| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Iris Cardenas , Laurie M. Graham , Marcela Sarmiento Mellinger , Laura Ting |
INDIVIDUALS WHO EXPERIENCE INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE AND THEIR ENGAGEMENT WITH THE LEGAL SYSTEM: CRITICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR AGENCY AND POWER |
27 Journal of Health Care Law and Policy 113 (2024) |
This Article explores the complexities of intimate partner violence (IPV) victim-survivors' engagement with the legal system, emphasizing the need for culturally responsive and trauma-informed legal interventions. It highlights how intersectional identities and systemic factors shape the experience and decisions of a victim-survivor regarding... |
2024 |
| Christopher Lau |
INTERRUPTING GUN VIOLENCE |
104 Boston University Law Review 769 (April, 2024) |
Who protects us from you? --KRS-One Against the backdrop of declining crime rates, gun violence and gun-related homicides have only risen over the last three years. Just as it historically has, the brunt of that violence has been borne by poor Black and brown communities. These communities are especially impacted: they are not only far more likely... |
2024 |
| Taylor Elyse Mills |
INTERSECTIONALLY-INFORMED ADVOCACY: A STRUCTURAL JUSTICE ACCOUNT OF WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS FOR SEXUAL VIOLENCE |
31 UCLA Journal of Gender & Law 221 (Summer, 2024) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 222 I. Defining the Scope of the Problem. 225 II. Racial Discrimination Against Men of Color In Sexual Violence Cases. 227 A. A History of Racial Discrimination. 228 B. Structural Racism at Each Stage of the Criminal Justice System. 230 1. Eyewitnesses. 231 2. Police Officer Conduct. 231 3. Other Actors: Juries,... |
2024 |
| Rachel J. Wechsler |
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE: ACCESS TO PROTECTION BEYOND THE PANDEMIC |
65 Boston College Law Review 2267 (October, 2024) |
Introduction. 2269 I. Intimate Partner Violence and Civil Orders of Protection. 2276 A. Roots and Development of Protective Orders in the Intimate Partner Violence Context. 2277 B. The Value of POs. 2279 II. Protective Order Procedural Trajectories. 2286 A. The Pre-Pandemic Protective Order Process. 2286 B. Enter COVID-19. 2290 1. Early-Stage... |
2024 |
| Mia Cordle |
LAWYERS, GUNS, AND MARIJUANA: HOW N.Y. STATE RIFLE AND PISTOL ASS'N v. BRUEN IS SHAPING FEDERAL MARIJUANA LAW |
93 University of Cincinnati Law Review 151 (10/25/2024) |
In April 2022, Patrick Daniels was pulled over for driving without a license plate. Two law enforcement officers searched his vehicle, found marijuana cigarette butts and firearms, and arrested him. Like millions of Americans, Mr. Daniels owned guns and was a frequent user of marijuana. But unlike most people similarly situated, Mr. Daniels was... |
2024 |
| W. Kip Viscusi , Kyle J. Blasinsky |
LEVERAGING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR GUN LAWS TO REDUCE MASS SHOOTINGS |
2024 University of Illinois Law Review 707 (2024) |
In the span of ten days, the United States experienced two of the deadliest mass shootings in American history. The first mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, claimed the lives of ten people and left three more injured--mostly elderly shoppers. The second mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, took the lives of... |
2024 |
| Eric Petterson |
MASS INCARCERATION, VIOLENT CRIMES, AND LENGTHY SENTENCES: USING THE RACE-CLASS NARRATIVE AS A MESSAGING FRAMEWORK FOR SHORTENING PRISON SENTENCES |
55 Saint Mary's Law Journal 475 (2024) |
Introduction. 477 I. A Brief History of Prisons and Sentencing Policy in America. 480 A. Pre-Modern Prisons and Sentencing. 481 B. The Civil War Era. 482 C. Tough on Crime Racial Politics and the Rise of Mass Incarceration. 483 II. International Comparison of Sentencing Policy and Crime Rates. 487 A. America's Tough on Crime Policies Lead to... |
2024 |
| Laura Hallas |
MASS SHOOTINGS AND MASS TORTS: NEW DIRECTIONS IN GUN MANUFACTURER LIABILITY |
41 Yale Journal on Regulation 382 (Winter, 2024) |
Mass shootings are a particularly gutting form of American gun violence. The statistics are staggering to the point of numbing, with the issue's intensity and timeliness enforced day after day, round after round. Gun manufacturers occupy a vital role in the chain of events ending with mass shooting headlines, yet they face little liability for... |
2024 |
| Mark Anthony Frassetto |
MASS VIOLENCE AND THE SECOND AMENDMENT: ANALOGIZING HISTORICAL PROHIBITIONS ON ARMED GROUPS TO MODERN PROHIBITIONS ON ASSAULT WEAPONS AND LARGE-CAPACITY MAGAZINES |
76 Alabama Law Review 43 (2024) |
Introduction. 44 I. The Bruen and Rahimi Framework. 46 II. Restrictions on Armed Groups and the History of Mass Violence. 49 A. Prohibitions on Armed Groups in England. 49 B. Prohibitions on Armed Groups in the American Colonies and United States. 54 C. Prohibitions on Private Militias in the United States. 59 D. A History of Group Mass Violence.... |
2024 |
| Tiffany D. Atkins |
MEDIA + VIGILANTE VIOLENCE: THE FORMULA FOR AMERICAN ATROCITY |
62 University of Louisville Law Review 685 (Summer, 2024) |
[T]he chasm between the principles upon which this Government was founded, in which it still professes to believe, and those which are daily practiced under the protection of the flag, yawn so wide and deep. --Mary Church Terrell In July 2022, Tucker Carlson, the once-popular host of the Fox News' show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, ended a segment... |
2024 |
| Jennifer Carlson, Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA, Email: jenniferdawncarlson@asu.edu |
MY RIGHTS, THEIR RIGHTS, OUR RIGHTS: A RESPONSE TO LAURA BETH NIELSEN ON RELATIONAL RIGHTS, GUN POLITICS AND THE STRUGGLE OVER COMMUNITY |
58 Law and Society Review 26 (March, 2024) |
(Received 11 December 2023; accepted 20 December 2023) Today's seeming crises in US law's legitimacy--spanning the political spectrum with respect to the rule of law, democratic process, the criminal justice apparatus, jurisprudential overreach and congressional inaction, alongside the plummeting levels of trust in US institutions more... |
2024 |
| Rangita de Silva de Alwis |
OBSTETRIC VIOLENCE AND FORCED STERILIZATION: CONCEPTUALIZING GENDER-BASED INSTITUTIONAL VIOLENCE |
9 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Public Affairs 95 (February, 2024) |
The twenty-first century continues to witness gynecological abuse in the form of forced sterilizations of minority women. In many parts of the world, states weaponize family planning programs as a form of reproductive policy against poor women and women of color, treating women's fertility as a drain on the state's resources. The first part of this... |
2024 |
| Travis Thickstun |
POLICE SHOOTINGS AFTER TORRES v. MADRID: SUSPECTS ELUDING CAPTURE ARE SEIZED UNDER FOURTH AMENDMENT |
26 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice 340 (2024) |
Introduction. 341 I. History of the Development of the Doctrine of Seizures of Persons Under the Fourth Amendment. 343 A. Distinguishing Investigatory Stops from Full Arrests. 343 B. Lack of Clarity Before Torres Lead to Circuit Split. 344 C. Distinguishing Seizures by Force and Seizures by Control. 345 II. Torres v. Madrid. 346 III. Consistency of... |
2024 |
| Jeremy Bearer-Friend |
RACE-BASED TAX WEAPONS |
14 UC Irvine Law Review 1067 (October, 2024) |
In the United States, the term poll tax often refers to a very specific tactic of white supremacy: the use of tax policy to prevent voting by Black citizens. While poll tax is an accurate descriptor of these taxes, poll taxes have a much more expansive history within the twentieth century. Following in the rich tradition of comparative tax... |
2024 |
| Natalie Nanasi |
RECONCILING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROTECTIONS AND THE SECOND AMENDMENT |
59 Wake Forest Law Review 131 (2024) |
In March of 2023, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that individuals subject to domestic violence protective orders could not be required to give up their guns. The decision was the first of a federal appellate court to overturn a firearm regulation pursuant to New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, a 2022 Supreme Court opinion... |
2024 |
| Amanda Alexander, J.D., Ph.D., Tolulope Sonuyi, M.D., M.Sc. |
REDUCING COMMUNITY VIOLENCE & INCARCERATION: INSIGHTS FROM A HEALTH-JUSTICE PARTNERSHIP IN DETROIT |
42 Yale Law and Policy Review 773 (Spring, 2024) |
Community violence is the leading cause of death for young adults in Detroit. Our community and others across the country desperately require solutions that center the needs of violence survivors and interrupt cycles of violence, reinjury, retaliation, incarceration, and premature death. Most cities have confronted the problem of community violence... |
2024 |
| Bonnie Carlson |
SALVAGING FEDERAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE GUN REGULATIONS IN BRUEN'S WAKE |
99 Washington Law Review 1 (March, 2024) |
Abstract: Congress passed two life-saving laws in the mid-1990s: a protection order prohibition, which bars firearm possession for protection order respondents, and the Lautenberg Amendment, which bars firearm possession for those convicted of misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence. Both laws have been repeatedly upheld by federal courts... |
2024 |
| Jonathan Kurzfeld , Department of Economics, Bates College, 205 Hedge Hall, Lewiston, ME 04210, United States of America |
STRATEGIC ANARCHY; A MODEL OF PRISON VIOLENCE AS A MEANS TO INFORMAL GOVERNANCE AND RENT EXTRACTION |
79 International Review of Law & Economics 1 (September, 2024) |
MSC: K42 L22 D01 D23 Keywords: Prison Violence Gangs Informal governance Illicit goods Black market Prison gangs are often thought to create a culture of violence in U.S. prisons and jails. Yet mounting research and evidence suggests that prison gangs, in pursuit of profits from illicit market activity, also act as a check on the violent behavior... |
2024 |
| Erin M. Carr |
THE "HISTORY AND TRADITION" OF THE SANCTIFICATION OF STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE: A REVIEW OF THE CYCLICAL CORROSION OF CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS |
27 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 1 (Winter, 2024) |
In recent decades, the American political and legal landscape has undergone a radical, though not necessarily unprecedented, transformation. Hard-fought progress in the area of civil rights has been eviscerated through sophisticated efforts to legitimize a political, economic, social, and legal system that devalues and exploits non-whites, women,... |
2024 |
| Jordan J. Al-Rawi |
THE CASE FOR RELAXING BRUEN'S HISTORICAL ANALOGUES TEST: RAHIMI, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE REGULATION, AND GUN OWNERSHIP |
39 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 93 (2024) |
The Supreme Court's grant of certiorari to review United States v. Rahimi presents the Court with an important opportunity to clarify its 2022 ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. In Rahimi, the Fifth Circuit expanded Bruen's historical approach to the Second Amendment when it struck down a 1994 federal law, 18 U.S.C. §... |
2024 |
| Victoria Nourse |
THE COMMON LAW'S RESISTANCE TO GENDER VIOLENCE |
110 Iowa Law Review 167 (November, 2024) |
ABSTRACT: Over twenty years ago, Congress developed a mountain of evidence that state criminal and civil remedies against sexual assault and battering were inadequate. The Supreme Court rejected that evidence in United States v. Morrison, striking down a federal civil rights remedy for sexual assault and battering. Since then, there have been... |
2024 |
| Dru Stevenson |
THE GUN INDUSTRY AND THE NEW ANTI-BOYCOTT LAWS |
76 Florida Law Review 1073 (July, 2024) |
Anti-boycott laws are an emerging trend in our legal system, especially in state legislatures. In the last seven years, more than half the states have adopted laws that sanction, in various ways, firms that boycott the nation of Israel. Even more recently, several states have adopted laws that discourage corporations--especially financial... |
2024 |
| Emily Knowlan |
THE LINK BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND MISSING & MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN: VAWA IS NOT ENOUGH |
20 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 466 (Spring, 2024) |
In 2019 and 2020, I worked as a domestic violence legal advocate with the Domestic Abuse Project in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was here I first worked with Native American individuals from the Minneapolis community who were experiencing or had experienced domestic violence and were seeking help. In working with members of the community, I saw... |
2024 |
| Nicholas J. Johnson |
THE MODERN ORTHODOXY IS A FAILED EXPERIMENT: TOWARD A RACE SENSITIVE, HARD LOOK AT FIREARMS POLICY AND THE BLACK COMMUNITY |
14 UC Irvine Law Review 1209 (October, 2024) |
This article extends the work on firearms and the Black community through an expanded critique of Black allegiance to the progressive gun control agenda. I have argued that this modern orthodoxy is at odds with the history of, and longstanding justifications for, Black distrust of the state. This article extends that argument in light of more... |
2024 |
| Sean A. Hill II |
THE RIGHT TO VIOLENCE |
2024 Utah Law Review 609 (2024) |
Scholars have long contended that the state has a monopoly on the use of violence. This monopoly is considered essential for the state to assure the safety and security of its citizens. Whereas public officers have the broadest authority to deploy violence, in order to make arrests or to inflict punishment, private citizens allegedly have severe... |
2024 |
| Joshua Hochman |
THE SECOND AMENDMENT ON BOARD: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HISTORICAL TRADITIONS OF FIREARM REGULATION |
133 Yale Law Journal 1676 (March, 2024) |
In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the Supreme Court reaffirmed that laws prohibiting the carrying of firearms in sensitive places were presumptively constitutional. Since Bruen, several states and the District of Columbia have defended their sensitive-place laws by analogizing to historical statutes regulating firearms in other... |
2024 |
| Holly Jeanine Boux |
THE THREAT IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE BAR: USING THE RULES OF PROFESSIONAL DISCIPLINE TO CHALLENGE GENDER-BASED THREATS AND VIOLENCE |
37 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 207 (Spring, 2024) |
This article argues that the legal profession has failed to effectively recognize and address violent misogyny as it occurs within the profession. It lays out a roadmap for the American Bar Association (ABA) and state bar associations across the country to follow in order to more successfully address this problem. The article begins by exploring... |
2024 |
| Erin C. Carroll |
THE VIOLENCE OF FREE SPEECH AND PRESS METAPHORS |
81 Washington and Lee Law Review 87 (Winter, 2024) |
Today, our free speech marketplace is often overwhelming, confusing, and even dangerous. Threats, misdirection, and lies abound. Online firestorms lead to offline violence. This Article argues that the way we conceptualize free speech and the free press are partly to blame: our metaphors are hurting us. The primary metaphor courts have used for a... |
2024 |
| Cary Chapman |
TOWARDS ACCESSIBLE PRO SE DIVORCE FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVORS IN PENNSYLVANIA |
173 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 243 (November, 2024) |
In situations of domestic violence, divorce offers legal freedom from an abusive spouse. But too often, access to divorce cuts along class lines. While the affluent have access to attorneys to navigate the complex procedural requirements in Pennsylvania's divorce code, low-income litigants have no such luxury. Many pro se divorce litigants simply... |
2024 |
| Riley Freedman |
TRANSPORTATION RACISM AND STATE-CREATED DANGER: A CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION STRATEGY FOR PEDESTRIANS HARMED BY TRAFFIC VIOLENCE |
99 Washington Law Review 919 (October, 2024) |
Abstract: Pedestrian fatality rates in the United States are markedly high compared to peer nations and are on the rise. The distribution of these deaths shows an alarming racial gap: Black pedestrians are twice as likely to be killed compared to white pedestrians. One significant factor that explains the disparity is the greater presence of wide,... |
2024 |
| Zachary Miner |
WITH THE LAW OR AGAINST THE LAW? A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND OUTCOMES OF LEGAL CONSCIOUSNESS AMONG LAW-ABIDING FIREARMS OWNERS |
49 Law and Social Inquiry 1344 (August, 2024) |
This article explores the legal consciousness of legal gun owners in upstate New York using a qualitative, grounded theory approach. Respondents' accounts reveal that their experiences cause them to respect and support the law in certain contexts but feel oppressed by it in other contexts. These perceptions stem from engagement with law, and... |
2024 |
| E.L. Tremblay |
"UNDER CONDITIONS OF HARDSHIP": THE PEACE CORPS' CATCH-22 FOR SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL- AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE |
111 Georgetown Law Journal 1533 (June, 2023) |
The Peace Corps' treatment of Volunteers and trainees, particularly with regard to the policies and permissiveness surrounding sexual- and gender-based violence, reflects and perpetuates workplace sex discrimination. Because the agency fails to collect adequate data, it is impossible to determine the precise nature and degree of the problem, but it... |
2023 |
| Jackson Whetsel, Esq. |
(UN)CONSTITUTIONAL CARRY: HOW DRUG AND GUN LAWS CONSPIRE IN STAND YOUR GROUND STATES TO CREATE A DISARMED, SUBMISSIVE CLASS BASED ON RACE |
53 University of Memphis Law Review 571 (Spring, 2023) |
Introduction. 572 I. Tennessee's Form of Constitutional Carry. 577 A. The Tennessee Law Creates an Exception to an Existing Prohibition. 578 B. The Tennessee Law Does Not Remove Any Existing Firearm Prohibitions. 580 C. The Tennessee Law Applies to The Intent to Go Armed. 584 II. How Did We Get Here? DC v. Heller and the Constitutional Basis... |
2023 |
| Kat Baiardi |
A CALL FOR CHANGE: REFORMING ARIZONA'S JUDICIAL PRACTICES TO INCLUDE PROTECTED PARTIES ON EX PARTE ORDERS OF PROTECTION AS A DEFAULT |
38 Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society 1 (Spring, 2023) |
Introduction. 3 Part I. Background. 5 A. Brief Overview of Orders of Protection. 5 B. Arizona's Requirements for Obtaining an Order of Protection. 6 1. Qualifying Relationship. 6 2. Domestic Violence. 6 C. Protected Parties. 7 D. Arizona's Procedure and Findings Required for Ex Parte Orders of Protection. 7 E. Remedies Available. 8 F. Arizona's... |
2023 |
| Tess Berkowitz |
BREAKING UP WITH THE AMERICAN ADVERSARIAL APPROACH IN CRIMINAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ADJUDICATION |
20 Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy 1 (Spring, 2023) |
This paper takes the position that for survivors of domestic violence to be properly served by the legal system, such legal service must be made accessible through trauma-informed care. This includes trauma-informed care for both for the survivor and the abuser. This paper leaves to another day the topic of exactly what justice in such cases... |
2023 |
| Tianna N. Gibbs |
CENTERING FAMILY VIOLENCE IN FAMILY LAW AS RACIAL JUSTICE |
30 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 43 (Spring, 2023) |
Introduction. 44 I. Defining Family Violence to Advance Racial Justice. 47 A. The Meaning of Family. 47 B. The Meaning of Violence. 49 II. Consequences of Excluding Structure and Difference. 52 III. Centering Family Violence in Family Law to Advance Racial Justice. 55 Conclusion. 55 |
2023 |
| Andrew C. Budzinski , A. Rachel Camp |
CENTERING VANTAGE POINT IN THE PEDAGOGY OF FAMILY AND INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE |
30 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 30 (Spring, 2023) |
Introduction. 31 I. The Utility of Vantage Point as a Lawyering Skill. 32 II. Habituating Vantage Point & Radical Subjectivity in the Pedagogy of Family and Intimate Partner Violence. 35 A. Vantage Point Analysis in Clinic and Simulations. 35 B. Vantage Point in the Classroom. 37 C. Vantage Point, Fact Investigation, and Communication. 37 D.... |
2023 |
| Miyoko T. Pettit-Toledo |
COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND INTERSECTIONAL IDENTITIES: HEALING UNIQUE SEXUAL VIOLENCE HARMS AGAINST WOMEN OF COLOR PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE |
45 University of Hawaii Law Review 346 (Spring, 2023) |
For at least the last decade, at the urging of gender scholars and advocates, reconciliation initiatives started to recognize specialized harms of sexual violence against women and began to tailor redress to address these harms. Yet, although a step in the right direction, even those forward-looking redress initiatives did not specifically and... |
2023 |
| Professor Mirko Bagaric , Jennifer Svilar , Brienna Bagaric |
CONTINUING PRINCIPLED SENTENCING REFORM AND WINDING BACK MASS INCARCERATION AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF AMERICA'S SURGE IN VIOLENT CRIME |
23 Nevada Law Journal 411 (Spring, 2023) |
Five decades of an unremitting tough on crime policy resulted in the United States having the highest incarceration rate on earth. This approach was in the process of being systematically wound back in recent years. The mood for criminal justice reform was highlighted by the receptiveness of many people to what on their face seemed to be radical... |
2023 |
| René Reyes |
CRITICAL REMEMBERING: AMPLIFYING, ANALYZING, AND UNDERSTANDING THE LEGACY OF ANTI-MEXICAN VIOLENCE IN THE UNITED STATES |
26 Harvard Latin American Law Review 15 (Spring, 2023) |
Violence against BIPOC individuals and communities has been part of American life since the arrival of the first European colonizers over four hundred years ago. Yet as longstanding and pervasive as anti-BIPOC violence has been throughout American history, many instances of such violence remain strikingly underexamined--largely because their... |
2023 |
| Jonathan Jay, Kalice Allen |
CURBING THE EPIDEMIC OF COMMUNITY FIREARM VIOLENCE AFTER THE BRUEN DECISION |
51 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 77 (Spring, 2023) |
Keywords: Firearms, Violence Prevention, Structural Racism, Racial Segregation, Gun Control Abstract: The Supreme Court's decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen undermines the ability of cities and states to regulate firearms safety. Nonetheless, we remain hopeful that firearm violence can decline even after the Bruen... |
2023 |
| Katarina Porter , Stephen Brundage , Lead Program Analyst, Counterterrorism Section, National Security Division, Senior Counsel, Counterterrorism Section, National Security Division |
DATA MATTERS: REPORTING REQUIREMENTS FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENT EXTREMISM |
71 Department of Justice Journal of Federal Law and Practice 257 (August, 2023) |
If money talks, then data teaches. Data is the ubiquitous currency of information that pulses through every facet of society. Data is invested, traded, and if cared for properly, cashed in with fruitful return. To be accessible, data must go through a currency exchange of reporting requirements, which translate the data into meaningful metrics for... |
2023 |
| Julie A. Ward, Mudia Uzzi, Talib Hudson, Daniel W. Webster, Cassandra K. Crifasi |
DIFFERENCES IN PERCEPTIONS OF GUN-RELATED SAFETY BY RACE AND GUN OWNERSHIP IN THE UNITED STATES |
51 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 14 (Spring, 2023) |
Keywords: Public Opinion, Firearms, Personal Safety, Gun-Related Beliefs, Health Status Disparities, Health Equity Abstract: Motivated by disparities in gun violence, sharp increases in gun ownership, and a changing gun policy landscape, we conducted a nationally representative survey of U.S. adults (n=2,778) in 2021 to compare safety-related views... |
2023 |
| Emily M. Poor |
DISENTANGLING THE CIVIL-CARCERAL STATE: AN ABOLITIONIST FRAMEWORK FOR THE NON-CRIMINAL RESPONSE TO INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE |
47 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 273 (2023) |
The carceral state is entangled with the ostensibly non-criminal social and legal response to intimate partner violence (IPV). While feminists and anti-IPV advocates increasingly recognize the harmful effects of the carceral state's involvement in addressing violence, less attention has been given to civil remedies and services which are contingent... |
2023 |
| Dany Berbari |
DRUG DECRIMINALIZATION AND GUN CRIMINALIZATION: ASSESSING THE COMPATIBILITY OF THESE ASYMMETRICAL BELIEFS FROM A RACIAL JUSTICE LENS |
38 Journal of Law & Politics 135 (Spring, 2023) |
Thomas Frampton, my first-year Criminal Law Professor, began a class on drugs and guns by stating, I want you all to vote on these two questions: (1) Do you support stricter drug laws? (2) Do you support stricter gun laws? Unsurprisingly, very few individuals in the class supported stricter drug laws, while an overwhelming majority backed... |
2023 |
| Sam Gilman |
ENDING EVICTIONS: THE LIVED CASE FOR REPLACING THE VIOLENCE OF EVICTION WITH THE HUMANITY OF A SAFETY NET |
32 Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 49 (2023) |
The COVID-19 pandemic nationalized the issue of renter displacement. Suddenly, eviction, the state and local process to displace tenants who cannot pay rent, became a national political issue. When COVID-19 shut down the economy, millions faced the risk of eviction. When the pandemic hit, states like Massachusetts banned non-essential... |
2023 |
| Michael R. Ulrich |
FINDING BALANCE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE |
51 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 7 (Spring, 2023) |
Keywords: Gun Violence, Second Amendment, Disparities, Intersectionality, Firearms Justice The United States is distinct among high-income countries for its problem with gun violence, with Americans 25 times more likely to be killed by gun homicide than people in other high-income countries. Suicides make up a majority of annual gun deaths-- though... |
2023 |
| Rachel Martin , Michael R. Ulrich |
FIREARM CONTAGION: A NEW LOOK AT HISTORY |
51 Fordham Urban Law Journal 279 (October, 2023) |
Gun violence is widely considered a serious public health problem in the United States, but less understood is what this means, if anything, for evolving Second Amendment doctrine. In New York Pistol & Rifle Association, Inc. v. Bruen, the Supreme Court held that laws infringing Second Amendment rights can only be sustained if the government can... |
2023 |
| Michael D. Makowsky , Patrick L. Warren , Clemson University, Clemson University |
FIREARMS AND LYNCHING |
66 Journal of Law & Economics 259 (May, 2023) |
We assess firearms as a means of Black residents' self-defense in the Jim Crow South. We infer access to firearms by race and place by measuring the fraction of suicides committed with a firearm. Corroborating anecdotal accounts and historical claims, state bans on pistols and increases in White law enforcement personnel served as mechanisms to... |
2023 |
| Joseph Blocher , Jacob D. Charles , Darrell A.H. Miller |
FIREARMS LAW AND SCHOLARSHIP BEYOND BULLETS AND BODIES |
19 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 165 (2023) |
guns, firearms, Second Amendment, self-defense, law Academic work is increasingly important to court rulings on the Second Amendment and firearms law more generally. This article highlights two recent trends in social science research that supplement the traditional focus on guns and physical harm. The first strand of research focuses on the... |
2023 |