Lewis v. Governor of Alabama
Eleventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Discrimination Claim Relying on Historical and Statistical Evidence.
Vol. 132 No. 2
Race and the Law
Hidden Laws of the Time of Ferguson
Responding to Fred O. Smith Jr., Abstention in the Time of Ferguson
Response to Abstention in the Time of Ferguson
Vol. 132 No. 1
The Black Police: Policing Our Own
Vol. 131 No. 7
Introduction Since Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown in 2014, the problem of police violence against African Americans has been a relatively salient...
Thompson v. Alabama
District Court Finds No Irreparable Injury from the State’s Lack of Notice to People with Felony Convictions upon Re-Enfranchisement.
Vol. 131 No. 7
Unsettling History
Vol. 131 No. 4
At the time she set out to write City of Inmates, Professor Kelly Lytle Hernández wanted to tell the story of the “long rise...
Bail Reform and Risk Assessment: The Cautionary Tale of Federal Sentencing
Vol. 131 No. 4
Across the country, from New Jersey to Texas to California, bail reform is being debated, implemented, and litigated at the state and local levels....
The Virtues of Heterogeneity, in Court Decisions and the Constitution
Vol. 131 No. 3
In recent decades, the project of integrating long-segregated American society has stalled, if not lurched into reverse. Though the impermissibility of de jure segregation...
Marijuana Justice Act of 2017
Senator Cory Booker Introduces Act to Repair the Harms Exacted by Marijuana Prohibition.
Vol. 131 No. 3
Buck v. Davis
Vol. 131 No. 1
Issues of race often expose deep ideological divisions within the Roberts Court. Justice Ginsburg was biting in her proclamation that “[h]ubris is a fit...
Race Liberalism and the Deradicalization of Racial Reform
Vol. 130 No. 9
In the era that followed the formal collapse of white supremacy, efforts to sustain and broaden reformist agendas against the denouement of social justice...