Lessons On Terrorism And "Mistaken Identity" From Oak Creek, With A Coda On The Boston Marathon Bombings,
2013
University of New Mexico - School of Law
Lessons On Terrorism And "Mistaken Identity" From Oak Creek, With A Coda On The Boston Marathon Bombings, Dawinder S. Sidhu
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Segregation In The Chicago Metropolitan Area: Some Immediate Measures To Reverse This Impediment To Fair Housing (2013),
2013
John Marshall Law School
Segregation In The Chicago Metropolitan Area: Some Immediate Measures To Reverse This Impediment To Fair Housing (2013), John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Support Center, F. Willis Caruso
Faculty White Papers
No abstract provided.
Israel’S Rosit The Riveter: Between Secular Law And Jewish Law,
2013
Boston University School of Law
Israel’S Rosit The Riveter: Between Secular Law And Jewish Law, Pnina Lahav
Faculty Scholarship
In the world of Judaism, the “end of men” is not in sight. Surely, tectonic plates are sliding and shifting, and a great deal of change is unfolding, but men are fighting hard to keep patriarchy alive. Deep inside, the Orthodox patriarchal man may be motivated by the sheer impulse to maintain his power, but outwardly he projects a profound commitment to his religious law, the law of God. He believes that his fight is a noble one ordained by divine will and that God is on his side. The problem is global; it appears in every Jewish community around …
Pimping Brown V. Board Of Education: The Destruction Of African-American Schools And The Mis-Education Of African-American Students,
2013
North Carolina Central University School of Law
Pimping Brown V. Board Of Education: The Destruction Of African-American Schools And The Mis-Education Of African-American Students, Irving Joyner
North Carolina Central Law Review
No abstract provided.
Social Change Requires Civic Infrastructure,
2013
Howard University School of law
Social Change Requires Civic Infrastructure, Harold A. Mcdougall Iii
School of Law Faculty Publications
Article explores how civil society might become sufficiently organized to hold business accountable beyond consumer choice, and government beyond merely voting.
On Derrick Bell As Pioneer And Teacher: Teaching Us How To Have The Nerve,
2013
Boston University School of Law
On Derrick Bell As Pioneer And Teacher: Teaching Us How To Have The Nerve, Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Isolated Confinement In Michigan: Mapping The Circles Of Hell,
2013
University of Michigan Law School
Isolated Confinement In Michigan: Mapping The Circles Of Hell, Elizabeth Alexander, Patricia Streeter
Michigan Journal of Race and Law
For the past twelve months, there has been a burgeoning campaign to abolish, or greatly reduce, the use of segregated confinement in prisons. Advocates for the campaign call such classifications "solitary confinement" despite the fact that in some states, like New York, prisoners in these cells are often double-celled. The Michigan Department of Corrections, as well as other prison systems, uses labels such as "segregation," "special management," "special housing," and "observation" for these classifications. Prisoners ordinarily use traditional terms, such as "the hole." In this Essay we will refer to such restrictive classifications as "segregation" or "segregated confinement." Our perspective …
The Right To Counsel For Indians Accused Of Crime: A Tribal And Congressional Imperative,
2013
University of New Mexico School of Law
The Right To Counsel For Indians Accused Of Crime: A Tribal And Congressional Imperative, Barbara L. Creel
Michigan Journal of Race and Law
Native American Indians charged in tribal court criminal proceedings are not entitled to court appointed defense counsel. Under well-settled principles of tribal sovereignty, Indian tribes are not bound by Fifth Amendment due process guarantees or Sixth Amendment right to counsel. Instead, they are bound by the procedural protections established by Congress in the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968. Under the Indian Civil Rights Act (ICRA), Indian defendants have the right to counsel at their own expense. This Article excavates the historical background of the lack of counsel in the tribal court arena and exposes the myriad problems that it …
Protecting Intangible Cultural Resources: Alternatives To Intellectual Property Law,
2013
Michigan State University College of Law
Protecting Intangible Cultural Resources: Alternatives To Intellectual Property Law, Gerald Carr
Michigan Journal of Race and Law
Cultural resources can be defined as "the tangible and intangible effects of an individual or group of people that define their existence, and place them temporally and geographically in relation to their belief systems and their familial and political groups, providing meaning to their lives." The field of cultural resources includes tangible items, such as land, sacred sites, and religious and finerary objects. The field also includes intangible knowledge and customs, such as tribal names, symbols, stories, and ecological, ethnopharmacological, religious, or other traditional knowledge. The tangible cultural resources of tribes can fall under the protection of statutes such as …
The Federal Bureau Of Prisons: Willfully Ignorant Or Maliciously Unlawful?,
2013
D.C. Prisoners' Project of the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs
The Federal Bureau Of Prisons: Willfully Ignorant Or Maliciously Unlawful?, Deborah Golden
Michigan Journal of Race and Law
The Federal Bureau of Prisons ("BOP") and the larger U.S. government either purposely ignore the plight of men with serious mental illness in the federal prison system or maliciously act in violation of the law. I have no way of knowing which it is. In a complex system comprising many individual actors, motivations are most likely complex and contradictory. Either way, uncontrovertibly, the BOP and the U.S. government, against overwhelming evidence to the contrary, continuously assert that there are no men with serious mental illnesses housed in the federal supermax prison, the Administrative Maximum facility in Florence, Colorado, also known …
What Would Be The Story Of Alice And Leonard Rhinelander Today?,
2013
Boston University School of Law
What Would Be The Story Of Alice And Leonard Rhinelander Today?, Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Faculty Scholarship
On November 8, 2011, I presented this lecture as part of the annual Brigitte M. Bodenheimer Family Law Lecture Series at the University of California, Davis School of Law. I extend sincere thanks to the Bodenheimer family for endowing this special lecture. I feel honored to be a small part of this wonderful lecture series in family law. I feel particularly grateful because the University of California, Davis School of Law was my "birthplace" as a professor. Dean Rex Perschbacher, then Associate Dean Kevin Johnson, and the law school faculty welcomed me into academia by giving me my first job …
Law And Local Activism: Uncovering The Civil Rights History Of Chambers V. Mississippi,
2013
University of Michigan Law School
Law And Local Activism: Uncovering The Civil Rights History Of Chambers V. Mississippi, Emily Prifogle
Articles
Countless academics have examined and discussed the importance of Chambers v. Mississippi in a multitude of areas including compulsory due process, admission of hearsay, third party guilt evidence, false confessions, racial evaluations of hearsay and witnesses, and morally reasonable verdicts. In contrast, this article attempts to excavate the account of a rural Mississippi community’s struggle for rights that underlies the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Chambers. On its face, the case has no link or reference to the civil rights movement. However, this paper reveals that local civil rights activists took armed, direct economic action for equal rights Woodville, Mississippi, …
The Transformative Potential Of Attorney Bilingualism,
2013
American University Washington College of Law
The Transformative Potential Of Attorney Bilingualism, Jayesh M. Rathod
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
In contemporary U.S. law practice, attorney bilingualism is increasingly valued, primarily because it allows lawyers to work more efficiently and to pursue a broader range of professional opportunities. This purely functionalist conceptualization of attorney bilingualism, however, ignores the surprising ways in which multilingualism can enhance a lawyer's professional work and can strengthen and reshape relationships among actors in the U.S. legal milieu. Drawing upon research from psychology, linguistics, and other disciplines, this Article advances a theory of the transformative potential of attorney bilingualism. Looking first to the development of lawyers themselves, the Article posits that attorneys who operate bilingually may, …
Black Marriage, White People, Red Herrings,
2013
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
Black Marriage, White People, Red Herrings, Melissa Murray
Michigan Law Review
Ralph Richard Banks's Is Marriage for White People? is worlds away from Agatha Christie's novels. Decidedly a work of nonfiction, Banks's book considers the plight of middle-class African Americans who, according to statistics, are the least likely of any demographic group to get and stay married. Despite these obvious differences, Is Marriage for White People? shares some important commonalities with Agatha Christie's mysteries. Banks seeks to solve a mystery, but red herrings draw attention away from the true issue that should be the subject of Banks's concern. The mystery, of course, is the black marriage decline. In 1950, 78 percent …
What The Sentencing Commission Ought To Be Doing Reducing Mass Incarceration,
2013
University of Michigan Law School
What The Sentencing Commission Ought To Be Doing Reducing Mass Incarceration, Lynn Adelman
Michigan Journal of Race and Law
Beginning in the 1970s, the United States embarked on a shift in its penal policies, tripling the percentage of convicted felons sentenced to confinement and doubling the length of their sentences. This shift included a dramatic increase in the prosecution and incarceration of drug offenders. As a result of its move toward long prison sentences, the United States now incarcerates so many people that it has become an outlier; this is not just among developed democracies, but among all nations, including highly punitive states such as Russia and South Africa, and also in comparison to the United States' own long-standing …
Threats Demand Our Action,
2013
University of New Mexico - School of Law
Threats Demand Our Action, Margaret E. Montoya
Faculty Scholarship
Those of us who identify as progressive see this as a time when speaking up and engaging on public policy is our duty. I am writing to express my deep concern and dismay about the state of the federal government under Donald Trump. Like others, I have marched, donated, and joined Wednesday’s International Women’s Day protests against the administration of Donald Trump.
Growing Inequality And Racial Economic Gaps,
2013
Texas A&M University School of Law
Growing Inequality And Racial Economic Gaps, Thomas W. Mitchell
Faculty Scholarship
Over the past several decades, economic inequality has grown dramatically in the United States while inter-generational economic mobility has declined, which has challenged the very notion of the "American Dream." In fact, the United States is more economically unequal than most other industrialized countries. Further, there are dramatic and growing racial economic gaps in this country. Despite the Occupy Wall Street Movement, and the various spinoffs it has catalyzed, there has not been any sustained, widespread social movement to address economic inequality in the United States over the course of the past several decades. Furthermore, it is unlikely that a …
A Critical Look At The ‘Critical Mass' Argument,
2013
University of New Mexico - School of Law
A Critical Look At The ‘Critical Mass' Argument, Dawinder S. Sidhu
Faculty Scholarship
The Supreme Court's pending ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin is expected to largely decide how or even whether affirmative action can be used in college admissions. The university's argument for why minority enrollments need to reach a certain threshold, however, is problematic because it is inconsistent with previous court rulings involving race.
The Meaning And Viability Of The Thirteenth Amendment,
2013
University of New Mexico - School of Law
The Meaning And Viability Of The Thirteenth Amendment, Dawinder S. Sidhu
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Race And Income Disparity: An Ideology-Neutral Approach To Reconciling Capitalism And Economic Justice,
2013
University of Denver
Race And Income Disparity: An Ideology-Neutral Approach To Reconciling Capitalism And Economic Justice, Robert M. Hardaway
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
Income and wealth disparities along racial lines in the United States constitute a continuing threat to the political and democratic stability upon which the economy and government of the United States fundamentaly depends. The quest or solutions to these economic dijpariies has thus far been frustrated by ideological battles between poliical groups and coalitions. In particular, ideological preconceptions have prevented these groups from listening to the ideas and proposals of opposing groups and working together to find real solutions to the problem of income disparities that actually work. Instead, they have created policies which, while fitting within a preconceived ideological …
