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Neighborhood Inequality And Violence In Chicago, 1965–2020, Patrick Sharkey, Alisabeth Marsteller

University of Chicago Law Review

This Essay analyzes trends in violence from a spatial perspective, focusing on how changes in the murder rate are experienced by communities and groups of residents within the city of Chicago. The Essay argues that a spatial perspective is essential to understanding the causes and consequences of violence in the United States and begins by describing the social policies and theoretical mechanisms that explain the connection between concentrated disadvantage and violent crime.

The analysis expands on a long tradition of research in Chicago, and it studies the distribution of violence in the city’s neighborhoods from 1965 to 2020. It additionally …

Prospects For Reform? The Collapse Of Community Policing In Chicago, Wesley G. Skogan

University of Chicago Law Review

In an era of renewed enthusiasm for police reform, it could be instructive to examine how reforms—even successful reforms—fail. In the 1990s and 2000s, Chicago’s community-policing initiative was widely recognized as one of the most impressive in the country. In short order, it then collapsed. Community policing’s accomplishments were numerous, but it fell victim to issues commonly facing reform: money—especially the impact of economic downturns; leadership turnover and policy preferences; changes in the social, political, and crime environments; and the emergence of new technologies for responding to community concerns.

Symposium Introduction: This Violent City? Urban Violence In Chicago And Beyond, Aziz Z. Huq, John Rappaport

University of Chicago Law Review

To many, the city of Chicago conjures up a specter of unremitting urban violence. In 2014, the city was labeled the “murder capital” of the United States.¹ The following year, a video of the police shooting Laquan McDonald became a cynosure of public concern.² Commentators as disparate as Spike Lee and President Donald Trump agree: Chicago is uniquely bloody.³ Predictably, the empirical data about Chicago’s crime and policing trends belie the most dramatic of these claims.⁴ Yet if Chicago is not as violent as either Lee or Trump makes it out to be, the city’s experience …

Identifying And Measuring Excessive And Discriminatory Policing, Alex Chohlas-Wood,, Marissa Gerchick, Sharad Goel, Aziz Z. Huq, Amy Shoemaker, Ravi Shroff, Keniel Yao

University of Chicago Law Review

We describe and apply three empirical approaches to identify superfluous police activity, unjustified racially disparate impacts, and limits to regulatory interventions. First, using cost-benefit analysis, we show that traffic and pedestrian stops in Nashville and New York City disproportionately impacted communities of color without achieving their stated public-safety goals. Second, we address a long-standing problem in discrimination research by presenting an empirical approach for identifying “similarly situated” individuals and, in so doing, quantify potentially unjustified disparities in stop policies in New York City and Chicago. Finally, taking a holistic view of police contact in Chicago and Philadelphia, we show that …

Racially Territorial Policing In Black Neighborhoods, Elise C. Boddie

University of Chicago Law Review

This Essay explores police practices that marginalize Black people by limiting their freedom of movement across the spaces of Black neighborhoods. In an earlier article, I theorized “racial territoriality” as a form of discrimination that “excludes people of color from—or marginalizes them within—racialized White spaces that have a racially exclusive history, practice, and/or reputation.” In this Essay, I consider how my theory of racial territoriality could apply to policing. It offers an ac-count of how police not only criminalize Black people but also criminalize Black spaces, ostensibly justifying them—and the people who live in or frequent them—as “natural” targets for …

Cities, Preemption, And The Statutory Second Amendment, Joseph Blocher

University of Chicago Law Review

Although the Second Amendment tends to dominate the discussion about legal limits on gun regulation, nothing has done more to shape the state of urban gun law than state preemption laws, which fully or partially limit cities’ ability to regulate guns at the local level. The goals of this short Essay are to shed light on this “Statutory Second Amendment” and to provide a basic framework for evaluating it.

Toward Livelihood Insurance, Michael Abramowicz

University of Chicago Legal Forum

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Ballot Access And The Role Of Diligence During An Election-Year Pandemic, Lauren Spungen

University of Chicago Legal Forum

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Striking A New Grand Bargain: Workers’ Compensation As A Pandemic Social Safety Net, Dylan V. Moore

University of Chicago Legal Forum

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Covid-19: Isolating The Problems In Privacy Protection For Individuals With Substance Use Disorder, Kimberly Johnson

University of Chicago Legal Forum

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The Idea’S Stay-Put Provision: A Staple Of Pandemic Iep Litigation?, Natalie Granda

University of Chicago Legal Forum

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Protecting Mixed-Status Families: Equal Protection Analysis Of The Dual Social Security Number Requirement, Nena Gallegos

University of Chicago Legal Forum

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Getting Down To Brass Tax: Why Courts Should Use Equitable Tolling To Help Taxpayer-Petitioners Impacted By Covid-19, Hannah Fisher

University of Chicago Legal Forum

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Economic Shutdown And Commercial Rent In Chapter 11, George Colligan

University of Chicago Legal Forum

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Comity, Coronavirus, And Interstate Travel Restrictions, Timothy Carey

University of Chicago Legal Forum

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Enjoined And Incarcerated: Complications For Incarcerated People Seeking Economic Relief Under The Cares Act, Mitchell Caminer

University of Chicago Legal Forum

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Scrambling The New Sanitationist Synthesis: Civil Liberties And Public Health In The Age Of Covid-19, John Fabian Witt

University of Chicago Legal Forum

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The Validity Of Tribal Checkpoints In South Dakota To Curb The Spread Of Covid-19, Ann E. Tweedy

University of Chicago Legal Forum

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Essential Businesses And Shareholder Value, Aneil Kovvali

University of Chicago Legal Forum

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Lochner Under Lockdown, Eugene Kontorovich

University of Chicago Legal Forum

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Four Futures For U.S. Pandemic Policy, Daniel Hemel

University of Chicago Legal Forum

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The Need For The Tort Law Necessity Defense In Intellectual Property Law, Yaniv Heled, Ana Santos Rutschman, Liza Vertinsky

University of Chicago Legal Forum

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Wills Formalities In A Post-Pandemic World: A Research Agenda, Bridget J. Crawford, Kelly Purser, Tina Cockburn

University of Chicago Legal Forum

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Bankruptcy & Bailouts, Subsidies & Stimulus: The Government Toolset For Responding To Market Distress, Anthony Casey

University of Chicago Legal Forum

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Preparing For The Next Pandemic: Covid-19’S Lessons For Courts, Rebecca R. Pallmeyer

University of Chicago Legal Forum

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Captive Labor: Exploitation Of Incarcerated Workers, University Of Chicago Law School - Global Human Rights Clinic, Jennifer Turner, Mariana Olaizola Rosenblat, Nino Guruli, Claudia Flores, Sophie Desch, Katya El Tayeb, Leena Elsadek, Eric Singerman, Joseph Nunn, Monica Weisman, Genevieve Auld, Aaron Tucek, Nico Thompson-Lleras, Johnny Walker, Jennifer Turner

Global Human Rights Clinic

Our nation incarcerates over 1.2 million people in state and federal prisons, and two out of three of these incarcerated people are also workers. In most instances, the jobs these people in prison have look similar to those of millions of people working on the outside: They work as cooks, dishwashers, janitors, groundskeepers, barbers, painters, or plumbers; in laundries, kitchens, factories, and hospitals. They provide vital public services such as repairing roads, fighting wildfires, or clearing debris after hurricanes. They washed hospital laundry and worked in mortuary services at the height of the pandemic. They manufacture products like office furniture, …

The Global Rise Of International Commercial Courts: Typology And Power Dynamics, Weixia Gu, Jacky Tam

Chicago Journal of International Law

Over the past decade, there has been a proliferation of International Commercial Courts (ICCs) across the globe. ICCs are specialized tribunals within the domestic court hierarchy tailored for the adjudication of complicated cross-border commercial disputes. Most ICCs share similar features, such as a set of flexible procedural rules comparable to those in international arbitration, multilingual court proceedings, and the recruitment of overseas judges or foreign legal experts.

The global phenomenon calls for a systematic comparative study of the different generations of ICCs and their power dynamics. This Article will offer a unique typological framework to study the evolution of ICCs. …

“All I Want Is To Be Free”, University Of Chicago Law School - Global Human Rights Clinic

Global Human Rights Clinic

Statelessness — the condition of lacking citizenship or nationality in any country of the world — affects more than 10 million people globally. In the United States, conservative estimates put the number of stateless persons at over 200,000. Given that the U.S. provides citizenship to people born on the territory, nearly all stateless persons within the U.S. were born elsewhere. However, the U.S. immigration framework is silent with respect to statelessness, in effect leaving stateless people unrecognized, unprotected and invisible before the law.

As persons relegated to a life without legal status, stateless people in the United States are subject …

Foreword (The Economic Structure Of Corporate Law At Thirty: A Retrospective On The Work Of Easterbrook & Fischel), Anthony J. Casey, Hajin Kim, Joshua Macey

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

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Assessing Affirmative Action's Diversity Rationale, Adam Chilton, Justin Driver, Jonathan Masur, Kyle Rozema

Articles

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