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"White Men's Roads Through Black Men's Homes": Advancing Racial Equity Through Highway Reconstruction, Deborah N. Archer
"White Men's Roads Through Black Men's Homes": Advancing Racial Equity Through Highway Reconstruction, Deborah N. Archer
Vanderbilt Law Review
Racial and economic segregation in urban communities is often understood as a natural consequence of poor choices by individuals. In reality, racially and economically segregated cities are the result of many factors, including the nation’s interstate highway system. In states around the country, highway construction displaced Black households and cut the heart and soul out of thriving Black communities as homes, churches, schools, and businesses were destroyed. In other communities, the highway system was a tool of a segregationist agenda, erecting a wall that separated White and Black communities and protected White people from Black migration. In these ways, construction …
Judicial Restraints On Illegal State Violence: Israel And The United States, John T. Parry
Judicial Restraints On Illegal State Violence: Israel And The United States, John T. Parry
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
This Article examines the role of courts in controlling state violence in the United States and Israel. The Author considers how U.S. federal courts should respond to illegal state violence by comparing a U.S. Supreme Court case, "City of Los Angeles v. Lyons", with a case decided by the Supreme Court of Israel, Public Committee Against Torture in Israel v. Israel. Part II highlights the legal issues that were central to each court in reaching a decision, including standing, the scope of equitable discretion to craft remedies, and baseline attitudes towards illegal government action. Part III examines the doctrines discussed …