Race Rights and the Law Blog
Vinay Harpalani
August 20, 2020
Professor Ernesto Hernandez of the Dale Fowler School of Law, Chapman University, has posted "Trade War, PPE, and Race" on SSRN. The abstract is given below, and here is a link to the text: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3647947
Abstract
Tariffs on Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), such as face masks and gloves, weaken the American response to COVID. The United States has…
SpearIt
August 17, 2020
The chapter, Implicit Bias in Criminal Justice: Growing Influence as an Insight to Systemic Oppression (The State of Criminal Justice 2020 (American Bar Association 2020)), has been posted on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Implicit bias continues its rise as an increasingly important concept among advocates of criminal justice reform. Also known as “unconscious” or “nonconscious” bias, the idea in…
Nadia Ahmad
August 14, 2020
Philosophy Professor Saba Fatima, a philosophy professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has a podcast, She Speaks, Academic Muslimah. Available on Apple Podcast and Spotify.
Muslimah is the feminine form of the word Muslim in Arabic. Professor Fatima speaks to academic Muslimahs about their research and life experiences. The episodes are released every other Friday only during the…
Vinay Harpalani
August 12, 2020
Professor Sonia Gipson Rankin of the University of New Mexico School of Law has posted "Technological Tethereds: Potential Impact of Untrustworthy Artificial Intelligence in Criminal Justice Risk Assessment Instruments", which will appear in the Washington and Lee Law Review. Here is the abstract:
AbstractIssues of racial inequality and violence are front and center in today’s society, as are…
Vinay Harpalani
August 10, 2020
In an effort to build community and inspire collective action, my co-moderator Marcus Gadson of Campbell School of Law in Raleigh and I invited 30 millennial (born between 1981-1997) [1] and xennial (1977-1983) [2] law scholars from 23 different institutions to join a Millennial/Xennial Scholars Roundtable on July 13. The purpose was to discuss the impact of COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter…
Vinay Harpalani
August 4, 2020
Professor Kristen Barnes of Syracuse University College of Law and University of California, Berkeley - Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law, has published "The Pieces of Housing Integration" - 70 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 717, Issue 3. Here is the abstract:
Abstract
Notwithstanding the enactment of the Fair Housing Act in 1968, accomplishing racially- integrated…
SpearIt
August 3, 2020
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) campaign, while seemingly targeting a white audience, is a message that needs to be internalized by all races, including black people. In the last decade, BLM has gained political traction by focusing on the mistreatment of Blacks by police. The campaign has enjoyed steady momentum due to the ongoing police killing of Blacks and the steady stream of videos attesting…
Nadia Ahmad
July 31, 2020
Attorney Mehwish Shaukat of O'Melveny & Myers LLP authored American Muslim Women: Who We Are and What We Demand From Feminist Jurisprudence, 31 Hastings Women's L.J. 155 (2020). She writes in this piece on the need for a shift in the way feminist jurisprudence views American Muslim women.
It is time for feminist jurisprudence to recognize American Muslim women (AMW) as a distinct and agentic…
Vinay Harpalani
July 28, 2020
Professor Khaled Beydoun of the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville School of Law recently published "Faith in Whiteness: Free Exercise of Religion as Racial Expression" in the Iowa Law Review. Here is the abstract:
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Vinay Harpalani
July 26, 2020
Professor Shirley Lin of NYU School of Law has just published "Dehumanization 'Because of Sex': The Multiaxial Approach to the Title VII Rights of Sexual Minorities," 24 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 731 (2020). Applying several critical legal lenses, Professor Lin examines the tensions between the of Supreme Court's causation doctrine and courts' increasingly multidimensional social-construction …