Law & Popular Culture

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Here Comes the Judge! Gender Distortion on TV Reality Court Shows, 39 University of Baltimore Law Forum 28 (2009)
 

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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...

 

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Outsider Citizens: Film Narratives about the Internment of Japanese Americans, 42 Suffolk University Law Review 769 (2009)

This article examines the conflicting film narratives about the internment from 1942 through 2007. It...

 

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Troubled Waters: Mid-Twentieth Century American Society on "Trial" in the Films of John Waters, 39 Stetson Law Review 153 (2009)

In this Article Professor Banks argues that what makes many of filmmaker John Waters early...

 

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What Documentary Films Teach Us About the Criminal Justice System - Introduction, 8 University of Maryland Law Journal on Race, Religion, Gender & Class 1 (2008)

Film . . . has been used effectively to shape public perceptions about the criminal...

 

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Screening Justice - The Cinema of Law: Significant Films of Law, Order and Social Justice (with Rennard Strickland and Teree Foster), Book Gallery (2006)

Screening Justice is designed to tell the complex story of law through an exploration of...

 

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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962): Lawyering in an Unjust Society, Screening Justice - The Cinema of Law: Films of Law, Order and Social Justice (2006)
 

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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...

 

Women and Feminism

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Thurgood Marshall, The Race Man, and Gender Equality in the Courts, 18 Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law 15 (2010)

Renowned civil rights advocate and race man Thurgood Marshall came of age as a lawyer...

 

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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,...

 

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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...

 

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Legal Challenges: State Intervention, Reproduction and HIV-infected Women, HIV, AIDS and Childbearing: Public Policy, Private Lives 143 (Ruth R. Faden & Nancy E. Kass, eds. (1996)
 

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Reproduction and Parenting, Aids Law Today: A New Guide for the Public (Burris et al., eds.). (1993)
 

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Toilets as a Feminist Issue: A True Story, 6 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 263 (1991)
 

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Gender Bias in the Classrom, 14 Southern Illinois Law Journal 527 (1990)
 

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Women and AIDS - Racism, Sexism, and Classism, 17 New York University Review of Law & Social Change 351 (1990)
 

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Gender Bias in the Classroom, All Faculty Publications (1988)
 

Race and Racial Formation

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Funding Race as Biology: The Relevance of "Race" in Medical Research, 12 Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology (2011)

Most scientists agree that race and ethnicity (ethno-race) classifications are the result of social and...

 

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Thurgood Marshall, The Race Man, and Gender Equality in the Courts, 18 Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law 15 (2010)

Renowned civil rights advocate and race man Thurgood Marshall came of age as a lawyer...

 

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Equality and Sorority during the Decade after Brown, Law Touched Our Hearts: a Generation Remembers Brown v. Board of Education. (2009)
 

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Multilayered Racism: Courts' Continued Resistance to Colorism Claims, Shades of difference: why skin color matters (2009)
 

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What Documentary Films Teach Us About the Criminal Justice System - Introduction, 8 University of Maryland Law Journal on Race, Religion, Gender & Class 1 (2008)

Film . . . has been used effectively to shape public perceptions about the criminal...

 

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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,...

 
The Black Side of the Mirror: The Black Body in the Workplace, Sister Circle: Black Women and Work (2002)
 

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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...

 

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Two Life Stories: Reflections of One Black Woman Law Professor, 6 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 46 (1990)
 

Civil Rights

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Black Pluralism in Post Loving America, Loving v. Virginia: Rethinking Race, Sex and Marriage in a "Post-Racial" World (2011)

The face of late twentieth and early twenty-first century America has changed, as have attitudes...

 

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Thurgood Marshall, The Race Man, and Gender Equality in the Courts, 18 Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law 15 (2010)

Renowned civil rights advocate and race man Thurgood Marshall came of age as a lawyer...

 

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A Few Random Thoughts About Socio-Economic "Rights" in the United States in Light of the 2008 Financial Meltdown, 24 Maryland Journal of International Law 163 (2009)

Socio-economic rights, first articulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) sixty years ago,...

 

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Equality and Sorority during the Decade after Brown, Law Touched Our Hearts: a Generation Remembers Brown v. Board of Education. (2009)
 

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Multilayered Racism: Courts' Continued Resistance to Colorism Claims, Shades of difference: why skin color matters (2009)
 

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Outsider Citizens: Film Narratives about the Internment of Japanese Americans, 42 Suffolk University Law Review 769 (2009)

This article examines the conflicting film narratives about the internment from 1942 through 2007. It...

 

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Troubled Waters: Mid-Twentieth Century American Society on "Trial" in the Films of John Waters, 39 Stetson Law Review 153 (2009)

In this Article Professor Banks argues that what makes many of filmmaker John Waters early...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 
The Black Side of the Mirror: The Black Body in the Workplace, Sister Circle: Black Women and Work (2002)
 

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Discretionary Justice and the Black Offender, Blacks and Criminal Justice (Bell & Owens, eds.) (1977)
 

Legal History

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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...

 

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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,...

 

Health Care and AIDS

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Legal Challenges: State Intervention, Reproduction and HIV-infected Women, HIV, AIDS and Childbearing: Public Policy, Private Lives 143 (Ruth R. Faden & Nancy E. Kass, eds. (1996)
 

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Reproduction and Parenting, Aids Law Today: A New Guide for the Public (Burris et al., eds.). (1993)
 

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Women and AIDS - Racism, Sexism, and Classism, 17 New York University Review of Law & Social Change 351 (1990)
 

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AIDS and Government: A Plan of Action, 87 Michigan Law Review 1321 (1989)
 

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AIDS and the Right to Health Care, 4 Issues in Law & Medicine 151 (1988)
 

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Rush to Judgment: HIV Test Reliability and Screening (with Roger R. McFadden), 23 Tulsa Law Journal 1 (1987)
 

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The Right to Medical Treatment, Aids and the Law (Dalton & Burris, eds.). (1987)
 

Constitutional Law

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Thurgood Marshall, The Race Man, and Gender Equality in the Courts, 18 Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law 15 (2010)

Renowned civil rights advocate and race man Thurgood Marshall came of age as a lawyer...

 

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A Few Random Thoughts About Socio-Economic "Rights" in the United States in Light of the 2008 Financial Meltdown, 24 Maryland Journal of International Law 163 (2009)

Socio-economic rights, first articulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) sixty years ago,...

 

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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...