N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law (2020, LARB Books) - Professor Jody David Armour calls for bold action: electing progressive prosecutors, defunding or dismantling the police, and abolition of the prison industrial complex.
Democracy As A Slogan (2010, American Constitution Society) - Professor Franita Tolson discusses the sometimes fleeting commitment to democracy demonstrated by the U.S. throughout its history.
Congress Has Constitutional Power to Set National Police Conduct Standards (2020, Bloomberg Law) - Professor Rebecca Brown and Lecturer Omar Noureldin call for Congress to pass legislation creating federal oversight over local police.
A Grassroots History of Colorblind Conservative Constitutionalism (2019, Law & Social Inquiry) - Professor Ariela Gross argues that colorblind conservative constitutionalism has its roots not only in Supreme Court jurisprudence and the machinations of national political actors, but also in the deliberate campaigns of opponents of integration at the grassroots.
Where Bias Lives in the Criminal Law and its Processes: How Judges and Jurors Socially Construct Black Criminals (2018, American Journal of Criminal Law) - Professor Jody David Armour focuses on how flawed judgments about character contribute to fundamental problems in the American criminal justice system.
The Dynamics of Excessive Force (2016, University of Chicago Legal Forum) - Professor Daria Roithmayr argues that patterns of excessive force dynamically emerge from local interactions among individuals that aggregate to form more global patterns of escalation, contagion, and decay.
Nigga Theory: Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity in the Substantive Criminal Law (2014, Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law) - Professor Jody David Armour probes the intersection of morality, race, and class in matters of blame and punishment and politics.
Angela Harris and the Racial Politics of Masculinity (2014, California Law Review) - Professor Camille Gear Rich gives a new take on how race and gender intersect in policing cases, and how threats to masculinity drive police violence separate from racism and the ways racial identity issues intersect with race.
Inferred Classifications (2013, Virginia Law Review ) - Professor Stephen M. Rich discusses a fundamental problem in constitutional law: that equal protection doctrine commands strict scrutiny of all racial classifications but does not specify what constitutes a racial classification.
Race Ipsa Loquitur: Of Reasonable Racists, Intelligent Bayesians, and Involuntary Negrophobes (1994, Stanford Law Review) - Professor Jody David Armour explores some of the legal implications of the disturbing notion that, given the perception that blacks are more prone to commit violent acts than nonblacks, it is rational for criminal defendants claiming self-defense to consider race in assessing the risk of violence posed by a supposed assailant.
