Race Rights and the Law Blog
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…
Nadia B. Ahmad
September 25, 2021
The LatCrit, Inc./SALT Annual Faculty Development Workshop (FDW) will take place on October 7, 2021, the day before the 2021 LatCrit Biennial Conference “Resistance and Transformation: Mapping Critical Geographies and Alternative Possibilities in Legal Scholarship and Praxis for the Next Twenty-Five Years.” The Conference is sponsored by the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.
The FDW is…
Sahar Aziz
August 5, 2021
The African American Policy Forum is hosting a five-day course on Critical Race Theory that will feature leading critical race scholars providing accessible instruction in a mixed-presentational format. What is Critical Race Theory and why has it become the center of an intense political attack? How are the central ideas of CRT being distorted and to what end? To what extent is the attack on…
Sahar Aziz
July 21, 2021
Let me speak plainly.
I do think that this little vignette of irrational critical race theory protests in West Virginia is only one of the hundreds or thousands of these vignettes going on at all levels of our society to foist on all of us repression of basic human rights.
It is in the interest of those who are used to and like the autocratic rule of the private sector in an at will…
Christopher Ogolla
July 15, 2021
On June 17, 2021, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka ACA, survived yet another challenge at the Supreme Court. As originally enacted, the ACA had several key provisions, three of which merit mentioning here. The first is the individual mandate, which requires most Americans to maintain “minimum essential” health insurance coverage or else pay a penalty.[1] The second provision of…
Sahar Aziz
July 12, 2021
“Oh what a feeling! Dancing on the (glass) ceiling!” Tuesday the saga of Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure process at the University of North Carolina came to an end with a statement she wrote declining the offer of tenure. Like any excellent Professor, she neither got mad or got even but rather wrote. Every university and college administrator, faculty or staff person in this country should read…
Nadia B. Ahmad
July 9, 2021
The Yale Law Journal invites submissions on the Law of the Territories, covering the broad range of local, federal, and international issues arising out of and affecting the U.S. territories and their people, for Volume 131’s Special Issue. The deadline for submissions is July 15, 2021.
The Law of the Territories is an emerging field that explores novel legal questions facing residents of the U.S…
Sahar Aziz
July 5, 2021
Let’s be honest – before the pandemic we never cleaned our homes as thoroughly as when we were expecting guests. Visiting in-laws meant a zenith level of cleaning. While it might not pass every snooping cousin’s white-glove test, we did our best to create a hospitable environment for fellowship and joy.
An essential truth of housecleaning is that spraying some temporary floral scent over the…
SpearIt
June 17, 2021
The Harvard University motto - “Veritas” - means “Truth” in Latin. Morehouse College’s Latin motto, “Et facta est lux,” translates to, “Let there be light.” The frequent appearance of “lux” and “veritas” in college mottos across the nation reminds us that universities are places where students go to be enlightened by truth.
For that to happen, however, faculty must be free to speak truth without…