September 9, 2020
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” — Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail Today our nation is confronting longstanding educational opportunity and achievement gaps as a global pandemic…
September 1, 2020
A Single Submission of Electoral Votes from a State The Twelfth Amendment is dangerously ambiguous. All it says on point is: “The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted.” It does not say what to do…
August 30, 2020
Introduction: The Attack on Vote-By-Mail President Trump’s hostility to vote-by-mail is intensifying. In a Politico interview on June 18, he said his “biggest risk” of losing the election would be his failure to stop widespread use of mailed ballots. The next day, Attorney General Barr echoed the theme in a Fox Business interview: “But when…
August 28, 2020
It is a high honor to be asked to write a few words about Derrick Bell, a true hero and a giant of the legal profession. The relevance of his theories have endured. Those theories include his theory of interest convergence and Brown v. Board of Education, which has gained new traction amidst debates over…
August 24, 2020
Nothing about this moment — COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on Black people, Trump’s explicit anti-Black racism, or the mass demonstrations following lethal police use of force against Black people — would have surprised Professor Derrick Bell. These fault lines are not new; rather, these events merely expose longstanding structural damage to the nation’s foundation. A central…
August 18, 2020
I have lost count of how many times I’ve read Whiteness as Property, taught it, and drawn upon its insights in my own work. I can say that the first few times I read it, so long ago now, I read it too quickly, filled as I was with the anticipation, excitement even, of finding…
Justin Hansford, District of Columbia, is a professor of Law and executive director of the new Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center. Professor Hansford was previously a Democracy Project Fellow at…
Neil Weare is President and Founder of Equally American, a non-profit organization committed to achieving equal rights for the nearly 4 million Americans living in U.S. territories. Raised in the…
Richard Primus is the Theodore J. St. Antoine Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where he teaches the law, theory, and history of the U.S.…
