Sep 14, 2021 | Alexander J. Lindvall, Article, Civil Rights and Discrimination Law, Constitutional Law, Law and Gender, Law and Society
By: Alexander J. Lindvall The Texas Legislature recently passed what the Supreme Court describes as an “unprecedented” statutory scheme. Texas’s new law allows private, everyday citizens to sue anyone who assists a woman in obtaining an abortion after her sixth week...
Sep 12, 2021 | Anthony J. Colangelo, Article, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights and Discrimination Law, Constitutional Law, Feature, Law and Society
By: Anthony J. Colangelo Many people are deriding (or celebrating) the exceptional—and exceptionally deceptive—device of the Texas legislature to so-called “deputize” private individuals as government enforcement agents to carry out a state anti-abortion law that, at...
Aug 4, 2021 | Article, Civil Rights and Discrimination Law, Education Law, Emma Kaeser, Feature, Public Health, Thalia González
By Thalia González and Emma Kaeser Out of the twin pandemics currently gripping the United States—deaths of unarmed Black victims at the hands of police and racialized health inequities resulting from COVID-19—an antiracist health equity agenda has emerged that...
Mar 4, 2021 | Civil Rights and Discrimination Law, Comment, Leah Powers, Uncategorized
By Leah Powers In her Comment, Leah Powers examines the similarities and differences between the disparate impact standard in the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s 2013 Disparate Impact Final Rule and the standard set forth in the 2020 new Final...
Feb 25, 2020 | Civil Rights and Discrimination Law, Collection, Election Law, Foundational Voices in 2020 and Beyond, James M. Binnall
By James M. Binnall Twitter | SSRN Abstract In recent years, felon-voter disenfranchisement has received considerable attention from academics, policymakers, and the media. In turn, a number of jurisdictions have eased record-based voter restriction statutes. And...
Feb 25, 2020 | Civil Rights and Discrimination Law, Collection, Foundational Voices in 2020 and Beyond, Labor and Employment Law, Law and Race, Llezlie L. Green, Social Welfare Law
By Llezlie L. Green Twitter | SSRN Abstract Low-wage workers frequently experience exploitation, including wage theft, at the intersection of their racial identities and their economic vulnerabilities. Scholars, however, rarely consider the role of wage and hour...
Feb 25, 2020 | Civil Rights and Discrimination Law, Collection, Fatma Marouf, Foundational Voices in 2020 and Beyond, Immigration Law, Law and Race, Law and Society
By Fatma Marouf Website | SSRN Abstract Over the past decade, immigrants have faced numerous challenges in the United States, including a dramatic increase in deportations, the expansion and privatization of immigration detention, major changes to the asylum system...
Feb 25, 2020 | Civil Rights and Discrimination Law, Collection, Constitutional Law, Foundational Voices in 2020 and Beyond, Jennifer D. Oliva
By Jennifer D. Oliva Twitter | SSRN Abstract Federal law has long deprived American veterans of certain fundamental legal rights enjoyed by non-veterans and attributable to veteran sacrifice. Federal case law, for example, denies veterans the right to bring an action...
Feb 25, 2020 | Civil Rights and Discrimination Law, Collection, Foundational Voices in 2020 and Beyond, Law and Gender, Law and Race, Osamudia R. James, Sexuality and the Law
By Osamudia R. James Twitter | SSRN Abstract Progress regarding equality and social identities has moved in a bipolar fashion: popular engagement with the concept of social identities has increased even as courts have signaled decreasing interest in engaging identity....
Feb 5, 2020 | Case Note, Civil Rights and Discrimination Law, Courts, Education Law, Thomas Campbell
By Thomas Campbell Abstract It should not come as a surprise that sexual assault on college campuses has been a major area of concern in the past decade. In 2011, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released the “Dear Colleague Letter” (the...
