Update - NOVEMBER, 2019

Vernellia Randall
Founder and Editor
Professor Emerita of Law
The University of Dayton

This website makes legal scholarship more accessible to community activists, students, and non-law faculty.   

Please check out the Racial Justice Now! 2019 Ohio School Discipline Report which grades 1173 Ohio Districts and Charter Schools on how well they are eliminating the school to prison pipeline.

This issue includes 34 law review abstracts posted in the following categories:

• Bias and the Law
• Criminal Justice
• Health Status and Health Care
• Immigration
• School-to-Prison Pipeline
•        Race and Racism, Generally
• Reparations

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

• Searchable Databases

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American Indian or Alaskan Native 

• Reconstituting Canada: The Enfranchisement and Disenfranchisement of ‘Indians,' Circa 1837-1900
• The Opioid Crisis in Indian Country: The Impact of Tribal Jurisdiction and the Role of the Exhaustion Doctrine
• California Indian Tribes and the Marine Life Protection Act: The Seeds of a Partnership to Preserve Natural Resources
• Native Hawaiians and the New Frontier of the Indian Civil Rights Act
• (En)gendering Indian Law: Indigenous Feminist Legal Theory in the United States
• Native People in America and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database) 

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Asian American or Pacific Islander

• Native Hawaiians and the New Frontier of the Indian Civil Rights Act
• Asian American and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

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 Bias and the Law

•  Peña-Rodriguez V. Colorado: Carving out a Racial-bias Exception to the No-impeachment Rule

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

• The African-American Community and The Proposed National Tobacco Settlement
• Urban Education Policy as the Dispossession, Containment, Dehumanization, and Disenfranchisement of Black Peoples
• #BlackLivesMatter and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• Enslaved Africans and Descendants Before 1865 (Searchable Database)
• Enslaved Africans and Descendants 1865 to 1963 (Searchable Database)

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Criminal Justice

• Policing as an Unavoidably and Foreseeably Dangerous Activity
• The Force of Fear: Police Stereotype Threat, Self-legitimacy, and Support for Excessive Force
• The New Housing Segregation: The Jim Crow Effects of Crime-free Housing Ordinances
• The Construction and Criminalization of Disability in School Incarceration
• Arrested at the Schoolhouse Gate: Criminal School Disturbance Laws and Children's Rights in Schools
• Prosecutorial Misconduct: Shouldn't the Punishment Fit the Crime?
• Regulating Prosecutors' Courtroom Misconduct
• Speaking of Prosecutors: Deceptively Descriptive on the Surface with a Heavy Normative Undertow
• Prosecutorial Misconduct: Shouldn't the Punishment Fit the Crime? 

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Health Status and Health Care

•  Imprisoned Hispanic/latinx Individuals Need Access to Culturally Competent Mental Health Treatment
• From Housing to Health: Imagining Antidiscrimination Provisions for Menthol Cigarette Marketing
• Health Disparities and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database) 

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Hispanic or Latinx American

• Imprisoned Hispanic/latinx Individuals Need Access to Culturally Competent Mental Health Treatment
• Imprisoned Hispanic/latinx Individuals Need Access to Culturally Competent Mental Health Treatment
• Hispanic/Latinx and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

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Immigration 

•  Birthright Citizenship, Race and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

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School-to-Prison Pipeline

• 2019 Ohio School Discipline Report  
• The Construction and Criminalization of Disability in School Incarceration
• The Constant and Expanding Classroom: Surveillance in K-12 Public Schools
• Arrested at the Schoolhouse Gate: Criminal School Disturbance Laws and Children's Rights in Schools

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Race and Racism, Generally

•  Racial Innocence: Law, Social Science, and The Unknowing of Racism in the US Carceral State
• Perceiving Discrimination: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in the Legal Workplace
• Russian Election Interference and Race-baiting
• Fake News and Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Minorities: A Precarious Quest for Truth
• Peña-Rodriguez V. Colorado: Carving out a Racial-bias Exception to the No-impeachment Rule
• Virtual Hatred: How Russia Tried to Start a Race War in the United States
• The Emergence of Racial Disparities in Capital Punishment in Jim Crow New Orleans
• The Diversity Imperative Revisited: Racial and Gender Inclusion in Clinical Law Faculty
• The Sixth Amendment Façade: The Racial Evolution of the Right to Counsel

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Reparations

•  Reparations and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

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White American

• A White Heteropatriarchal Property Right in Philandering, Sexual Exploitation, and Rape (The "WHP") or Johnny and the Whp
• Whiteness and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

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 Databases

Patrons who pledge $10 a month or more can select 1 article a month from a database to be abstracted. Please email Prof. Randall through Patreon.com

• 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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