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Oct05

‘Litigating Implicit Bias’ Article by Eva Paterson in Latest Issue of Poverty & Race

Posted by Allison Elgart 1 Comment Tags: Allison Elgart, constitution, death penalty, discrimination, eva paterson, Intent Standard, Litigating Implicit Bias, Poverty & Race, Poverty & Race Research Action Council, PRRAC, racial bias, Washington v. Davis

“Litigating Implicit Bias,” an article by EJS President Eva Paterson, appears in the latest issue of Poverty & Race, a bi-monthly newsletter by the Poverty & Race Research Action Council. PRRAC is an organization that connects advocates with social scientists working on race and poverty issues and promotes a research-based advocacy strategy on structural inequality [...]

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Oct14

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Voter Disenfranchisement Law, Citing Lack of ‘Intentional’ Discrimination

Posted by Keith Kamisugi 2 Comments Tags: 14th Amendment, African American, Farrakhan v. Gregoire, Intent Doctrine, McCleskey v. Kemp, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, voting rights, Voting Rights Act, Washington State, Washington v. Davis

A recent decision by an eleven-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit underscores the importance of the Equal Justice Society’s efforts to overturn the Intent Doctrine. Earlier this year, the Equal Justice Society (EJS), the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, and the American Parole and Probation Association submitted an amicus [...]

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Oct04

Reggie Shuford Lecture on Implicit Bias and the Law at Berkeley Law’s Ruth Chance Mondays

Posted by Keith Kamisugi 0 Comments Tags: 14th Amendment, Atkins v. VA, Berkeley Law, Brown v. Board of Education, Chin v. Runnels, discrimination, Dukes v. Wal-Mart, Equal Protection Clause, Fourth Amendment, Graham v. Florida, Grutter v. Bollinger, Houston Plan, Intent Doctrine, Lawrence v. TX, McCleskey v. Kemp, Plessy v. Ferguson, Reggie Shuford, Roper v. Simmons, Ruth Chance Monday, section 1981, supreme court, Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, Title VI, unconscious bias, Washington v. Davis

Reggie Shuford, EJS Director of Law and Policy, was the guest lecturer today at Ruth Chance Monday, sponsored by Berkeley Law’s Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice. Joining theory and practice, Ruth Chance Mondays is a biweekly luncheon speakers series that brings prominent social justice practitioners to Boalt Hall to discuss current issues and [...]

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Apr06

Georgetown Law Journal to Publish Article by EJS Motley Fellow Brando Simeo Starkey on Need for Equal Protection Re-Invigoration

Posted by Keith Kamisugi 0 Comments Tags: 14th Amendment, affirmative action, Brando Simeo Starkey, Charles Lawrence, Equal Protection Clause, Fourteenth Amendment, Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives, Harvard Law Record, Harvard Law School, Inconsistent Originalism and the Need for Equal Protection Re-Invigoration, Institute for Law and Philosophy, Jamestown Project, John E. Cribbet Professor of Law and Philosophy, Judge Constance Baker Motley Fellow, Lawrence Solum, Legal Theory Blog, Originalists, Plessy v. Ferguson, The Id The Ego and Equal Protection, unconscious bias, University of Chicago School of Law, Washington v. Davis

An upcoming issue of the Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives will include the article “Inconsistent Originalism and the Need for Equal Protection Re-Invigoration” by Brando Simeo Starkey, the Equal Justice Society Judge Constance Baker Motley Fellow. The article can be downloaded here. After Washington v. Davis, the Equal Protection Clause, as [...]

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Jun19

Dying While Black: An Examination of Race and the California Death Penalty

Posted by Keith Kamisugi 3 Comments Tags: Claire Cooper, death penalty, discrimination, Intent Doctrine, Washington v. Davis

Photo by nodeathpenalty.org The foundation of the Equal Justice Society is based on the premise that racial justice cannot be achieved when the law fails to reflect actual experience. Under existing equal protection law, the constricted “Intent Doctrine” (as established in the 1976 United States Supreme Court decision Washington v. Davis) ignores much of what [...]

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Posts Tagged ‘Washington v. Davis’

‘Litigating Implicit Bias’ Article by Eva Paterson in Latest Issue of Poverty & Race

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Voter Disenfranchisement Law, Citing Lack of ‘Intentional’ Discrimination

Georgetown Law Journal to Publish Article by EJS Motley Fellow Brando Simeo Starkey on Need for Equal Protection Re-Invigoration

Dying While Black: An Examination of Race and the California Death Penalty

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