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Violent Words: Strategies and Legal Impacts of White Supremacist Language
No full textThis Article traces the history of three terms in use by white supremacists in the United State within the last and current centuries: “race suicide,” “white genocide,” and “replacement.” It reviews the contexts that gave rise to their usage and analyzes the ways the terms have moved between fringe and mainstream political discourses. Each term, whether as “coded” (also known as “dog-whistle”) or overt expression, characterizes the temporal fears and concerns of the political far right. The Article observes and examines how and when the terms broke into the mainstream, and how they impact public discussion, including policy and law, on specific substantive areas such as abortion rights, immigration, miscegenation laws, laws governing free speech, and voting rights. The Article focuses mainly on the discursive impacts on immigration and inequality pursuant to the franchise. The analysis draws upon scholarly literature and popular journalism. There is value in grappling with the complex meanings and associations of words that at face value seem extreme, excessive, or outrageous, and might therefore be dismissed. This is because the words often hide the strategy of denial and obfuscation that may render them persuasive to a vulnerable and fearful populace in times of stress. Highlighting the hidden strategies, and narrowing the gap, so to speak, between the words and the violence they signify, may contribute to their disempowerment within legal and political discourse
Modernizing U.S. Tax Code Section 280E: How an Outdated “War on Drugs” Tax Law Is Failing the United States Legal Cannabis Industry and What Congress Can Do to Fix It
Get PDFFeminist Judgments: Rewritten Property Opinions
No full textHow could feminist perspectives and methods change the shape of property law? This volume assembles a group of diverse scholars to explore this question by presenting fundamental property law cases rewritten from a feminist perspective. The cases cover a broad range of property law topics, from landlord-tenant rights and obligations, patents, and zoning to publicity rights, land titles, concurrent ownership, and takings. These rewritten opinions and their accompanying commentaries demonstrate how incorporating feminist theories and methods could have made property law more just and equitable for women and marginalized groups. The book also shows how property law is not neutral but is shaped by the society that produces it and the judges who apply it. Contains both rewritten opinions and commentaries, helping readers learn to critically analyze cases Features diverse voices regarding race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status Demonstrates how feminist perspectives can enrich and deepen the process by which judicial decisions are madehttps://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty_books/1292/thumbnail.jp
