A Plea for Affirmative Action
Vol. 136 No. 3
Affirmative action in the form of race-conscious admissions is being legally challenged by a conservative activist organization . During the Supreme Court’s 2022 October...
Racial Justice
Race and Guns, Courts and Democracy
Vol. 135 No. 8
Is racism in gun regulation reason to look to the Supreme Court to expand Second Amendment rights? While discussion of race and guns recurs...
Governing Through Gun Crime: How Chicago Funded Police After the 2020 BLM Protests
Vol. 135 No. 8
Gun violence is the number one issue plaguing the city in this moment. — Mayor Lori Lightfoot, July 15, 2021 There can be no...
Racist Gun Laws and the Second Amendment
Vol. 135 No. 8
For a significant portion of American history, gun laws bore the ugly taint of racism. The founding generation that wrote the Second Amendment had...
The Dangerous Few: Taking Seriously Prison Abolition and Its Skeptics
Vol. 135 No. 8
Prison abolition, in the span of just a few short years, has established a foothold in elite criminal legal discourse. But the basic question...
Francis v. Kings Park Manor, Inc.
En Banc Second Circuit Ignores HUD Regulation in Tenant-on-Tenant Racial Harassment Case
Vol. 135 No. 8
State v. Belcher
Connecticut Supreme Court Invalidates Sentence that Relied on a Characterization of Defendant as a "Superpredator"
Vol. 135 No. 8
Order Amending Rules 18.4 and 18.5 of the Rules of Criminal Procedure, and Rule 47(e) of the Rules of Civil Procedure, No. R-21-0020 (Ariz. 2021)
Arizona Supreme Court Abolishes Peremptory Strikes in Jury Selection
Vol. 135 No. 8
Policing Mass Incarceration
Vol. 135 No. 7
In Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky issues an indictment of the Supreme Court,...
Legal Responses to Black Subordination, Global Perspectives
Vol. 134 No. 7
[I]n order to win and bring as many people with us along the way, we must move beyond the narrow nationalism that is all...