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Sheriffs, Shills, Or Just Paying The Bills?: Rethinking The Merits Of Compelling Merchant Cooperation With Third-Party Policing In The Aftermath Of George Floyd’S Death, Stephen Wilks
Washington and Lee Law Review
This Article frames the killing of George Floyd as the result of flawed business regulation. More specifically, it captures the expansion of third-party policing paradigms throughout local nuisance abatement regulations over a period of time that coincided with the militarization of policing culture across the United States. Premised on the notion that law enforcement alone cannot succeed in reducing crime and disorder, such regulations transform grocery stores, pharmacies, bars, and other retail spaces into surveillance hubs by prescribing situations that obligate businesses to contact the police. This regulatory framework, however, sustains the larger historical project of rationalizing enhanced scrutiny of …
Taking The Knee No More: Police Accountability And The Structure Of Racism, David Dante Troutt
Taking The Knee No More: Police Accountability And The Structure Of Racism, David Dante Troutt
Washington and Lee Law Review
From before the birth of the republic to the present day, police brutality has represented a signature injustice of state authority, especially against African Americans. Defining that injustice is the lack of accountability for official misconduct. The rule of law has systematically failed to deter lawbreaking by its law enforcement departments. This Article explores the various legal and institutional means by which accountability should be imposed and demonstrates the design elements of structured immunity. Using Critical Race Theory and traditional civil rights law notions of how structural racism operates, this Article argues that transformative change can only come about through …
Foreword: Centering Intersectionality In Human Rights Discourse, Johanna Bond
Foreword: Centering Intersectionality In Human Rights Discourse, Johanna Bond
Washington and Lee Law Review
In the last decade, intersectionality theory has gained traction as a lens through which to analyze international human rights issues. Intersectionality theory is the notion that multiple systems of oppression intersect in peoples’ lives and are mutually constitutive, meaning that when, for example, race and gender intersect, the experience of discrimination goes beyond the formulaic addition of race discrimination and gender discrimination to produce a unique, intersectional experience of discrimination. The understanding that intersecting systems of oppression affect different groups differently is central to intersectionality theory. As such, the theory invites us to think about inter-group differences (i.e., differences between …
The Computer Got It Wrong: Facial Recognition Technology And Establishing Probable Cause To Arrest, T.J. Benedict
The Computer Got It Wrong: Facial Recognition Technology And Establishing Probable Cause To Arrest, T.J. Benedict
Washington and Lee Law Review
Facial recognition technology (FRT) is a popular tool among police, who use it to identify suspects using photographs or still-images from videos. The technology is far from perfect. Recent studies highlight that many FRT systems are less effective at identifying people of color, women, older people, and children. These race, gender, and age biases arise because FRT is often “trained” using non-diverse faces. As a result, police have wrongfully arrested Black men based on mistaken FRT identifications. This Note explores the intersection of facial recognition technology and probable cause to arrest.
Courts rarely, if ever, examine FRT’s role in establishing …
The New State Of Surveillance: Societies Of Subjugation, Khaled Ali Beydoun
The New State Of Surveillance: Societies Of Subjugation, Khaled Ali Beydoun
Washington and Lee Law Review
Foundational surveillance studies theory has largely been shaped in line with the experiences of white subjects in western capitalist societies. Formative scholars, most notably Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, theorized that the advancement of surveillance technology tempers the State’s reliance on mass discipline and corporal punishment. Legal scholarship examining modern surveillance perpetuates this view, and popular interventions, such as the blockbuster docudrama The Social Dilemma and Shoshana Zuboff’s bestseller The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, mainstream the myth of colorblind surveillance. However, the experiences of nonwhite subjects of surveillance—pushed to or beyond the margins of these formative discourses—reflect otherwise. …
The Golem In The Machine: Ferpa, Dirty Data, And Digital Distortion In The Education Record, Najarian R. Peters
The Golem In The Machine: Ferpa, Dirty Data, And Digital Distortion In The Education Record, Najarian R. Peters
Washington and Lee Law Review
Like its counterpart in the criminal justice system, dirty data—data that is inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading—in K-12 education records creates and catalyzes catastrophic life events. The presence of this data in any record suggests a lack of data integrity. The systemic problem of dirty data in education records means the data stewards of those records have failed to meet the data integrity requirements embedded in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). FERPA was designed to protect students and their education records from the negative impact of erroneous information rendered from the “private scribblings” of educators. The legislative history …
Antiracism In Action, Daniel Harawa, Brandon Hasbrouck
Antiracism In Action, Daniel Harawa, Brandon Hasbrouck
Washington and Lee Law Review
Racism pervades the criminal legal system, influencing everything from who police stop and search, to who prosecutors charge, to what punishments courts apply. The Supreme Court’s fixation on colorblind application of the Constitution gives judges license to disregard the role race plays in the criminal legal system, and all too often, they do. Yet Chief Judge Roger L. Gregory challenges the facially race-neutral reasoning of criminal justice actors, often applying ostensibly colorblind scrutiny to achieve a color-conscious jurisprudence. Nor is he afraid of engaging directly in a frank discussion of the racial realities of America, rebuking those within the system …
The Other Ordinary Persons, Fred O. Smith, Jr.
The Other Ordinary Persons, Fred O. Smith, Jr.
Washington and Lee Law Review
If originalism aims to center the original public meaning of text, who constitutes “the public”? Are we doing enough to capture historically excluded voices: impoverished white planters; dispossessed Natives; silenced women; and the enslaved? If not, what more is required? And for those who are not originalists, how do we ensure that, as American law consults the wisdom of the ages, we do not sever entire sources of wisdom?
This brief symposium Article engages these themes, offering two modest, interrelated claims. The first is that important informational, ethical, and democratic benefits accrue when American legal doctrine includes the voices and …
Antiracist Remedial Approaches In Judge Gregory’S Jurisprudence, Leah M. Litman
Antiracist Remedial Approaches In Judge Gregory’S Jurisprudence, Leah M. Litman
Washington and Lee Law Review
This piece uses the idea of antiracism to highlight parallels between school desegregation cases and cases concerning errors in the criminal justice system. There remain stark, pervasive disparities in both school composition and the criminal justice system. Yet even though judicial remedies are an integral part of rooting out systemic inequality and the vestiges of discrimination, courts have been reticent to use the tools at their disposal to adopt proactive remedial approaches to address these disparities. This piece uses two examples from Judge Roger Gregory’s jurisprudence to illustrate how an antiracist approach to judicial remedies might work.
Another Collateral Consequence: Kicking The Victim When She’S Down, Lauren N. Hancock
Another Collateral Consequence: Kicking The Victim When She’S Down, Lauren N. Hancock
Washington and Lee Law Review
Every state has a victim compensation fund that provides financial relief to victims of crime who have no other way to pay for medical expenses, funeral costs, crime scene cleanup, or other costs associated with the crime. States impose their own eligibility requirements to determine which victims can receive funding. Six states prohibit victims with certain criminal histories from obtaining compensation. This means that innocent victims of crime are left with nowhere to turn because of something that they already “paid” for. This leaves victims, who are likely already in a financially precarious situation due to their felon status, with …
Flip It And Reverse It: Examining Reverse Gender Discrimination Claims Brought Under Title Ix, Courtney Joy Mcmullan
Flip It And Reverse It: Examining Reverse Gender Discrimination Claims Brought Under Title Ix, Courtney Joy Mcmullan
Washington and Lee Law Review
This Note begins in Part II by discussing the prevalence of campus sexual assault and the ways in which Title IX is used to address it on university campuses. Part III examines reverse Title IX claims by accused students, including the various causes of action and the pleading standards required. Part III also surveys the success of reverse Title IX claims using public pressure on universities to address sexual assault to support their allegations of gender discrimination. Part IV then evaluates the way summary judgment rules and burden-shifting frameworks affect the likelihood of success for reverse Title IX claims. Finally, …
Narco-Terrorism: Could The Legislative And Prosecutorial Responses Threaten Our Civil Liberties?, John E. Thomas, Jr.
Narco-Terrorism: Could The Legislative And Prosecutorial Responses Threaten Our Civil Liberties?, John E. Thomas, Jr.
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Race To The Top Of The Corporate Ladder: What Minorities Do When They Get There, Devon W. Carbado, Mitu Gulati
Race To The Top Of The Corporate Ladder: What Minorities Do When They Get There, Devon W. Carbado, Mitu Gulati
Washington and Lee Law Review
Racing to the top of the corporate hierarchy is difficult, no matter how qualified or capable the candidate. Producing more widgets than one's competitors is not enough. Negotiating the political landscape of the institution is also required. More specifically, individual corporate officers have to be appeased, powerful interest groups have to be co-opted and made allies, and competitors have to be undermined or eliminated. The more bureaucratic the organization and the more opaque the promotion process, the more important this institutional game to climbing the corporate ladder. This Article identifies the kind of racial minorities or racial types who are …
Fighting Racism In The Twenty-First Century, Dorothy A. Brown
Fighting Racism In The Twenty-First Century, Dorothy A. Brown
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Shattered Mirror: Identity, Authority, And Law, Lawrence M. Friedman
The Shattered Mirror: Identity, Authority, And Law, Lawrence M. Friedman
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Anatomy Of An Affirmative Duty To Protect: 42 U.S.C. Section 1986, Linda E. Fisher
Anatomy Of An Affirmative Duty To Protect: 42 U.S.C. Section 1986, Linda E. Fisher
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Second Redemption?, Bradley W. Joondeph
A Second Redemption?, Bradley W. Joondeph
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Police And Violent Crime, Joseph D. Mcnamara
The Police And Violent Crime, Joseph D. Mcnamara
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Deliberate Indifference: Judicial Tolerance Of Racial Bias In Criminal Justice, Bryan A. Stevenson, * Ruth E. Friedman
Deliberate Indifference: Judicial Tolerance Of Racial Bias In Criminal Justice, Bryan A. Stevenson, * Ruth E. Friedman
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
From Social Safety Net To Dragnet: African American Males In The Criminal Justice System, Jerome G. Miller
From Social Safety Net To Dragnet: African American Males In The Criminal Justice System, Jerome G. Miller
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Criminal Law And Justice System Practices As Racist, White, And Racialized, Kathleen Daly
Criminal Law And Justice System Practices As Racist, White, And Racialized, Kathleen Daly
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Minority View Of Juvenile "Justice", Coramae Richey Mann
A Minority View Of Juvenile "Justice", Coramae Richey Mann
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Role Of Race In The Memphis Courts, D'Army Bailey
The Role Of Race In The Memphis Courts, D'Army Bailey
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Reflections On The "Inevitability" Of Racial Discrimination In Capital Sentencing And The "Impossibility" Of Its Prevention, Detection, And Correction, David C. Baldus, George Woodworth, Charles A. Pulaski, Jr.
Reflections On The "Inevitability" Of Racial Discrimination In Capital Sentencing And The "Impossibility" Of Its Prevention, Detection, And Correction, David C. Baldus, George Woodworth, Charles A. Pulaski, Jr.
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Substantive Equal Protection Analysis Under State V. Russell, And The Potential Impact On The Criminal Justice System, Jeffery A. Kruse
Substantive Equal Protection Analysis Under State V. Russell, And The Potential Impact On The Criminal Justice System, Jeffery A. Kruse
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Soifer's Vision And Three Questions About Images, Milner S. Ball
Soifer's Vision And Three Questions About Images, Milner S. Ball
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Ii. Constitutional Law & Civil Rights
Ii. Constitutional Law & Civil Rights
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Viable Substitute For The Exclusionary Rule: A Civil Rights Appeals Board, John L. Roche
A Viable Substitute For The Exclusionary Rule: A Civil Rights Appeals Board, John L. Roche
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.