The Harvard University motto – “Veritas” – means “Truth” in Latin. Morehouse College’s Latin motto, “Et facta est lux,” translates to, “Let there be light.” The frequent appearance of “lux” and “veritas” in college mottos across the nation reminds us
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New Article: “Why BIPOC Fails” — by Prof. Meera Deo
Professor Meera Deo of Southwestern Law School has published Why BIPOC Fails in the Virginia Law Review Online. The abstract is given below, and the full article is available right here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3858825AbstractThis Essay initiates a discussion about how we…
New Article: “Technological Tethereds: Potential Impact of Untrustworthy Artificial Intelligence in Criminal Justice Risk Assessment Instruments” — by Prof. Sonia Gipson Rankin
Professor Sonia Gipson Rankin of the University of New Mexico School of Law has published Technological Tethereds: Potential Impact of Untrustworthy Artificial Intelligence in Criminal Justice Risk Assessment Instruments in the Washington and Lee Law Review. Below is the abstract,…
Racial Reckoning is Shifting US Public Opinion on Palestine
Not since the 1960s has the United States been as racially charged as it is today. The rise of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is forcing Americans to confront centuries of systemic state abuse of African Americans. As a…
Black Prosecutors Inspired Trust and Hope at the Derek Chauvin Trial–We Need More of Them (by Prof. Njeri Mathis Rutledge)
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The Entire Country Needed a Guilty Verdict in Chauvin Case–But Laws Still Need to Change (by Prof. Njeri Mathis Rutledge)
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Religion’s Challenge to the Carceral State
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Review of Garrett Felber, Those Who Know Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State (2020).Garrett Felber’s book, Those Who Know Don’t Say, offers a fresh and fearless new intellectual and activist history of…
Identity Crisis
Belonging. To Be. To Long for. To long to belong in a space where one feels safe, wanted, normal. Is to belong to be normal? Who is normal? Who decides? Who sets the norm? for you, for me, for us. But for…
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
At a recent book talk hosted by the Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights, Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick discussed a question percolating among American progressive political circles: why are so many progressives not applying their commitments…
Call for Proposals for the Third Annual Equality Law Scholars’ Forum
Below is a message from Professor Tristin Green about submitting proposals for the Third Annual Equality Law Scholars' Forum. I participated in this event back in 2017, and I would strongly encourage any young scholars working in the relevant areas…