| Author | Title | Citation | Document Type | Status | Summary | Year |
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Hoyer Expects Reparations Bill to Get a Floor Vote |
(6/19/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Wednesday that he has every intention of bringing to the floor a proposal providing reparations for the descendants of slaves.It will get a vote if it comes out of the committee; I expect it to come out of the committee |
2019 |
| Anna Spain Bradley |
Human Rights Racism |
32 Harvard Human Rights Journal J. 1 (Spring, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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International human rights law seeks to eliminate racial discrimination in the world through treaties that bind and norms that transform. Yet law's impact on eradicating racism has not matched its intent. Racism, in all of its forms, remains a massive cause of discrimination, indignity, and lack of equality for millions of people in the world... |
2019 |
| Martti Koskenniemi |
Imagining the Rule of Law: Rereading the Grotian 'Tradition' |
30 European Journal of International Law 17 (February, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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International law exists in the slippery zone between abstract speculation on binding principles and realistic deference to power. The position of Hugo Grotius as father of international law, this article will suggest, results from the way later lawyers have appreciated his suggestion that when human beings enter that zone, they will discover a... |
2019 |
| Julia Mizutani |
In the Backyard of Segregated Neighborhoods: an Environmental Justice Case Study of Louisiana |
31 Georgetown Environmental Law Review 363 (Winter, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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America's history of Jim Crow segregation, redlining, and exclusionary zoning in combination with its present-day zoning laws and siting processes have created toxic communities in predominately black and poor neighborhoods. Existing policies and laws that are meant to remedy such disparities all have flaws which render them too weak to repair the... |
2019 |
| Mehrsa Baradaran |
Jim Crow Credit |
9 UC Irvine Law Review 887 (May, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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The New Deal for White America. 888 The Transformation of Consumer Credit. 894 Title I of the National Housing Act of 1934. 894 Changes to Banking Regulation. 900 Civil Rights Protests Against Credit Markets. 901 The Poor Pay More. 907 Black Capitalism. 917 Two Policies for Two Americas: The Community Reinvestment Act and the Community Development... |
2019 |
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Jury Trial Demanded |
(1/18/2019) |
Trial Court Documents |
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NOW COMES Plaintiff, COREY BATCHELOR, by his attorneys, LOEVY & LOEVY and the MANDEL LEGAL AID CLINIC of the University of Chicago Law School, and complaining of Defendants, CITY OF... |
2019 |
| Ann M. Eisenberg |
Just Transitions |
92 Southern California Law Review 273 (January, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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The transition to a low-carbon society will have winners and losers as the costs and benefits of decarbonization fall unevenly on different communities. This potential collateral damage has prompted calls for a just transition to a green economy. While the term, just transition, is increasingly prevalent in the public discourse, it remains... |
2019 |
| Helen E. White |
Making Black Lives Matter: Properly Valuing the Rights of the Marginalized in Constitutional Torts |
128 Yale Law Journal 1742 (April, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Black lives are systematically undervalued by constitutional enforcement remedies. Section 1983 adopts, wholesale, the damages scheme from torts, which not only permits, but encourages, the consideration of race and gender to calculate actuarially accurate damages figures. Given that Blacks earn seventy-five percent of what white men earn on... |
2019 |
| Amanda Peters |
Mass Arrests & the Particularized Probable Cause Requirement |
60 Boston College Law Review 217 (January, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Introduction. 218 I. The Historical Significance of Mass Arrests. 224 II. Probable Cause for Mass Arrests. 228 A. What Is Probable Cause in the Criminal Context?. 228 B. What Is Probable Cause in the § 1983 Context?. 231 C. What Is Probable Cause in the Mass Arrest Context?. 234 III. Immunity from Suit and Particularized Versus Group Probable... |
2019 |
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Mcconnell Says He and Obama Are Both 'Descendants of Slaveholders' |
(7/9/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) brushed off a question about an NBC News report that his great-great-grandfathers owned slaves, saying it puts him in the same camp as former President Obama. |
2019 |
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Mcconnell: Reparations Aren't 'A Good Idea' |
(6/18/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday said that he does not support reparations for descendants of slaves, a topic that has become a point of debate in the 2020 election cycle. |
2019 |
| E. Tendayi Achiume |
Migration as Decolonization |
71 Stanford Law Review 1509 (June, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Abstract. International migration is a defining problem of our time, and central to this problem are the ethical intuitions that dominate thinking on migration and its governance. This Article challenges existing approaches to one particularly contentious form of international migration, as an important first step toward a novel and more ethical... |
2019 |
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Mims v. U.s. Federal Government |
Slip Copy, United States District Court, W.D. Wisconsin. (7/23/2019) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Pro se plaintiff Zyronia P. Mims has filed this civil action against the United States federal government. Because Mims is proceeding without prepayment of the full filing fee, her complaint must be screened under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2) to determine whether any portion is frivolous or malicious, fails to state a claim on which relief may be... |
2019 |
| Alexander Bolton |
Only Black Gop Senator Tim Scott Calls Reparations a 'Non-starter' |
The Hill (6/19/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), the only African American Republican in the Senate, says reparations for slavery are a non-starter. |
2019 |
| Tal Axelrod |
Pelosi Says She Supports Bill to Study Issue of Reparations for Slavery |
The Hill (2/27/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday she supports a bill that would establish a commission to study and consider reparations for African Americans regarding slavery. |
2019 |
| Robert L. Nelson, Ioana Sendroiu, Ronit Dinovitzer, Meghan Dawe |
Perceiving Discrimination: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in the Legal Workplace |
44 Law and Social Inquiry 1051 (November, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Using quantitative and qualitative data from a large national sample of lawyers, we examine self-reports of perceived discrimination in the legal workplace. Across three waves of surveys, we find that persons of color, white women, and LGBTQ attorneys are far more likely to perceive they have been a target of discrimination than white men. These... |
2019 |
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Petition for Writ of Certiorari |
(5/16/2019) |
Briefs |
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In recent years, this Court has repeatedly expressed concerns over cases that could have adverse foreign policy consequences if heard in U.S. courts - like foreign-cubed litigation in which... |
2019 |
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Prison Abolition |
132 Harvard Law Review 1567 (April, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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C1-2CONTENTS Introduction. 1568 Abolition as Praxis of Human Being: A Foreword. 1575 I. The Long Abolitionist Project. 1575 II. Slavery Has Been Fruitful in Giving Itself Names: Abolitionist Genealogies of Incarceration. 1580 III. Pitfalls of the Mass Incarceration Narrative: Collateral Consequences of Counterabolitionist Reformism. 1590 IV.... |
2019 |
| Eduardo R.C. Capulong, Andrew King-Ries, Monte Mills |
'Race, Racism, and American Law': a Seminar from the Indigenous, Black, and Immigrant Legal Perspectives |
21 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice Just. 1 (2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Introduction. 2 I. Our Approach: Themes, Goals, and Collaboration. 9 A. Common Threads and Themes. 9 B. Self-Disclosure, Objectivity, and Reflective Practice. 12 C. Collaboration. 17 D. Lawyering Skills. 19 II. The Class: Objectives, Schedule, and Assessments. 20 III. How the Class Unfolded: Issues and Related Events. 26 IV. Lessons Learned. 28... |
2019 |
| The Hill staff |
Read: Trump's Full Exclusive Interview with the Hill |
The Hill (6/25/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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President Trump discussed a new rape allegation, the Supreme Court and 2020 Democratic front-runner Joe Biden in a wide-ranging, exclusive interview with The Hill at the White House on Monday. |
2019 |
| Peter Lee |
Reconceptualizing the Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Shaping Industry Structure |
72 Vanderbilt Law Review 1197 (May, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Technological and creative industries are critical to economic and social welfare, and the forces that shape such industries are important subjects of legal and policy examination. These industries depend on patents and copyrights, and scholars have long debated whether exclusive rights promote industry consolidation (by shoring up barriers to... |
2019 |
| Paul Gowder |
Reconstituting We the People: Frederick Douglass and Jürgen Habermas in Conversation |
114 Northwestern University Law Review 335 (2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Abstract--This Article draws on Black American intellectual history to offer an approach to fundamental questions of constitutional theory from the standpoint of the politically excluded. Democratic constitutional theory is vexed by a series of well-known challenges rooted in the inability to justify law without democracy (the countermajoritarian... |
2019 |
| Natsu Taylor Saito |
Redressing Foundational Wrongs |
51 University of Toledo Law Review 13 (Fall, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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From this cell of history this mute grave, we birth our rage. We heal our tongues .. We hear the bigness of our sounds freed like many clapping hands, thundering for reparations. Janice Mirikitani, Shedding Silence REDRESS for large-scale violations of human rights is generally intended to acknowledge historical wrongs, provide compensation to... |
2019 |
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Remarks by President Trump Before Marine One Departure |
(8/24/2019) |
Administrative Decisions & Guidance |
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2019 |
| Jonathan Gingerich |
Remixing Rawls: Constitutional Cultural Liberties in Liberal Democracies |
11 Northeastern University Law Review 523 (Summer, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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INTRODUCTION. 403 I. RAWLS'S JUSTICE AS FAIRNESS AND THE FAIR VALUE OF THE POLITICAL LIBERTIES. 407 II. CULTURAL LIBERTIES AND SEMIOTIC JUSTICE. 413 A. Semiotic Justice: The Fair Value of the Cultural Liberties. 414 1. The Political Economy of Culture. 415 2. Culture and the Good. 421 3. A New Proviso and Its Meaning. 425 B. Objections. 432 1. Why... |
2019 |
| Juliegrace Brufke |
Reparations Bill Gains Traction in the House |
The Hill (7/3/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lees (D-Texas) bill that would form a commission to study whether black Americans should receive reparations for slavery is gaining traction among top Democrats, with the legislation reaching 90 co-sponsors by the end of June. |
2019 |
| Mike Lillis and Scott Wong |
Reparations Bill Wins New Momentum in Congress |
The Hill (4/4/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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House legislation to form a commission to study whether black Americans should receive reparations for slavery is getting a significant boost from Democrats on the presidential campaign trail. |
2019 |
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Reply Brief of Appellant |
(6/27/2019) |
Briefs |
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The criminal justice system must win the trust of all Americans by delivering justice without regard to the race or ethnicity of those who come before it. Bennett v. Stirling, 842 F.3d... |
2019 |
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Reply Brief of Appellee-cross Appellant Frank James Harris (Plaintiff Below) |
(10/4/2019) |
Briefs |
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Pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 26.1 and Eleventh Circuit Rules 26.1-1 through 26.1-5, undersigned counsel certifies that the following is a list of trial judges, attorneys,... |
2019 |
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Reply Brief of Appellee-cross Appellant Frank James Harris (Plaintiff Below) |
(10/4/2019) |
Briefs |
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Pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 26.1 and Eleventh Circuit Rules 26.1-1 through 26.1-5, undersigned counsel certifies that the following is a list of trial judges, attorneys,... |
2019 |
| Kristen M. Blankley , Alisha Caldwell Jimenez |
Restorative Justice and Youth Offenders in Nebraska |
98 Nebraska Law Review Rev. 1 (2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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C1-2TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction to Restorative Processes. 6 A. Underlying Purposes of Restorative Justice. 6 1. Focus on Accountability. 7 2. Victim-Centered. 9 3. Reintegration into the Fabric of Society. 10 B. Types of Restorative Justice Processes. 11 1. Sentencing Circles or Peacemaking Circles. 12 2. Victim-Offender Mediation. 12 3.... |
2019 |
| Jill C. Morrison |
Resuscitating the Black Body: Reproductive Justice as Resistance to the State's Property Interest in Black Women's Reproductive Capacity |
31 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 35 (2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Abstract: 2019 marks 400 years since the first Africans were brought to the Virginia colony as captives, and deemed not human beings but rather the property of others. Black women have endured reproductive oppression since our arrival in the United States. This Article argues that current methods of reproductive oppression attempt to restore the... |
2019 |
| Monica C. Bell |
Safety, Friendship, and Dreams |
54 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 703 (Summer, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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1. I never really lost nobody to killing--only one Person and I called him my Brother. we used to smoke and stuff together we was supposed to link up that same day we were supposed to go downtown we was supposed to just hang out Four o'clock in the morning, He got killed on the playground. you always see somebody just gone... |
2019 |
| Jordain Carney |
Sanders Backs Bill Creating Reparations Study Commission |
The Hill (4/5/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Friday that if elected president he would sign legislation creating a commission to study the issue of granting reparations to African-Americans. |
2019 |
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Second Amended Complaint |
(11/4/2019) |
Trial Court Documents |
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FN* Erica Maricich, Lee Stark, and Aaron Tucek, University of Chicago Law students, provided substantial assistance in the preparation of this document. NOW COMES Plaintiff, COREY... |
2019 |
| Wilson Adam Schooley |
Seeking Sankofa: Any Hope for a "Post-racial" Future Resides in Facing Our Racial Reality |
44 Human Rights Rts. I (2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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The current political context presents us with a promising opportunity. That premise may seem remarkable, even ridiculous. But the fortuity is real. We are at a very American racial crossroads, yet again. This one is a major junction, one of those historical moments that feels uncomfortably near the edge of the chasm that was the Civil War and... |
2019 |
| Alexander Bolton |
Senate Democrats Wish Talk on Reparations Would Go Away |
The Hill (6/26/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Senate Democrats are not fans of legislation on reparations for slavery, which has become a hot topic in the 2020 presidential campaign. |
2019 |
| Jorge Contesse |
Settling Human Rights Violations |
60 Harvard International Law Journal 317 (Summer, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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In the past few decades, human rights courts have been widely established around the world, sparking the interest of legal scholars who devote significant attention to state accountability for human rights violations. Academic centers exclusively dedicated to the study of international courts have appeared, and conferences on the role of... |
2019 |
| Rachel Frazin |
Ta-nehisi Coates Goes after Mcconnell on Reparations |
The Hill (6/19/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Writer and activist Ta-Nehisi Coates went after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell during a Wednesday House hearing on reparations for slavery after the Kentucky Republican dismissed the idea the day before. |
2019 |
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Tartt v. United States |
Slip Copy, United States District Court, District of Columbia. (10/21/2019) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Derrick B. Tartt, proceeding pro se, asserts that he is the victim of a sprawling conspiracy perpetrated by almost 100 individuals and institutions, as he has alleged in at least one previous lawsuit. Many of these defendants have moved to dismiss the complaint on a variety of grounds, including that the Court lacks subject-matter jurisdiction. For... |
2019 |
| A Free Translation by Vernon Valentine Palmer |
The Code Noir of 1724 |
34 Tulane European and Civil Law Forum 103 (2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Louis, par la grâce de Dieu, Roi de France et de Navarre: à tous, présents et à venir, salut. Les Directeurs de la Compagnie des Indes nous ayant présenté que la Province et Colonie de la Louisiane est considérablement établie par un grand nombre de nos sujets, lesquels se servent d'esclaves nègres pour la culture des terres, nous avons jugé qu'il... |
2019 |
| Bridget J. Crawford |
The Common Law as Silver Slippers |
114 Northwestern University Law Review Online 131 (12/18/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Introduction. 131 I. Common Law Protection for Women's Bodies. 133 II. Reach of the Common Law. 134 III. Lessons from the Common Law. 136 IV. Viewpoints on the Common Law. 138 Conclusion: The Common Law as Silver Slippers. 139 |
2019 |
| Christopher P. Guzelian |
The Dollar's Deadly Laws That Cause Poverty and Destroy the Environment |
98 Nebraska Law Review 56 (2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Laws associated with issuing U.S. dollars cause dire poverty and destroy the environment. American law has codified the dollar as sufficient for satisfying debts even over a creditor's objection (legal tender) and as the only form of payment that typically meets federal tax obligations (functional currency). The Supreme Court has upheld government... |
2019 |
| Jonathan Pickering |
The Global Climate Regime and Transitional Justice, by Sonja Klinsky and Jasmina Brankovic London: Routledge, 2018 196pp., £115.00 (Hardcover) |
13 Carbon & Climate Law Review 84 (2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Metaphors and analogies associated with conflict abound in climate policy: debates over climate science and policy are sometimes characterised as climate wars', while the challenge of large-scale mitigation has been likened to wartime mobilisation efforts. Analogies inevitably have limitations as well as merits. However acrimonious debates over... |
2019 |
| Palma Joy Strand |
The Invisible Hands of Structural Racism in Housing: Our Hands, Our Responsibility |
96 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 155 (Winter, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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They are led by an invisible hand . Adam Smith Psychologist Beverly Daniel Tatum, author of the keystone work on racial identity development, defines racism as a system of advantage based on race. Recently, as I read the revised 2017 20 anniversary edition of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, I noticed that while... |
2019 |
| Celeste L. Arrington |
The Mechanisms Behind Litigation's "Radiating Effects": Historical Grievances Against Japan |
53 Law and Society Review Rev. 6 (March, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Scholars argue that litigation can have positive and negative radiating or indirect effects for social movements, irrespective of formal judicial decisions. They see litigation as a dynamic process with distinctive features yet nonetheless intertwined with advocacy in other forums. Litigation can indirectly shape collective identities, reframe... |
2019 |
| Timothy Webster |
The Price of Settlement: World War Ii Reparations in China, Japan and Korea |
51 New York University Journal of International Law & Politics 301 (Winter, 2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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World War II litigation has roiled East Asia for the past quarter century. Asian victims of Japanese military aggression--from Taiwanese comfort women to Korean forced laborers to Chinese subjects of medical experimentation--filed more than one hundred lawsuits against the government of Japan, and dozens of large Japanese corporations. The Japanese... |
2019 |
| Michelle D. Layser |
The Pro-gentrification Origins of Place-based Investment Tax Incentives and a Path Toward Community Oriented Reform |
2019 Wisconsin Law Review 745 (2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Place-based investment tax incentives, which encourage taxpayers to invest in poor areas, constitute a particularly controversial, yet undertheorized, category of tax laws. The central problem presented by current place-based investment tax incentives is a contradiction between rhetoric and reality. They are presented as laws that benefit... |
2019 |
| Alec Karakatsanis |
The Punishment Bureaucracy: How to Think about "Criminal Justice Reform" |
128 Yale Law Journal Forum 848 (3/28/2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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[W]e do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass... |
2019 |
| Adam Banks |
The Push for Corporate Human Trafficking Compliance under the Trends of Global Legislation |
7 Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs 577 (2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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C1-3Table of Contents I. Introduction. 579 II. Necessary Definitions. 582 A. Forced Labor. 582 B. Corporate Social Responsibility. 583 III. Human Trafficking in Supply Chains. 584 A. The Global Process of Human Trafficking. 584 B. The Market for Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery. 585 C. Corporate Social Responsibility Responses to Human... |
2019 |