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Explaining Reproductive Health Disparities: Violence In The “Colorblind” Institution Of Medicine, Chineze Osakwe
Explaining Reproductive Health Disparities: Violence In The “Colorblind” Institution Of Medicine, Chineze Osakwe
Honors Scholar Theses
Medical policies have resulted in violence that has a formal role in regulating the reproductive rights of women of African descent in the United States from the Jim Crow era (circa 1965) to present day (2021), resulting in significantly racialized reproductive health disparities regardless of social or economic influences. This thesis explores why reproductive violence against African-American women persists, regardless of women’s own class and educational background. I have focused on the potential impact of two structural components that I hypothesized contributed to the perpetuation of reproductive violence against Black women and persistent health disparities. The two factors explored in …
Carpenter, The Fourth Amendment, And Third-Party Workarounds, Jillian Chambers
Carpenter, The Fourth Amendment, And Third-Party Workarounds, Jillian Chambers
Connecticut Law Review
The Supreme Court’s 2018 decision, Carpenter v. United States, seemed to signal a shift in the Court’s Fourth Amendment jurisprudence to acknowledge and adapt to developments in technology. It was a hollow victory. Per Carpenter, if a telecommunications company collected and held your cell phone location data, and law enforcement asked for it, they would need a warrant. But if the location data was repackaged and sold to another company or data broker, and then law enforcement bought the data: no warrant necessary. Why is one exchange of cell phone location data subject to stringent warrant requirements while the other …
Conscience In Commerce: Conceptualizing Discrimination In Public Accommodations, Amy J. Sepinwall
Conscience In Commerce: Conceptualizing Discrimination In Public Accommodations, Amy J. Sepinwall
Connecticut Law Review
According to much current law and theory, a public accommodation that offers a good or service to one customer cannot refuse to provide that same good or service to another patron simply because of the latter’s identity. Thus, in many jurisdictions, reception hall owners must rent their spaces to both a Black Baptist Church and the Christian Identity KKK, wedding vendors must sell their goods to a marrying couple no matter the sex of the couple’s members, and foster parent agencies must serve same- and opposite-sex parenting duos alike. Call the principle underpinning this policy the “Equal Access” principle: The …