Laying The Foundation: The Private Rental Market And Affordable Housing, 2017 American University Washington College of Law
Laying The Foundation: The Private Rental Market And Affordable Housing, Ezra Rosser
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
The private rental housing market plays a critical, and often overlooked, role in shaping the lives of the poor and the surrounding community. This brief Article presents Matthew Desmond’s rich portrayal of low-income tenants and their landlords in his groundbreaking new book, Evicted, which shows how poor housing conditions and cycles of eviction impact poor families. The Article, which also draws upon Courtney Anderson’s work connecting housing instability with problematic student turnover at an elementary school, highlights the importance of story-telling. Without some sort of subsidy to cover the gap between the ability of the poor to pay for housing …
Introduction To Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tax Opinions, 2017 University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Introduction To Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tax Opinions, Anthony C. Infanti, Bridget J. Crawford
Book Chapters
Could a feminist perspective change the shape of the tax law? Most people understand that feminist reasoning has tremendous potential to affect, for example, the law of employment discrimination, sexual harassment, and reproductive rights. Few people may be aware, however, that feminist analysis can likewise transform tax law (as well as other statutory or code-based areas of the law). By highlighting the importance of perspective, background, and preconceptions on the reading and interpretation of statutes, Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tax Opinions shows what a difference feminist analysis can make to statutory interpretation. This volume, part of the Feminist Judgments Series, brings …
Death-Dealing Imaginations: Racial Profiling, Criminality, And Black Innocence, 2017 Wayne State University
Death-Dealing Imaginations: Racial Profiling, Criminality, And Black Innocence, Blanche Bong Cook
Law Faculty Research Publications
No abstract provided.
Biased And Broken Bodies Of Proof: White Heteropatriarchy, The Grand Jury Process, And Performance On Unarmed Black Flesh, 2017 Wayne State University
Biased And Broken Bodies Of Proof: White Heteropatriarchy, The Grand Jury Process, And Performance On Unarmed Black Flesh, Blanche Bong Cook
Law Faculty Research Publications
No abstract provided.
Magical Black Girls In The Education Industrial Complex: Making Visible The Wounds Of Invisibility, 2017 Mercer University School of Law
Magical Black Girls In The Education Industrial Complex: Making Visible The Wounds Of Invisibility, Teri A. Mcmurtry-Chubb
Journal of Educational Controversy
Black girls in public school are constantly exposed to physical violence, racialized gender hostility and harassment, and hate speech. Yet, the national narrative perpetuates the belief that Black boys are the main targets of such behaviors. This narrative renders Black girls invisible, and normalizes their treatment as another beam in the framework of white supremacy. This article addresses Black girls' invisibility first creatively, though the African diasporic rhetorical practice of storytelling. It then turns to an exploration of Fennell v. Marion Independent School District, where three sisters were subjected to a racially hostile educational environment in Marion, TX. The article …
Firearms In The Family, 2017 University of Colorado Law School
Firearms In The Family, Carolyn B. Ramsey
Publications
This Article considers firearms prohibitions for domestic violence offenders, in light of recent Supreme Court decisions and the larger, national debate about gun control. Unlike other scholarship in the area, it confronts the costs of ratcheting up the scope and enforcement of such firearms bans and argues that the politicization of safety has come at the expense of a sound approach to gun control in the context of intimate-partner abuse. In doing so, it expands scholarly arguments against mandatory, one-size-fits-all criminal justice responses to domestic violence in a direction that other critics have been reluctant to go, perhaps because of …
Performative Privacy, 2017 University of Colorado Law School
Performative Privacy, Scott Skinner-Thompson
Publications
Broadly speaking, privacy doctrine suggests that the right to privacy is non-existent once one enters the public realm. Although some scholars contend that privacy ought to exist in public, “public privacy” has been defended largely with reference to other, ancillary values privacy may serve. For instance, public privacy may be necessary to make the freedom of association meaningful in practice.
This Article identifies a new dimension of public privacy, supplementing extant justifications for the right, by arguing that many efforts to maintain privacy while in “public” are properly conceptualized as forms of performative, expressive resistance against an ever-pervasive surveillance society. …
Critical Black Protectionism, Black Lives Matter, And Social Media: Building A Bridge To Social Justice, 2017 University of Florida Levin College of Law
Critical Black Protectionism, Black Lives Matter, And Social Media: Building A Bridge To Social Justice, Katheryn Russell-Brown
UF Law Faculty Publications
This Article provides a detailed, contemporary examination and critique of the practice of Black protectionism. The discussion focuses on how Black protectionism has evolved over the decades, and whether the changes make it a more useful tool for community empowerment than its applications in previous eras. Its latest iteration, herein labeled Critical Black Protectionism, is assessed and evaluated in light of the increasing use of social media.This Article is divided into five parts. Part I provides an overview of Black protectionism, its roots and evolution. As well, this Part examines how African Americans have used protectionism. Part II sets out …
Blog: Reducing Racial Bias In Capital Jury Selection By Eliminating Peremptory Challences, 2017 American University Washington College of Law
Blog: Reducing Racial Bias In Capital Jury Selection By Eliminating Peremptory Challences, Kaitlin Bigger
The Modern American
No abstract provided.
Jezebels And Jungle Bunnies: How The Stereotypes Of Black Women Shape Legislation, The Legal Profession, And Feminist Jurisprudence, 2017 American University Washington College of Law
Jezebels And Jungle Bunnies: How The Stereotypes Of Black Women Shape Legislation, The Legal Profession, And Feminist Jurisprudence, Kersti Myles
The Modern American
No abstract provided.
Crossing Two Color Lines: Interracial Marriage And Residential Segregation In Chicago, 2017 University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Crossing Two Color Lines: Interracial Marriage And Residential Segregation In Chicago, Dorothy E. Roberts
All Faculty Scholarship
Residential segregation and antimiscegenation were interwined means of maintaining an unequal racial order, challenging both sociological theories about immigrant assimilation and upward mobility and legal theories about the significance of interracial marriage for racial equality.
Addressing The Lack Of Diversity In The Legal Profession, At The Undergraduate Level, 2017 American University Washington College of Law
Addressing The Lack Of Diversity In The Legal Profession, At The Undergraduate Level, Michael W. Carroll, Troy Romero
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
The study and practice of law is among the most respected and well-regarded pursuits; unfortunately, it is also among the least diverse. The persistent and alarming lack of diversity is prevalent in the industry regardless of the culture. In the United States and in Europe, statistics show that lawyers are overwhelmingly comprised by white males, especially in the higher ranks of the profession. Several factors contribute to this lack of diversity, including access to legal professionals and costs associated with pursuing a legal degree. Several strategies have been initiated to increase diversity in the field, including increasing awareness of the …
The Divide - Sylvia Ryerson Biographical Introduction, 2017 West Virginia University
The Divide - Sylvia Ryerson Biographical Introduction, Sally Brown
Promotion
No abstract provided.
The Divide "Public Airwaves Through Prison Walls" Presentation Program, 2017 West Virginia University
The Divide "Public Airwaves Through Prison Walls" Presentation Program, Sally Brown
Promotion
Presentation program for "Public Airwaves Through Prison Walls" presentation in conjunction with the exhibit "The Divide" presented on Nov. 15, 2017 in the WVU Downtown Campus Library.
The Divide Poster Of Exhibit Events, 2017 West Virginia University
The Reflection And Reification Of Racialized Language In Popular Media, 2017 University of Kentucky
The Reflection And Reification Of Racialized Language In Popular Media, Kelly E. Wright
Theses and Dissertations--Linguistics
This work highlights specific lexical items that have become racialized in specific contextual applications and tests how these words are cognitively processed. This work presents the results of a visual world (Huettig et al 2011) eye-tracking study designed to determine the perception and application of racialized (Coates 2011) adjectives. To objectively select the racialized adjectives used, I developed a corpus comprised of popular media sources, designed specifically to suit my research question. I collected publications from digital media sources such as Sports Illustrated, USA Today, and Fortune by scraping articles featuring specific search terms from their websites. This experiment seeks …
Not For Free: Exploring The Collateral Costs Of Diversity In Legal Education, 2017 University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Not For Free: Exploring The Collateral Costs Of Diversity In Legal Education, Spearit
Articles
This essay examines some of the institutional costs of achieving a more diverse law student body. In recent decades, there has been growing support for diversity initiatives in education, and the legal academy is no exception. Yet for most law schools, diversity remains an elusive goal, some of which is the result of problems with anticipating the needs of diverse students and being able to deliver. These are some of the unseen or hidden costs associated with achieving greater diversity. Both law schools and the legal profession remain relatively stratified by race, which is an ongoing legacy of legal education’s …
Segregation, Violence, And Restorative Justice: Restoring Our Communities, 50 J. Marshall L. Rev. 487 (2017), 2017 UIC School of Law
Segregation, Violence, And Restorative Justice: Restoring Our Communities, 50 J. Marshall L. Rev. 487 (2017), Michael Seng
UIC Law Review
This article will explain why restorative justice is an effective remedy in resolving the social and economic problems that plague our communities. A narrow approach will not succeed. Restorative justice solutions require participation by the entire community; nothing less will work.
Apple Of Gold And Picture Of Silver: How Abraham Lincoln Would Analyze The Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause, 2017 Rhode Island Supreme Court, Ret. Chief Justice
Apple Of Gold And Picture Of Silver: How Abraham Lincoln Would Analyze The Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause, Frank J. Williams, William D. Bader, Andrew Blais
Roger Williams University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Race And The New Policing, 2017 Columbia Law School
Race And The New Policing, Jeffrey Fagan
Faculty Scholarship
Several observers credit nearly 25 years of declining crime rates to the “New Policing” and its emphasis on advanced statistical metrics, new forms of organizational accountability, and aggressive tactical enforcement of minor crimes. This model has been adopted in large and small cities, and has been institutionalized in everyday police-citizen interactions, especially among residents of poorer, often minority, and higher crime areas. Citizens exposed to these regimes have frequent contact with police through investigative stops, arrests for minor misdemeanors, and non-custody citations or summons for code violations or vehicle infractions. Two case studies show surprising and troubling similarities in the …