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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- Suspect Choices: Lineup Procedures and the Abdication of Judicial and Prosecutorial Responsibility for Improving the Criminal Justice System
- Closing the Circle: Case v. Nebraska and the Future of Habeas Reform
- Understanding the Public Health Policies behind Ferguson
- Is the Attorney General the Custodian of An Ins Detainee - Personal Jurisdiction and the Immediate Custodian Rule in Immigration-Related Habeas Actions
Issues 2 & 3
featuring
- Greasing the Wheel: How the Criminal Justice System Hurts Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered People and Why Hate Crime Laws Won't Save Them
- When the State Is Silent: An Analysis of AEDPA's Adjudication Requirement
- Cruel and Unusual Punishment: A Reconsideration of the Lackey Claim
- Capital Punishment as Closure: The Limits of a Victim-Centered Jurisprudence
In Depth Reading
Volume 27 Issue 1
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).
Divide and Conquer: The Challenges of Multiracial Politics
Applying the theories of political race and the Miner's Canary to discuss anti-Asian policies and sentiments in the USA.
A Performative Critique of Democracy
A poem from the Blackout Arts Collective, exploring themes of movement-building through poetry.
Volume 27 Issue 4
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.
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.
Volume 27 Issues 2 & 3
Capital Punishment as Closure: The Limits of a Victim-Centered Jurisprudence
The concept of closure and how it relates to incarcerated individuals, victims, and how it cannot be used to justify the death penalty.
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.
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
Amici are teachers in New York law schools who have studied the operation of the death penalty for the purpose of teaching the subject, writing about it in scholarly journals, or representing persons accused or convicted of capital crimes. Most
When the State Is Silent: An Analysis of AEDPA's Adjudication Requirement
Analyzing AEDPA and arguing that perfunctory state opinions in habeas corpus cases should be reviewed de novo rather than deferring to state courts.