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Roger Fairfax
Roger Fairfax analyzes LL Cool J’s 1990 song, “Illegal Search,” as a precursor to later hip-hop critiques of policing. This song represented LL Cool J’s awakening to social consciousness in the 1990s. “Illegal Search” represented helped advance a narrative about policing that remains prominent in hip-hop to this day. “Illegal Search” might have been overlooked completely since the only track to follow is “Power of God,” a low-energy, spiritual offering that, while delivering a positive message, is perhaps the least familiar of the fourteen cuts on the album.“Illegal Search” surveys a number of discrete topics, including racial profiling, the manufacture and planting of evidence, police brutality, incarceration, and even seems to reference a specific case of police misconduct in New Jersey. The lyrics display the angst experienced by many African Americans who are subjected to law enforcement scrutiny simply because of their skin color. “Illegal Search,” with its literal, unobscured narrative, gives descriptive voice to the phenomenon we would later term “Driving While Black.”
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Rebecca Hamilton
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Padideh Ala'i
with Katayoon Beshkardana
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Jonathan Baker
in David S. Evans, Allan Fels & Catherine Tucker, eds., The Evolution of Antitrust in the Digital Era: Essays on Competition Policy, 2021, vol. 2, pp. 11-19
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Susan Carle
This is the third volume in a trilogy on gender issues in legal occupations. An overview of Women in the World ’ s Legal Professions (Schultz and Shaw 2003) was followed by Gender and Judging (Schultz and Shaw 2013), finally to be completed by this study on women teachers of law. All three books have been published by Hart Publishing, to whom we are grateful for their unceasing support over so many years. Our thanks also go to the International Institute for the Sociology of Law for facilitating the inclusion of all three volumes in their O ñ ati Socio-Legal Series.
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Susan D. Carle
Article Abstract
The article explores the uses in anti-discrimination law of social neuroscience—a broad interdisciplinary field that draws on the insights of brain science, medicine, epidemiology, social psychology, behavioral economics, moral cognitive neuroscience and many other experimentally based disciplines. It discusses the promising uses of social neuroscience findings from all these subfields on such matters as the irrational biases of “fast” thinking processes in general, and implicit biases against “out” groups more specifically, as well as group conformity, the black sheep effect, and more. The article traces a few of the ways these insights can help inform anti-discrimination law in both particular cases and in reform of law-related policies, rules, structures and systems more generally. Social neuroscience, for example, exposes the typical fallacy of demanding proof of intentional discrimination in most cases, and exposes the problems in using other doctrines that make discrimination and retaliation claims unduly hard to prove. Social neuroscience findings about the social pain of exclusion and the ongoing physical and social harm of discrimination further show that the damages caused by illegal discrimination are far greater than the restitution courts typically impose on respondents. Finally, social neuroscience and other science-related disciplines, in consilience with political theory, philosophy, and legal history and theory, support the recognition of a broader human right to “act differently,” subject to the rights of others not to encounter harm.
Finally, this article examines the potential ethical pitfalls of using social neuroscience in the numerous ways proposed above. It concludes that neuroscience should not be used in individual cases to establish unconscious but “intentional” discrimination by particular individuals, and that social reform crusaders should be reflective about the potential irrationalities of their own biases and moral tastes as they go about attempting to transform law by drawing on their interpretations of brain-based science. Such reform campaigns will necessarily require invoking political process that depend on resorting to moral emotions, values, rhetoric, and potentially overly simplistic or reductionist glosses on more complex and qualified ideas. Thus even social crusaders who aim to make the world a better place must retain skepticism and an ethic of restraint in insisting on their viewpoints as to the arrangements that could leader to a more moral and less discriminatory world.
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Susan D. Carle
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Janie A. Chuang
Since the international community adopted the UN Trafficking Protocol nearly two decades ago, our approach to the problem of human trafficking has shifted significantly. With too few traffickers prosecuted and too few victims protected, there is growing recognition of the need for more robust efforts to prevent trafficking in the first instance. Trafficking is not simply the product of deviant, criminal behavior that once rooted out, can be easily eliminated. Also to blame are deeply embedded societal structures that facilitate, and even reward, exploitation – in particular, weak labor and migration frameworks that perpetuate precarity for migrant workers in their search for economic opportunities. Because worker exploitation and trafficking differ in degree, not in kind, addressing worker exploitation more broadly can help prevent the abuses from escalating into trafficking. This Chapter explores how emerging global governance over labor migration – with the recently-adopted UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration and the now-elevated role of the International Organization for Migration – could play a role in preventing human trafficking.
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Robert Dinerstein
For those seeking to understand the complexities of responding to digital accessibility legal issues, this digest is designed to be of use to newcomers to digital accessibility, as well as seasoned veterans of the field.
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Roger A. Fairfax
Chapter Abstract: The authority of the prosecutor to file charges is broad but not plenary. Legal systems create various mechanisms to test the quality of the evidence supporting the charges that the prosecutor files. This chapter describes and evaluates those mechanisms, including review of charges by judges, popular review of charges by grand juries and trial juries, and reconsideration of charges by prosecutors themselves. The intensity of the review of charges varies at different stages of the proceedings. The chapter compares the review available at the point of warranted arrest, warrantless arrest, grand jury, probable cause hearing, preliminary hearing, motion to dismiss, motion to suppress evidence, jury trial, bench trial, motion for judgment of acquittal, motion for new trial, appellate review of evidentiary sufficiency, and collateral proceedings.
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Christine Farley
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Christine Farley
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Jeffrey Lubbers
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Fernanda Nicola
Book Description: At the beginning of 2015, the Court of Justice opened its archives, which created a new and challenging primary source for those studying the Court of Justice: the dossiers de procédure which contain much more than the contemporary documents published by the Court. This volume includes five chapters which analyse the activities of the Court of Justice from a highly diverse range of non-doctrinal perspectives. However, they also highlight significant new developments at the Court itself which attract attention and deserve analysis. Thus, the idea behind this volume is to make available new tools and approaches through which the activities of the Court of Justice can be studied. It shows a more intense engagement with scholars across disciplines to reflect on law and courts, with the Court of Justice as a central focus, and new methods (such as network citation analysis) and sources (such as the Court's archives) being discovered and developed. It also shows a more intense and deeply knowledgeable engagement with EU law and the Court of Justice by non-legal scholars, such as the new sociologies and histories of the Court of Justice. These and other new approaches have spawned productive and ongoing conversations across disciplines.
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Ann Shalleck
This book examines the roles played by narrative and culture in the construction of legal cases and their resolution. It is articulated in two parts. Part I recalls epistemological turns in legal thinking as it moves from theory to practice in order to show how facts are constructed within the legal process. By combining interdisciplinary paradigms and methods, the work analyses the evolution of facts from their expression by the client to their translation within the lawyer-client relationship and the subsequent decision of the judge, focusing on the dynamic activity of narrative construction among the key actors: client, lawyer and judge. Part II expands the scientific framework toward a law-and-culture-oriented perspective, illustrating how legal stories come about in the fabric of the authentic dimensions of everyday life. The book stresses the capacity of laypeople, who in this activity are equated with clients, to shape the law, dealing not just with formal rules, but also with implicit or customary rules, in given contexts. By including the illustration of cases concerning vulnerable clients, it lays the foundations for developing a socio-clinical research programme, whose aims including enabling lay and expert actors to meet for the purposes of improving forms of collective narrations and generating more just legal systems.
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William Snape, Susan George, and Robert Fischman
The Endangered Species Act provides a comprehensive approach to the complex problem of species extinction. With chapters written by experienced ESA practitioners from a variety of professional backgrounds, this is an authoritative yet practical guide to the ESA, its most critical sections, the twists and turns of its implementation, and the cutting-edge issues facing the protection of endangered wildlife and its habitat.
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Jonathan Baker
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Jonathan Baker
This essay provides a perspective on the role of antitrust law in protecting and fostering competition in the digital economy, with particular attention to online platforms. It highlights the danger of anti-competitive exclusionary conduct by dominant online platforms and describes ways that antitrust law can challenge and deter such conduct. The essay also identifies a number of difficulties that U.S. courts and enforcers face in challenging harmful exclusionary conduct by dominant platforms, and discusses some ways regulation can supplement antitrust law in fostering competition.
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Jennifer Daskal
I. Health Surveillance: Defining the Categories A. Aggregate Level Analysis B. Individual Level Analysis 1. Contact-Tracing a. Government Monitoring b. Contract Tracing Apps 2. Quarantine Monitoring and Other Enforcement Mechanisms 3. Screenings II. Whether to Compel? A. The Legal Issues 1. The Fourth Amendment—A Limited Constraint 2. Special Needs Searches a. The Tailoring Question b. The Degree of Intrusion 3. Targeted Surveillance 4. Voluntary Data Disclosure Regimes III. The Policy Considerations Conclusion Notes & Questions
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Jennifer Daskal
Provides a framework to better understand Global Legal Pluralism and the current international state of law.
Equips practitioners, theorists, and students with deeper insights and analytical tools to describe the conflict among legal and quasi-legal systems.Analyzes global legal pluralism in light of legal theory, constitutionalism, conflict of laws, international law, commercial transactions, and as it affects indigenous polities, religious orders, and citizenship.
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N. Jeremi Duru
The Rooney Rule story teaches the importance of the opportunity to get into the proverbial room to make one’s case, but it also teaches the importance of creative approaches to encouraging equal opportunity. While a lawsuit can be a powerful tool in this realm, various circumstances may thwart its use. An employment discrimination claim for a head coach of a professional sports club presents a unique circumstance. The nature of the National Football League (NFL) coaching employment context rendered Title VII, the United States’ bell-weather employment discrimination statute, essentially inapplicable. Like Coca-Cola, the NFL was widely regarded as a conservative organization, and like Coca-Cola, the power positions in the NFL – including head coach – were overwhelmingly white. Mehri believed diverse candidate slates were well suited to the NFL context and anticipated they could assist in diversifying the NFL’s head coaching ranks just as they had diversified Coca-Cola’s executive ranks.
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Christine Farley
What public policy objectives are contained in the subject-matter limitations of US trademark law? This question has recently taken on a renewed interest for US legal scholars. The general public policies that animate trademark law – encouraging fair competition and protecting consumers from deceptive practices – can certainly be found in some of the doctrines that constrain trademark subject matter. Some of the specific constraints found in US law, however, do not align with these traditional trademark policy goals. These instances raise fascinating questions, such as what policy goals are being advanced in these provisions, and are these policy goals appropriate within trademark law. These are the questions that lie behind the currently live question of whether the government’s denial of registration based on justifications outside the heart of trademark law is a valid restriction on speech.
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Andrew Ferguson
This Chapter explores Fourth Amendment law and history through the lens of Xavier Cortada’s painting inspired by Florida v. Jardines. At its core, Jardines is a case about the future of Fourth Amendment interpretation and how different doctrinal theories should best protect an individual’s home from unreasonable searches and seizures. Written by Justice Antonin Scalia with his characteristic irreverence, flair, and self-confidence, Jardines is a case about fundamental questions of privacy and security that turns on the constitutional significance of a police dog sniffing outside your home.
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