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The Pope's Rich Bag Of Diversity For Families, John G. Culhane Sep 2015

The Pope's Rich Bag Of Diversity For Families, John G. Culhane

John G. Culhane

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The Family Law Canon In A (Post?) Racial Era, Shani M. King Nov 2014

The Family Law Canon In A (Post?) Racial Era, Shani M. King

Shani M. King

While the debate about a post-racial society rages, our justice system continues to operate in a way that is race-conscious. It seems as though most of the discussion about race and the justice system concerns criminal justice, juvenile justice, education, and immigration. But race consciousness also impacts family law. Nonetheless, the family law canon does not scrutinize race-based disparities in laws, procedures, and outcomes, and that omission feeds a mistaken notion of a race-blind or a post-racial society. One consequence of this omission is that it obscures race-based decision making by legislatures, judges, legal reform organizations, legal scholars, lawyers, and …