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Bernabe, Alberto

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Teaching at the Intersection of Torts, Race and Gender 
Alberto Bernabe 
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Alberto Bernabe*
Intersectionality: A Framework for Understanding Bias and Ourselves
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Do Black Lives Matter?: Race as a Measure of Injury in Tort Law,
Do Black Lives Matter?
Id. 
, Blackness as Fighting Words
Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History
See, e.g. From Words to Action: Behind the Implementation of Dickinson Law’s Race
and the Equal Protection of the Laws Course, 
From Words to Action
Id.
 Id. See also
Top Law School Will Make Race-Related Coursework Mandatory For Graduation
UCI Law adopts new race
course requirement
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From Words
to Action supra supra
see also
supra 
See ABA Mulls Racism, Bias Training Accreditation Requirement for
Law Schools
Id.
Id.
Id. See
A ‘Must-Have’ or ‘Forced Wokeness’?: Mixed Reaction to ABA’s Newly
Adopted Diversity Training Mandate for Law Students
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See  infra 
See
LGBTQ+ Rights, Anti-Homophobia and Tort Law Five Years After
Obergefell
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and
Violence Against Women of Color
Mapping the Margins , Intersectionality: A Framework for
Understanding Bias and Ourselves
What Is Intersectionality and Why Is It Important?
Critical race theory: What it is and what it isn’t, 
See 
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See
Race and Tort Law  in 
Ohio State Law Journal
Race and Tort Law
The Reasonable Woman: Has She Made a Difference?
Questioning the Use of Race-Specific and Gender-Specific
Economic Data in Tort Litigation: A Constitutional Argument
Questioning the Use of Economic Data
See
See also
What Is Critical Race Theory, and Why Is It Under Attack?
supra
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Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of
Antidiscrimination Doctrine Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics
Intersection of Race and Sex
See  supra See also, e.g.
supra supra 
See, e.g.
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See infra 
See also
 infra 
See, e.g. infra 
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See  infra 
See infra 
See Critical race theory turning school boards into GOP proving
grounds
Id.
See, e.g. Bill to curb racial teachings advances in North Carolina
Four States Have Placed Legal 
Limits on How Teachers Can Discuss Race. More May Follow
Critical race theory sparks activism
in students
supra supra 
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supra supra Bill to curb racial teachings
advances in North Carolina supra 
I’ve Been a Critical Race Theorist for 30 Years. Our Opponents Are Just
Proving Our Point For Us
See
Race and Tort Law
See also
The Predictable Backlash to Critical Race Theory: A Q&A With Kimberlé
Crenshaw
supra
Id.
supra
Id.
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Id. 
See infra 
See infra 
See Race and Tort Law supra
So What the Hell is Race Norming
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McMillan v. City of New York
The Problem with
Race and Tort Law supra
In one corner of
the law, minorities and women are often valued less
see 
Questioning the Use of Economic Data supra
Civil Rights in Ordinary Tort Cases: Race, Gender,
and the Calculation of Economic Loss
Civil Rights in Ordinary
Tort Cases
The Problem with Defining Tort Damages in Terms of Race and
Gender
Valuing Black and Female Lives: A Proposal for Incorporating Agency VSL Into Tort Damages
McMillan
 See
See, e.g.
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Defining Tort Damages in Terms of Race and Gender,
In one corner of the law, minorities and women are
often valued less
McMillan 
McMillan
supra 
supra
Id.
See also Civil Rights in Ordinary Tort Cases supra
 See McMillan
supra
McMillan
Id.
Id.
Id.
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McMillan
Id.
See Do Varying Legal
Definitions of Race Leave Room for Abuse?
Is Race a Social Invention? 
See also Rachel Dolezal’s
Unintended Gift to America
McMillan
Id.
Id.
Id.
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McMillan
McMillan see also, e.g.
McMillan
supra 
Id.
Id. NFL Considered Race in Paying Head Injury Claims: Lawsuit
Federal Judge Orders NFL and
Players to Mediation to Address Concern Over Racist Methodology When Calculating 
Compensation for Players
Retired Black players say NFL brain-injury payouts
show bias
Clinicians Fear
NFL’s concussion settlement program protocols discriminate against Black players
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Fisher v. Carrousel Motor Hotel, Inc
Fisher
supra 
supra
Id.
Id.
Id.
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Fisher
See generally Fisher
Id. 
Fisher
See, e.g.
Walker
See id. 
Id.
Turner
Id.
Modern Racism But Old-Fashioned IIED: How Incongruous
Injury Standards Deny “Thick Skin” Plaintiffs Redress for Racism and Ethnoviolence
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Fisher
See, e.g.
See also infra 
See 
See, e.g.
Fisher
The New Taboo: Quoting Epithets in the Classroom and Beyond
see also
The Controversy Over Quoting Racial Epithets, Now at UC Irvine School of Law
Alcorn, Taylor,
Contreras
Fisher
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Words That Wound: A Tort Action
for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name-calling,
Fisher
See Words That Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets,
and Name-calling Words That Wound
Banning
Words: A Comment on “Words That Wound”
Professor Delgado Replies see
Race and Tort Law supra 
Words Still Wound: IIED & Evolving
Attitudes Toward Racist Speech reviewed in
Torts That Heal Words That Wound
See also
See Words That Wound supra 
See supra 
see also supra 
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Gulf v. Luther
Luther
See supra See also id. and
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Id.
Id.
Id.
Luther
Id.
Id.
See Race and Tort Law supra
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See Gender Matters: Teaching a Reasonable Woman Standard in
Personal Injury Law Gender
Matters A Lawyer’s Primer on Feminist Theory and Tort
See Gender Matters supra 
Gaining Some Perspective in Tort Law: A New Take on Third-Party Criminal Attack Cases
Third-Party Criminal Attack
Cases
See Third-Party Criminal Attack Cases  supra 
See Gender Matters supra 
Id. See also Third-Party Criminal Attack Cases supra 
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Daniels v. Clegg
Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Hill
See, e.g. Gender Matters supra 
See supra 
Id.
See, e.g.
See generally Gender Matters  supra 
Id. Injured Women Before Common Law Courts, 1860–1930
Injured Women
Gender Matters supra 
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Ellison v. Brady
Ellison
Id.
See id. compare
with and
Injured Women  supra
Gender Matters  supra 
See 
Id.
See 
supra
Ellison
Id.
Id.
Id.
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Ellison
See, e.g. Feminist
Approaches to Tort Law
See supra A Break in the Silence:
Including Women’s Issues in a Torts Course
Essentialism, Empathy, and the Reasonable Woman
See id
The Reasonable
Black Person Standard in Criminal Law: Impartiality, Justice and The Social Sciences
The Reasonable Black Person Standard
. Id  See
also Striking a Sincere Balance: A Reasonable Black Person Standard for
“Location Plus Evasion” Terry Stops
See id.
Terry
See also The
Reasonable Black Child: Race, Adolescence, and the Fourth Amendment
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Vaughan v. Menlove
Ellison 
Daniels v. Clegg
Ellison v. Brady,
Ellison
See 
Id. 
, supra
Id.
Id.
Id. 
See Aggressive Encounters & White
Fragility: Deconstructing the Trope of the Angry Black Woman
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Stallman v. Youngquist,
in utero,
Stallman
Stallman
in utero 
Id. 
Id.
Id. 
Stallman
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Stallman
Stallman
Stallman
Id.
Id. 
Id. 
Stallman
Id. 
Cramblett Do Black Lives
Matter?  supra
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Cramblett
is
Id. 
 Id. 
Cramblett
Id. 
Id.
Id. 
See Cramblett
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Cramblett 
Compare 
with
Harnicher
Harnicher Andrews
Andrews
Id.
supra 
See also Do Black Lives Matter?  supra
Cramblett
See, e.g.
Do Black Lives Matter? supra
Today
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Bullock v. Tamiami Trails Tours,
Bullock
Id.. 
 Id.
Id. 
Id.
Id.
Bullock
Id. 
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Bullock
Bullock
Id. 
Id. 
Bullock
See also
Bullock
Bullock
Bullock
Id. 
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Bullock
How allowing civil lawsuits against bystander
Id. 
Id.
Bullock
Id.
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cops could change police culture
How allowing civil lawsuits against bystander cops could
change police culture
Id.
Id. See also 
supra 
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The Case For Racism Response Funds
Id.
Id.
The Case for Racism Response Funds
Id.
Id.
Id.
See supra 
Id.
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See id.


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