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Professor Omar Saleem
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LEROY PERNELL & OMAR SALEEM, CASES AND MATERIALS ON COMBATING RACISM IN CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (2021).https://commons.law.famu.edu/homepage-images/1012/thumbnail.jp
Professor Patricia Broussard
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Patricia A. Broussard, Cheryl T. Page & Angela Downes, Damn It! A Conversation on Being Black, Female, and Marginalized during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Is the World Listening? A Conversation between Black Female Law Professors, 12 ALA. C.R. & C.L.L. REV. 1 (2020).https://commons.law.famu.edu/homepage-images/1006/thumbnail.jp
More Money, More Problems: Why H.R. 1318 is an Insufficient Fix to Remedy the Maternal Mortality Crisis
Full text linkBetween 1990 and 2013 maternal mortality has nearly doubled in the United States as opposed to other countries.6 Per every 100,000 live births, there are 26.4 deaths in the United States. In fact, the United States has the highest rate of maternal mortality in the industrialized world. Unfortunately, maternal mortality did not become a political issue until public figures, like Beyonc´e and Serena Williams, began speaking out about near-death experiences while giving birth. For example, T.V. phenomenon Judge Glenda Hatchett’s daughter-in-law, Kira Johnson, died due to pregnancy-related complications in 2016. Stories like Beyonc´e’s, Serena Williams, and Kira Johnson caused a public outcry. Consequently, two years after Kira Johnson’s death and a year after Serena William’s near-death experience, Congress passed H.R. 1318, The Preventing Maternal Deaths Act (“H.R. 1318”). Congress’s intent in passing H.R. 1318 was to address the increase in maternal-related deaths by providing funding for state research. However, H.R. 1318 is insufficient as it provides no actual remedy for aggrieved families nor does it provide plaintiffs with standing to sue in the event a state fails to follow the protocols set place in the Act
Bias and Sexism: The Racial and Gender Wage Gap Affecting Black Women
Full text linkThe objective of this Article is to address the racial wage gap between Black and White women and provide a solution. Part I of this Article will discuss the history of Black women and White women in the workforce. Part II will discuss the gender wage gap as it applies to Black and White women in the 21st century. Part III will discuss how Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Pay Act has failed to address the gender and race issues that Black women face when it comes to work wages. Part IV will discuss the reasons that studies and scholars have given for the wage gap. Part V discusses the benefits and costs of mandatory wage disclosure as well as Washington’s Equal Pay and Opportunities Act. Part VI discusses the benefits of allowing Black women to sue based on their gender and race. Finally, Part VII concludes that the Federal Government should be more assertive in applying anti-discrimination laws by adopting a uniform mandatory wage disclosure law like Washington’s Equal Pay and Opportunities Act and allowing Black women to sue based on their gender and race
Off-White: Al-Khazraji and Shaare Tefila\u27s Potential to De-Essentialize Antidiscrimination Law
Full text linkThe figure of the Arab Jew has historically occupied a space at the margins of Jewish life, rendered peripheral or even invisible by a lens trained on the experiences of Jews of European descent. Drawing in part from the academic lineage of Kimberl´e Kimberle Crenshaw’s theory of intersectionality, American Jews of Arab and Middle Eastern descent (“Mizrahi Jews”) are increasingly joining their Israeli counterparts and Jews of color in the United States in challenging the naturalization of Jewish whiteness in the popular imagination. In a striking parallel between this groundswell of community theorizing and legal strategy, the Supreme Court in 1987 decided as companion cases Saint Francis College v. Al-Khazraji and Shaare Tefila Congregation v. Cobb, which held that Arab and Jewish plaintiffs can bring race discrimination claims under the Civil Rights Act of 1866 despite both groups’ contemporary status as “Caucasian.” Al-Khazraji and Shaare Tefila, seminal cases in the judicial construction of race in the United States, present a singular opportunity for an intersectional critique of the law’s role in constructing Jewish and Arab identities specifically, as well as the implications of this construction for race discrimination jurisprudence generally. In this Article, I argue that the act of reading these companion cases as a synthesis, rather than discrete cases asking similar questions—an intersection, rather than parallel axes—and centering the figure of the Arab Jew reveals the cases’ potential to unsettle racial essentialism by way of an intersectional critique of juridical whiteness
Professor Maritza Reyes
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Maritza I. Reyes, Professional Women Subjugated by Name-Calling and Character Attacks, 23 J. GENDER RACE & JUST. 397 (2020).
Maritza I Reyes, RBG: The Power of Dissent and Telling Her Story, Feminist Law Professors Blog (2020).
Maritza I. Reyes, Lesson in Public Advocacy and Self-Defense: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Responded to Representative Ted Yoho\u27s Reported F*ckng B*tch and Other Sexist Epithets, Feminist Law Professors Blog (2020).
Maritza I. Reyes, DREAMers Versus the Labels Used in Government Documents and Judicial Opinions in Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California, ImmigrationProf Blog, Law Professor Blogs Network (2020).
Maritza I. Reyes, The Female Body in the Workplace: Judges and the Common Law, 114 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 177 (2019).
Maritza I. Reyes, Congress Did Not Give the President Unfettered Discretion to Exclude, ImmigrationProf Blog (2017).
Maritza I. Reyes, The Fifth Circuit in Texas v. United States Chose and Advocated the Term Illegal Alien , ImmigratonProf Blog (2015).
Maritza I. Reyes, Professional Women: Silenced by Men-Made Norms, 47 Akron L. Rev. 896 (2015).
Maritza I. Reyes, In Memory of Julie Chek, 10 Fla. A&M U. L. Rev. (2014).
Maritza I. Reyes, Opening Borders: African Americans and Latinos through the Lens of Immigration, 17 Harvard Latino Law Review 1 (2014).
Maritza I. Reyes et al., Reflections on Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia Symposium—The Plenary Panel, 29 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 14 (2014).
Maritza I. Reyes, A Latina Law Professor\u27s Personal Perspective after the Zimmerman Trial Verdict, ImmigrationProf Blog (2013).
Maritza I. Reyes, Moncrieffe: Lessons in Crimmigration Law, Immigration Prof Blog (2013).
Maritza I. Reyes, Constitutionalizing Immigration Law: The Vital Role of Judicial Discretion in the Removal of Lawful Permanent Residents, 84 Temp. L. Rev. 637 (2011).
Maritza I. Reyes, The Latino Lawful Permanent Resident Removal Cases: A Case Study of Nicaragua and a Call for Fairness and Responsibility in the Administration of US Immigration Law, 11 Harvard Latino Law Review 280 (2008).https://commons.law.famu.edu/homepage-images/1011/thumbnail.jp
Must American Artists Starve?
Full text linkThis legal essay proposes a solution to the problem of artist and publisher compensation as deprived by MMA and discusses the realities and limitations of pursuing a Takings Clause violation under the Fifth Amendment. It further proposes a modern perspective on copyrighted works as property to lay the intellectual foundation for copyright reform and offers that the “best efforts” standard should replace the “commercially reasonable efforts” standard since modernizing copyright law is essential to the music industry. Lastly, the author suggests a practical approach to pursuing a Due Process claim under the Fifth Amendment
2022 Hooding Ceremony Program
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Signed, Sealed, Delivered? Problems with the Use of Signature Matching to Verify Mail Voter Identity
Full text linkDuring the 2020 election, the basic struggle to balance ballot access and election integrity played out in a more public fashion than at any time in recent memory. This begs several important questions. First, how did the American election system get to this point? The legal standards governing election law have long been debated and that uncertainty unleashed a flood of litigation in 2020. Second, why use signature matching—a practice which is methodologically unsound and steadily falling out of use—at all? The use of handwritten signatures to verify identity rather than to evidence attestation is on the decline in other areas of the law. Third, how should the voting system grapple with the problem of bad faith? The bad faith legal challenges following the 2020 election revealed the enduring artifice of voter fraud claims for what they were: a transparent attempt at voter suppression. Lastly, where does the law go from here
Vulnerable Populations: Climate Change and Extreme Weather Threats Facing Urban Communities
Full text linkThis article explores increasing extreme weather threats facing American cities due to global climate change, including hurricanes, floods, heat waves, and wildfires. After explanation of such threats, the paper delves into case studies of the response and resiliency measures being undertaken by three preeminent coastal American cities to prepare for weather disasters: New York, Miami, and San Francisco. The paper concludes by providing guidance and recommendations for urban policymakers seeking to develop resiliency measures in the face of long-term effects and short-term emergencies created by climate and weather extremes. Such recommendations include how to initiate and fund development of climate resiliency measures as well as examples and best practices for developing resiliency and mitigation tools for different extreme weather threat