Gerry Handley faced years of blatant race-based harassment before he filed a complaint
against his employer: racist jokes, signs reading “KKK” in his work area, and even questions …

In this article, we use a Bourdieusian framework to theorize the relationship between cultural
capital and legal consciousness, and in turn to consider how variation in legal …

A substantial body of sociolegal scholarship suggests that the legitimacy of the law crucially
depends on the public's perception that legal processes are fair. The bulk of this research …

The Supreme Court has described the" driving force" behind qualified immunity to be its
power to dismiss" insubstantial" cases before discovery and trial. Yet in a prior study of 1,183 …

Building on David M. Engel and Frank W. Munger's work analyzing the narratives of people
with physical and learning disabilities, this book examines the life stories of twelve physically …

Philip Jacobson was a thirty-four-year-old African American man working as an
administrator at a government printing plant. After a series of incidents with managers and …

This paper shows that social inequalities are cumulative and occur at each stage of the
dispute pyramid, from the identification of a conflict through to satisfaction with its outcome …

This symposium Issue of the Columbia Law Review marks a moment of convergence and
opportunity for an emerging field of legal scholarship focused on America's state civil trial …

Gerry Handley (plaintiff): They would like always bring up these racial conversations and
make these racial jokes... I'd just ignore them. I wouldn't laugh or I wouldn't listen in.... They …

Black women experience higher rates of unwanted sex, assault, and harassment, yet rarely
report these incidents to police or campus officials (Slatton & Richard, 2020; Washington …