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Shades Of Justice: Racial Profiling Then And Now, F. Michael Higginbotham Jan 2023

Shades Of Justice: Racial Profiling Then And Now, F. Michael Higginbotham

University of Colorado Law Review

No abstract provided.


Slave Law, Race Law, Gabriel J. Chin Jan 2023

Slave Law, Race Law, Gabriel J. Chin

University of Colorado Law Review

No abstract provided.


Foreword: Looking Back To Move Forward: Exploring The Legacy Of U.S. Slavery, Suzette Malveaux Jan 2023

Foreword: Looking Back To Move Forward: Exploring The Legacy Of U.S. Slavery, Suzette Malveaux

University of Colorado Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Color(Blind) Conundrum In Colorado Property Law, Tom I. Romero Ii Jan 2023

The Color(Blind) Conundrum In Colorado Property Law, Tom I. Romero Ii

University of Colorado Law Review

No abstract provided.


Foreword: Expanding The Boundaries Of Knowledge About Slavery And Its Legacy, Lolita Buckner Inniss Jan 2023

Foreword: Expanding The Boundaries Of Knowledge About Slavery And Its Legacy, Lolita Buckner Inniss

University of Colorado Law Review

No abstract provided.


Higher Education Redress Statutes: A Preliminary Analysis Of States’ Reparations In Higher Education, Christopher L. Mathis Jan 2023

Higher Education Redress Statutes: A Preliminary Analysis Of States’ Reparations In Higher Education, Christopher L. Mathis

University of Colorado Law Review

No abstract provided.


Loving Reparations, Eric J. Miller Jan 2023

Loving Reparations, Eric J. Miller

University of Colorado Law Review

No abstract provided.


Social Construction Of Race Undergirds Racism By Providing Undue Advantages To White People, Disadvantaging Black People And Other People Of Color, And Violating The Human Rights Of All People Of Color, Adjoa A. Aiyetoro Jan 2023

Social Construction Of Race Undergirds Racism By Providing Undue Advantages To White People, Disadvantaging Black People And Other People Of Color, And Violating The Human Rights Of All People Of Color, Adjoa A. Aiyetoro

University of Colorado Law Review

No abstract provided.


Roundtable: The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre; The Quest For Accountability, Robert Turner Jan 2023

Roundtable: The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre; The Quest For Accountability, Robert Turner

University of Colorado Law Review

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Text Is Not Enough, Anuj C. Desai Jan 2022

Text Is Not Enough, Anuj C. Desai

University of Colorado Law Review

In Bostock v. Clayton County, the Supreme Court held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects gay and lesbian individuals from employment discrimination. The three opinions in the case also provided a feast for Court watchers who study statutory interpretation. Commentators across the ideological spectrum have described the opinions as dueling examples of textualism. The conventional wisdom is thus that Bostock shows the triumph of textualism. The conventional wisdom is wrong. Instead, Bostock shows what those who have studied statutory interpretation have known for decades: judges are multimodalists, drawing from a panoply of forms of …


The Quasi-Parent Conundrum, Michael J. Higdon Jan 2019

The Quasi-Parent Conundrum, Michael J. Higdon

University of Colorado Law Review

Although family law is very much concerned with legal parentage and its attendant rights, children are much more concerned with maintaining relationships with those who care for them, regardless of whether that person is a legal parent or someone functioning as one. What happens though if the child's legal parent attempts to banish the quasi-parent from the child's life? Doing so can be extremely damaging to the child. Nonetheless, parents do possess a constitutional right to make decisions about how to rear their children, including who may have access to the child.

Trying to strike a balance between protecting the …


"State Inaction," Equal Protection, And Religious Resistance To Lgbt Rights, James M. Oleske, Jr. Jan 2016

"State Inaction," Equal Protection, And Religious Resistance To Lgbt Rights, James M. Oleske, Jr.

University of Colorado Law Review

Now that the Supreme Court has held that states must recognize same-sex marriages, a new issue looms on the horizon: Must states also protect against sexual-orientation discrimination in the private marketplace? This Article contends that the answer under the Equal Protection Clause is "yes" for the forty-five-plus states that protect against marketplace discrimination on the basis of race, religion, national origin, and sex.

In the course of reaching that conclusion, this Article offers much-needed clarification of the Court's unsettled "state inaction" doctrine. Under that doctrine, a state's failure to act may be immunized from challenge on the ground that the …