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Check Your Bank Account First: Examining Copyright Formalities And Remedies Through A Race Conscious Lens, Emma Burri
Check Your Bank Account First: Examining Copyright Formalities And Remedies Through A Race Conscious Lens, Emma Burri
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
This Note examines copyright formalities through a race conscious lens and concludes that further change is necessary given the legacy of economic inequality that communities of color experience. It examines the history of copyright formalities in the United States and the disenfranchisement of Black musical creators through the theft of their intellectual property. In exploring the relationship between race, wealth, and musical copyright protection this Note explains why considering the economic inequality is relevant to ensure copyright protection for Black creators. This Note proposes abolishing the registration timeline for certain remedies and altering the filing fee structure of the copyright …
Texas Disenfranchisement Of Felons, Michelle Baker
Texas Disenfranchisement Of Felons, Michelle Baker
Quest
Policy Research Project
Research in progress for GOVT 2306: Honors Texas Government
Faculty Mentor: Tiffany Cartwright, Ph.D.
Michelle Baker wrote the following research paper as an assignment for my online GOVT 2306: Honors Texas Government class during the Fall 2020 semester. The class assignment helps students begin to formulate a classic policy paper, in which alternative policy options are discussed and analyzed, ultimately leading to a preferred policy option. Students submitted just a few paragraphs of the paper at a time over the course of the fall semester before finally pulling everything together in one cohesive research paper. As Michelle’s …
The Messy History Of Michigan’S “Purity Clause”, Joshua Perry
The Messy History Of Michigan’S “Purity Clause”, Joshua Perry
Michigan Law Review Online
So it’s worth asking: What does the Purity Clause actually mean? Can contemporary courts properly invoke it to justify restrictions purportedly aimed at controlling “voter fraud”? Should they?
Part I diagnoses the problem: Recently, Michigan courts have invoked the Purity Clause to legitimize voting rights restrictions without applying their usual tools of constitutional interpretation or scrutinizing the Clause’s complex history. As a result, voting restrictions have been justified by reference to a badly underexamined constitutional provision.
Part II examines the Clause with the tools that Michigan courts use to interpret the state constitution. This Part argues that neither the original …
Black Women And Voter Suppression, Carla Laroche
Black Women And Voter Suppression, Carla Laroche
Scholarly Articles
Black women who are eligible to vote do so at consistently high rates during elections in the United States. For thousands of Black women, however, racism, sexism, and criminal convictions intersect to require them to navigate a maze of laws and policies that keep them from voting. With the alarming rate of convictions and incarceration of Black women, criminal law intersects with civil rights to bar their involvement in the electoral process. This voting ban is known as felony disenfranchisement, but it amounts to voter suppression.
By reconceptualizing voter suppression based on criminal convictions through the experiences of Black women’s …
Mary Lou Graves, Nolen Breedlove, And The Nineteenth Amendment, Ellen D. Katz
Mary Lou Graves, Nolen Breedlove, And The Nineteenth Amendment, Ellen D. Katz
Articles
This close examination of two cases is part of a larger ongoing project to provide a distinct account of the Nineteenth Amendment. In 1921, the Alabama Supreme Court held the Nineteenth Amendment required that any poll tax be imposed equally on men and women. Sixteen years later, the Supreme Court disagreed. Juxtaposing these two cases, and telling their story in rich context, captures my larger claim that—contrary to the general understanding in the scholarly literature—the Nineteenth Amendment was deliberately crafted as a highly circumscribed measure that would eliminate only the exclusively male franchise while serving steadfastly to preserve and promote …
Felon Disenfranchisement: What Federal Courts Got Wrong And How State Courts Can Address It, Lindsay Dreyer
Felon Disenfranchisement: What Federal Courts Got Wrong And How State Courts Can Address It, Lindsay Dreyer
Mitchell Hamline Law Review
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On Proper[Ty] Apologies And Resilience Gaps, Marc L. Roark
On Proper[Ty] Apologies And Resilience Gaps, Marc L. Roark
Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works
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