Excerpt from The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy
Explaining a new concept of race and power, called political race, through the metaphor of a miner's canary. This concept links race with social movements.
The Review: Volume 27
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
Issue 4
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- Closing the Circle: Case v. Nebraska and the Future of Habeas Reform
- Is the Attorney General the Custodian of An Ins Detainee - Personal Jurisdiction and the Immediate Custodian Rule in Immigration-Related Habeas Actions
- Suspect Choices: Lineup Procedures and the Abdication of Judicial and Prosecutorial Responsibility for Improving the Criminal Justice System
- Understanding the Public Health Policies behind Ferguson
Issues 2 & 3
featuring
- Comparative Proportionality Reviews Reconceptualized: Categorizing Mitigation and Satisfying the Eighth Amendment in the Death Penalty
- Amici Curiae Brief of New York Law School Professors in People v. Harris: Constitutionality of the New York Death Penalty Statute under the State Constitution's Cruel and Unusual Punishments and Antidiscrimination Clauses
- When the State Is Silent: An Analysis of AEDPA's Adjudication Requirement
- Cruel and Unusual Punishment: A Reconsideration of the Lackey Claim
In Depth Reading
Volume 27 Issue 1
Political Race, Faith and the Democratic Process
Using the theories of political race to understand social movements, and how white organizers can and should defer to people of color within the movement.
Looking Forward: Forging the Path, Building the Movement
Roundtable discussion in the Symposium about the speaker's impressions and takeaways from the event (ways to work together and come together).
Books Not Bars: Confronting Criminal Justice Issues through Multiracial Action
Applying the theories of political race and the Miner's Canary to discuss prison reform and advocate for access to books for incarcerated youth.
Volume 27 Issue 4
Understanding the Public Health Policies behind Ferguson
The flaws of the public health system played a role in exacerbating legal issues of pregnant women being arrested in hospitals.
Suspect Choices: Lineup Procedures and the Abdication of Judicial and Prosecutorial Responsibility for Improving the Criminal Justice System
The Court and the prosecution in People v. Franco failed in improving criminal justice system by not adopting lineup reforms.
Closing the Circle: Case v. Nebraska and the Future of Habeas Reform
There needs to be effective state postconviction procedures; looks at Case v. Nebraska and builds upon that principle while offering further suggestions.
Is the Attorney General the Custodian of An Ins Detainee - Personal Jurisdiction and the Immediate Custodian Rule in Immigration-Related Habeas Actions
AG should be the custodian of immigrants in INS custody (not the warden), and habeas corpus actions should be directed at the AG as the appropriate respondent.
Volume 27 Issues 2 & 3
Comparative Proportionality Reviews Reconceptualized: Categorizing Mitigation and Satisfying the Eighth Amendment in the Death Penalty
Comparative proportionality review protects death penalty defendants' procedural rights and ensures fairness and compliance with the Eighth Amendment.
Cruel and Unusual Punishment: A Reconsideration of the Lackey Claim
Delays associated with capital punishment implicate constitutional issues; article explores a potential basis for it (i.e. Eighth Amendment, Sixth Amendment).
Unlimited Innocence: Recognizing an Actual Innocence Exception to AEDPA's Statute of Limitations
Is AEDPA's statute of limitations constitutional in barring habeas corpus petitions in situations where petitioners can make a "colorable showing" of innocence.
Greasing the Wheel: How the Criminal Justice System Hurts Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered People and Why Hate Crime Laws Won't Save Them
The death penalty is an issue that affects the LGBT community and that hate crime legislation is not helpful to advancing the interests of the community.