By Sarah Dávila-Ruhaak Sarah Dávila-Ruhaak is the director of the International Human Rights Clinic at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois. She wants to thank Alexis Andersen, Research Assistant for the International Human Rights Clinic at The John Marshall Law School for her invaluable research and edits. In response to the atrocities of […]
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An Algorithm for Capturing White Heteropatriarchy: The Parable of the Woman Caught in Adultery
By Blanche Cook Blanche Cook is an Assistant Professor of Law at Wayne State University School of Law. She was Assistant United States Attorney, 2005–2014, United States Department of Justice. This article is aadapted from her TED Talk, entitled “Caught: Calculating the Moves of Power in Our Midst.” She says, “A special thanks to my […]
Will Koreans Count This Time?
By William S. Geimer A number of important matters are being ignored in the latest furor over North Korea. One of the most consequential is the fact that the U.S. created North Korea and South Korea, and then rejected the only democratic option for unification. This, as we will see, was accomplished in flagrant disregard […]
Stingrays
By Joshua Dansby Joshua W. Dansby is a recent graduate of The George Washington University Law School and a member of the Washington State Bar. Joshua serves as a board member in a nonprofit and is currently a Charles F.C. Ruff Fellow at the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia. Introduction […]
From Dog-Whistle to Megaphone: The Trump Regime’s Cynical Assault on Affirmative Action
By Mark S. Brodin Mark S. Brodin is a professor and Michael & Helen Lee Distinguished Scholar at Boston College Law School. His earlier writing on this topic includes The Fraudulent Case Against Affirmative Action—The Untold Story Behind Fisher v. University of Texas, 62 Buffalo Law Rev. 237 (2014) and The Slow Demise of Race […]
Editor’s Preface: Summer 2017
By Nathan Goetting, Editor-in-Chief Right-wing pushback against the gains of the civil rights movement has always been powerful, but with the ascension of Donald Trump to the presidency, it has become unprecedentedly aggressive and malicious. White supremacists have been emboldened by this president. Near the top of his administration’s target list of civil rights reversals […]
We’ve Been Here Before: Countering Violent Extremism through Community Policing
By Cynthia Gonzalez Cynthia Gonzalez is a 2017 graduate of Boston College Law School. In the past, our courts have decided that African-Americans have no rights the white man is bound to respect,1 separate but equal is appropriate under the federal Constitution,2 it is criminal to speak against our military’s involvement in a war,3 and […]
Betsy DeVos and the Voucher Vision of Education
By Brett DeGroff Brett DeGroff is an Assistant Defender with the Michigan State Appellate Defender Office. He is a former Manging Editor of National Lawyers Guild Review. Betsy DeVos’s appointment as United States Secretary of Education might be the best thing to happen to public education in decades. Which is not to say DeVos herself […]
Sessions’ Reversal of the Private Prison Phase-Out
By Laura Riley Laura Riley is a Lecturer-in-Law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, Los Angeles, California. “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky No more than a month after President Donald J. Trump came into office, his newly appointed Attorney […]
James Mattis: Trump’s Military Decider
By Marjorie Cohn Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, past president of the National Lawyers Guild and deputy secretary general of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers. Her most recent book is Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues. Visit her at marjoriecohn.com. “‘Mad Dog’ Mattis ‘Closest Thing We […]