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The Procedural Justice Industrial Complex, Shawn E. Fields Jan 2024

The Procedural Justice Industrial Complex, Shawn E. Fields

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The singular focus on procedural justice police reform is dangerous. Procedurally just law enforcement encounters provide an empirically proven subjective sense of fairness and legitimacy, while obscuring substantively unjust outcomes emanating from a fundamentally unjust system. The deceptive simplicity of procedural justice – that a polite cop is a lawful cop – promotes a false consciousness among would-be reformers that progress has been made, evokes a false sense of legitimacy divorced from objective indicia of lawfulness or morality, and claims the mantle of “reform” in the process. It is not just that procedural justice is a suboptimal type of reform; …


Defining Disparate Treatment: A Research Agenda For Our Times, Deborah Hellman Jan 2023

Defining Disparate Treatment: A Research Agenda For Our Times, Deborah Hellman

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Both statutory and constitutional laws prohibiting discrimination forbid actions taken on the basis of certain traits. But rarely are those traits specifically defined. As a result, courts fill in these definitions and do so with consequential results. The boundaries they draw often determine whether or not a law, policy, or action constitutes disparate treatment on the basis of a legally protected trait. As disparate treatment calls for a significantly heavier burden of justification than does disparate impact, the key move putting laws, policies, and the acts of individuals into one category or the other happens in this definitional step.

Defining …


Title Vii And The Unenvisaged Case: Is Anti-Lgbtq Discrimination Unlawful Sex Discrimination, Ronald Turner Jan 2020

Title Vii And The Unenvisaged Case: Is Anti-Lgbtq Discrimination Unlawful Sex Discrimination, Ronald Turner

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As discussed herein, courts and individual judges recognizing or not finding actionable Title VII anti-LGBTQ14 claims have offered different rationales in support of their conflicting positions, including three justifications discussed in this project: (1) the meaning of Title VII’s “because of sex” prohibition, (2) the Supreme Court’s and circuit courts’ construction of the “because of sex” provision in the context of sex stereotyping and gender nonconformity discrimination as applied to the anti- LGBTQ question, and (3) associational discrimination theory. Claim-recognizing jurists have looked to Title VII’s text, Supreme Court and circuit court precedent, and the views of the Equal Employment …


Gender Disparities In Plea Bargaining, Carlos Berdejo Oct 2019

Gender Disparities In Plea Bargaining, Carlos Berdejo

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Across wide-ranging contexts, academic literature and the popular press have identified pervasive gender disparities favoring men over women in society. One area in which gender disparities have conversely favored women is the criminal justice system. Most of the empirical research examining gender disparities in criminal case outcomes has focused on judges’ sentencing decisions. Few studies have assessed disparities in the steps leading up to a defendant’s conviction, where various actors make choices that constrain judges’ ultimate sentencing discretion. This Article addresses this gap by examining gender disparities in the plea-bargaining process. The results presented in this Article reveal significant gender …


Discrimination In Baby Making: The Unconstitutional Treatment Of Prospective Parents Through Surrogacy, Andrea B. Carroll Oct 2013

Discrimination In Baby Making: The Unconstitutional Treatment Of Prospective Parents Through Surrogacy, Andrea B. Carroll

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Roundtable on Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technology 2012


How Parents Are Made: A Response To Discrimination In Baby Making: The Unconstitutional Treatment Of Prospective Parents Through Surrogacy, Kimberly M. Mutcherson Oct 2013

How Parents Are Made: A Response To Discrimination In Baby Making: The Unconstitutional Treatment Of Prospective Parents Through Surrogacy, Kimberly M. Mutcherson

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Roundtable on Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technology 2012


Hierarchies Of Discrimination In Baby Making: A Response To Professor Carroll, Radhika Rao Oct 2013

Hierarchies Of Discrimination In Baby Making: A Response To Professor Carroll, Radhika Rao

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Roundtable on Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technology 2012


Discrimination As Accident, Amy L. Wax Oct 1999

Discrimination As Accident, Amy L. Wax

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No abstract provided.


Response To Professor Wax: Discrimination As Accident: Old Whine, New Bottle, Michael Selmi Oct 1999

Response To Professor Wax: Discrimination As Accident: Old Whine, New Bottle, Michael Selmi

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No abstract provided.


Thou Shalt Not Sue The Church: Denying Court Access To Ministerial Employees, Shawna Meyer Eikenberry Jan 1998

Thou Shalt Not Sue The Church: Denying Court Access To Ministerial Employees, Shawna Meyer Eikenberry

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No abstract provided.


In Defense Of Disparate Impact Analysis Under Title Vii: A Reply To Dr. Cohn, Elaine W. Shoben Apr 1980

In Defense Of Disparate Impact Analysis Under Title Vii: A Reply To Dr. Cohn, Elaine W. Shoben

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No abstract provided.


On The Use Of Statistics In Employment Discrimination Cases, Richard M. Cohn Apr 1980

On The Use Of Statistics In Employment Discrimination Cases, Richard M. Cohn

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No abstract provided.


Title Vii And Postjudgment Class Actions, John F. Crawford Jan 1972

Title Vii And Postjudgment Class Actions, John F. Crawford

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No abstract provided.


Equal Rights For Women: The Need For A National Policy, Julia C. Lamber Apr 1971

Equal Rights For Women: The Need For A National Policy, Julia C. Lamber

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No abstract provided.


Discrimination Against Minorities In The Federal Housing Programs Jul 1956

Discrimination Against Minorities In The Federal Housing Programs

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No abstract provided.


Peremptory Challenging Of Negro Veniremen As Discrimination Against Negro Criminal Defendant Jan 1949

Peremptory Challenging Of Negro Veniremen As Discrimination Against Negro Criminal Defendant

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Recent Cases: Juries


Schools-Race Segregation-Constitutional Law Mar 1932

Schools-Race Segregation-Constitutional Law

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No abstract provided.