Civil Rights
Balancing Competing Individual Constitutional Rights: Raising Some Questions, Law and Rights: Global Perspectives on Constitutionalism and Governance (2008)
Despite increasing support for global human rights ..., some scholars and constitutional democracies, like the...
Trampling Whose Rights? Democratic Majority Rule and Racial Minorities: A Response to Chin and Wagner, 43 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Review 127 (2008)
Gabriel Chin and Randy Wagner argue us that there were black majorities and pluralities in...
Brown at 50: Reconstructing Brown's Promise, 44 Washburn Law Journal 31 (2005)
Today the measure of equal education for black children often is the racial composition of...
What is a Community? Group Rights and the Constitution: The Special Case of African Americans, 1 MARGINS 51 (2001)
Contested Terrains of Compensation: Equality, Affirmative Action and Diversity in the United States, 15 Law In Context 110 (1997)
Health Care and AIDS
Rush to Judgment: HIV Test Reliability and Screening (with Roger R. McFadden), 23 Tulsa Law Journal 1 (1987)
Law & Popular Culture
Judging the Judges - Daytime Television's Integrated Reality Court Bench, Lawyers in Your Living Room: Law on Television (2009)
Critics of reality daytime television court shows remain divided over whether the possible educational benefits...
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962): Lawyering in an Unjust Society, Screening Justice - The Cinema of Law: Films of Law, Order and Social Justice (2006)
Both Edges of the Margin: Blacks and Asians in Mississippi Masala, Barriers to Coalition Building, 5 Asian Law Journal 7 (1998)
Asians often take a middle position between White privilege and Black subordination and therefore participate...
Legal History
Dangerous Woman: Elizabeth Key's Freedom Suit - Subjecthood and Racialized Identity in Seventheenth Century Colonial Virginia, 41 Akron Law Review 799 (2008)
Elizabeth Key, an African-Anglo woman living in seventeenth century colonial Virginia sued for her freedom...
Setting the Record Straight: Maryland's First Black Women Law Graduates, 63 Maryland Law Review 752 (2004)
Race and Racial Formation
Mestizaje and the Mexican Mestizo Self: No hay Sangre Negra, so there is no Blackness, 15 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 199 (2006)
Many legal scholars who write about Mexican mestizaje omit references to Afromexicans, Mexico’s African roots,...
Exploring White Resistance to Racial Reconciliation in the United States, 55 Rutgers Law Review 903 (2003)
The Black Side of the Mirror: The Black Body in the Workplace, Sister Circle: Black Women Represent Work (Sharon Harley, ed.) (2002)
Colorism: A Darker Shade of Pale, 47 U.C.L.A. Law Review 1705 (2000)
In this article, Professor Banks argues that colorism, skin tone discrimination against dark-skinned but not...
Women and Feminism
Lawrence Summers at the NBER Conference: The Real Deal, 11 Cardozo Women's Law Journal 501 (2005)
This mini commentary is written in response to a public speech made by Lawrence Summers,...
Two "Colored" Women's Conversation about the Relevance of Feminist Law Journals in the Twenty-first Century (with Penelope Andrews), 2 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 498 (2003)
This is a critique by two non-white law professors in the form of a conversation...