In this paper, I examine the impact of the 2007 recession by gender, race, and class. My analysis shows the disparate impact of the recession on men, Hispanic/Latino Americans and African Americans and reflects the recession's successively greater impact upon each group with African Americans suffering the highest rates of unemployment. Further, it has been suggested that this recession will quite likely spell the end of middle class status for many Americans. I identify factors contributing to this gloomy assessment with particular attention to the economically embattled black middle class.
Supreme Court opinions involving race and the jury invariably open with the Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil Rights Act of 1875, or landmark cases like...
On January 1, 2022, the most radical change to the American jury in at least thirty-five years occurred in Arizona: peremptory strikes, long a feature...
Employment contract law is an antiquated, ill-fitting, incoherent mess. But no one seems inclined to fix this problem. Employment law scholars...
Courts routinely use low cash bail as a financial incentive to ensure that released defendants appear in court and abstain from crime. This can create...
The lawyer-client relationship is pivotal in providing access to courts. This paper presents results from a large-scale field experiment exploring how...
Originalism is becoming the coin of the realm at the conservative Supreme Court. Even newly appointed liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has drawn...
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez that our Constitution...
This lecture critiques Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and assesses its implications for liberty and equality. Dobbs’ immediate effect...
For two surreal days this week, I sat next to the family of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson during hearings on her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court...
For much of the twentieth century, the U.S. government authorized and invested heavily in segregation and racial inequality. Often it did so through...
In Common Cause v. Rucho, the Supreme Court initiated an era of redistricting without restraint. The Court opened the door to state legislatures to...
We evaluate the impacts of adopting algorithmic risk assessments as an aid to judicial discretion in felony sentencing. We find that judges' decisions...
Many jurisdictions determine real property taxes based on a combination of current market values and the recent history of market values, introducing...