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Religious Exemptions And Lgbtq Child Welfare, Jordan Woods
Religious Exemptions And Lgbtq Child Welfare, Jordan Woods
Jordan Blair Woods
In the wake of marriage equality, legal attention is increasingly shifting to resolving conflicts between religious liberty and LGBTQ equality. The current terms of the debate largely center on same-sex marriage, and much less attention is being paid to how religious exemptions affect LGBTQ people in situations that do not involve marriage. LGBTQ youth in the child welfare system are one example of a group that is overshadowed in this debate. Several states have recently enacted broad religious exemption laws that allow the religious or moral views of child welfare actors (for instance, child welfare agencies, caseworkers, or foster parents) …
Policing, Danger Narratives, And Routine Traffic Stops, Jordan Woods
Policing, Danger Narratives, And Routine Traffic Stops, Jordan Woods
Jordan Blair Woods
This Article presents findings from the largest and most comprehensive study to date on violence against the police during traffic stops. Every year, police officers conduct tens of millions of traffic stops. Many of these stops are entirely unremarkable—so much so that they may be fairly described as routine. Nonetheless, the narrative that routine traffic stops are fraught with grave and unpredictable danger to the police permeates police training and animates Fourth Amendment doctrine. This Article challenges this dominant danger narrative and its centrality within key institutions that regulate the police.
The presented study is the first to offer an …