claims of Genocide. 69 i. Killing of Members of the Group. 69 ii. Causing Serious Mental Harm to Members Through Psychological Terror. 73 iii. Economic Genocide. 75 iv. Conspiracy to Commit Genocide Through... 2023
Emily J. Kawahara TRANSFORMATIVE DYNAMICS: REFRAMING THE ROLE OF REPARATIONS IN TRANSFORMING SOCIAL ORDER 60 San Diego Law Review 497 (August-September, 2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 497 II. Theory: Creating Transformative Dynamics. 499 III. Transitional Justice Mechanism: Atonement Model Reparations. 504 IV. Complementary Relationship: Reparations, Development Programs, Social Services. 507 V. Defining Expectations and Success. 510 VI. Conclusion. 511 2023
Todd J. Clark , Caleb Gregory Conrad , André Douglas Pond Cummings , Honorable Amy Dunn Johnson TRAUMA-INFORMED POLICING: THE IMPACT OF ADULT AND CHILDHOOD TRAUMA ON LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS 73 Case Western Reserve Law Review 843 (Spring, 2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Introduction. 845 I. The Science of Trauma. 846 A. Trauma on the Brain. 847 B. Childhood Trauma and the ACE Study. 849 C. Trauma and Psychopathology. 853 D. Childhood Trauma and Epigenetics. 854 E. The Criminal Justice System as a Cause of Trauma. 856 F. Protective Factors and the Science of PACEs. 857 G. Double Trauma: Black Police Officers. 858... 2023
Natsu Taylor Saito TRUTH, HEALING, EMPOWERMENT: ERIC YAMAMOTO ON REPARATIVE JUSTICE FOR THE PEOPLE OF JEJU 52 Southwestern Law Review 9 (2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Reparative justice has been a persistent theme of scholar-activist Eric K. Yamamoto's powerful and deeply insightful human rights work. His latest book, Healing the Persisting Wounds of Historic Injustice: United States, South Korea and the Jeju 4.3 Tragedy, applies the reparations framework he has developed over many years to a particularly... 2023
Carol Klier UNDERSTANDING DISCURSIVE FRAMINGS OF REPARATIONS FOR SLAVERY AND JIM CROW 60 San Diego Law Review 481 (August-September, 2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   C1-2Table of Contents I. Framing Reparations. 482 II. Initial Questions. 483 III. Why are Reparations Owed? Drawing a Line from Past to Present. 484 IV. What is Owed?. 487 V. Conclusion. 495 2023
Lindsay Sain Jones , Goldburn P. Maynard, Jr. UNFULFILLED PROMISES OF THE FINTECH REVOLUTION 111 California Law Review 801 (June, 2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   While financial technology (fintech) has the potential to make financial services more accessible and affordable, hope that technology alone can solve the complex issue of wealth inequality is misplaced. After all, fintech companies are still subject to the same market forces as traditional financial institutions, with little incentive to address... 2023
American Law Reports ALR Federal 2d Validity, Construction, and Application of § 6700 of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C.A. § 6700) Imposing Civil Penalties for Promoting Abusive Tax Shelters 36 A.L.R. Fed. 2d 377 (Originally published in 2009) (2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The promotion of abusive tax shelters has wide-reaching effects in our society, including the liability of taxpayers who rely on the promoters' false or fraudulent tax advice, dissipation of the courts' time by continual litigation over frivolous theories, and loss of tax revenues to the government. Section 6700 of the Internal Revenue Code (I.R.C.... 2023
Ruben Carranza WHAT JEJU 4.3 SURVIVORS AND FAMILIES CAN LEARN FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH IN SEEKING JUSTICE FROM AN EMPIRE 52 Southwestern Law Review 126 (2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Discovered by the soldiers, I was dragged out into the street, and the sky was filled with smoke as the village burned. Bang, bang, bang, I heard gunshots, and the heads I saw were gone. I wish I could forget the sin, but I remember when I close my eyes as if it was yesterday. An 8-year-old girl has become an 80-year-old woman, who still has not... 2023
Charisa Smith WHEN COVID CAPITALISM SILENCES CHILDREN 71 University of Kansas Law Review 553 (May, 2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The lingering COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in policy developments that mar child and family wellbeing while effectively suppressing U.S. children in civic life. Although the prevailing framework for child-parent-state conflicts already antagonized families and disenfranchised youth, COVID Capitalism threatens to silence children on virtually... 2023
Mikayla Mangle WHEN THE LEGAL SYSTEM WAS DESIGNED TO WORK AGAINST YOU, HOW CAN IT EVER WORK FOR YOU? RETHINKING HEIRS PROPERTY REFORM 17 Charleston Law Review 541 (Spring, 2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   INTRODUCTION. 541 I. AMERICA'S DISCRIMINATORY PAST NEVER LEFT: HOW JIM CROW ERA LAWS HELPED LEAD TO THE CREATION OF HEIRS PROPERTY. 545 A. An Empty Promise of Homeownership to Black Americans Throughout History. 546 B. When Past Discrimination Lingers: How Racially Discriminatory Laws and Tactics Created Heirs Property. 554 II. CURRENT REFORMS TO... 2023
Sonia M. Gipson Rankin WOULD YOU MAKE IT TO THE FUTURE? TEACHING RACE IN AN ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND THE LAW CLASSROOM 56 Family Law Quarterly 1 (2022-2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Would you make it to the future? For the last five years, I have started my Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) lecture in Family Law with this question. Students take the query seriously. They ponder their lived experiences such as home training, medical history, education, financial well-being, personality traits, work ethic, and social graces... 2023
Charisa Smith YOUTH VISIONS AND EMPOWERMENT: RECONSTRUCTION THROUGH REVOLUTION 75 Rutgers University Law Review 825 (Spring, 2023) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   We've had this idea of growing up thinking, what the heck is this? What the heck is going on? .. [T]his isn't right. This is crazy. We need a whole new system .. OK, you guys might have been raised to think that this system benefits you, but you've been brainwashed. Let us give it to you straight. --Lily Mandel at age seventeen, organizer at Bucks... 2023
  § 1:35. A philosophical and policy overview of constitutional and statutory civil rights law principles-Examples of the tension between the process and outcome theories-A case study in process versus outcome theory: The Metro Broadcasting decision FCIVRTACTS § 1:35 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   One recent Supreme Court decision, Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, crystallizes the entire debate between the process and outcome notions of equality. The Metro Broadcasting decision is worth holding up to close examination as a detailed case study 2022
  § 13:9. Other civil rights legislation GOVDISCRIM Government Discrimination: Equal Protection Law and Litigation 13:9 (2022) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Civil rights legislation, in addition to the laws summarized above, provides both criminal and civil causes of action where federal statutory and constitutional rights are abridged. It is also possible to sue federal officials directly under the Constitution. The most significant civil cause of action provision is § 1983. The provision, which... 2022
PENALTIES § 13A:35.50. Return Preparers-Frivolous Position CASEY § 13A:35.50 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The Service may seek injunctions against preparers who are advocating frivolous positions. For example, it has obtained injunctions against preparing returns claiming a credit or refund as reparations for slavery. The 2006 Tax Relief and Health Care Act increased the penalty for submitting a frivolous return position from $500 to $5,000. Also,... 2022
Martin D. Carr, Ann Taylor Schwing § 25:63. Tolling for persons disabled or affected by war or great cruelty CAAFDEF Expert Series 25:63 (2022) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   Section 354 of the Code of Civil Procedure provides: When a person is, by reason of the existence of a state of war, under a disability to commence an action, the time of the continuance of such disability is not part of the period limited for the commencement of the action whether such cause of action shall have accrued prior to or during the... 2022
Jones-Sawyer (A) 2021 CA A.B. 2296 (NS) 2021 California Assembly Bill No. 2296, California 2021-2022 Regular Session Legislation (Proposed & Enacted)   An act to amend Section Sections 8301.1, 8301.2, and 8301.7 of the Government Code, relating to state government. AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 11, 2022 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE--2021-22 REGULAR SESSION ASSEMBLY BILL No. 2296 Introduced by Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer February 16, 2022 An act to amend Section Sections 8301.1, 8301.2, and 8301.7 of the Government Code, relating to state government. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2296, as amended, Jones-Sawyer. Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans. Existing law establishes the Task Force to Study and... 2022
Jones-Sawyer (A) 2021 CA A.B. 2296 (NS) 2021 California Assembly Bill No. 2296, California 2021-2022 Regular Session Legislation (Proposed & Enacted)   An act to amend Sections 8301.1, 8301.2, and 8301.7 of the Government Code, relating to state government. Assembly Bill No. 2296 Passed the Assembly August 30, 2022 __________________________________ Chief Clerk of the Assembly Passed the Senate August 29, 2022 __________________________________ Secretary of the Senate This bill was received by the Governor this _____ day of ______________, 2022, at _____ o'clock ___M. __________________________________ Private Secretary of the Governor CHAPTER ________ An act to amend Sections 8301.1, 8301.2, and 8301.7 of the Government Code,... 2022
Solages, Michaelle C. 2021 NY A.B. 9435 (NS) 2021 New York Assembly Bill No. 9435, New York Two Hundred Forty-Fourth Legislative Session Legislation (Proposed & Enacted)   BRISPORT SOLAGES, AUBRY, DICKENS, PRETLOW, WILLIAMS, WALKER, PEOPLES-STOKES, COOK, VANEL, HYNDMAN, CAHILL, JEAN-PIERRE, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, TAYLOR, DILAN, DARLING, JOYNER, BENEDETTO, EPSTEIN, FRONTUS, REYES, NOLAN, O'DONNELL, CRUZ, ZINERMAN, JACKSON, BURGOS, FORREST, ANDERSON, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, J. RIVERA Relates to acknowledging the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the city of New York and the state of New York; establishes the New York state community commission on reparations remedies to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and... 2022
Assemblymen Spearman 2022 NJ A.B. 938 (NS) 2022 New Jersey Assembly Bill No. 938, New Jersey Two Hundred Twentieth Legislature - First Annual Session Legislation (Proposed & Enacted)   Establishes New Jersey Reparations Task Force." ASSEMBLY 2022
2022 Primary Sponsor(s): Rice 2022 NJ S.B. 386 (NS) 2022 New Jersey Senate Bill No. 386, New Jersey Two Hundred Twentieth Legislature - First Annual Session Legislation (Proposed & Enacted)   Establishes New Jersey Reparations Task Force." SENATE 2022
Penelope Andrews A COMMISSION ON RECOGNITION AND RECONSTRUCTION FOR THE UNITED STATES: ILLUSORY OR INSPIRATIONAL? 66 New York Law School Law Review 359 (2021/2022) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   The United States remains a deeply divided society, with the fault line continuing to be that of race and racism. Of course, this is not new, as W. E. B. Du Bois famously noted more than a century ago that the problem of the color line would be the central issue of the United States in the twentieth century. And so it remains today. The statistics... 2022
Kim Oosterlinck , Ugo Panizza , W. Mark C. Weidemaier , Mitu Gulati A DEBT OF DISHONOR 102 Boston University Law Review 1247 (May, 2022) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   In 1825, France conditioned its grant of recognition to the new nation of Haiti on the payment of 150 million francs plus trade benefits. The payments were, at least in part, compensation for the losses that French plantation owners suffered, a key part of which was the loss of enslaved Haitians, who took their freedom via revolution. France has... 2022
Steven Sacco ABOLISHING CITIZENSHIP: RESOLVING THE IRRECONCILABILITY BETWEEN "SOIL" AND "BLOOD" POLITICAL MEMBERSHIP AND ANTI-RACIST DEMOCRACY 36 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 693 (Winter, 2022) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 694 II. Citizenship as Racism and Anti-Democracy. 698 A. Citizenship as Race. 698 1. Race Becomes Citizenship. 700 2. Citizenship Becomes Race. 711 3. Citizenship Racializes Citizens. 714 B. Citizenship as Anti-Democracy. 718 1. Citizenship Is Anti-Egalitarian. 718 a. Citizenship Is a Caste System. 718 b.... 2022
Kiah Duggins ABOLITION AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS: TAIWAN'S AFFIRMATION OF BLACK AMERICAN ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENTS 57 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 361 (Summer, 2022) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   America's use of police to maintain a social order that protects the interests of white upper-class citizens is similar to Taiwan's use of a police state to protect the interests of its authoritarian regime from 1945-1987. America's history and international positionality are vastly different from Taiwan's. However, grassroots movements that... 2022
Kerri M. Gefeke AMERICA TO ME--A PUBLIC NUISANCE REPARATIONS FRAMEWORK THROUGH THE LENS OF THE TULSA MASSACRE 55 UIC Law Review 681 (Winter 2022) Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources   I. Introduction. 682 II. Background. 686 A. What are Reparations?. 686 B. Types of Reparations Provided by the United States in the Past. 687 1. The Rhetoric of Race and Understanding United States History. 687 2. Reparations to the Sioux Nation. 688 3. Reparations to Japanese-Americans Internment Survivors. 689 4. Reparations for the Tuskegee... 2022
  Civil Action to Enforce Court-ordered Support Obligations Pursuant to the Social Security Act Sec. 460 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 660) Complaint for Declaratory Relief, Injunctive Relief and Damages Applied Severally and Jointly to Defendants Sued Individually Deman 2022 WL 2757431 Trial Court Documents   I, Cheryl D. Uzamere, am the petitioner and the plaintiff in the above-entitled action. 2) The Kings County Family Court case for which I filed a petition for spousal support is Cheryl... 2022
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