law

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  6/13/2022
  

  Can Law be an Instrument of Black Liberation?

  by Paul Gowder

  As activists debate whether the law and courts are a dead end for the pursuit of justice, it's useful to recall Frederick Douglass's conception of the law as a basis for collective demands. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/13/2021
  

  Jelani Cobb on Derrick Bell: The Man Behind Critical Race Theory

  Derrick Bell's frustrations with the limits of liberal individualism in civil rights jurisprudence pushed him to develop the important critique of institiutional racism in the law. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  9/9/2021
  

  9/11 Forever

  by Joseph Margulies

  "By creating the impression that the stakes were not merely consequential but existential, the attacks of September 11 normalized previously unimaginable cruelty."

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  7/5/2021
  

  The Predictable Backlash to Critical Race Theory: Jon Weiner Interviews Kimberlé Crenshaw

  "This is about a contemporary agenda controlling narratives of the past in order to limit what has been unfolding in this country for the past year."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/25/2021
  

  The Obscure Case That Could Blow Up American Civil-Rights and Consumer-Protection Laws

  Law professor Eduardo Peñalver argues that the case of Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid which challenges a 1975 California law allowing labor organizers limited access to private agricultural land to speak to workers, could apply a radical version of the "takings" doctrine to block many kinds of labor, consumer, and civil rights law. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/8/2020
  

  The Terrifying Inadequacy of American Election Law

  by Larry Diamond and Edward B. Foley

  Two election law experts point to the non-trivial possibility of a constitutional crisis over the 2020 presidential election. 

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• SOURCE: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
  8/11/2020
  

  Citizen's Arrest: How is This Still a Law? (video)

  Hofstra professor (and HNN contributor) Alan J. Singer explains to Roy Wood, Jr. why "citizens arrest" is a legacy of the era of slavery and white supremacy. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/11/2020
  

  Barbara Babcock, a Force for Women in the Law, Dies at 81

  “I would not hold the good job I have today were it not for Barbara,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/3/2020
  

  Common-Good Constitutionalism Is an Idea as Dangerous as They Come

  by Garrett Epps

  A recently published theory of law is an argument for authoritarian extremism.

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• 1/26/20
  

  History & Law: GW History Professor Jennifer Wells Discusses How Her Study of Law Has Informed her Career in History

  by Mark Detlor

  "I’m more much analytical as a result of law and try to immediately make an assertion and back it up with evidence when I write; I think it’s a very effective way of writing but I’m not sure that I would have mastered it had I not gone to law school."

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• SOURCE: CNN
  2/26/19
  

  A high school government class wanted to help solve civil rights crimes. So they drafted a bill that is now law

  It began as an effort to make government more transparent.

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• Women Played Critical Role in George Zimmerman Decision

  by Brenda E. Stevenson

  It has only been in the last fifty years or so that women have gained such significant presence as lawyers, prosecutors, and jurists. It will become increasingly important, therefore, that we understand the kinds of histories and socializations of females in our society that they bring into the courtroom, that weighs in when they consider the evidence, victims and defendants before them.