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The Michael Jackson Pill: Equality, Race, And Culture, Jerome Mccristal Culp Jr.

Michigan Law Review

This chronicle is in tribute to the work of Derrick Bell, past, present, and future. I have borrowed his character Geneva Crenshaw as part of that tribute, and I hope she helps me raise some of the issues that he has taught us are important.

All characters in this chronicle are fictional, including Professor Culp and Professor Bell. Any relationship they may have to the real Professor Bell and Professor Culp is dictated by the requirements of creativity and the extent to which reality and fiction necessarily merge. I know that the real Derrick Bell is wiser than the one …

Factors For Reasonable Suspicion: When Black And Poor Means Stopped And Frisked, David A. Harris

Indiana Law Journal

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'If Black Is So Special, Then Why Isn't It In The Rainbow?', Sharon E. Rush

UF Law Faculty Publications

In the modern day, defining "family" becomes less of a theoretical debate when one's own family unit is different from the traditional married, middle-class mother and father with their biological children. For non-traditional families, redefining family takes on enormous practical significance and may actually enable people to create families. Laws permitting transracial adoptions and surrogacy are illustrative. Moreover, a broader definition of family provides greater legal security to non-traditional families. Without such legal protection, non-traditional families live in fear of traditional laws tearing them apart. Rather than using a standard that promotes hegemony in custody disputes, decisionmakers should become aware …

Checking The "Trigger-Happy" Congress: The Extraterritorial Extension Of Federal Employment Laws Requires Prudence, Derek G. Barella

Indiana Law Journal

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Fight Muhammad's 'Secret' With Facts, Kenneth Lasson

All Faculty Scholarship

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Intersections Of Race, Ethnicity, And The Law, Valerie P. Hans, Ramiro Martinez Jr.

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The development of law is inextricably linked to matters of race and ethnicity. The stories of minority citizens--the texture of their lives, the prejudices they have endured, and their struggles for fair treatment--have been documented in the pages of legal opinions, as judges over the years have wrestled with fundamental questions of racial bias and inequality. Studying race, ethnicity, and the law is challenging for many reasons, not the least of which is the prime difficulty of defining what we mean by race. Even the choice of words used to identify minority individuals has social and political ramifications. How law …

Brown V. Board Of Education After 40 Years: Confronting The Promise, William & Mary Law School

One-Time Conferences: Programs

Held on May 17-18, 1994 in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Sponsored by the Institute of Bill of Rights Law of The College of William and Mary and Howard University School of Law.

No Pity: People With Disabilities Forging A New Civil Rights Movements, Cheryl A. Leighty

Michigan Law Review

A Review of No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement by Joseph P. Shapiro

Only Words, David C. Dinielli

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Only Words by Catharine A. MacKinnon

Race Against The Court: The Supreme Court And Minorities In Contemporary America, Melissa Nicholson Starkey

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Race Against the Court: The Supreme Court and Minorities in Contemporary America by Girardeau A. Spann

Kiss Of Death: Application Of Title Vii's Prohibition Against Religious Discrimination In The Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia, James D. Phipps

BYU Law Review

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Brutality In Blue: Community, Authority, And The Elusive Promise Of Police Reform, Debra Ann Livingston

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Above the Law: Police and the Excessive Use of Force by Jerome H. Skolnick and James J. Fyfe

The Lenses Of Gender: Transforming The Debate On Sexual Inequality, Jill M. Dahlmann

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality by Sandra Lipsitz Bem

Meeting The Challenge At The Mines: The Americans With Disabilities Act, Susan E. Chetlin, Mark E. Baker

West Virginia Law Review

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28 U.S.C. § 1658: A Limitation Period With Real Limitations, Kimberly Jade Norwood

Indiana Law Journal

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Lesbians, Gays And The Struggle For Equality Rights: Reversing The Progressive Hypothesis, Mary Eaton

Dalhousie Law Journal

The tale often told of Canadian law's advancement in the field of sexual orientation rights is simple but sublime: law has moved, however ploddingly and not without substantial prodding, out of an epoch of almost total repression, into an evermore enlightened era. Castigated by criminal law, pushed to the perimeter by administrative law, and ignored by human rights law, the "homosexual"' had once been law's quintessential "other." In recent years, however, legislatures and courts have increasingly been willing to recognize "homosexuals" as a constituency too long held down by the heavy hand of legal control. Most penal prohibitions against exercises …

A Postmodern Constitutionalism: Equality Rights, Identity Politics, And The Canadian National Imagination, Carl F. Stychin

Dalhousie Law Journal

In the 1990s, "identity" has become the centrepiece of theoretical work in a variety of disciplines. We now know that, in the conditions of late modem (or postmodem) society, identity is complex-it is fragmented, intersected, subject to alteration, socially constructed and it exhibits only a partial fixity at any moment. Most important, identities are to be valued, respected, and understood on their own terms. However, we also have relearned (if we ever forgot) that identities can be dangerous and fatal, especially when they coalesce in the form of nationalism. In this article, I will explore the intersection of nationalism and …

Interest Balancing And Other Limits To Judicially Managed Equal Educational Opportunity, Neal Devins

Faculty Publications

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Blind Injustice: Seeing Beyond The D.C.Superior Court Exclusion Of Blind Citizens From Jury Duty, Deborah Ann A'Hearn

University of the District of Columbia Law Review

On January 4, 1994, the Cohncil of the District of Columbia (D.C. Council) adopted PR 10-361, the "Sense of the Council on Blind Citizens' Right to Jury Service Resolution of 1993." This Resolution, which supports the United States District Court's decision in Galloway v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia," would afford blind citizens the same privilege and right to serve as jurors that is granted to non-disabled citizens. Currently, D.C. CODE ANN. § 11-1903 (1981)3 prohibits exclusion of citizens from jury service on the basis of physical handicap. Specifically, the Code provides that: [A] citizen of the District …

Building Bridges: A Personal Reflection On Race, Crime, And The Juvenile Justice System, Fay Wilson Hobbs

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Deliberate Indifference: Judicial Tolerance Of Racial Bias In Criminal Justice, Bryan A. Stevenson, * Ruth E. Friedman

Washington and Lee Law Review

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A Response To Professor Choper: Laying Down Another Ladder, Sheri Lynn Johnson

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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Criminal Law And Justice System Practices As Racist, White, And Racialized, Kathleen Daly

Washington and Lee Law Review

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A Minority View Of Juvenile "Justice", Coramae Richey Mann

Washington and Lee Law Review

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From Social Safety Net To Dragnet: African American Males In The Criminal Justice System, Jerome G. Miller

Washington and Lee Law Review

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The Police And Violent Crime, Joseph D. Mcnamara

Washington and Lee Law Review

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The Role Of Race In The Memphis Courts, D'Army Bailey

Washington and Lee Law Review

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The Dubious Title Vii Cause Of Action For Sexual Favoritism, Michael J. Phillips

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Abortion Rights In America, Joan R. Bullock

BYU Law Review

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Reflections On The "Inevitability" Of Racial Discrimination In Capital Sentencing And The "Impossibility" Of Its Prevention, Detection, And Correction, David C. Baldus, George Woodworth, Charles A. Pulaski, Jr.

Washington and Lee Law Review

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