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Newsroom: Yelnosky On Diversifying State Judiciary, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Newsroom: Yelnosky On Diversifying State Judiciary, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
How The Black Lives Matter Movement Can Improve The Justice System, Paul H. Robinson
How The Black Lives Matter Movement Can Improve The Justice System, Paul H. Robinson
All Faculty Scholarship
This op-ed piece argues that because the criminal justice system's loss of moral credibility contributes to increased criminality and because blacks are disproportionately the victims of crimes, especially violent crimes, the most valuable contribution that the Black Lives Matter movement can make is not to tear down the system’s reputation but rather to propose and support reforms that will build it up, thereby improving its crime-control effectiveness and reducing black victimization.
Even Judging Woodrow Wilson By The Standards Of His Own Time, He Was Deplorably Racist, Nancy Unger
Even Judging Woodrow Wilson By The Standards Of His Own Time, He Was Deplorably Racist, Nancy Unger
History
The news that Princeton acquiesced to student demands that the university confront the racism of Woodrow Wilson set off a series of responses. Some protest that it is unfair to judge the 28th president by present day standards. These pundits, almost all white, proclaim that Wilson must be understood within the context of his own time. The inference of such an assertion is that in times of pervasive racism it is reasonable for a leader to perpetuate it. Setting aside the assumption that morals are relative rather than absolute, let’s examine Wilson’s actions within his times.
Newsroom: The Jail Trap: Mass Incarceration In Ri, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Newsroom: The Jail Trap: Mass Incarceration In Ri, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
Trending @ Rwu Law: Deborah Johnson's Post: Diversity And "Defamation", Deborah Johnson
Trending @ Rwu Law: Deborah Johnson's Post: Diversity And "Defamation", Deborah Johnson
Law School Blogs
No abstract provided.
The Role Of The South African Criminal Code In Implementing Apartheid, Garry Seltzer
The Role Of The South African Criminal Code In Implementing Apartheid, Garry Seltzer
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Gentrification And Urban Public School Reforms: The Interest Divergence Dilemma, Erika K. Wilson
Gentrification And Urban Public School Reforms: The Interest Divergence Dilemma, Erika K. Wilson
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
One Significant Step: How Reforms To Prison Districts Begin To Address Political Inequality, Erika L. Wood
One Significant Step: How Reforms To Prison Districts Begin To Address Political Inequality, Erika L. Wood
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Skyrocketing rates of incarceration over the last three decades have had profound and lasting effects on the political power and engagement of local communities throughout the United States. Aggressive enforcement practices and mandatory sentencing laws have an impact beyond the individuals who are arrested, convicted, and incarcerated. These policies have wide-ranging and enduring ripple effects throughout the communities that are most heavily impacted by criminal laws, predominantly urban and minority neighborhoods. Criminal justice policies broadly impact everything from voter turnout and engagement, to serving on juries, participating in popular protests, census data, and the way officials draw legislative districts. The …
Incentives To Incarcerate: Corporation Involvement In Prison Labor And The Privatization Of The Prison System, Alythea S. Morrell
Incentives To Incarcerate: Corporation Involvement In Prison Labor And The Privatization Of The Prison System, Alythea S. Morrell
Master's Projects and Capstones
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the entire world. The United States accounts for approximately 5% of the world’s population, yet it accounts for 25% of the world’s prisoners. Not only does the United States mercilessly incarcerate its own citizens, it disproportionately incarcerates African American and Latino men. This fact on its own is disturbing; however, when it is coupled with the fact that corporations profit from and lobby for an overly aggressive and ineffective criminal justice system, makes these statistics even more horrendous. Private prison companies such as Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group admit …
"Just Another Little Black Boy From The South Side Of Chicago": Overcoming Obstacles And Breaking Down Barriers To Improve Diversity In The Law Professoriate, Michael Z. Green
"Just Another Little Black Boy From The South Side Of Chicago": Overcoming Obstacles And Breaking Down Barriers To Improve Diversity In The Law Professoriate, Michael Z. Green
Faculty Scholarship
As I reflected on my personal experience to help address the persistence of discrimination in legal academia, I chose to focus on five areas of discussion for the open mic portion of the program held at the Association of American Law Schools Cross-Cutting Program, “The More Things Change ...: Exploring Solutions to Persistent Discrimination in Legal Academia,” held on January 4, 2015, in Washington, D.C. First, I decided to address my personal development as an only child and male in a family of mostly black women struggling through the socioeconomic challenges of being poor and black. To add to that …
Blinding Prosecutors To Defendants’ Race: A Policy Proposal To Reduce Unconscious Bias In The Criminal Justice System, Sunita Sah, Christopher Robertson, Shima Baughman
Blinding Prosecutors To Defendants’ Race: A Policy Proposal To Reduce Unconscious Bias In The Criminal Justice System, Sunita Sah, Christopher Robertson, Shima Baughman
Faculty Scholarship
Racial minorities are disproportionately imprisoned in the United States. This disparity is unlikely to be due solely to differences in criminal behavior. Behavioral science research has documented that prosecutors harbor unconscious racial biases. These unconscious biases play a role whenever prosecutors exercise their broad discretion, such as in choosing what crimes to charge and when negotiating plea bargains. To reduce this risk of unconscious racial bias, we propose a policy change: Prosecutors should be blinded to the race of criminal defendants wherever feasible. This could be accomplished by removing information identifying or suggesting the defendant’s race from police dossiers shared …
Deadly Waiting Game: An Environmental Justice Framework For Examining Natural And Man-Made Disasters Beyond Hurricane Katrina [Abstract], Robert D. Bullard
Deadly Waiting Game: An Environmental Justice Framework For Examining Natural And Man-Made Disasters Beyond Hurricane Katrina [Abstract], Robert D. Bullard
Robert D Bullard
Presenter: Robert D. Bullard, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Clark Atlanta University 1 page.
Tales Of Color And Colonialism: Racial Realism And Settler Colonial Theory, Natsu T. Saito
Tales Of Color And Colonialism: Racial Realism And Settler Colonial Theory, Natsu T. Saito
Natsu Taylor Saito
More than a half-century after the Civil Rights Era, people of color remain disproportionately impoverished and incarcerated, excluded and vulnerable. Legal remedies rooted in the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection remain elusive. This article argues that the “racial realism” advocated by the late Professor Derrick Bell compels us to look critically at the purposes served by racial hierarchy. By stepping outside the master narrative’s depiction of the United States as a “nation of immigrants” with opportunity for all, we can recognize it as a settler state, much like Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. It could not exist without the occupation …
Defamation: The Play, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Defamation: The Play, Roger Williams University School Of Law
School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events
No abstract provided.
The Fiscal Savings Of Accessing The Right To Legal Counsel Within Twenty-Four Hours Of Arrest: Chicago And Cook County, 2013, Bryan L. Sykes, Eliza Solowiej, Evelyn J. Patterson
The Fiscal Savings Of Accessing The Right To Legal Counsel Within Twenty-Four Hours Of Arrest: Chicago And Cook County, 2013, Bryan L. Sykes, Eliza Solowiej, Evelyn J. Patterson
UC Irvine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Race, Prison Discipline, And The Law, Andrea C. Armstrong
Race, Prison Discipline, And The Law, Andrea C. Armstrong
UC Irvine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Foreword: Criminal Justice For Those (Still) At The Margins—Addressing Hidden Forms Of Bias And The Politics Of Which Lives Matter, Mario L. Barnes
Foreword: Criminal Justice For Those (Still) At The Margins—Addressing Hidden Forms Of Bias And The Politics Of Which Lives Matter, Mario L. Barnes
UC Irvine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Police Encounters With Race And Gender, Eric J. Miller
Police Encounters With Race And Gender, Eric J. Miller
UC Irvine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Collateral Damage: A Public Housing Consequence Of The “War On Drugs”, Lahny R. Silva
Collateral Damage: A Public Housing Consequence Of The “War On Drugs”, Lahny R. Silva
UC Irvine Law Review
No abstract provided.
A New Approach To Voir Dire On Racial Bias, Cynthia Lee
A New Approach To Voir Dire On Racial Bias, Cynthia Lee
UC Irvine Law Review
No abstract provided.
“A Spectacle Of Slavery Unwilling To Die”: Curbing Reliance On Racial Stereotyping In Self-Defense Cases, Jonathan Markovitz
“A Spectacle Of Slavery Unwilling To Die”: Curbing Reliance On Racial Stereotyping In Self-Defense Cases, Jonathan Markovitz
UC Irvine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Afterword: Criminal Justice And The Problem Of Institutionalized Bias—Comments On Theory And Remedial Action, Mona Lynch
Afterword: Criminal Justice And The Problem Of Institutionalized Bias—Comments On Theory And Remedial Action, Mona Lynch
UC Irvine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Socioeconomic Integration And The Greater Richmond School District: The Feasibility Of Interdistrict Consolidation, Barry Gabay
Socioeconomic Integration And The Greater Richmond School District: The Feasibility Of Interdistrict Consolidation, Barry Gabay
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
Police Body Cameras: Implementation With Caution, Forethought, And Policy, Dru S. Letourneau
Police Body Cameras: Implementation With Caution, Forethought, And Policy, Dru S. Letourneau
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
What The Marriage Equality Cases Tell Us About Voter Id, Ellen D. Katz
What The Marriage Equality Cases Tell Us About Voter Id, Ellen D. Katz
Articles
Two years ago, United States u. Windsor tossed out the Defense of Marriage Act ("DOMA"). Thereafter, proponents of marriage equality secured dozens of notable victories in the lower courts, a smattering of setbacks, and last June, the victory they sought in Obergefell v. Hodges. During this same period, opponents of electoral restrictions such as voter identification have seen far less sustained success. Decided the day before Windsor, Shelby County v. Holder scrapped a key provision of the Voting Rights Act ("VRA") while making clear that plaintiffs might still challenge disputed voting regulations under Section 2 of the VRA and the …
Embodying The Population: Five Decades Of Immigrant/Integration Policy In Sweden, Leila Brännström
Embodying The Population: Five Decades Of Immigrant/Integration Policy In Sweden, Leila Brännström
Leila Brännström
Violence And Police Diversity: A Call For Research, Mary D. Fan
Violence And Police Diversity: A Call For Research, Mary D. Fan
BYU Law Review
Deaths and protests in places where predominantly-white police forces patrol majority-black communities have focused the national spotlight on concerns over unrepresentative police forces. Responding to the controversy, mayors and police chiefs in cities across the nation are announcing goals to hire more minority officers. But does police diversification actually reduce the risk of violence in police encounters? This Article addresses this timely question of legal and practical import to communities seeking to prevent violence and pursue policies that survive constitutional scrutiny.
Drawing on restricted-access Centers for Disease Control data and social-psychological insights, this Article shows that there is a good …
Newsroom: Johnson Heads Black Women's Bar Org, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Newsroom: Johnson Heads Black Women's Bar Org, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
Reparations For Slavery And Jim Crow, Its Assumptions And Implications, David B. Lyons
Reparations For Slavery And Jim Crow, Its Assumptions And Implications, David B. Lyons
Faculty Scholarship
This paper develops the case for reparations to African Americans today, based on wrongdoing that began with slavery, that was not repaired by Reconstruction, that was continued in new forms under Jim Crow, and that left a deeply-entrenched legacy of disadvantage despite civil rights reforms of the twentieth century. It reviews relevant aspects of U.S. history and policies since 1607 and lays out the moral considerations that call for a system of reparations far beyond anything yet contemplated by American society. It argues that cash payments, while needed, would not suffice, because slavery and Jim Crow were not just a …
Newsroom: Logan Honored For Diversity, Equal Justice, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Newsroom: Logan Honored For Diversity, Equal Justice, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.