Professor Emerita Vernellia Randall
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Update -  September 2019

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  This issue includes  41 articles  in the following categories:

• Race, Racism, Generally

•           Criminal Justice
• Health Status and Health Care
•           Immigration
• Implicit Bias and the Law
• School-to-Prison Pipeline
• Reparations

• American Indian or Alaskan Native
• Asian American or Pacific Islander  (No new articles)
• Black or African American or DAEUS
• Hispanic or Latinx American
• Multiracial American (No new articles)
• White American (No new articles)

• Searchable Databases

 
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American Indian or Alaskan Native

• The History of Indian Legal Services 
• The History of Indian Legal Services
• VAWA Reauthorization of 2013 and the Continued Legacy of Violence Against Indigenous Women: A Critical Outsider Jurisprudence Perspective
• Similar Trails: A Comparison of the Legalized Discrimination of Indigenous Communities Paralleling the Rohingya of Myanmar and the Native Americans of the United States
• Environmentalism Isn't New: Lessons from Indigenous Law 
• 2015 Acknowledgement Regulations Invalidate Native American Treaties
• Examining the Administrative Unworkability of Final Agency Action Doctrine as Applied to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
• Avoiding Maladaptations to Flooding and Erosion: A Case Study of Alaska Native Villages
• Similar Trails: A Comparison of the Legalized Discrimination of Indigenous Communities Paralleling the Rohingya of Myanmar and the Native Americans of the United States
  
  

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Black or African American including DAEUS (Descendants of Africans Enslaved in the United States)

• Black Speech: The Effect of Sociolinguistic Bias in the Courtroom
• Black, Poor, and Gone: Civil Rights Law's Inner-city Crisis
• The Restoration and Protection of Afro-Colombian Land to Establish Equality and Mitigate Violence
• African Americans' Pursuit of Equal Educational Opportunity in the United States
  
  

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Criminal Justice

• Criminalization and the Politics of Migration in Brazil
• Crimmigration –Structural Tools of Settler Colonialism
• A New Frontier in Criminal Justice Reform
• An Uneasy Dance with Data: Racial Bias in Criminal Law
• Character in Criminal Justice Proceedings: Rethinking its Role in Rules Governing Evidence, Punishment, Prosecutors, and Parole

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Health Status and Health Care

• An Opening for Civil Rights in Health Insurance after the Affordable Care Act
• Evaluating the Legality of Age-based Criteria in Health Care: from Nondiscrimination and Discretion to Distributive Justice
• Unlocking Access to Health Care: A Federalist Approach to Reforming Occupational Licensing
• The Economics and Politics of Emergency Health Care for the Poor: The Patient Dumping Dilemma 

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Hispanic or Latinx American

• LatCrit: What's Next? Resistance Resilience and Community in the Trump Era

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Immigration

• The Future of Tort Litigation for Undocumented Immigrants in Donald Trump's “Great” America
• Crimmigration –Structural Tools of Settler Colonialism
• Abolishing the Private Prison Industry's Evolving Influence on Immigrant Oppression
• Now They've Robbed Me: The Use of Termination of Parental Rights in Government-fractured Immigrant Families
• 14th Amendment, Race and Undocumented Immigrants (Video)

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Implicit Bias and the Law

• Black Speech: The Effect of Sociolinguistic Bias in the Courtroom
• The Restoration and Protection of Afro-Colombian Land to Establish Equality and Mitigate Violence
• An Uneasy Dance with Data: Racial Bias in Criminal Law
• Bias on Trial: Toward an Open Discussion of Racial Stereotypes in the Courtroom

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School-to-Prison Pipeline

• The Right to Public Education and the School to Prison Pipeline

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Race and Racism, Generally

• The Struggle Against the Death Penalty Moves Forward in Washington State: Reflections on State V. Gregory
• Challenging Discriminatory Guesswork: Does Impact Analysis Apply?
• Criminalization and the Politics of Migration in Brazil
• Opioid Courts and Judicial Management of the Opioid Crisis
• Police Dogs and Race
• When Disability Is a “Nuisance”: How Chronic Nuisance Ordinances Push Residents with Disabilities out of Their Homes
• Crimmigration –Structural Tools of Settler Colonialism
• Coding for Cultural Competency: Expanding Access to Justice with Technology.
• Human Rights Racism
• The Fancy Trade and the Commodification of Rape in the Sexual Economy of 19th Century U.S. Slavery
• Opioid Policing
• The Shortcomings of Regulating Pesticides Internationally and How Disadvantaged Communities Pay the Price
• A New Frontier in Criminal Justice Reform
• How Workable Are Class-based and Race-neutral Alternatives at Leading American Universities?
• High Time for Change: How Legalizing Marijuana Could Help Narrow the Racial Divide in the United States
• A Conversation on Why Repeal of the 2nd Amendment is Not Enough!
• An Uneasy Dance with Data: Racial Bias in Criminal Law
• Affirmative Action and Social Discord: Why Is Race More Controversial than Sex?

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Reparations

• The Case for a Reparations Law School Clinic

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 Databases

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• Enslaved Africans and Descendants 1865 to 1963 (Searchable Database)
• Whiteness and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• Muslim Americans/Islam and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• Asian American and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• Native People in America and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• Health Disparities and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• #BlackLivesMatter and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• Birthright Citizenship, Race and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• Hispanic/Latinx and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• Enslaved Africans and Descendants Before 1865 (Searchable Database)
• Reparations and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

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