University of Michigan Law School journal dedicated to the exploration of issues relating to race and law
THIS SIMULATION IS REFERRED TO IN VOLUME 28, ISSUE 1, TEACHING SLAVERY IN COMMERCIAL LAW BY CARLISS N. CHATMAN. The Simulation: Syllabus: Slavery and Commercial Law At Washington and Lee Teacher’s Manual… <a href="https://mjrl.org/2023/08/03/slavery-in-commercial-law-simulation/" class="read-more">Read More</a>
Professor Angi Porter’s article from Volume 27.2, Africana Legal Studies: A New Theoretical Approach to Law & Protocol, introduces an innovative interdisciplinary approach to studying the stories of Law and African people. In her words, the work of African Legal Studies “centers the humanity and self-defined thoughts and actions… <a href="https://mjrl.org/2023/02/12/online-student-notes-africana-legal-studies/" class="read-more">Read More</a>
Bhaavya Sinha, Georgetown University I. Introduction In his treatise surveying global history, Hegel wrote that Africa “is no historical part of the world; it has no movement or development to exhibit.”[1] For centuries, as it pillaged and erased other cultures, the European states – influenced by… <a href="https://mjrl.org/2023/02/12/the-protocol-of-caste-identifying-caste-on-the-continent-and-its-utility-in-africana-legal-studies/" class="read-more">Read More</a>
Gianfranco Cesareo, Georgetown University Introduction The Gullah/Geechee are the only African American population in the United States with a longstanding name demarcating them as separate people.[1] Descendants of enslaved Africans forcibly brought to the Sea Islands to cultivate rice, indigo, and cotton plantations of European colonists,… <a href="https://mjrl.org/2023/02/12/protocol-vs-law-in-the-sea-islands-gullah-geechee-land-use-and-land-loss-through-an-africana-legal-studies-lens/" class="read-more">Read More</a>
Grace Gibson, Georgetown University I. INTRODUCTION Environmental protection and conservation are virtually universally viewed as positive measures that make the world and the lives of people better. The relationship between international conservation efforts and worldwide Indigenous movements has been characterized as a “good guy vs. good guy story”;… <a href="https://mjrl.org/2023/02/12/environmental-maafa-challenging-the-colonial-roots-of-western-conservation-efforts-in-africa/" class="read-more">Read More</a>
Patricia Murphy-Geiss, Georgetown University Introduction Modern African systems of governance exist in the context of culturally diverse and multilingual societies. Despite this, most African law is written in Western languages. For example, the Angolan and Cabo Verdean constitutions are written in Portuguese; the Burkinabé, Central African Republic, and… <a href="https://mjrl.org/2023/02/12/africana-legal-linguistics/" class="read-more">Read More</a>
Adedola Adefowoju, Georgetown University A Long View of History into the Protocols of Traditional African Societies I. Introduction According to Yoruba folklore, humanity began in a Yoruba city known as Ile-Ife.[1] The first king of Ile-Ife (Oòni of Ife) was believed to be Oduduwa, the… <a href="https://mjrl.org/2023/02/12/a-long-view-of-history-into-the-protocols-of-traditional-african-societies/" class="read-more">Read More</a>
On Friday, the Supreme Court officially overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Dobbs eradicates what has been the law of the land for nearly half a century: that the Constitution protects the fundamental right to an abortion. This decision… <a href="https://mjrl.org/2022/06/28/mjrl-statement-on-scotus-overturning-roe-v-wade/" class="read-more">Read More</a>
These days, it’s hard to overlook the explosion of cannabis retail stores on every corner, or the numerous cannabis billboards scattered along highways near the boarders of states with legalized marijuana. Despite a global pandemic, legal cannabis sales hit $20 billion in 2020, $25 billion in 2021, and are… <a href="https://mjrl.org/2022/04/07/racial-disparities-in-the-legalized-marijuana-industry/" class="read-more">Read More</a>
By: Rihan Issa, Executive Articles Editor, Vol. 27 Part 1 of the series discussed the argument in Simone Browne’s book, Dark Matters. She highlighted the importance of racializing surveillance as an important conceptual understanding of the way surveillance has been used to order society along racial lines. She… <a href="https://mjrl.org/2022/04/04/blog-3-surveillance-dark-sousveillance-the-law/" class="read-more">Read More</a>
