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Full-Text Articles in Law
Amicus Curiae Brief On Behalf Of The Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality, In Support Of Neither Party, Robert S. Chang, Lorraine K. Bannai, Robert C. Boruchowitz, David A. Perez
Amicus Curiae Brief On Behalf Of The Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality, In Support Of Neither Party, Robert S. Chang, Lorraine K. Bannai, Robert C. Boruchowitz, David A. Perez
Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality
Civil Rights Amicus Brief Project
Amici Curiae Brief On Behalf Of The Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality, The Latina/O Bar Association Of Washington, And The Loren Miller Bar Association, In Support Of Petitioner, Robert S. Chang, Lorraine K. Bannai, Robert C. Boruchowitz, David A. Perez
Amici Curiae Brief On Behalf Of The Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality, The Latina/O Bar Association Of Washington, And The Loren Miller Bar Association, In Support Of Petitioner, Robert S. Chang, Lorraine K. Bannai, Robert C. Boruchowitz, David A. Perez
Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality
No abstract provided.
Talking About Race And Equality, Sharon E. Rush
Talking About Race And Equality, Sharon E. Rush
UF Law Faculty Publications
Lots of people of different races are increasingly uncomfortable talking about race. They prefer to function in a colorblind society where they insist that race is irrelevant. Not surprisingly, the concept of racial silencing is consistent with the concept of colorblindness. Logically, it seems impossible to talk about race if we are not even supposed to see it. The idea seems to be that if people who believe in racial equality magically stopped seeing and talking about race they could avoid the negativity surrounding racial issues and just hope that the inequality would fix itself. But we know that if …
Sexual Epistemology And Bisexual Exclusion: A Response To Russell Robinson's "Masculinity As Prison: Race, Sexual Identity, And Incarceration", Michael Boucai
Sexual Epistemology And Bisexual Exclusion: A Response To Russell Robinson's "Masculinity As Prison: Race, Sexual Identity, And Incarceration", Michael Boucai
Journal Articles
No abstract provided.
The R-Word: A Tribute To Derrick Bell, Kenneth B. Nunn
The R-Word: A Tribute To Derrick Bell, Kenneth B. Nunn
UF Law Faculty Publications
Racism has become the “R-word,” an allegation that is so outrageous that it cannot even be spoken in public, let alone seriously addressed. In this brief exploration, I propose that it is exactly because racism continues to loom large in American society that talking about it has become taboo. In other words, banning the “R-word” serves a political function. It masks the failure of American society to confront the existence of racism and do something about its effects. Derrick Bell's path breaking work can be used to show why the focus of race discourse has moved from debating over what …
Petition For A Writ Of Certiorari. Dellinger V. Science Applications International Corp. (No. 11-598), 2011 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs Lexis 2153, Eric Schnapper, Zachary A. Kitts, John J. Rigby
Petition For A Writ Of Certiorari. Dellinger V. Science Applications International Corp. (No. 11-598), 2011 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs Lexis 2153, Eric Schnapper, Zachary A. Kitts, John J. Rigby
Court Briefs
QUESTIONS PRESENTED (1) Does the anti-retaliation provision in section 15(a)(3) of the Fair Labor Standards Act apply to retaliation by an employer against a job applicant? (2) Is the private cause action provided by section 16(b) of the FLSA available to a job applicant who is retaliated against by an employer?
Ows, Discourse, And Narratives, Timothy Zick
Ows And The Constitution, Timothy Zick
Trans-Border Exclusion And Execution, Timothy Zick
Trans-Border Exclusion And Execution, Timothy Zick
Popular Media
No abstract provided.
Sustaining A Movement, Timothy Zick
Petition For A Writ Of Certiorari. Opp V. Office Of The State's Attorney Of Cook County, 565 U.S. 815 (2011) (No. 10-1163), 2011 U.S. Lexis 6893, Eric Schnapper, Brian R. Holman, Dennis H. Stefanowicz, Tara Beth Davis, Susan Bogart
Petition For A Writ Of Certiorari. Opp V. Office Of The State's Attorney Of Cook County, 565 U.S. 815 (2011) (No. 10-1163), 2011 U.S. Lexis 6893, Eric Schnapper, Brian R. Holman, Dennis H. Stefanowicz, Tara Beth Davis, Susan Bogart
Court Briefs
QUESTION PRESENTED Five major federal employment statutes, including in this case the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, exclude certain government workers "at the policymaking level" from the definition of employees protected by those laws. The question presented is: who is a worker "on the policymaking level"?
Amici Curiae Brief On Behalf Of The Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality, The Asian Bar Association Of Washington, The Pacific Northwest District Of The Japanese American Citizens League, And The Vietnamese Bar Association Of Washington, In Support Of Petitioner, Lorraine K. Bannai, David A. Perez, Counsel For Amici Curiae
Amici Curiae Brief On Behalf Of The Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality, The Asian Bar Association Of Washington, The Pacific Northwest District Of The Japanese American Citizens League, And The Vietnamese Bar Association Of Washington, In Support Of Petitioner, Lorraine K. Bannai, David A. Perez, Counsel For Amici Curiae
Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality
Civil Rights Amicus Brief Project
Proving Racial Discrimination And Monitoring Fair Lending Compliance: The Missing Data Problem In Nonmortgage Credit, Winnie F. Taylor
Proving Racial Discrimination And Monitoring Fair Lending Compliance: The Missing Data Problem In Nonmortgage Credit, Winnie F. Taylor
Faculty Scholarship
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How To Sever The Legs Of An Octopus: Tunisia’S Ongoing Revolution, Matthew Hammel
How To Sever The Legs Of An Octopus: Tunisia’S Ongoing Revolution, Matthew Hammel
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
The Kasbah square is large and covered in barbwire. Military men stand on the inside of the fence cradling automatic rifles, joking, chatting, texting on their cell phones. Coming out from the bustle of the souks the square feels tranquil. It is September, seven months since the square became a temporary home to thousands of protestors who demanded the end of oppressive government in Tunisia. It was here that the Tunisian people solidified their revolution, refusing to be appeased by the flight of a figurehead while the tentacles of his regime remained.
Ben Ali ruled Tunisia for twenty-three years. During …
Same-Sex Marriage, Second-Class Citizenship, And Law's Social Meanings, Michael C. Dorf
Same-Sex Marriage, Second-Class Citizenship, And Law's Social Meanings, Michael C. Dorf
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Government acts, statements, and symbols that carry the social meaning of second-class citizenship may, as a consequence of that fact, violate the Establishment Clause or the constitutional requirement of equal protection. Yet social meaning is often contested. Do laws permitting same-sex couples to form civil unions but not to enter into marriage convey the social meaning that gays and lesbians are second-class citizens? Do official displays of the Confederate battle flag unconstitutionally convey support for slavery and white supremacy? When public schools teach evolution but not creationism, do they show disrespect for creationists? Different audiences reach different conclusions about the …
A Brave New World Of Stop And Frisk, Ronald J. Bacigal
A Brave New World Of Stop And Frisk, Ronald J. Bacigal
Law Faculty Publications
In this article, the author Ron Bacigal discusses the editorials, The Shame of New York by Bob Herbert and Fighting Crime Where the Criminals Are by Heather MacDonald. These editorials were prompted by the New York City Police Department's release of figures regarding "stop and frisk" incidents within New York City.' MacDonald and Herbert reacted to the same statistical report by putting two very different spins on the raw data. While it's always helpful to compile empirical evidence, Bacigal suggests that we also need to look beyond the mere numbers. If you put aside anecdotal versions of encounters between minorities …
How Myth-Busting About The Historical Goals Of Civil Rights Activism Can Illuminate Paths For The Future, Susan Carle
How Myth-Busting About The Historical Goals Of Civil Rights Activism Can Illuminate Paths For The Future, Susan Carle
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
This article considers four myths about the history of civil rights activism, taht have tended to cloud assessments about current current civil rights law and its potential future directions. I argue that correcting those myths can help illunundile promising paths for the future. In each instance, alternative historical narrative routes for further development of core principles of civil rights law, including further theoretical and practical work to pursue long-standing concepts of structural discrimination, the promise of experimentalist approaches to regulation and enforcement, increased interdisciplinary colaboration between law and other social science fields, and more focus on matters of economic inequality …
Educating Prosecutors And Supreme Court Justices About Brady V. Maryland, Bennett L. Gershman
Educating Prosecutors And Supreme Court Justices About Brady V. Maryland, Bennett L. Gershman
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The author reviews the Supreme Court decision in Connick v. Thompson and provides a course outline, including problems, for training prosecutors on their duty to disclose materially favorable evidence to the defendant under Brady v. Maryland.
Assessment Of International Efforts To Protect The Rights Of Unaccompanied Minors, Kyla Gaines
Assessment Of International Efforts To Protect The Rights Of Unaccompanied Minors, Kyla Gaines
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
Children’s rights have been violated for centuries. These violations of children’s rights may include but are not limited to a child's access to education, adequate food or quality health care. Over the last few years there have been a rising number of prevalent issues that impact children, including trafficking, slave labor, and unaccompanied minors (UAM) migrating from their countries of origin to new host states in North America and Europe. The issue of unaccompanied minors migrating to Europe has been prevalent for years. "In most EU member states arrivals started during the 1990's. I'd say the issue became prevalent at …
Disparate Impact Realism, Amy L. Wax
Disparate Impact Realism, Amy L. Wax
All Faculty Scholarship
In Ricci v. DeStefano, 129 S. Ct. 2658 (2009), the Supreme Court recently reaffirmed the doctrine, first articulated by the Court in Griggs v. Duke Power Company, 401 U.S. 424 (1971), that employers can be held liable under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act for neutral personnel practices with a disparate impact on minority workers. The Griggs Court further held that employers can escape liability by showing that their staffing practices are job related or consistent with business necessity.
In the interim since Griggs, social scientists have generated evidence undermining two key assumptions behind that decision and its …
Beginning To End Racial Profiling: Definitive Solutions To An Elusive Problem, Kami Chavis Simmons
Beginning To End Racial Profiling: Definitive Solutions To An Elusive Problem, Kami Chavis Simmons
Faculty Publications
Remedying an elusive practice such as racial profiling remains a challenging issue for the judiciary and reformers must rely on other avenues for a solution. For example, even where evidence demonstrates that minorities are disproportionately stopped and searched, courts rarely recognize the victim's claim or provide relief. Thus, it is clear that courts will not be the catalysts of change. This Article argues that while courts may be reluctant to provide judicial remedies, police departments themselves should not ignore [minorities'] perceptions [of racial discrimination] and should take measures to reduce any possible profiling and increase partnerships with communities. An indication …
Pepper-Spraying Of Wall Street Protesters Under Investigation, Timothy Zick
Pepper-Spraying Of Wall Street Protesters Under Investigation, Timothy Zick
Popular Media
No abstract provided.
More On The Wall Street Protest, Timothy Zick
Arab Spring On Wall Street?, Timothy Zick
The Summer Of Discontent: Creative Repertoires Of Public Protest, Timothy Zick
The Summer Of Discontent: Creative Repertoires Of Public Protest, Timothy Zick
Popular Media
No abstract provided.
The Law Of Reputation And The Interest Of The Audience, Laura A. Heymann
The Law Of Reputation And The Interest Of The Audience, Laura A. Heymann
Faculty Publications
Although an individual has control over many of the statements, acts, and other biographical data points that are used to construct her reputation, she does not ultimately have control over the result of that reputational assessment, the pronouncement of which is a task reserved to others. Reputation is fundamentally a social concept; it does not exist until a community collectively forms a judgment about an individual or firm that has the potential to guide the community’s future interactions. Despite reputation’s relational nature, discussions of the law’s interest in reputation tend to focus on one of two parties: the individual or …
Front Matters - Vol. 11, No. 1, Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal
Front Matters - Vol. 11, No. 1, Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal
Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Post Racialism?, André Douglas Pond Cummings
Post Racialism?, André Douglas Pond Cummings
Faculty Scholarship
The 2008 election of President Barack Obama represents a halcyon moment in U.S. history. President Obama’s election begs a critical question: whether his nationwide landslide victory catapulted the United States, with its sordid racial past, into a truly post-racial place as many claim. While Obama’s election was possible due to important changes that have taken place in the United States in the past fifty years, the reality is that profound disparities continue to exist between minority and white Americans that show no sign of dissipating during this Obama presidency. Of these profound disparities, some of the most striking include those …
Eminent Domain And Racial Discrimination: A Bogus Equation, J. Peter Byrne
Eminent Domain And Racial Discrimination: A Bogus Equation, J. Peter Byrne
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This paper is a transcript of testimony by Professor J. Peter Byrne before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission on August 12, 2011.
This hearing addresses claims that the use of eminent domain for economic development unfairly and disproportionately harms racial and ethnic minorities. These claims draw on the history of urban renewal prior to the 1960’s, when many African Americans and others were displaced by publicly funded projects that bulldozed their homes in largely failed attempts to modernize cities. Justice Clarence Thomas’s dissent in Kelo v. City of New London further argued that the use of eminent domain for economic …
Implementing Recommendations From The Universal Periodic Review: A Toolkit For State And Local Human Rights And Human Relations Commissions, Human Rights Institute
Implementing Recommendations From The Universal Periodic Review: A Toolkit For State And Local Human Rights And Human Relations Commissions, Human Rights Institute
Human Rights Institute
The United States’ international leadership in promoting human rights around the world is strengthened by state and local officials’ efforts to employ and advance human rights close to home. Indeed, state and local human rights and human relations commissions can play a pivotal role in help- ing the U.S. meet its own human rights obligations by ensuring fairness, dignity and opportunity for all in their communities.
This Toolkit provides information about a recent review of the United States’ human rights record under the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review (“UPR”), which revealed a number of areas in which the United States …