Imperialism

Immigration Law Essay

Extrajudicial Segregation: Challenging Solitary Confinement in Immigration Prisons

Vol. 137 No. 4 February 2024 Stepping into that cell, it felt like I lost all hope. You could smell the concrete, the isolation, the loneliness. And I knew in...

• Felipe De Jesús Hernández

Race and Law Response

The Constitution of Difference

Response to The Constitution of American Colonialism

Vol. 137 No. 3 January 2024 The result of what has been said is that whilst in an international sense Porto Rico was not a foreign country, since it was...

• Guy-Uriel E. Charles
• Luis E. Fuentes-Rohwer

Immigration Law Response

Legal Borderlands and Imperial Legacies: A Response to Maggie Blackhawk’s The Constitution of American Colonialism

Response to The Constitution of American Colonialism

Vol. 137 No. 1 November 2023 What are the borderlands? In her brilliant and sweeping exploration of the “constitution of American colonialism,” Professor Maggie Blackhawk references the borderlands dozens of...

• Jennifer M. Chacón

Constitutional Interpretation Leading Case

Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Inc.

Vol. 137 No. 1 November 2023 Puerto Rico is in a state of crisis. The island bears a debt burden of more than seventy-two billion dollars, retains lasting damage from...

Constitutional Law Foreword

The Constitution of American Colonialism

Vol. 137 No. 1 November 2023 For my part I am not prepared for citizenship in the United States. I do not want it. . . . It takes greed of gain...

• Maggie Blackhawk
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Human Rights Case Comment

Transnational Racial (In)Justice in Liberal Democratic Empire

Vol. 134 No. 7 June 2021 On June 17, 2020, Philonise Floyd addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council, the United Nations’ paramount human rights body, demanding justice for the...

• E. Tendayi Achiume