| Author | Title | Citation | Document Type | Status | Summary | Year |
| Sanders, Jr., James |
2019 Ny S.b. 2904 (Ns) |
2019 New York Senate Bill No. 2904, New York Two Hundred Forty-Second Legislative Session (4/17/2019) |
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SUMMARY: SANDERS, PARKER, SEPULVEDA 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 commission to study reparations for African-Americans and to recommend remedies to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, the impact of these forces on living African-Americans and to make recommendations on appropriate remedies; makes an appropriation therefor; and provides for the repeal of such... |
2019 |
| Reynolds |
2019 Tx H.c.r. 150 (Ns) |
2019 Texas House Concurrent Resolution No. 150, Texas Eighty-Sixth Legislature (4/5/2019) |
Legislation (Proposed & Enacted) |
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SUMMARY: Memorializing the 116th Congress to pass H.R. 40 establishing a commission to study and develop reparation proposals for African Americans. 86R24010 SME-D By: Reynolds H.C.R. No. 150 CONCURRENT RESOLUTION WHEREAS, During a span of nearly 250 years, beginning in 1619 and continuing until 1865, approximately four million Africans and their descendants were enslaved and forced into uncompensated labor in the United States and the 13 American colonies that preceded the founding of this nation; and WHEREAS, The enslavement of Africans and their descendants was constitutionally sanctioned... |
2019 |
| Rep. Brian Cina; Rep. Kevin Christie; Rep. Selene Colburn; Rep. Harold Hal" Colston; Rep. Mari Cordes; Rep. Diana Gonzalez;" |
2019 Vt H.b. 478 (Ns) |
2019 Vermont House Bill No. 478, Vermont 2019-2020 Legislative Session (2/27/2019) |
Legislation (Proposed & Enacted) |
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SUMMARY: This bill proposes to establish a task force to: (1) study and consider a State apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery; and (2) make recommendations to the General Assembly on appropriate remedies. H.478 Introduced by Representatives Cina of Burlington, Christie of Hartford, Colburn of Burlington, Colston of Winooski, Cordes of Lincoln, and Gonzalez of Winooski Referred to Committee on Date: Subject: Executive Branch; General Assembly; Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Statement of purpose of bill as introduced:... |
2019 |
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2019 Vt Reg Text 503570 (Ns) |
(1/2/2019) |
Regulations (Proposed & Adopted) |
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This rulemaking and the five that are being filed contemporaneously amend the Health Benefits Eligibility and Enrollment (HBEE) rules which were last amended effective January 1, 2018. The parts of HBEE that are being amended at this time are as follows: General Provisions and Definitions (Part 1), Eligibility Standards (Part 2), Nonfinancial Eligibility Requirements (Part 3), Special Rules for Medicaid Coverage of Long-Term Care Services and Supports - Eligibility and Post-Eligibility (Part 4), Financial Methodologies (Part 5), and Eligibility and Enrollment Procedures (Part 7). There are no... |
2019 |
| Eddie Iosinto Yeichy |
A Failed Relationship: Micronesia and the United States of America |
20 Asian-Pacific Law and Policy Journal 172 (5/13/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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I. Introduction. 172 II. The Relationship Between Mircoronesia and the United States. 175 A. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. 175 B. Compact of Free Association. 177 III. United States Failure to Fulfill its Legal Duties. 178 A. Historical Failures. 178 B. Modern Failures. 184 C. Proposed Truths for United States Failure. 186 IV. Proposed... |
2019 |
| Philip Lee |
A Wall of Hate: Eminent Domain and Interest-convergence |
84 Brooklyn Law Review 421 (Winter, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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On day one, we will begin working on an impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful southern border wall. --Donald Trump Donald Trump is no stranger to eminent domain. In the 1990s, Trump wanted land around Trump Plaza to build a limousine parking lot. Many of the private owners agreed to sell, but one elderly widow and two brothers who... |
2019 |
| Patrisse Cullors |
Abolition and Reparations: Histories of Resistance, Transformative Justice, and Accountability |
132 Harvard Law Review 1684 (April, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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The historical context of abolition is minimally understood, either in today's social movements or in U.S. society more broadly. For our political strategies and struggles against racism, patriarchy, and capitalism to be effective, we must deeply ground ourselves in an abolitionist vision and praxis. The combination of theory and practice takes... |
2019 |
| David Oppenheimer, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Nancy Leong |
Affirmative Action |
20 Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy Pol'y 1 (2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Well, good afternoon. Thank you. We have a terrific panel here. We're going to start with Professor Onwuachi-Willig who's going to be talking about the extension of mismatch. We're going to try to keep it to about seven minutes each and thereby, leave time for discussion between ourselves and then discussion with the rest of you. Professor... |
2019 |
| I. Bennett Capers |
Afrofuturism, Critical Race Theory, and Policing in the Year 2044 |
94 New York University Law Review Rev. 1 (April, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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In 2044, the United States is projected to become a majority-minority country, with people of color making up more than half of the population. And yet in the public imagination--from Robocop to Minority Report, from Star Trek to Star Wars, from A Clockwork Orange to 1984 to Brave New World--the future is usually envisioned as majority white.... |
2019 |
| Zack Budryk |
After Mcconnell Opposes Reparations, Nbc Report Shows His Great-great-grandfathers Owned 14 Slaves |
The Hill (7/8/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Two of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnells (R-Ky.) ancestors owned a total of more than a dozen slaves, according to an investigation by NBC News completed shortly after McConnell spoke in opposition to reparations for the descendants of slaves. |
2019 |
| Benjamin Zinkel |
Apartheid and Jim Crow: Drawing Lessons from South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation |
2019 Journal of Dispute Resolution 229 (Fall, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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South Africa and the United States are separated geographically, ethnically, and culturally. On the surface, these two nations appear very different. Both nations are separated by nearly 9,000 miles, South Africa is a new democracy, while the United States was established over two hundred years ago, the two nations have very different climates, and... |
2019 |
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Appellants' Opening Brief |
(5/8/2019) |
Briefs |
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The Trial Court ignored plaintiff's breach of treaty claims, and actually did not mention it at all in its decision. The Trial court instead examined the six-part rule of Baker v. Carr, 369... |
2019 |
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Appellants' Reply Brief |
(7/29/2019) |
Briefs |
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Appellants/Plaintiffs fictitiously named Hmong 2, Hmong 3, Hmong 4, and Hmong 5 [collectively Appellants or Plaintiffs/Appellants] herewith submit this Appellants' Reply Brief. What... |
2019 |
| V. Noah Gimbel , Craig Muhammad |
Are Police Obsolete? Breaking Cycles of Violence Through Abolition Democracy |
40 Cardozo Law Review 1453 (April, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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On February 5, 2018, Baltimore activists organized a successful cease-fire weekend, during which no one was killed--and the cops were not to thank. Indeed, as community anti-violence organizers worked to cool hot feuds in order to prove that endless violence was not their destiny, the Baltimore Police Department was sinking ever-deeper into... |
2019 |
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Award |
(3/11/2019) |
Trial Court Documents |
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1. On 2 November 2007, the Claimants submitted to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID or the Centre) a Request for Arbitration against the Bolivarian... |
2019 |
| Jennifer Jones |
Bakke at 40: Remedying Black Health Disparities Through Affirmative Action in Medical School Admissions |
66 UCLA Law Review 522 (March, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Forty years after the landmark Supreme Court decision in U.C. Regents v. Bakke, medical schools remain predominantly white institutions. In Bakke, Justice Powell infamously rejected the concept of societal discrimination, which was offered as a justification for the U.C. Davis medical school's race-conscious admissions program, as an amorphous... |
2019 |
| David B. McNamee |
Black Lives Matter as a Claim of Fundamental Law |
14 University of Massachusetts Law Review Rev. 2 (Winter, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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In this Article, I argue that we should understand #BlackLivesMatter as a claim on the Constitution--a very special kind of constitutional claim, on the Constitution as fundamental law. It is a paradigmatic contemporary example of this category of constitutional law for citizens, one that reaches back past the roots of the American Revolution and... |
2019 |
| Hannah Noll-Wilensky |
Black-market Adoptions in Tennessee: a Call for Reparations |
30 Hastings Women's Law Journal 287 (Summer, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Today, adoption is a widely celebrated, well-established method of creating a family and providing children in need with loving homes. However, in the early twentieth century, adoptable children were considered undesirable and many child welfare professionals advised would-be parents to avoid adoption altogether. One woman, the director of the... |
2019 |
| Zack Budryk |
Booker Blasts 'Ignorance' of Mcconnell Reparations Comments |
The Hill (6/19/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said Wednesday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnells (R-Ky.) comments this week in opposition to reparations for descendants of slaves displayed a tremendous amount of ignorance. |
2019 |
| Jordain Carney |
Booker Introduces Bill to Form Reparations Study Commission |
The Hill (4/9/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) filed legislation on Tuesday that would form a commission to study the issue of granting reparations to African-Americans. |
2019 |
| John Bowden |
Booker Talks out about Recent New Jersey Shootings at Reparations Hearing |
The Hill (6/19/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said at a congressional hearing on reparations Wednesday that he was heartbroken about the value American society places on young men of color. |
2019 |
| Jordain Carney |
Booker to Introduce Bill to Form Study Commission on Reparations |
The Hill (4/8/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said on Monday that he will introduce legislation creating a commission to study the issue of granting reparations to African-Americans. |
2019 |
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Booker: Mcconnell Has No Understanding of Racial Issues after Slaveholder Comment |
(7/10/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), a 2020 White House hopeful, sharply criticized Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell late Tuesday over comments the Kentucky Republican made concerning racism and reparations. |
2019 |
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Brief of Amicus Curiae Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel in Support of Plaintiffs-appellants, in Support of Reversal |
(6/7/2019) |
Briefs |
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FN1. UNESCO Constitution, Preamble. Fundamental rights are those that are deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition, and... |
2019 |
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Brief of Amicus Curiae the American Civil Liberties Union, Aclu of Northern California, Aclu of Southern California, Aclu of San Diego and Imperial Counties, the Anti-defamation League, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and the National |
(4/18/2019) |
Briefs |
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FN1. This brief focuses on efforts to justify discrimination against racial minorities and women on religious grounds, but other disadvantaged and marginalized groups have shared similar... |
2019 |
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Brief of Appellant |
(4/25/2019) |
Briefs |
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FN1. Unless otherwise specified, JA refers to the Joint Appendix The Supreme Court's ruling in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966) applies to this case. The Fifth Amendment to the... |
2019 |
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Brief of Appellee-cross Appellant Frank James Harris (Plaintiff Below) |
(7/24/2019) |
Briefs |
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Appellee/Cross Appellant's counsel specifically requests oral argument in this matter due to the relatively unique or rare legal issues raised on this appeal. Appellee agrees with the... |
2019 |
| Jonathon Booth |
Capitalism, Anti-blackness, and the Law: a Very Short History |
35 Harvard Blackletter Law Journal L.J. 5 (Spring, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Six centuries ago, capitalism and white supremacy arose hand in hand from the Atlantic Ocean; these twinned structures have together defined much of human history ever since. The practice of racism and the meaning of race have shifted repeatedly over the centuries, but anti-blackness has remained ever-present. This relationship has been traced and... |
2019 |
| Brian Knudsen |
Causes and Consequences of Segregation |
28 Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 193 (2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities By Jessica Trounstine Cambridge University Press 2018 282 pages. $99.99 (cloth); $29.99 (paper) Political scientist Jessica Trounstine, a leading scholar of American local government politics, has written a remarkable new book sure to become a must-read for academics,... |
2019 |
| Omari Scott Simmons |
Chancery's Greatest Decision: Historical Insights on Civil Rights and the Future of Shareholder Activism |
76 Washington and Lee Law Review 1259 (Summer, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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C1-3Table of Contents I. Introduction. 1260 II. Chancery's Greatest Case: Belton v. Gebhart. 1266 A. Historical Background. 1266 B. Influential Delaware Lawyers Advancing Civil Rights: Louis L. Redding and Chancellor Collins Seitz. 1273 1. Louis L. Redding. 1273 2. Chancellor Collins Seitz. 1274 a. Foreshadowing Belton: Parker v. University of... |
2019 |
| Gilat J. Bachar |
Collateral Damages: Domestic Monetary Compensation for Civilians in Asymmetric Conflict |
19 Chicago Journal of International Law 375 (Winter, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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The armed conflicts of the twenty-first century, which often take place among civilian populations rather than on traditional battlefields, push states to acknowledge and rectify the resulting harm to foreign civilians. In particular, asymmetric conflicts, which involve confronting non-state actors within civilian populations, tend to cause more of... |
2019 |
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Complaint |
(10/10/2019) |
Trial Court Documents |
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COMES NOW, the plaintiff Ronald Satish Emrit, who is bringing forth this complaint against the three defendants seeking to assess joint and several liability in which the three alleged... |
2019 |
| Michael S. Lewis |
Confronting a Monument: the Great Chief Justice in an Age of Historical Reckoning |
17 University of New Hampshire Law Review 315 (March, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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abstract. The year 2018 brought us two new studies of Chief Justice John Marshall. Together, they provide a platform for discussing Marshall and his role in shaping American law. They also provide a platform for discussing the uses of American history in American law and the value of an historian's truthful, careful, complete, and accurate... |
2019 |
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Conocophillips Petrozuata B.v. et Al, v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. |
(3/11/2019) |
Arbitration Materials |
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1. On 2 November 2007, the Claimants submitted to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID or the Centre) a Request for Arbitration against the Bolivarian... |
2019 |
| Stephen R. Munzer |
Dam(n) Displacement: Compensation, Resettlement, and Indigeneity |
51 Cornell International Law Journal 823 (Winter, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Hydroelectric dams produce electricity, provide flood control, and improve agricultural irrigation. But the building and operation of these dams frequently involve forced displacement of local communities. Displacement often has an outsized impact on indigenous persons, who are disproportionately poor, repressed, and politically marginalized. One... |
2019 |
| Ranieri Lima Resende |
Deliberation and Decision-making Process in the Inter-american Court of Human Rights: Do Individual Opinions Matter? |
17 Northwestern Journal of Human Rights 25 (2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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The work is focused on the adjudicatory nature of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and investigates its model of deliberation, considering three basic schemes: per curiam, seriatim and hybrid. In order to identify an institutional pattern, the importance of individual opinions is analyzed through the quantitative performance of each... |
2019 |
| Rebecca Klar |
Democratic Caucus Vice Chair: 'Our Country Is Founded on Slavery' |
The Hill (6/19/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Rep. Katharine Clark (D-Mass.), the vice chairwoman of the Democratic Caucus, said slavery is interwoven in the U.S. and must be addressed to remedy the issues facing African American communities across the country today. |
2019 |
| Alexander Bolton |
Democratic Senate Hopes Hinge on Trump Tide |
The Hill (7/5/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Democratic and Republican lawmakers believe next years battle for the Senate majority largely will hinge on the presidential race and who wins the Democratic Partys nomination. |
2019 |
| Alexander Bolton |
Democrats Warm to Idea of Studying Reparations |
The Hill (7/18/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Senate Democrats are warming to the idea of studying reparations for African Americans whose ancestors suffered economically as a result of slavery and decades of repressive Jim Crow-era laws. |
2019 |
| Rosa Celorio |
Discrimination and the Regional Human Rights Protection Systems: the Enigma of Effectiveness |
40 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 781 (Summer, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Despite the creation of regional human rights protection systems and their efforts, the problems of discrimination, exclusion, and marginalization continue to be widespread, posing formidable barriers for many persons to exercise their basic civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights. These considerations raise the question of whether... |
2019 |
| Allegra M. McLeod |
Envisioning Abolition Democracy |
132 Harvard Law Review 1613 (April, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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What is, so to speak, the object of abolition? Not so much the abolition of prisons but the abolition of a society that could have prisons, that could have slavery, that could have the wage, and therefore not abolition as the elimination of anything but abolition as the founding of a new society. --Fred Moten & Stefano Harney, The University and... |
2019 |
| Sunjana Supekar |
Equitable Resettlement for Climate Change--displaced Communities in the United States |
66 UCLA Law Review 1290 (October, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Coastal communities are uniquely vulnerable to many of the threats of anthropogenic climate change, such as hurricanes, storm surges, coastal erosion and sea level rise. Though the impacts of climate change affect everyone on the planet, underlying social inequities mean that marginalized communities burdened by factors that increase social... |
2019 |
| Jordan Fabian and Saagar Enjeti |
Exclusive: Trump on Reparations: 'I Don't See it Happening' |
The Hill (6/24/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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President Trump on Monday said he doesn't believe the federal government will pursue reparations for descendants of slaves, an idea that has gained traction among some Democrats. |
2019 |
| Philip C. Aka |
Fidel Castro and Socioeconomic Human Rights in Africa: a Multi-level Analysis |
43 Fordham International Law Journal 41 (October, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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I. INTRODUCTION. 41 II. DEFINING SOCIOECONOMIC HUMAN RIGHTS. 47 III. BRIEF BACKGROUND HISTORY OF CUBAN-AFRICAN RELATIONS. 50 IV. MEASURING THE SIZE OF CUBAN SOCIOECONOMIC HUMAN RIGHTS IN AFRICA CIRCA 1975 TO 1991. 56 V. DEFENDING SOCIALIST VALUES TO THE LAST ATOM: A MULTI-LEVEL ANALYSIS. 63 A. Pursuit of Socioeconomic Human Rights in Service to... |
2019 |
| David Simson |
Fool Me Once, Shame on You; Fool Me Twice, Shame on You Again: How Disparate Treatment Doctrine Perpetuates Racial Hierarchy |
56 Houston Law Review 1033 (Spring, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Title VII race discrimination doctrine is excessively hostile to workers of color, and many observers agree that it needs to be fixed. Yet comparatively few analyses of the doctrine weave together doctrinal and theoretical insights with systematic empirical findings from social science. This Article looks to Social Dominance Theory--a social... |
2019 |
| Dorothy E. Roberts |
Foreword: Abolition Constitutionalism |
133 Harvard Law Review Rev. 1 (November, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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C1-3CONTENTS L1-2Introduction . R33. I. The New Abolitionists. 11 A. The Prison Industrial Complex and the Carceral State. 12 B. Abolition Praxis: Past, Present, Future. 19 1. Slavery Origins. 19 (a) Police. 20 (b) Prisons. 29 (c) Death Penalty. 38 2. Not a Malfunction.. 42 3. A Society Without Prisons.. 43 C. The Unfinished Abolition Struggle. 48... |
2019 |
| Zack Budryk |
Former Rep. John Conyers Dies at 90 |
The Hill (10/27/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Former Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the longest-serving African American House member in congressional history, died Sunday at age 90. |
2019 |
| Steven L. Nelson , Ray Orlando Williams |
From Slave Codes to Educational Racism: Urban Education Policy in the United States as the Dispossession, Containment, Dehumanization, and Disenfranchisement of Black Peoples |
19 Journal of Law in Society 82 (Spring, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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In 2016, Margalynne J. Armstrong considered the following question in the Santa Clara kaw Review: Are we nearing the end of impunity for taking Black lives? She framed her response to this question around issues of police brutality, and she related issues of police brutality to the consistent and persistent racial subjugation of Black peoples in... |
2019 |
| Zack Budryk |
Gop Senators Dismiss Booker Reparations Proposal |
The Hill (4/11/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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GOP senators, including members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, have little interest in Sen. Cory Bookers (D-N.J.) proposal to study awarding reparations to descendants of slaves, they tell HuffPost in an article published Thursday. |
2019 |
| Rebecca Klar |
House Republican Interrupted in Reparations Hearing by Protester Shouting 'You Lie!' |
The Hill (6/19/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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A protestor yelled you lie" as Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) tried to make the point that Democrats were historically the party that supported slavery during Wednesday's reparations hearing." |
2019 |