Truth Stories: Credibility Determinations At The Illinois Torture Inquiry And Relief Commission, 45 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 1085 (2014),
2014
John Marshall Law School
Truth Stories: Credibility Determinations At The Illinois Torture Inquiry And Relief Commission, 45 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 1085 (2014), Kim D. Chanbonpin
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
This is the first scholarly Article to investigate the inner workings of the Illinois Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission (“TIRC”). The TIRC was established by statute in 2009 to provide legal redress for victims of police torture. Prisoners who claim that their convictions were based on confessions coerced by police torture can utilize the procedures available at the TIRC to obtain judicial review of their cases. For those who have exhausted all appeals and post-conviction remedies, the TIRC represents the tantalizing promise of justice long denied. To be eligible for relief, however, the claimant must first meet the TIRC’s strict …
Racial Templates,
2014
University of Alabama School of Law
Racial Templates, Richard Delgado, Juan F. Perea
Michigan Law Review
This riveting tale of greed, international skullduggery, and behind-the-scenes heroism recounts the events that led up to America’s “wicked war” with Mexico. It depicts how expansionist ambitions in high circles fueled jingoistic propaganda (pp. 25, 34–35, 58), fed a public eager for national muscle flexing (pp. 57, 103, 108), and set the stage for a military skirmish in a disputed region between two rivers (pp. 75–77, 95, 100, 138) that provided the pretext for a savage and short-lived military campaign against the weak new nation of Mexico in which the U.S. Army, under General Scott, marched all the way to …
Language Disenfranchisement In Juries: A Call For Constitutional Remediation,
2014
Boston University School of Law
Language Disenfranchisement In Juries: A Call For Constitutional Remediation, Jasmine Gonzales Rose
Faculty Scholarship
Approximately thirteen million U.S. citizens, mostly Latinos and other people of color, are denied the right to serve on juries due to English language requirements and despite the possibility (and centuries-old tradition) of juror language accommodation. This exclusion results in the underrepresentation of racial minorities on juries and has a detrimental impact on criminal defendants, the perceived legitimacy of the justice system, and citizen participation in democracy. Yet, it has been virtually ignored. This Article examines the constitutionality of juror language requirements, focusing primarily on equal protection and the fair cross section requirement of the Sixth Amendment. Finding the existing …
Let's Talk About Race,
2014
Boston University School of Law
Let's Talk About Race, Ronald E. Wheeler
Faculty Scholarship
Despite other scholars’ suggestions that law librarianship and the American Association of Law Libraries lack diversity, Mr. Wheeler examines numerical and anecdotal data indicating that efforts to promote racial and ethnic diversity within AALL and the profession are beginning to show positive results.
A Defense Of Stand Your Ground Legislation,
2014
Ursinus College
A Defense Of Stand Your Ground Legislation, Jarrett Field '14
Richard T. Schellhase Essay Prize in Ethics
No abstract provided.
Bastards! . . .. And The Welfare Plantation,
2014
University of Miami School of Law
Bastards! . . .. And The Welfare Plantation, Zanita E. Fenton
Articles
No abstract provided.
Following Fisher: Narrowly Tailoring Affirmative Action,
2014
Barry University
Following Fisher: Narrowly Tailoring Affirmative Action, Eang L. Ngov
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Opt-Out Education: School Choice As Racial Subordination,
2014
University of Miami School of Law
Opt-Out Education: School Choice As Racial Subordination, Osamudia R. James
Articles
Despite failure to improve academic outcomes or close the achievement gap, school-choice policies, advanced by education legislation and doctrine, have come to dominate public discourse on public education reform in the United States, with students of color disproportionately enrolling in voucher programs and charter schools. This Article moves past the typical market-based critiques of school choice to analyze the particularly racialized constraints on choice for marginalized students and their families in the public school system. The Article unpacks the blame-placing that occurs when the individualism and independence that school choice and choice rhetoric promote fail to improve academic outcomes, and …
Interactions Between African Americans And Police Officers: How Cultural Stereotypes Create A Wrongful Conviction Pipeline For African Americans,
2014
University at Albany, State University of New York
Interactions Between African Americans And Police Officers: How Cultural Stereotypes Create A Wrongful Conviction Pipeline For African Americans, Cynthia J. Najdowski
Psychology Faculty Scholarship
Erroneous convictions are not as rare as one might expect and when they occur, the wrongfully accused are more often African American than White: Of those who were wrongfully convicted and later exonerated in the last quarter century, 47% were African American (The National Registry of Exonerations, 2013), even though only 13% of the U.S. population is (Rastogi, Johnson, Hoeffel, & Drewery, 2011). Yet Gould, Carrano, Leo, and Young’s (2013) recent analysis of miscarriages of justice indicated that race does not reliably differentiate between cases in which innocent defendants are wrongfully convicted as opposed to rightfully acquitted. They suggested that, …
Will The South Rise Again And, If So, In What Form?: Lessons From Latcrit About Resisting The Fear Of Cultural Understanding, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1211 (2014),
2014
UIC School of Law
Will The South Rise Again And, If So, In What Form?: Lessons From Latcrit About Resisting The Fear Of Cultural Understanding, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1211 (2014), Angela Mae Kupenda
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Perfect Storm -- The Negative Effects Of Felony Voting Laws And The Repeal Of Section 4 Of The Voting Rights Act On Minority Americans,
2014
American University Washington College of Law
A Perfect Storm -- The Negative Effects Of Felony Voting Laws And The Repeal Of Section 4 Of The Voting Rights Act On Minority Americans, Genevive Saul
The Modern American
No abstract provided.
The Trayvon Martin Trial - Two Comments And An Observation, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1371 (2014),
2014
UIC School of Law
The Trayvon Martin Trial - Two Comments And An Observation, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1371 (2014), Richard Delgado
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Contemporary Assault On Ethnic Studies, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1189 (2014),
2014
UIC School of Law
The Contemporary Assault On Ethnic Studies, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1189 (2014), Ronald Mize
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Human Costs Of “Free Association”: Socio-Cultural Narratives And The Legal Battle For Micronesian Health In Hawai'i, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1377 (2014),
2014
UIC School of Law
The Human Costs Of “Free Association”: Socio-Cultural Narratives And The Legal Battle For Micronesian Health In Hawai'i, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1377 (2014), Susan Serrano
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Red Law, White Supremacy: Cherokee Freedmen, Tribal Sovereignty, And The Colonial Feedback Loop, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1227 (2014),
2014
UIC School of Law
Red Law, White Supremacy: Cherokee Freedmen, Tribal Sovereignty, And The Colonial Feedback Loop, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1227 (2014), Jeremiah Chin
UIC Law Review
This paper attempts to unpack questions at the intersections of race and sovereignty by analyzing two federal court cases involving Cherokee Freedmen and citizenship: Vann v. United States DOI and Cherokee Nation v. Nash.
Rethinking Resistance: Reflections On The Cultural Lives Of Property, Collective Identity, And Intellectual Property, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1349 (2014),
2014
UIC School of Law
Rethinking Resistance: Reflections On The Cultural Lives Of Property, Collective Identity, And Intellectual Property, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1349 (2014), Caroline Joan Picart
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Fisher V. Texas: The Limits Of Exhaustion And The Future Of Race-Conscious University Admissions,
2014
Unviersity of California, Berkeley School of Law
Fisher V. Texas: The Limits Of Exhaustion And The Future Of Race-Conscious University Admissions, John A. Powell, Stephen Menendian
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This Article investigates the potential ramifications of Fisher v. Texas and the future of race-conscious university admissions. Although one cannot predict the ultimate significance of the Fisher decision, its brief and pregnant statements of law portends an increasingly perilous course for traditional affirmative action programs. Part I explores the opinions filed in Fisher, with a particular emphasis on Justice Kennedy’s opinion on behalf of the Court. We focus on the ways in which the Fisher decision departs from precedent, proscribes new limits on the use of race in university admissions, and tightens requirements for narrow tailoring. Part II investigates the …
The Inmate Export Business And Other Financial Adventures: Correctional Policies For Times Of Austerity,
2014
UC Law SF
The Inmate Export Business And Other Financial Adventures: Correctional Policies For Times Of Austerity, Hadar Aviram
UC Law Journal of Race and Economic Justice
The fallout of the financial crisis continues to have major effects across the American correctional landscape. Federal and state budgetary limits have slowed and even reversed what were thought to be ever-rising incarceration rates. While this has successfully led to less punitive policies regarding the death penalty and the war on drugs, incarceration practices have affected punitivism in more complex ways. This article explores the correctional changes prompted by the financial crisis that are being made not at the ballot box, but behind closed doors. The outcomes of negotiations between prison administrators and private service providers, or amongst state governments, …
Rising Arizona: The Legacy Of The Jim Crow Southwest On Immigration Law And Policy After 100 Years Of Statehood,
2014
University of the District of Columbia David A Clarke School of Law
Rising Arizona: The Legacy Of The Jim Crow Southwest On Immigration Law And Policy After 100 Years Of Statehood, Kristina M. Campbell
Journal Articles
United States immigration law and policy is one the most controversial issues of our day, and perhaps no location has come under more scrutiny for the way it has attempted to deal with the problem of undocumented immigration than the State of Arizona. Though Arizona recently became notorious for its “papers please” law, SB 1070, the American Southwest has long been a bastion of discriminatory race-based law and policy – immigration and otherwise – directed toward Latinos, American Indians, African-Americans, and other non-White racial and ethnic minorities. While largely ignored by both legal and American historians, the socalled “Jim Crow …
Breaking Glass: Identity, Community And Epistemology In Theory, Law And Education,
2014
University of Miami School of Law
Breaking Glass: Identity, Community And Epistemology In Theory, Law And Education, Francisco Valdes
Articles
No abstract provided.
