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Challenges And Opportunities: Intersectional Leadership In Law Schools, Sudha Setty
Challenges And Opportunities: Intersectional Leadership In Law Schools, Sudha Setty
Faculty Scholarship
In 2019, the Author organized with Maria Isabel Medina and participated as a panelist in the Roundtable on Intersectionality and Strengths and Challenges in Leadership at the Fourth National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference. This Essay is one of four in the cited article. The Essay summarizes the Author’s remarks at the Roundtable on contemplating a leadership role, the value of mentorship, and the profound impact that a woman of color as dean can have, simply by occupying that role.
Black, White, And Blue: Bias, Profiling, And Policing In The Age Of Black Lives Matter, Bridgette Baldwin
Black, White, And Blue: Bias, Profiling, And Policing In The Age Of Black Lives Matter, Bridgette Baldwin
Faculty Scholarship
The United States has experienced a series of murders at the hands of the police in recent years, from Michael Brown to Tamir Rice to Eric Garner. The brutalization of Black people at the hands of the police is not new, but many are being introduced to the concept of police brutality through the channels of social media. Hashtags like #BlackLivesMatter and #TakeAKnee have revolutionized the conversation about racism and policing, bringing these incidents into mainstream media and common conversation. This movement has led to a deeper discussion on the following questions: (1) Why are Black people viewed as violent …
Constitutional Law—Do Black Lives Matter To The Constitution?, Bruce K. Miller
Constitutional Law—Do Black Lives Matter To The Constitution?, Bruce K. Miller
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Do Black lives matter to the Constitution? To the original Constitution, premised as it is on white supremacy, they plainly do not. But do the post-Civil War Amendments, sometimes characterized as a "Second Founding," provide a basis for a more optimistic reading? The Supreme Court's application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection guarantee, shaped by the long discredited (and now formally overruled) decision in Korematsu v. U.S., has seriously diminished the likelihood that our basic law can redeem the promise of racial equality. Korematsu's embrace of a purely formal account of racial discrimination, its blindness to the history and present …
Foreword—Police Misconduct And Kibbe V. City Of Springfield, Harris Freeman
Foreword—Police Misconduct And Kibbe V. City Of Springfield, Harris Freeman
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The Law Review’s 2017 symposium, “Perspectives on Racial Justice in the Era of #BlackLivesMatter,” appropriately opened with a panel that addressed the ongoing challenge of combating police misconduct, as seen through the lens of Kibbe v. City of Springfield, a civil rights case that unfolded in Western Massachusetts and reached the United States Supreme Court thirty years ago. Kibbe presented the Court with the question of what the proper standard of liability should be for a municipality accused of a civil rights violation under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for inadequately training a police officer who violates a person’s civil …