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Race and the Law
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ArticleVol. 92 · Iss. 2
Toward a Critical Corporate Law Pedagogy and Scholarship
In recent years, the publicly held corporation has assumed a central position in both the economic and political spheres of American life. Economically, the…
andré d. p. cummings, Steven A. Ramirez & Cheryl L. Wade -
ArticleVol. 92 · Iss. 2
Zero Tolerance Policies: Criminalizing Childhood and Disenfranchising the Next Generation of Citizens
Columbine High School, Littleton, Colorado. Heath High School, West Paducah, Kentucky. Westside Middle School, Jonesboro, Arkansas. Zero tolerance policies were adopted in these schools…
S. David Mitchell -
ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 6
Scholarship, Teaching, and Protest
The preceding protest stems from Professor Michael McConnell’s use of an unredacted historical quote containing the N-word in one of his classes at Stanford…
John Inazu -
ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 6
Statement by Michael McConnell to Stanford Law School Community
On Wednesday, in connection with the debates over ratification of the Constitution in Virginia, I quoted an ugly racial epithet used by Patrick Henry.…
Michael W. McConnell -
ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 6
Statement by the Undersigned Editors of Volume 97
On May 27, 2020—two days after the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota—professor and former judge Michael McConnell, the author of…
Undersigned Editors -
ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 5
Denialism and the Death Penalty
The persistence of capital punishment as a constitutional form of punishment in the United States reflects deep denialism about the practice and the role…
Jenny-Brooke Condon -
NoteVol. 91 · Iss. 2
Reading the Tea Leaves: The Supreme Court and the Futureof Coalition Districts Under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act
Every ten years, state legislatures or specially designated commissions convene to redraw legislative district lines that comport with new census data in a process…
Lauren R. Weinberg -
ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 1
Racial Antagonism, Sexual Betrayal, Graft, and More: Rethinking and Remedying the Universe of Defense Counsel Failings
Is a defendant entitled to a new trial when his counsel has repeatedly spouted ugly racial stereotypes and used racial epithets in referring to…
Sheri Lynn Johnson -
ArticleVol. 98 · Iss. 4
Racial Transition
The United States is a nation in transition, struggling to surmount its racist past. This transitional imperative underpins American race jurisprudence, yet the transitional bases of…
Yuvraj Joshi -
ArticleVol. 98 · Iss. 4
Miscarriage, Stillbirth, & Reproductive Justice
Each year in the United States, millions of women’s pregnancies end not with the birth of a living child, but in miscarriage or with the…
Jill Wieber Lens -
NoteVol. 98 · Iss. 4
Reimagining the “Team Four Plan” With an Eye Toward Community Collaboration and Private Capital
This Note seeks to explore the historical underpinnings of the Team Four Plan by considering St. Louis’s dramatic economic decline alongside a citywide panic regarding the fate…
Morgan Seim -
ArticleVol. 98 · Iss. 4
Police Prosecutions and Punitive Instincts
This Article makes two contributions to the fields of policing and criminal legal scholarship. First, it sounds a cautionary note about the use of individual prosecutions…
Kate Levine