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Implications for Race-Based Scholarships in the Wake of SFFA
This past summer (June 29, 2023) the United States Supreme Court overturned 45 years of precedent and ruled that the University of North Carolina and Harvard University’s affirmative action programs violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by considering race in their admissions process–effectively ending affirmative education…Teaching Slavery in Commercial Law: The Simulation
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…Online Student Notes: Africana Legal Studies
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…The Protocol of Caste: Identifying Caste on the Continent and its Utility in Africana Legal Studies
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…Protocol vs. Law in the Sea Islands: Gullah/Geechee Land Use and Land Loss through an Africana Legal Studies Lens
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]…Environmental Maafa: Challenging the Colonial Roots of Western Conservation Efforts in Africa
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…Africana Legal Linguistics
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…A Long View of History into the Protocols of Traditional African Societies
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…MJRL Statement on SCOTUS Overturning Roe v. Wade
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…
Evading Culpability: Racism in the Porn Industry
In the summer of 2020, Black Lives Matter protests erupted all over the world in response to murders of Black individuals at the hands of law enforcement. The grief and anger kickstarted a conversation. Society was forced to acknowledge that racism is not an issue of the past but is…
