When the United States Supreme Court validated the limited use of race as an admissions
criterion in Grutter v. Bollinger eight years ago, 1 many veterans of the civil rights struggle …

Federal tax policies such as the mortgage interest deduction do not generally encourage
anyone to become a homeowner, yet they do increase the cost of housing. Low-income …

Critical Race Theory (CRT) is virtually unheard of in European scholarship, especially
among legal scholars. Law, Lawyers and Race: Critical Race Theory from the United States …

Much has been written about the so-called" cultural defense"-the proffering of cultural
evidence by a criminal defendant seeking to mitigate a charge or sentence.'Many scholars …

Praxis Page 1 LatCrit X Afterword Beyond The First Decade: A Forward-Looking History of
LatCrit Theory, Community and Praxis Berta Hernandez-Truyol, Angela Harris, and Francisco …

Bankruptcy laws are not designed to redress racial wrongs. Indeed, individuals were entitled
to debt relief long before this country enacted laws designed to provide relief from racial …

Tax credits for children are found in two separate tax provisions. The Earned Income Tax
Credit (" EITC") and the Child Tax Credit (" CTC") are similar in many ways, yet in crucial …

[Flor several hundred years Negroes have been discriminated against, not as individuals,
but rather solely because of the color of their skins. It is unnecessary in twentieth-century …

Recent events have increased the focus on racial justice. One aspect of this attention is the
realization that race interacts in important—but often not fully understood—ways with …

Purpose: How can tax policies serve as a tool to promote distributive tax justice? The
purpose of this study is to discuss several policies that research shows are both feasible and …