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Full-Text Articles in Law
What Is Cultural Misappropriation And Why Does It Matter? 03-31-2021, Roger Williams University School Of Law
What Is Cultural Misappropriation And Why Does It Matter? 03-31-2021, Roger Williams University School Of Law
School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events
No abstract provided.
Law Library Blog (March 2021): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Blog (March 2021): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Newsletters/Blog
No abstract provided.
The Government Lawyer As Activist: A Legal Ethics Analysis, Andrew Martin
The Government Lawyer As Activist: A Legal Ethics Analysis, Andrew Martin
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
Can a lawyer and government employee represent the government in her professional life while being an activist in her personal life? There is a striking and seemingly irreducible clash, at least at the intuitive level, between the two roles – between representing the government on the one hand while at the same time lobbying it or litigating against it on the other. Government lawyers are nonetheless some of the more successful activists in recent Canadian history. This article analyzes whether this duality is problematic from a legal ethics perspective. The analysis is grounded in three case studies: disability rights activist …
Tear Gas + Water Hoses + Dispersal Orders: The Fourth Amendment Endorses Brutality In Protest Policing, Karen Pita Loor
Tear Gas + Water Hoses + Dispersal Orders: The Fourth Amendment Endorses Brutality In Protest Policing, Karen Pita Loor
Faculty Scholarship
Thirty years ago, in Graham v. Connor, the Supreme Court determined that excessive-force claims against police should proceed via the Fourth Amendment, which theoretically protects an individual against unreasonable seizures. However, the Court showed extreme deference to law enforcement’s use of force by using a permissive reasonableness analysis that bestows on police great leeway to make quick split-second decisions in tense and rapidly evolving circumstances. The result is a test that, from its inception, has been too forgiving of police violence and misconduct. This lax reasonableness standard, along with qualified immunity principles, has shielded police from § 1983 civil rights …
Queer Sacrifice In Masterpiece Cakeshop, Jeremiah A. Ho
Queer Sacrifice In Masterpiece Cakeshop, Jeremiah A. Ho
Faculty Publications
This Article interprets the Supreme Court’s 2018 decision, Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission , as a critical extension of Derrick Bell’s interest convergence thesis into the LGBTQ movement. Chiefly, Masterpiece reveals how the Court has been more willing to accommodate gay individuals who appear more assimilated and respectable—such as those who participated in the marriage equality decisions—than LGBTQ individuals who are less “mainstream” and whose exhibited queerness appear threatening to the heteronormative status quo. When assimilated same-sex couples sought marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges, their respectable personas facilitated the alignment between their interests to marry and …
List: Participants In The Campaign Techniques Workshop, National Women’S Education Fund.
List: Participants In The Campaign Techniques Workshop, National Women’S Education Fund.
Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials
A participant list in the Campaign Techniques Workshop for the National Women's Education Fund held in Atlanta, Georgia. July 26-29, 1974.
Fourth Southeastern Conference Women And The Law Program
Fourth Southeastern Conference Women And The Law Program
Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials
Conference on Women and the Law. Circa 1975-1980.
Membership Flyer: North Florida Abortion Rights Action League
Membership Flyer: North Florida Abortion Rights Action League
Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials
Membership flyer from the North Florida Abortion Rights Action League. November-December, 1980. Volume 2, Edition 5.
Agendas And Minutes Of Era Jacksonville Meetings
Agendas And Minutes Of Era Jacksonville Meetings
Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials
ERA Meetings in Jacksonville. September 8, 1976- March 21, 1977.
Trending @ Rwu Law: Judge Netti Vogel's Post: Women, The Legal Profession, And How Far We've Come 7-19-16, Netti Vogel
Trending @ Rwu Law: Judge Netti Vogel's Post: Women, The Legal Profession, And How Far We've Come 7-19-16, Netti Vogel
Law School Blogs
No abstract provided.
Race And Reform In Twenty-First Century America: Foreword, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Trina Jones, Guy-Uriel Charles
Race And Reform In Twenty-First Century America: Foreword, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Trina Jones, Guy-Uriel Charles
Faculty Scholarship
In November 2015, approximately two hundred activists, academics, and students from across the United States convened at Duke University School of Law for a conference entitled The Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements: Race and Reform in 21st Century America. Planning for the conference had commenced a year earlier, in the fall of 2014. At that time, the nation was reeling from the deaths of Rekia Boyd, Eric Garner, John Crawford III, and Michael Brown, among others. In addition to the killing of these unarmed Black men and women by law enforcement personnel, many people, particularly within the civil …
Preserving The Corporate Superego In A Time Of Activism: An Essay On Ethics And Economics, John C. Coffee Jr.
Preserving The Corporate Superego In A Time Of Activism: An Essay On Ethics And Economics, John C. Coffee Jr.
Faculty Scholarship
This essay focuses on the impact of recent changes in corporate governance on ethical behavior within the public corporation. It argues that a style of corporate behavior – one characterized by a risk tolerant, even reckless, pursuit of short-term profits and a disregard for the interests of non-shareholder constituencies – is attributable in significant part to recent changes in corporate governance, including the rise of hedge fund activism, greater use of incentive compensation, and the appearance of blockholder directors. It then surveys feasible responses intended to strengthen the role of the boards as the corporation’s conscience and superego. Given the …
Institutional Investors In Corporate Governance, Edward B. Rock
Institutional Investors In Corporate Governance, Edward B. Rock
All Faculty Scholarship
This chapter of the Oxford Handbook on Corporate Law and Governance examines the role of institutional investors in corporate governance and the role of regulation in encouraging institutional investors to become active stewards. I approach these topics through asking what lessons we can draw from the U.S. experience for the E.U.’s 2014 proposed amendments to the Shareholder Rights Directive.
I begin by defining the institutional investor category, and summarizing the growth of institutional investors’ equity holdings over time. I then briefly survey how institutional investors themselves are governed and how they organize share voting. This leads me to two central …
How Activists Can Challenge Double Standards, Brian Martin
How Activists Can Challenge Double Standards, Brian Martin
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Activists often encounter double standards: powerful groups make a huge outcry about a problem, meanwhile ignoring their own greater role in exactly the same problem. For example, governments with major nuclear arsenals raise the alarm about the possibility that others might acquire nuclear weapons. Powerful groups use a variety of tactics to reduce awareness and concern about their own actions while raising the alarm about others; activists can try to counter these tactics. As a general rule, it is better for campaigners to choose methods that highlight and accentuate double standards and make it more difficult for opponents to adopt …
Review Of “Sisters Outside: Radical Activists Working For Women Prisoners, By Jodie Michelle Lawston”, Lisa A. Leitz
Review Of “Sisters Outside: Radical Activists Working For Women Prisoners, By Jodie Michelle Lawston”, Lisa A. Leitz
Peace Studies Faculty Articles and Research
Book review of Jodie Michelle Lawston's "Sisters Outside: Radical Activists Working for Women Prisoners".
Queer Lockdown: Coming To Terms With The Ongoing Criminalization Of Lgbtq Communities, Ann Cammett
Queer Lockdown: Coming To Terms With The Ongoing Criminalization Of Lgbtq Communities, Ann Cammett
Scholarly Works
The criminal justice system exacts a toll on some Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) communities. The experience of living in poverty and the concomitant exposure to a variety of governmental systems puts all poor, but especially LGBTQ low-income people of color, at risk of incarceration. What typically goes unexamined are the myriad ways that LGBTQ people are drawn into and experience the carceral system because of sexual identities and expression. This negative effect surfaces at every conceivable level: the marginalization and subsequent criminalization of queer youth; anti-gay bias in the judicial system; the rerouting of domestic violence cases …
Second Generation Environmental Justice: Challenges And Opportunities, Rachel D. Godsil
Second Generation Environmental Justice: Challenges And Opportunities, Rachel D. Godsil
The Climate of Environmental Justice: Taking Stock (March 16-17)
Presenter: Rachel D. Godsil, Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School
3 pages.
Dr. King, Bull Connor, And Persuasive Narratives, Shaun B. Spencer
Dr. King, Bull Connor, And Persuasive Narratives, Shaun B. Spencer
Faculty Publications
This article describes an in-class exercise that illustrates the use of persuasive narrative techniques in a U.S. Supreme Court decision. The article first describes the background to the Supreme Court’s decision in Walker v. City of Birmingham. Next, the article examines persuasive narrative techniques through the lens of an in-class exercise in which students identify the Justices’ narrative devices and consider how those devices preview the Justices’ legal arguments. Finally, the article describes why the Walker case and the exercise are valuable not only to teach persuasive narratives, but also to raise broader issues of lawyering and social justice.
Flyer: Take Back The Night, Confronting Violence Against Women, October 21, 1999.
Flyer: Take Back The Night, Confronting Violence Against Women, October 21, 1999.
Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials
Take Back the Night at Jacksonville Landing on October 21, 1999 at 6:30 PM to 7:30 pm.
National Rainbow Coalition, Inc.: Planks That They Would Like To See Adopted By The Democratic Party Platform Committee
Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials
Suggestions for Democratic National Convention, 1992. Box 11, Folder 8
Ticket: Era Benefit Featuring Ms. Gloria Steinem
Ticket: Era Benefit Featuring Ms. Gloria Steinem
Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials
An ERA Benefit featuring Ms. Gloria Steinem. July 21, 1979 at Airport Holiday Inn. cypress and Westshore. Tampa, Florida.
Pamphlet: Women And The Law. April 22, 1978
Pamphlet: Women And The Law. April 22, 1978
Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials
A seminar that explores the legal and humanistic issues concerning women and the law. Produced by the Mayor's advisory commission on the status of women in the City of Jacksonville, Florida.
Flyer: Mother's Day March For Equal Rights "Say It With Powers"
Flyer: Mother's Day March For Equal Rights "Say It With Powers"
Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials
A march in support of the Equal Rights Amendment. May 11-15, 1975 in Orlando and Gainesville.
General Information Sheet: Florida Parades For The Era.
General Information Sheet: Florida Parades For The Era.
Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials
Parade in Tallahassee, Florida. April 14, 1975.
Speech: Delivered At The Florida State Now Convention. November 23, 1974 In Support For The Era., Edna Louise Saffy
Speech: Delivered At The Florida State Now Convention. November 23, 1974 In Support For The Era., Edna Louise Saffy
Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials
Included is a letter from Edna Saffy to ERA supporter and flyer for an ERA march.
Campaign Flyers And Cards: Nomination For Edna Saffy
Campaign Flyers And Cards: Nomination For Edna Saffy
Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials
Edna Saffy, Coordinator - Florida Parades for the ERA, for Nominating Committee. January 16, 1974.