Disability does not just involve specialized tools and trained disability professionals, but also the particular systems, items, people, environments, etc. that just so happen to meet our needs. This major swath of the disability experience is not accounted for within
This Article argues that the turn towards the privatization of public housing exacts tremendous costs on public housing tenants, social cohesion, and American democracy without equal, if any, benefits in return.
By granting OSHA direct authority to regulate line speeds, the federal government would be righting a century-old wrong in prioritizing food and consumer safety over the health and safety of workers. Further, the government could take even stronger steps to
Rent deposit requirements render the implied warranty of habitability a right without a remedy.
The logic of deterrence tells us that making life more difficult for migrants will directly reduce the number of people willing to attempt to cross the border, but these laws and policies do not have the effect politicians promise.
The age-old aspiration toward humanity in criminal justice may prove a stepping stone toward tackling the over-incarceration of minorities in modern Western democracies.
Many forces in this country have sought to erase trans people . . . We believe a similar erasure has occurred in the federal courts’ failure to uphold Farmer as a case that establishes a Bivens remedy for failure-to-protect claims.
It is our contention that the death penalty is a death threat, that living under the threat of death by execution is a case of torture, and that the death threat at the heart of the death penalty applies to
Participatory Law Scholarship is not a passing trend. PLS has now been institutionalized at one of the most reputable law journals in the United States.
"Together, we can ensure that PLS is not a fleeting experiment, but a lasting, transformative practice––worthy of the voices it seeks to elevate."
"Each of these language-related forces — individually or working in tandem — can produce the same result: a person is returned to a place where they face forms of harm that entitle them to protection under international and domestic legal
The United States devised the boarding school system to more easily dispossess Native groups of their land by severing their connection to people and place. Genuine healing calls for both the return of land and the restructuring of legal, governmental,
The group who had a head start without shackles would still have many advantages, and those advantages would not disappear or be remedied by simply pretending otherwise. That, however, is essentially what colorblindness necessitates. And it is absurd.