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Daniel Farbman REDEMPTION LOCALISM 100 North Carolina Law Review 1527 (June, 2022) In the decades after the end of the Civil War, avowed white supremacists across the South sought to redeem their state and county governments from the clutches of the hated radicals who had taken control during Reconstruction. These Redeemers developed an approach to local power and local control that served their broader political goal of... 2022 Yes
Alison Siegler, Judith P. Miller, Erica K. Zunkel, Clinical Professor of Law, Clinical Professor of Law, Clinical Professor of Law REFORMING THE FEDERAL CRIMINAL SYSTEM: LESSONS FROM LITIGATION 25 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 99 (Spring, 2022) Cornel West has said: There is no doubt that if young white people were incarcerated at the same rates as young black people, the issue would be a national emergency. Today, people of color account for nearly eighty percent of those convicted of federal crimes. We are facing a national emergency and systemic change is needed. Congress has the... 2022 Yes
Marbre Stahly-Butts , Amna A. Akbar REFORMS FOR RADICALS? AN ABOLITIONIST FRAMEWORK 68 UCLA Law Review 1544 (February, 2022) This Article draws on prison abolitionist organizing, campaigns, and intellectual work around the country to offer a framework for thinking about radical reforms rooted in an abolitionist framework. A radical reform (1) shrinks the system doing harm; (2) relies on modes of political, economic, and social organization that contradict prevailing... 2022  
Zamir Ben-Dan REIMAGINING JUSTICE: PEOPLE v. CHARLES AND THE MYTH OF JUSTICE WITHOUT POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY IN NEW YORK CITY 45 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 509 (2022) Police play an integral role in the criminal judicial system; they start the process through searches and seizures and are often involved in other parts of the process, including evidentiary hearings and trials. Thus, it is imperative that police officers do their jobs ethically and responsibly. This Article examines how police officers in New York... 2022  
Rose Cuison-Villazor REJECTING CITIZENSHIP 120 Michigan Law Review 1033 (April, 2022) Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era. By Ming Hsu Chen. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2020. Pp. xi, 215. $28. Citizenship for undocumented immigrants is once again on the horizon. Just a few weeks after President Donald Trump left the White House, and several years since the last time Congress failed to pass comprehensive immigration... 2022 Yes
Eli Salamon-Abrams REMAKING PUBLIC DEFENSE IN AN ABOLITIONIST FRAMEWORK: NON-REFORMIST REFORM AND THE GIDEON PROBLEM 49 Fordham Urban Law Journal 435 (February, 2022) [E]very thirty years or so, as this country's distinctively intransigent intersection of race, crime, and poverty sparks another round of politicized and international uproar, the right to counsel lurches in a new direction. The idea that legal representation--even free legal representation--will help to reduce this country's overreliance on... 2022  
Kendall Lawrenz REMEDYING THE HEALTH IMPLICATIONS OF STRUCTURAL RACISM THROUGH REPARATIONS 90 George Washington Law Review 1018 (August, 2022) From the early introduction of slavery to the United States, not only did the economic prosperity of slavery depend on extracting reproductive labor from Black birthing people, but so did the field of medicine. Enslaved Black people were experimented on and forced to undergo inhumane procedures in the name of science, yet as the medical profession... 2022  
Tolulope F. Odunsi REMEDYING TRAIT-BASED EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION: LESSONS FROM THE CROWN ACT 14 Northeastern University Law Review 317 (June, 2022) Introduction I. Background A. America's Racial Hierarchy and its Impact on Today's Workforce B. Federal Theories of Discrimination: Section 1981 & Title VII II. Historical and Legal Overview of Colorism Against Dark-Skinned, Black Litigants A. Scholarly and Administrative Solutions III. A History of Federal Hair Discrimination Jurisprudence A.... 2022  
Martha M. Ertman REPARATIONS FOR RACIAL WEALTH DISPARITIES AS REMEDY FOR SOCIAL CONTRACT BREACH 85 Law and Contemporary Problems 231 (2022) Acute crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2008 financial meltdown exposed and exacerbated chronic racial wealth disparities. Those disparities accumulated over time as government and private actions--often involving contracts--systemically benefitted White Americans and institutions at the expense of African-Americans. This Article focuses... 2022 Yes
Joyce Hope Scott REPARATIONS, RESTITUTION, AND TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE: AMERICAN CHATTEL SLAVERY & ITS AFTERMATH, A MORAL DEBATE WHOSE TIME HAS COME 39 Wisconsin International Law Journal 269 (Spring, 2022) The Atlantic trafficking and subsequent enslavement of captive African men, women, and children represents the greatest crime of all time, the theft of humanity and personhood which resulted in a permanent state of dispossession, exile, and homelessness. This tragedy, nevertheless, provided the engine that enabled the rise of the economic empire of... 2022  
Larada Lee-Wallace REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: THE NORTH STAR IN A WORLD BEYOND ROE v. WADE AND THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE 29 UCLA Journal of Gender & Law 147 (Summer, 2022) You need to be on birth control and practice safe sex because you won't have the heart to have an abortion if you become pregnant, I know you. These were the words my foster mother uttered to me after I expressed my disdain for getting the Depo-Provera birth control shot while we were getting ready for my appointment. I did not realize how stigma... 2022  
Moushmi Patil REQUISITE REALIGNMENT: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, ASIAN AMERICANS, AND THE BLACK--WHITE BINARY 170 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1625 (June, 2022) When Asian immigrants first reached American shores in substantial numbers during the late 1800s, they were faced with a country that barely recognized Black citizens and a system that continually reinforced a Black--White binary. If Asian Americans wanted to attempt to obtain protections for themselves, they could not do so by asserting that those... 2022 Yes
Tina Lee RESPONSE TO THE SYMPOSIUM: STRENGTHENED BONDS: ABOLISHING THE CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM AND RE-ENVISIONING CHILD WELL-BEING 12 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 1 (June, 2022) I. Introduction. 2 II. Five Themes that, Together, Provide a Comprehensive Analysis. 3 A. Theme One: Narratives of Irreparable Family Dysfunction. 4 B. Theme Two: Child Welfare Harms. 6 C. Theme Three: Support and Punishment are Intertwined. 6 D. Theme Four: Child Welfare is not Separate from other Punishment Systems. 7 E. Theme Five: Abolition,... 2022  
Alexa Sardina, Ph.D. , Alissa R. Ackerman, Ph.D. RESTORATIVE JUSTICE IN CASES OF SEXUAL HARM 25 CUNY Law Review 1 (Winter, 2022) Introduction. 1 I. The Impact of the Criminal Legal System on Those Who Have Been Sexually Harmed. 3 Secondary Victimization: Underreporting, Police Interactions, and Case Attrition. 4 II. A Brief History of Post-Conviction Sex Crimes Policies. 13 III. The Etiology of Sexual Harm. 21 IV. What Is Restorative Justice?. 25 How Is Restorative Justice... 2022  
Meghana Vodela RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: UPLIFTING HUMAN RIGHTS FOR THE MARGINALIZED, VULNERABLE, VICTIMIZED, AND THE UNITED STATES AS A WHOLE 25 Human Rights Brief 82 (Spring, 2022) If our desire for justice is not rooted primarily in the pursuit of restoration, then reconciliation will be nearly impossible to achieve. It is precisely because grace is undeserved that makes it grace. --Jamie Arpin Ricci It is no secret that the criminal justice system in the United States is in need of reformation. Retributive justice... 2022  
Elisabeth A. Dannan RIGHTS TO REMOVE: CONSTITUTIONAL MUNICIPAL RIGHTS TO REMOVE CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS FROM PUBLIC PROPERTY 72 Syracuse Law Review 1355 (2022) Abstract. 1355 Introduction. 1356 I. History and Jurisprudence of Limited Municipal Rights. 1360 A. Hunter, Trenton, and Williams. 1361 B. Ysursa v. Pocatello Education Association. 1364 II. Municipal First Amendment Claims: Government and Compelled Speech. 1365 A. Government Speech. 1367 B. Compelled Speech. 1372 III. Municipal Equal Protection... 2022  
André Douglas Pond Cummings , Steven A. Ramirez ROADMAP FOR ANTI-RACISM: FIRST UNWIND THE WAR ON DRUGS NOW 96 Tulane Law Review 469 (February, 2022) I. Introduction. 469 II. A Short History of the War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration. 475 III. The Devastation Suffered in Communities of Color. 486 A. Direct Economic Costs of the War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration. 487 B. Government Expenditures. 488 C. Economic and Psychological Costs on Families of Color. 490 D. Indirect Costs of the War on... 2022  
Michael Haggerty , Gregory P. Downs ROGER TANEY: INTERSECTIONAL RACIST IN AN AGE OF RACIST DIFFERENTIATION 24 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 729 (June, 2022) In his article Dred Scott and Asian Americans, Gabriel J. Chin creatively and persuasively reads the well-known, much-reviled opinion by Chief Justice Roger Taney in Dred Scott v. Sandford through Taney's little-known opinion in United States v. Dow to argue that Dred Scott should be regarded as pertinent to all people of color, not only African... 2022  
Sarah Asson , Erica Frankenberg SCHOOL DISTRICT SECESSION IN MOBILE COUNTY, ALABAMA: A CASE STUDY OF ADAPTIVE DISCRIMINATION AND THREATS TO MULTIRACIAL DEMOCRACY 73 South Carolina Law Review 675 (Spring, 2022) White families' resistance to school desegregation in Mobile County, Alabama, has existed since Brown v. Board of Education and has adapted since the era of court-ordered desegregation. That resistance remains present to this day. Mobile County Public School System (MCPSS), once a countywide school district, was under court order from the time... 2022 Yes
Rebecca Aviel SECOND-BITE LAWMAKING 100 North Carolina Law Review 947 (May, 2022) Lawmakers can be quite persistent as they battle to advance their favored agendas, even after unsuccessfully defending against constitutional challenge. When a law is struck down because it is constitutionally defective, the architects of the defeated law frequently go back to the drawing board and try again, making modifications they hope will... 2022  
Lenni B. Benson SEEING IMMIGRATION AND STRUCTURAL RACISM: IT'S WHERE YOU PUT YOUR EYES 66 New York Law School Law Review 277 (2021/2022) Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality. --James Baldwin Immigration law is frequently a proxy for racial and ethnic discrimination. The legal fictions and rules that generate our immigration laws would be unconstitutional in any other context. This essay asks you to interrogate your assumptions and to explore the... 2022  
Brittany Doyle SELF-REGULATION IS NO REGULATION--THE CASE FOR GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT OF SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS 32 Indiana International & Comparative Law Review 97 (2022) I. Current Issues A. Social Media Platform Usage B. Self-Regulation Is No Regulation C. Foreign Interference In U.S. Elections D. The Spread of Misinformation During COVID-19 E. Homeland Security i. DHS 2020 Homeland Threat Assessment ii. The Rise of White Supremacy and Anti-Semitism II. The Use of Social Media Platforms to Organize and Radicalize... 2022 Yes
Scott W. Stern SHADOW TRIALS, OR A HISTORY OF SEXUAL ASSAULT TRIALS IN THE JIM CROW SOUTH 29 UCLA Journal of Gender & Law 257 (Summer, 2022) Based on an immense and heretofore underutilized archive of trial transcripts and legal briefs, this Article provides the first holistic study of sexual assault trials in the Jim Crow south. It reveals that, rather than merely procedures for determining legal guilt or innocence, these trials were also (and often primarily) rituals for discerning... 2022  
A. Mechele Dickerson SHINING A BRIGHT LIGHT ON THE COLOR OF WEALTH 120 Michigan Law Review 1085 (April, 2022) The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--and How We Can Fix It. By Dorothy A. Brown. New York: Crown. 2021. Pp. iv, 288. $27. Professor Dorothy A. Brown boldly asserts in The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--and How We Can Fix It that whiteness has consistently and continually... 2022 Yes
Dana Y. Rabin , Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, E-mail: drabin@illinois.edu SLAVERY, LAW, AND RACE IN ENGLAND AND ITS NEW WORLD EMPIRE 40 Law and History Review 581 (August, 2022) Holly Brewer's article Creating a Common Law of Slavery for England and its New World Empire addresses the scholarship on British slavery, slave codes, and the legality of chattel slavery in the seventeenth century. Brewer argues that Charles I began a process, in collaboration with his appointed judges, to legalize the buying and selling of... 2022  
Blanche Bong Cook SOMETHING ROTS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND IT'S THE SEARCH WARRANT: THE BREONNA TAYLOR CASE 102 Boston University Law Review 1 (February, 2022) When police rammed the door of Breonna Taylor's home and shot her five times in a hail of thirty-two bullets, they lacked legal justification for being there. The affidavit supporting the warrant was perjurious, stale, vague, and lacking in particularity. The killing of Breonna Taylor, however, is not just a story about the illegality of the... 2022  
Jacob Mchangama , Natalie Alkiviadou SOUTH AFRICA THE MODEL? A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF HATE SPEECH JURISPRUDENCE OF SOUTH AFRICA AND THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS 1 Journal of Free Speech Law 543 (2022) We compare the handling of hate speech by the European Court of Human Rights and the highest courts of South Africa: The latter, it turns out, adopts a more robust and well-articulated approach to the issues of hate speech than the former, falling more in line with the thresholds set out by documents such as the UN's Rabat Plan of Action. We argue... 2022  
Aderson Bellegarde François SPEAK TO YOUR DEAD, WRITE FOR YOUR DEAD: DAVID GALLOWAY, MALINDA BRANDON, AND A STORY OF AMERICAN RECONSTRUCTION 111 Georgetown Law Journal 31 (October, 2022) Speak to your dead. Write for your dead. Tell them a story. What are you doing with this life? Let them hold you accountable. Let them make you bolder or more modest or louder or more loving, whatever it is, but ask them in, listen, and then write. someone will remember us I say even in another time For over ten years, the state of Tennessee... 2022  
Emily Behzadi STATUES OF FRAUD: CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS AS PUBLIC NUISANCES 18 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 1 (February, 2022) The deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and countless other African Americans have ignited a new wave of social activism throughout the United States. Notwithstanding the existence of one of the most infectious diseases of the twenty-first century, racist and unrestrained police violence continues to plague American society. The unprecedented... 2022  
William B. Heberling STOP SURVEILLING MY GENRE!: ON THE BIOMETRIC SURVEILLANCE OF (BLACK TRANS) PEOPLE 20 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 861 (Spring, 2022) Guide Quotes: [1] It is outrageous anybody should have to live with a target on their back. That is unacceptable. For me it is not being a trans man. I'm black first, trans second. I know the experience on both spectrums . I need to work twice as hard; it sucks right? . [B]eing a black man in America and Trans is just a double whammy almost. It is... 2022  
Devon W. Carbado STRICT SCRUTINY & THE BLACK BODY 69 UCLA Law Review 2 (March, 2022) When people in law think about strict scrutiny, often they are also thinking about equal protection law's treatment of race. For more than four decades, scholars have vigorously challenged that legal regime. Yet none of that contestation has interrogated the social manifestation of strict scrutiny. This Article does that work. Its central claim is... 2022  
Jonathan S. Gould , David E. Pozen STRUCTURAL BIASES IN STRUCTURAL CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 97 New York University Law Review 59 (April, 2022) Structural constitutional law regulates the workings of government and supplies the rules of the political game. Whether by design or by accident, these rules sometimes tilt the playing field for or against certain political factions--not just episodically, based on who holds power at a given moment, but systematically over time--in terms of... 2022  
Christina John , Russell G. Pearce , Aundray Jermaine Archer , Sarah Medina Camiscoli , Aron Pines , Maryam Salmanova , Vira Tarnavska SUBVERSIVE LEGAL EDUCATION: REFORMIST STEPS TOWARD ABOLITIONIST VISIONS 90 Fordham Law Review 2089 (April, 2022) Exclusivity in legal education divides traditional scholars, students, and impacted communities most disproportionately harmed by the legal education system. While traditional legal scholars tend to embrace traditional legal education, organic jurists--those who are historically excluded from legal education and those who educate themselves and... 2022  
Osamudia James SUPERIOR STATUS: RELATIONAL OBSTACLES IN THE LAW TO RACIAL JUSTICE AND LGBTQ EQUALITY 63 Boston College Law Review 199 (January, 2022) Introduction. 200 I. Equality Stalled. 206 A. Education. 206 B. Marriage. 212 II. Status in Equality Movements. 217 A. Social Status. 218 1. The Architecture of Status. 218 2. Discrimination, Animus, Status. 222 B. Status in Movements. 226 1. Public School Integration. 226 2. Same-Sex Marriage. 233 III. Accounting for Status. 241 A. Law and... 2022  
S. Lisa Washington SURVIVED & COERCED: EPISTEMIC INJUSTICE IN THE FAMILY REGULATION SYSTEM 122 Columbia Law Review 1097 (May, 2022) Recent calls to defund the police were quickly followed by calls to fund social service agencies, including the family regulation apparatus. These demands fail to consider the shared carceral logic of the criminal legal and family regulation system. This Essay utilizes the term family regulation system to more accurately describe the surveillance... 2022  
Kevin R. Johnson SYSTEMIC RACISM IN THE U.S. IMMIGRATION LAWS 97 Indiana Law Journal 1455 (Spring, 2022) This Essay analyzes how aggressive activism in a California mountain town at the tail end of the nineteenth century commenced a chain reaction resulting in state and ultimately national anti-Chinese immigration laws. The constitutional immunity through which the Supreme Court upheld those laws deeply affected the future trajectory of U.S.... 2022  
Clay Calvert TAKING THE FIGHT OUT OF FIGHTING WORDS ON THE DOCTRINE'S EIGHTIETH ANNIVERSARY: WHAT "N" WORD LITIGATION TODAY REVEALS ABOUT ASSUMPTIONS, FLAWS AND GOALS OF A FIRST AMENDMENT PRINCIPLE IN DISARRAY 87 Missouri Law Review 493 (Spring, 2022) Analyzing a trio of recent rulings involving usage of the N word by white people directed at Black individuals, this Article explores problems with the United States Supreme Court's fighting words doctrine on its eightieth anniversary. In the process of examining these cases and the troubles they illuminate, including the doctrine's dubious... 2022 Yes
Kyle Willmott , Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada TAXES, TAXPAYERS, AND SETTLER COLONIALISM: TOWARD A CRITICAL FISCAL SOCIOLOGY OF TAX AS WHITE PROPERTY 56 Law and Society Review 6 (March, 2022) In settler colonial states such as Canada, tax is central to political ideas that circulate about Indigenous nations and people. The stories that are told about Indigenous peoples by taxpayers' often involve complaints about budgets, welfare, and unfair tax arrangements. The paper theorizes how informal tax imaginaries' and taxpayer... 2022 Yes
Diane Kemker TEACHING CRITICAL TAX: WHAT, WHY, & HOW 19 Pittsburgh Tax Review 143 (Spring, 2022) Critical tax is an approach to the analysis of tax law and policy that takes race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, citizenship/immigrant status, and other historically marginalized statuses into account, and does so in a way that is centrally focused on the role of tax law in creating and perpetuating persistent economic inequality and... 2022  
Roger C. Hartley THE "LIBERTY OF SILENCE" CHALLENGING STATE LEGISLATION THAT STRIPS MUNICIPALITIES OF AUTHORITY TO REMOVE CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS 16 FIU Law Review 583 (Spring, 2022) There are roughly 700 Confederate monuments still standing in courthouse lawns, parks, and downtown squares in virtually every city, town, and village throughout the Old South. Most of these Confederate monuments are located in states that have enacted legislation that bans the removal of Confederate monuments. Such legislative bans are in effect... 2022  
Eric Petterson THE (WHITE) WASHING OF AMERICAN HISTORY 17 Florida A & M University Law Review 1 (Fall, 2022) C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 1 I. A Manufactured Crisis. 3 A. Executive Order and Divisive Concepts. 7 B. 1776 Commission and 1776 Report. 10 C. Activist Efforts and State Legislation. 11 D. The Liberal and Critical Responses. 13 II. Legislative Efforts to Ban Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project. 16 A. Idaho and Tennessee Adopt Model... 2022 Yes
Judith Fox THE AMERICAN DREAM: A HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE 61 Washburn Law Journal 441 (Spring, 2022) The American Dream is an ideal that has become central to American identity. Although the phrase was first coined in the twentieth century, the concept has been present in the nation's collective consciousness since the seventeenth century. The American Dream's promise is deeply rooted in our immigrant past, but its vision changes with the... 2022  
Brandon Hasbrouck THE ANTIRACIST CONSTITUTION 102 Boston University Law Review 87 (February, 2022) Our Constitution, as it is and as it has been interpreted by our courts, serves white supremacy. The twin projects of abolition and reconstruction remain incomplete, derailed first by openly hostile institutions, then by the subtler lie that a colorblind Constitution would bring about the end of racism. Yet, in its debut in Supreme Court... 2022 Yes
Danielle M. Conway THE ASSAULT ON CRITICAL RACE THEORY AS PRETEXT FOR POPULIST BACKLASH ON HIGHER EDUCATION 66 Saint Louis University Law Journal 707 (Summer, 2022) The rightwing is carrying out its most recent effort to install an authoritarian regime in America, which has been boosted by Donald Trump's white supremacist rhetoric and actions before, during, and after his four years holding the Office of the President of the United States. Resolute in the effort to destabilize American Democracy by forcing on... 2022 Yes
Taylor Tesher THE BALLAD OF THE "WHITE" COLLAR CRIMINAL: AN EXAMINATION OF THE INTERSECTION OF RACE AND GENDER IN FEDERAL WHITE-COLLAR SENTENCING AND POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS OF THE FINDINGS 28 Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice 659 (Spring, 2022) Introduction 660 Background 664 Defining White-Collar Crime 664 Demographics of White-Collar Offenders 665 Sentencing of White-Collar Offenders, Including Post-Booker 666 Problem 668 Proposal 671 The Need for Further Research and Study 671 The Need to Reform Judicial Practices at the Federal Sentencing Stage 675 Conclusion 683 2022 Yes
Henry Cohen THE BLACK MAN'S PRESIDENT: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, AFRICAN AMERICANS, & THE PURSUIT OF RACIAL EQUALITY, BY MICHAEL BURLINGAME, PEGASUS BOOKS, LTD., 2021, 313 PAGES; $29.95; A HOUSE BUILT BY SLAVES: AFRICAN AMERICAN VISITORS TO THE LINCOLN WHITE HOUSE, BY JONATHA 69-APR Federal Lawyer 65 (March/April, 2022) On Aug. 14, 1862, Abraham Lincoln became the first U.S. president to invite a group of African Americans to the White House for an interview. Then he proceeded to lecture his guests--five men who were all well-educated members of Washington's black elite, as Jonathan W. White describes them in A House Built by Slaves--telling them that African... 2022 Yes
Laura M. Padilla THE BLACK--WHITE PARADIGM'S CONTINUING ERASURE OF LATINAS: SEE WOMEN LAW DEANS OF COLOR 99 Denver Law Review 683 (Summer, 2022) The Black-white paradigm persists with unintended consequences. For example, there have been only six Latina law deans to date with only four presently serving. This Article provides data about women law deans of color, the dearth of Latina law deans, and explanations for the data. It focuses on the enduring Black-white paradigm, as well as other... 2022 Yes
Alexis Hoag THE COLOR OF JUSTICE 120 Michigan Law Review 977 (April, 2022) Free Justice: a History of the Public Defender in Twentieth Century America. By Sara Mayeux. University of North Carolina Press. 2020. Pp. xi, 271. $26.95. Writing about history requires making certain decisions: when to start the account, what to include and exclude, which documents and artifacts to rely upon, and what questions to address. One... 2022  
Tom I. Romero, II THE COLOR OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT: OBSERVATIONS OF A BROWN BUFFALO ON RACIAL IMPACT STATEMENTS IN THE MOVEMENT FOR WATER JUSTICE 25 CUNY Law Review 241 (Summer, 2022) This Article advocates for the adoption of racial impact statements (RIS) in local government decision making, particularly among water utilities. Situated in the larger history of water and climate injustice in Colorado and the arid American West, this Article examines ways that racially minoritized communities engage and contest legal and... 2022  
J. Brendan Brooks THE COMMONWEALTH'S METCO PROGRAM AS A BLUEPRINT FOR EXPANDING SCHOOL INTEGRATION ACROSS DISTRICT LINES 55 Suffolk University Law Review 205 (2022) Prejudice is the child of ignorance. It is sure to prevail, where people do not know each other. By 2045, for the first time in its history, the United States of America will no longer be comprised of a white majority. American public schools already reflect this shift: In 2016, nonwhite students outnumbered white students for the first time. Yet... 2022 Yes
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