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Full-Text Articles in Law and Race
The Rise And Fall Of Affirmative Action Injury Selection, Avern Cohn, David R. Sherwood
The Rise And Fall Of Affirmative Action Injury Selection, Avern Cohn, David R. Sherwood
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan has historically experienced difficulty in achieving jury compositions that truly represented the surrounding community. In response, the Authors share their insight as to how the court instituted a "balancing" program. By reducing the number of white names in the jury wheel, the balancing program successfully incorporated more minorities into the jury system. The Authors further discuss the Sixth Circuit decision, United States v. Ovalle, which marked the end of the balancing program.
The Interplay Of Race And False Claims Of Jury Nullification, Nancy S. Marder
The Interplay Of Race And False Claims Of Jury Nullification, Nancy S. Marder
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
After the verdicts in the OJ Simpson and Stacey Koon/Laurence Powell cases, many in the press explained the juries' acquittals as instances of jury nullification. However these were unlikely to have been instances of nullification, particularly because the jurors explained that their verdicts were based on reasonable doubt. One motivation for these false claims of jury nullification was the homogeneity of the juries-a largely African-American jury in the case of Simpson and a largely white jury in the case of Koon/Powell. Nullification became the term by which press and public attempted to discredit verdicts rendered by juries they distrusted. A …
What Money Cannot Buy: A Legislative Response To C.Rac.K., Adam B. Wolf
What Money Cannot Buy: A Legislative Response To C.Rac.K., Adam B. Wolf
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity (C.R.A.C.K.) is an organization that pays current or former drug addicts $200 to be sterilized. While generating great public controversy, C.R.A.C.K. is expanding rapidly throughout the country. Its clients are disproportionately poor women of color, who are coerced by the offer of money into permanently relinquishing their reproductive rights. This Note argues that C.R.A.C.K. is a program of eugenical sterilization that cannot be tolerated. Moreover, C.R.A.C.K. further violates settled national public policy by offensively commodifying the ill-commodifiable, by demeaning women, and by starting down a slippery slope with devastating consequences. This Note proposes legislation that …
It's Not Just Hair: Historical And Cultural Considerations For An Emerging Technology, Deborah Pergament
It's Not Just Hair: Historical And Cultural Considerations For An Emerging Technology, Deborah Pergament
Chicago-Kent Law Review
History reflects the social, religious and political importance of human hair. Individuals have used hairstyles to flaunt social conventions about gender, race, sexual identity, and social status. Totalitarian governments have regulated hairstyles as a means of social control and dehumanization. Today, advances in technology now make it possible to discover information about an individual's current or potential health status. Judicial decisions and administrative regulations offer individuals limited protection from state or institutional intrusion into the information revealed by genetic hair analysis. This Article argues that the explosion of technologies that use hair to reveal intimate details of an individual's biological …
Life After Adarand: What Happened To The Metro Broadcasting Diversity Rationale For Affirmative Action In Telecommunications Ownership?, Leonard M. Baynes
Life After Adarand: What Happened To The Metro Broadcasting Diversity Rationale For Affirmative Action In Telecommunications Ownership?, Leonard M. Baynes
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
The United States Supreme Court severely restricted affirmative action policies in Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena. In this opinion, a majority of the Court held that all state or federally mandated affirmative action programs are to be analyzed under strict scrutiny. This test requires affirmative action programs to meet a compelling governmental interest and be narrowly tailored.
Adarand raised issues concerning the validity of the Federal Communications Commission's affirmative action ownership policies. Previously, the Court in Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. FCC found the FCC minority ownership policies constitutional under a lower (intermediate) standard of review. In Adarand, the Court …
The Influence Of Race In School Finance Reform, James E. Ryan
The Influence Of Race In School Finance Reform, James E. Ryan
Michigan Law Review
It would be an exaggeration to say that school finance reform is all about race, but largely in the same way that it is an exaggeration to say that welfare reform is all about race. Like welfare reform, the controversy generated by school finance litigation and reform has, on the surface, little to do with race. Battles over school funding, which have been waged in nearly forty state supreme courts and at least as many state legislatures, instead appear to be over such issues as the redistribution of resources, retaining local control over education, and the efficacy of increased expenditures. …
Human Rights, Environment & Community: A Workshop: Presentation By Joseph Hill, Joseph Hill
Human Rights, Environment & Community: A Workshop: Presentation By Joseph Hill, Joseph Hill
Buffalo Environmental Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Race And Representation: A Study Of Legal Aid Attorneys And Their Perceptions Of The Significance Of Race, Roland Acevedo, Edward Hosp, Rachel Pomerantz
Race And Representation: A Study Of Legal Aid Attorneys And Their Perceptions Of The Significance Of Race, Roland Acevedo, Edward Hosp, Rachel Pomerantz
Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Commercial And Corporate Lawyers 'N The Hood, Alfred Dennis Mathewson
Commercial And Corporate Lawyers 'N The Hood, Alfred Dennis Mathewson
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
Racial Equality In The Twenty-First Century: What's Tax Policy Got To Do With It?, Dorothy A. Brown
Racial Equality In The Twenty-First Century: What's Tax Policy Got To Do With It?, Dorothy A. Brown
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
Racial Equity In Housing, Chester Hartman
Racial Equity In Housing, Chester Hartman
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
Culturally Significant Speech: Law, Courts, Society, And Racial Equity, Larry Catá Backer
Culturally Significant Speech: Law, Courts, Society, And Racial Equity, Larry Catá Backer
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
Higher Education Admissions And The Search For One Important Thing, Michael A. Olivas
Higher Education Admissions And The Search For One Important Thing, Michael A. Olivas
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
Giving Birth To A Racially Just Society In The 21st Century, David Hall
Giving Birth To A Racially Just Society In The 21st Century, David Hall
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
Racism In Athletics: Subtle Yet Persistent, Timothy Davis
Racism In Athletics: Subtle Yet Persistent, Timothy Davis
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
It Is Not Right Under The Constitution To Stop And Frisk Minority People Because They Don't Look Right, L. Darnell Weeden
It Is Not Right Under The Constitution To Stop And Frisk Minority People Because They Don't Look Right, L. Darnell Weeden
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Role Of Assets In Assuring Equity, Cruz Reynoso
The Role Of Assets In Assuring Equity, Cruz Reynoso
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
Setting An Agenda For The Study Of Tax And Black Culture, Beverly Moran
Setting An Agenda For The Study Of Tax And Black Culture, Beverly Moran
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
Environmental Justice: The Path To A Remedy That Hits The Mark, Ora Fred Harris Jr.
Environmental Justice: The Path To A Remedy That Hits The Mark, Ora Fred Harris Jr.
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
Say It Loud: Indirect Speech And Racial Equality In The Interrogation Room, C. Antoinette Clarke
Say It Loud: Indirect Speech And Racial Equality In The Interrogation Room, C. Antoinette Clarke
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
Race, Law, And Culture: A Call To New Thinking, Leadership, And Action, Wendell L. Griffen
Race, Law, And Culture: A Call To New Thinking, Leadership, And Action, Wendell L. Griffen
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
American Indian Education: The Terror Of History And The Nation's Debt To The Indian Peoples, Raymond Cross
American Indian Education: The Terror Of History And The Nation's Debt To The Indian Peoples, Raymond Cross
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
Race And Higher Education: A Rallying-Cry For Racial Justice And Equal Educational Opportunity, Pace Jefferson Mcconkie
Race And Higher Education: A Rallying-Cry For Racial Justice And Equal Educational Opportunity, Pace Jefferson Mcconkie
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
Response To Review By Terrance Sandalow, William G. Bowen, Derek Bok
Response To Review By Terrance Sandalow, William G. Bowen, Derek Bok
Michigan Law Review
Mark Twain tried to convey the size and complexity of the Mississippi by explaining to his readers that the river draws its water from every state between Delaware and Idaho, discharges 338 times as much water as the Thames, and is fed by 54 subordinate rivers each of which was large enough for steamboat travel.
Race, Class, Caste…? Rethinking Affirmative Action, Clark D. Cunningham, N.R. Madhava Menon
Race, Class, Caste…? Rethinking Affirmative Action, Clark D. Cunningham, N.R. Madhava Menon
Michigan Law Review
Many who oppose affirmative action programs in the United States because they use "racial" categories such as black, African American, or Latino, claim that equally effective and more equitable programs can be developed using only class categories, such as "low income." A key test case for the "race v. class" debate is admission to law schools, made urgent by recent legal prohibitions on the use of "race" in the admission procedures to state universities in California, Washington, and Texas. An empirical study by Linda Wightman, the former director of research for the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC), has shown that …
Affirmative Action, Caste, And Cultural Comparisons, Cass R. Sunstein
Affirmative Action, Caste, And Cultural Comparisons, Cass R. Sunstein
Michigan Law Review
What is permitted, and what is prohibited, by the equality principle of a liberal democracy? Does affirmative action run afoul of that principle? And where should we look to answer these questions? Many critics of affirmative action take it as axiomatic that affirmative action violates the equality principle. But this is far from clear. Every law classifies. The current law of equality itself classifies by, for example, treating discrimination on the basis of race differently from discrimination on the basis of age. No one thinks that the law of equality is, for this reason, inconsistent with the Equal Protection Clause. …
The Charleston Policy: Substance Or Abuse?, Kimani Paul-Emile
The Charleston Policy: Substance Or Abuse?, Kimani Paul-Emile
Michigan Journal of Race and Law
In 1989, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) adopted a policy that, according to subjective criteria, singled out for drug testing, certain women who sought prenatal care and childbirth services would be tested for prohibited substances. Women who tested positive were arrested, incarcerated and prosecuted for crimes ranging from misdemeanor substance possession to felony substance distribution to a minor. In this Article, the Author argues that by intentionally targeting indigent Black women for prosecution, the MUSC Policy continued the United States legacy of their systematic oppression and resulted in the criminalizing of Black Motherhood.
Apartheid As A Crime Against Humanity: A Submission To The South African Truth And Reconciliation Commission, Ronald C. Slye
Apartheid As A Crime Against Humanity: A Submission To The South African Truth And Reconciliation Commission, Ronald C. Slye
Michigan Journal of International Law
The question of whether apartheid is a crime against humanity might seem an odd one for many people living outside South Africa-and indeed for the vast majority of people living inside South Africa. With the recent demise of legalized apartheid in South Africa, one might ask if apartheid's status under international law has any contemporary relevance beyond a small group of legal academics. The status of apartheid under international law-in particular whether apartheid constitutes a crime against humanity-is a question that the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission ("TRC") was obligated to address in its final report.
The Content Of Our Characterizations, Paulette M. Cladwell
The Content Of Our Characterizations, Paulette M. Cladwell
Michigan Journal of Race and Law
This essay suggests both further amplification of Yamamoto's guidelines for critical race praxis and, more importantly, recommends their application to the analysis and development of progressive race theory itself.
Facing History, Facing Ourselves: Eric Yamamoto And The Quest For Justice, Robert S. Change
Facing History, Facing Ourselves: Eric Yamamoto And The Quest For Justice, Robert S. Change
Michigan Journal of Race and Law
Review of Interracial Justice: Conflict and Reconciliation in Post-Civil Rights America by Eric Yamamoto