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… Read More
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 of… Read More
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 Western philosophy… Read More
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,[2]… Read More
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”; both groups… Read More
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 Chadian constitutions… Read More
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 creator of… Read More
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 has… Read More
Image of a white man piled with money bags and marijuana leaves next to a Black man with empty hands labeled “felon”[1] 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… Read More

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 argues that… Read More