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Reducing Community Violence While Protecting Civil Rights, Kami Chavis

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Beginning To End Racial Profiling: Definitive Solutions To An Elusive Problem, Kami Chavis Simmons

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Remedying an elusive practice such as racial profiling remains a challenging issue for the judiciary and reformers must rely on other avenues for a solution. For example, even where evidence demonstrates that minorities are disproportionately stopped and searched, courts rarely recognize the victim's claim or provide relief. Thus, it is clear that courts will not be the catalysts of change. This Article argues that while courts may be reluctant to provide judicial remedies, police departments themselves should not ignore [minorities'] perceptions [of racial discrimination] and should take measures to reduce any possible profiling and increase partnerships with communities. An indication …

Widening Batson's Net To Ensnare More Than The Unapologetically Bigoted Or Painfully Unimaginative Attorney, Jeffrey Bellin, Junichi P. Semitsu

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In Snyder v. Louisiana, the Supreme Court reaffirmed its commitment to rooting out racially discriminatory jury selection and its belief that the three-step framework established in Batson v. Kentucky is capable of unearthing racially discriminatory peremptory strikes. Yet the Court left in place the talismanic protection available to those who might misuse the peremptory challenge—the unbounded collection of justifications that courts, including the Supreme Court, accept as “race neutral.”

To evaluate the Court’s continuing faith in Batson, we conducted a survey of all federal published and unpublished judicial decisions issued in this first decade of the new millennium (2000–2009) that …

Judicial Erasure Of Mixed-Race Discrimination, Nancy Leong

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Cedaw, Compliance, And Custom: Human Rights Enforcement In Sub-Saharan Africa, Angela M. Banks

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Explaining Grutter V. Bollinger, Neal Devins

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Affirmative Actions, William W. Van Alstyne

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Liberals and progressives have been slow to realize that their preferred vocabulary has been hijacked and that when they respond to once hallowed phrases they are responding to a ghost now animated by a new machme. The point is not a small one, for in any debate, especially one fought in the arena of public opinion, the battle is won not by knock-down arguments but by the party that succeeds in placing its own spin on the terms presiding over the discussion.

Looking At Communities And Markets, Lan Cao

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Re-Defining Reproductive Freedom, Timothy Zick

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The Ghosts Of Homer Plessy, Rodney A. Smolla

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The Quest For Freedom In The Post-Brown South: Desegregation And White Self-Interest, Davison M. Douglas

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Book Review Of Race, Law, And American History, 1700-1990, Davison M. Douglas

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