Race Rights and the Law Blog
Nadia Ahmad
December 12, 2020
The American Bar Associate presents a program on Implicit Bias Training on December 16 at 2:30 pm (EST). This webinar explores the effectiveness of implicit bias training and its use within the judicial system, police departments, and private workplaces. It is especially timely after President Trump called implicit bias training “racist” in a move to restrict racial sensitivity training among…
SpearIt
December 10, 2020
While the federal government has been recently ramping up efforts to carry out a number of federal executions before the departure of Donald Trump from the White House, something different is happening on the other side of the country. Earlier this week, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office issued a startling directive on December 7, 2020 that orders county prosecutors to stop…
Sahar Aziz
November 30, 2020
As law schools wrestle with defining their role in a national anti-racism movement, few seem to be focused on the incestuous, elitist model of faculty hiring prevalent at most top law schools. For if an institution is serious about having its law professors incorporate the role of race, gender, disability, sexual orientation and other subordinated identities into legal education, then it would…
SpearIt
November 16, 2020
The following is Prof. Elizabeth Joh's review of Stephen Rushin & Roger Michalski, Police Funding, 72 Fla. L. Rev. 1 (2020).
Sahar Aziz
November 11, 2020
Professor Carmen G. Gonzalez published a new article titled Climate Change, Race, and Migration in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Law and Political Economy where she argues that climate change cannot be addressed unless we dismantle the racial hierarchies that have facilitated massive unchecked resource extraction. Racialized communities have long borne the brunt of the fossil fuel-based…
Nadia Ahmad
November 6, 2020
Constitutional Law Scholars Forum Friday, March 26, 2021 in Orlando, FL
The Sixth Annual Constitutional Law Scholars Forum invites scholarly proposals on any constitutional law topic at any stage before publication. The Forum provides an opportunity for international and national scholars to vet their work-in-progress in a welcoming, supportive environment. (The Forum is not accepting proposals…
Sahar Aziz
November 2, 2020
Professor Andrea Freeman published a new article entitled Unconstitutional Food Inequality in the Harvard Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review where she argues racial disparities in food-related deaths and disease are vestiges of slavery and colonization that have persisted for too long. Rhetoric around personal responsibility and cultural preferences obscure the structural causes of…
Vinay Harpalani
October 28, 2020
As the 2020 election nears, Americans wonder if their votes will count. Bush v. Gore showed the country that the Supreme Court will intervene in elections and indirectly decide the outcome. Indeed, Bush v. Gore could happen again. [1] That case is precedent, and while it was limited by the particular facts, States could still offend its Equal Protection standard. The outcome of such challenges is…
Christopher Ogolla
October 8, 2020
In September 2020, the Department of Homeland security proposed rule that would set time limits of up to four years for foreign student visas. The proposed rule will require all F, J, and I non immigrants who wish to remain in the United States beyond their specifically authorized admission period to apply for an extension of stay directly with USCIS or to depart the country and apply for…
Sahar Aziz
October 5, 2020
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life embodies the best of America. Her experiences of being a first-generation American, a religious minority, and a woman who overcame discrimination informed her jurisprudence.
The grandchild of Jewish immigrants from Russia, Ginsburg understood how fear of violent pogroms caused her family to leave their home, along with hundreds of thousands of Jews who…