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Law School News: Yelnosky Patio Dedicated 11/16/2020, Michael M. Bowden
Law School News: Yelnosky Patio Dedicated 11/16/2020, Michael M. Bowden
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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Law School News: A Fond Farewell To Dean Michael Yelnosky 06-26-2020, Michael M. Bowden
Law School News: A Fond Farewell To Dean Michael Yelnosky 06-26-2020, Michael M. Bowden
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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Roger Williams University School Of Law Commencement, May 15, 2020, Bristol, Rhode Island, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Roger Williams University School Of Law Commencement, May 15, 2020, Bristol, Rhode Island, Roger Williams University School Of Law
School of Law Commencement (1996- )
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The Elastic Meaning(S) Of Human Trafficking, Julie A. Dahlstrom
The Elastic Meaning(S) Of Human Trafficking, Julie A. Dahlstrom
Faculty Scholarship
What is human trafficking? When is an expansive definition of trafficking justifiable? How does trafficking relate to other concepts—like domestic violence, sexual assault, labor exploitation, and prostitution—with which it often overlaps? These questions have become increasingly salient after the U.S. Congress defined the crime of human trafficking in the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (“TVPA”). Since then, all fifty states have passed legislation with varying definitions of the crime. Congress also has re-entered the field with subsequent legislation, expanding the crime to capture new conduct.
As a result of legislative advocacy and judicial interpretation, the legal …
The New Qui Tam: A Model For The Enforcement Of Group Rights In A Hostile Era, Myriam E. Gilles, Gary Friedman
The New Qui Tam: A Model For The Enforcement Of Group Rights In A Hostile Era, Myriam E. Gilles, Gary Friedman
Articles
The present Administration has made clear it has no interest in enforcing statutes designed to protect workers, consumers, voters, and others. And, as we have chronicled in prior work, the ability of private litigants to enforce these laws has been undercut by developments in the case law concerning class actions—particularly class-banning arbitration clauses. As these critical enforcement methods recede, will alternative methods of prosecuting claims arise? How might they work? Are they politically and fiscally sustainable? We focus here on a promising approach just now coming into view: qui tam legislation authorizing private citizens to bring representative claims on behalf …
Erasing Race, Llezlie Green
Erasing Race, Llezlie Green
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
Low-wage workers frequently experience exploitation, including wage theft, at the intersection of their racial identities and their economic vulnerabilities. Scholars, however, rarely consider the role of wage and hwur exploitation in broader racial subordination frameworks. This Essay considers the narratives that have informed the detachment of racial justice from the worker exploitation narrative and the distancing of economic justice from the civil rights narrative. It then contends that social movements, like the Fight for $15, can disrupt narrow understandings of low-wage worker exploitation and proffer more nuanced narratives that connect race, economic justice, and civil rights to a broader antisubordination …