Since the end of the civil rights era in the early 1970s, the emancipatory potential of the Fourteenth Amendment has been thoroughly undone. Today, its guarantee of" equal …
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During the summer of 2020, racial violence by law enforcement sparked social unrest in the United States. The conflict began after the May 25 killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by …
Criminal courts are often required, in the course of implementing existing doctrines of constitutional criminal law, to regulate other institutional actors within the criminal justice …
This article examines the findings from recent psychological research to conclude that the lawyer often will be wrong, will be unaware of her mental processes, and would not have …
There are two main schools of thought about the best way to understand what the Equal Protection Clause prohibits. First, there are those who say that the Clause prohibits laws that …
In Marbury v. Madison, 2 the Supreme Court asserted its power to strike down on constitutional grounds policy pronouncements of the Republic's highest ranking political …
During the past several years, psychological research on unconscious racial bias has grabbed headlines, as well as the attention of legal scholars. The most well-known test of …
During the hardscrabble years of the late nineteenth century, racially restrictive covenants pushed low-wage African-American workers to settle in White Level, a new residential …