Exploring Mapping Inequality: Redlining Close to Home

By: Eve HastingsAssociate Editor, Vol. 26 Background Mapping Inequality is a website created through the collaboration of three teams at four universities including the University of Richmond, Virginia Tech, University of Maryland, and Johns Hopkins University.[1] I was introduced to the website through my Property professor during the… Read More

The Right to Education: Where We Go Next

By: Daniel BaumAssociate Editor, Vol. 26             This blog calls on scholars and practitioners to advocate, and for courts to hold, that every student in this country—no matter whether they live in Orange, Wayne, or Washtenaw County, or whether their skin is Black, white, or neither—possesses a fundamental right to… Read More

Uneven Distribution Leads to Increased Disparate Impact

By: Emma RosenAssociate Editor, Vol. 26            The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines created a visible light at the end of the long, dark tunnel that has been the past ten months.  This tunnel was even darker for those communities on which COVID-19 has had a disparate impact.  COVID-19… Read More

Race and Blackness in Brazil

By: Thomas DesoutterAssociate Editor, Vol. 26 Brazil is a nation of 210 million people, sixty percent of whom are Black or multiracial. Many of the country’s most celebrated cultural traditions are rooted in the practices of Brazil’s enslaved people and their descendants. The most famous Brazilian of all time, the… Read More

How the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Fails Minority Students

 By: Liza DavisAssociate Editor, Vol. 26               Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), every child with a disability who participates in a state school system accepting federal special education funds is guaranteed a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment appropriate.[i] Instead of ensuring that all… Read More

The Danger of Using “Terrorism” to Describe the Capitol Attack

By: Aashna RaoAssociate Editor, Vol. 26 On January 7, 2021, the day after the attack on the Capitol, President Joe Biden said of the Trump supporters who participated, “Don’t dare call them protestors. They were…domestic terrorists.”[1] Biden’s use of the word “terrorists” to describe the violent mob was intended… Read More

Undermining the Prosecutor

By: Thomas DesoutterAssociate Editor, Vol. 26 The most famous sheriff in U.S. history is Bull Connor, the Alabama lawman who turned fire hoses on peaceful civil rights protesters in defense of white supremacy. No prosecutor is quite so recognizable by name, but many a District Attorney is infamous… Read More

Workers’ Rights in a Post-Proposition 22 World

By: Andrew MorinAssociate Editor, Vol. 26            This past election, California voters decided on an issue that may have far-ranging consequences for the future of employment and worker’s rights across the country. Proposition 22, approved by 56% of California voters, excludes gig companies such as Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and others from… Read More