Race Rights and the Law Blog
Christopher Ogolla
June 27, 2022
At-home genetic tests have increased in popularity. So much so that some, like 23andMe, have gone public. Professors Trina Jones and Jessica Roberts, in their article Genetic Race? DNA Ancestry Tests, Racial Identity and The Law, 120 COLUM. L. REV. 1929, 1930 (2020) observe that almost thirty million individuals worldwide have taken DNA ancestry tests and the number was expected to exceed one…
Nadia Ahmad
June 15, 2022
June 16-17, 2022
Virtually on Zoom
The COVID Care Crisis Symposium held in January 2021 convened dozens of scholars to theorize about what the organizers labeled as the unfolding “COVID Care Crisis” and its effects on legal academia. During that two-day event, scholars, teachers, students, and practitioners shared the difficulties of managing the demands of work and the constantly shifting…
Nadia Ahmad
June 14, 2022
The ABA Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice (CRSJ) launched the 21-Day Practice on Creating Inclusive Spaces and Combating Islamophobia. The current movement for equality in America provides an opportunity for us to consider how we — as individuals, as lawyers, and as academics — are meeting this moment. Are we moving on with our daily lives, or are we willing to grow in our knowledge and…
SpearIt
June 8, 2022
In the years following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the United States embarked on an all-scale effort to combat terrorism. However, the primary focus of those efforts was Muslims, both at home and abroad.
Ignored in the process were threats posed by domestic militias and white supremacy groups. Rather than worry about these groups, the Muslim religion was deemed public enemy No. 1, which led…
SpearIt
May 24, 2022
CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION
ClassCrits XIII: Unlocking Inequality: Revisiting the Intersection of Race and Class
Co-Sponsored by ClassCrits, Inc., TapRoot Earth, and Thurgood Marshall School of Law
October 21-22, 2022 at Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (we anticipate a live conference)
ClassCrits invite proposals for individual paper presentations and panels that speak to…
Sahar Aziz
May 13, 2022
Today, the United States is experiencing a new moment of racial reckoning. A rapidly diversifying population is demanding systemic equity and meaningful access to constitutional freedoms. This transformation for the better is neither complete nor progressing without resistance.
In an historic first, an African American woman, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, has been nominated to the Supreme Court.…
Christopher Ogolla
December 5, 2021
Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law ACS Student Chapter & Law Review & Texas A &M University School of Law Constitutional Law Scholars Forum
FRIDAY, February 25, 2022 Orlando, FL
The Seventh Annual Constitutional Law Scholars Forum invites scholarly proposals at any stage before publication for the following topics: Constitutional Law, Ethics, or Technology in Law…
Sahar Aziz
November 30, 2021
America is a bastion of religious freedom, a land where persecuted religious minorities find refuge from the tyranny of the majority. So goes the narrative that is taught in schools across the nation and that permeates American culture.
And yet Muslims in America have found religious freedom in practice more myth than reality. Law enforcement agencies surveil mosques, Islamic schools, and…
Sahar Aziz
October 25, 2021
What makes a law school “good” and who wants to know? This was the most basic question behind a recent decision from US News and World Report (USNWR) to reject a new “Scholarly Impact” metric in its annual rankings of law schools. The decision was met with applause by the Law and Society Association (LSA)—and with good reason.
An LSA committee, led by Rachel Moran, Elizabeth Mertz, and Richard…
Sahar Aziz
October 19, 2021
Since the Supreme Court decided West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette in 1943, free speech law has been clear: public schools may not force students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Nevertheless, in two states – Texas and Florida – students may decline to participate only with parental permission. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law on the grounds that the…