Topic
Race Equity
171 published works
Jotwell
Reimagining Housing Policy as Wealth Policy
In Public Housing Reimagined, Professor Rosa Newman offers a deeply thoughtful and timely intervention in housing law and policy—one that asks readers to reconsider not only how federal housing programs…
The CLS Blue Sky Blog
Why Right and Left Can Converge on Corporate Racial Disclosure
By Emilie K. Aguirre, Veronica Root Martinez
In her book, Disclosureland, Atinuke Adediran offers a compelling account of how corporate racial disclosures operate not merely as statements of corporate virtue, but as instruments of governance. Through meticulous…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
Third Circuit Finds Zip Codes May Be Impermissible Proxy for Race in Selective High School Admissions
By By: Karen Baillie, T. Scott Kelly
On February 2, 2026, in Sargent v. School District of Philadelphia, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment for the…
Legal Theory Blog
West-Faulcon on Caste and Brown
Kimberly West-Faulcon (Loyola Law School Los Angeles; University of California, Berkeley - Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law) has posted Introducing "Caste" Centric Terminology as Brown Turns Seventy…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Myth of Equal Protection (that it Protects Women and People of Color)
By Tracy Thomas
Laura Portuondo, The Myth of Equal Protection, 16 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026)It is a myth that equal protection doctrine protects women and people of color. It is a myth,…
The Right Coast
Gates Foundation Gives In and Stops Discriminating by Race – WSJ
The Gates Foundation says it will end racial exclusion in its flagship college-aid initiative, the Gates Scholarship. As of Sunday afternoon, the foundation s website still describes the program as…
Law Times News
Legal Aid Ontario updates action plan for racialized communities strategy
LAO shares recent changes in financial eligibility thresholds, bail support, tariff reform
Sentencing Law and Policy
Maryland collaborative releases big report on "Racial Equity in the Criminal Legal System "
As reported in this local article, the Maryland Equitable Justice Collaborative, an initiative by the Maryland Office of the Attorney General and Office of the Public Defender to reduce mass…
Criminal
Maryland collaborative releases big report on “Racial Equity in the Criminal Legal System “
As reported in this local article, the Maryland Equitable Justice Collaborative, an initiative by the Maryland Office of the Attorney General and Office of the Public Defender to reduce mass…
Legal Theory Blog
Lewis & Usmani on Racial Justice
Christopher Lewis (Harvard Law School; Harvard Society of Fellows) & Adaner Usmani (Harvard University) have posted The Currency of Racial Justice on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Racial justice is…