Harvard Law Review
The Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) imposes a minimum fifteen-year sentence for violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) after three “violent felony” or “serious drug offense” convictions. The ACCA disproportionately impacts people…
Fifth Circuit Judges Cast Doubt on Environmental Justice Suits
The truism that history matters can hide complexities. Consider the idea of problematic policy lineages. When may we call a policy the progeny of an earlier, discriminatory policy, especially if…
Fourth Circuit Finds the Anti-Riot Act Partially Unconstitutional.
Fifth Circuit Holds that Corporations Have Standing to Sue for Racial Discrimination Under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 Without Requiring Proof of an Imputed Racial Identity.
Responding to Cheryl I. Harris, Whiteness as Property