Vol. 139 No. 4 State constitutions serve as important sources of individual rights. They often extend broader protections than the Federal Constitution and have, in some instances, included...
Vol. 138 No. 7 Prisons and jails are “total institutions.” Incarcerated people, to a large extent, depend on correctional agencies for their basic welfare and have limited power to resist harmful conditions and practices
Racialized and xenophobic disinformation reinforces an anti-Black and anti-immigrant vision of America where powerful actors intentionally promulgate false information that becomes the norm defining...
Consent decrees have long been used by federal courts to vindicate basic constitutional and civil rights. In the years following the U.S. Supreme Court’s...
Conspiracy represents the immense sweep and racialized harms of the American criminal system in particularly stark form. Yet it remains widely used by prosecutors...
Vol. 137 No. 5 A teenager in East Boston walks to school wearing a blue windbreaker — a gift from his mother — and a Chicago Bulls hat. Along the way, he...
Response to Roberts’s Revisions: A Narratological Reading of the Affirmative Action Cases
Vol. 137 No. 1 Introduction In her insightful Comment on Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc....
Vol. 137 No. 1 America was founded on ideals of democracy, freedom, and political equality. It was also founded with racialized slavery, and for most of its history...
