Law Meets World

Law Meets World is a UCLA Law Review online project that features series of essays on today's most pressing problems at the intersection of law and society. It illustrates the concrete ways in which the law operates in people's lives and communities. It aims to center voices that are marginalized in legal discourse while addressing issues of systemic inequity. It is a platform for lawyers and nonlawyers alike to engage in dialogue in search of solutions to these problems.

Critical Race Theory in Practice

March 2022

• The Mandate for Critical Race Theory in This Time

• Whiteness as Guilt: Attacking Critical Race Theory to Redeem the Racial Contract

• Professionalism as Racial Construct

• Critical Race Theory: Another Casualty in the Attack on Facts

• Protect Black Girls

• Yes, Critical Race Theory Should Be Taught in Your School: Undoing Racism in K-12 Schooling and Classrooms Through CRT

• Connecting Race and Empire: What Critical Race Theory Offers Outside the U.S. Legal Context

• Critical Race Theory: Inside and Beyond the Ivory Tower

Special Issue: Jailhouse Lawyering

May 2021

• Broken Systems: Function by Design

• Barriers to Jailhouse Lawyering

• Applying for Compassionate Release as a Pro Se Litigant

• Insurgent Knowledge: Battling CDCR From Inside the System. The Story of the Essential Collaboration Between Jailhouse Lawyers and Appointed Counsel & Lessons for Resentencing Today

• Bound by Law, Freed by Solidarity: Navigating California Prisons and Universities as a Jailhouse Lawyer

• What You Didn’t Know About Adelanto Immigration Detention Center

• Challenging Gladiator Fights in the CDCR

• To Act Like a Democracy

• Jailhouse Lawyering From the Beginning

• Making Bricks Without Straw: Legal Training for Female Jailhouse Lawyers in the Louisiana Penal System

• An Old Lawyer Learns New Tricks: A Memoir

Special Issue: Law Meets World Vol. 68

August 2020

• Law Meets World Introduction

• Ensuring Equal Access to the Mail-In Ballot Box

• Letter From The Asian/Pacific Islander Law Students Association Regarding Stephen Bainbridge

• Movement And Crisis: A Social Health Manifesto

• Abolitionist Reforms and the Immigrants' Rights Movement

• Reproducing Equality: How Covid-19 Can Strengthen Abortion Rights

• Making Unemployment Insurance Work For Working People

• Deliberate Endangerment: Detention Of Noncitizens During The COVID-19 Pandemic

• Mental Health And Homelessness In The Wake Of Covid-19: The Path To Supportive And Affordable Housing

• Reentering During a Pandemic

• Utopía Del Lekil Kushlejal (Vida Plena)

• Staying Healthy In A Pandemic: How The COVID-19 Emergency Has Strengthened Barriers To Healthcare For California’s Vulnerable Populations

• From Commodities To Communities: Reimagining Housing After The Pandemic

• 1200 Dollars And A Mule: COVID-19, The CARES Act, And Reparations For Slavery

Indigenous Peoples, Sustainability, and Climate Change

March 2020

• Unmasking Western Science: Challenging the Army Corps of Engineer’s Rejection of the Isle de Jean Charles Tribal Environmental Knowledge under APA Arbitrary and Capricious Review

• Kānāwai: Using Ancient Hawaiian Law to Prepare for the Future

• Sacchi v. Argentina: Fighting for Indigenous Children’s Climate Rights

• Conservation, Co-Management, and Power-Balancing in Haida Gwaii

• Sikh Sovereignty as Food Sovereignty: Toward a Sikh Jurisprudence to Fight Climate Change in Punjab

Education, Labor & Law: The Teacher Strikes in Los Angeles and Across the U.S.

October 2019

• Student-Centered and Community-Supported Demands: The Key to Successful #RedforEd Strikes in Los Angeles and Nationwide

• We’ll Walk the Line: A Teacher’s Reflections on the 2019 UTLA Strike

• Effective Discipline: Bringing Classroom Strategies to a State Constitutional Crisis

• Rez For Ed, Teacher Walk-Outs on Arizona Tribal Reservations

• Oklahoma Teacher Walkout: What We Can Do Different Next Time

• A Human and Constitutional Right to a Quality Public Education: Looking ahead in the Struggle for the Rights of Teachers, Parents, and Students

• Los Angeles Teachers Strike to Defend Public Schools from the Privatizers

• How Teacher Strikes in Other States Help California Unions Make Their Case

Emerging Digital Technology and the Law

February 2019

• Emerging Digital Technology and the "Law of the Horse"

• Blockchain-based Digital Assets and the Case for Revisiting Copyright’s First Sale Doctrine

• Blockchain Technology and the Government: Dealing With the Threat of Data Manipulation and Increasing Records Longevity

• Injustice Ex Machina: Predictive Algorithms in Criminal Sentencing

• Destination Unknown: The Perilous Future of Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence Technologies Under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018

Disability: Conversations at the Margins

February 2019

• Sexual Violence, Disability, and Empowerment: The Attorney’s Role

• Mental Disability, Exceptional Abortion, and the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act

• A Critical Race and Disability Legal Studies Approach to Immigration Law and Policy

Gentrification, Displacement, and Dispossession

October 2018

• Dispatches from the Other Side of Development

• Living Poor in the Affluent City

• Los Angeles, Displacement, and the Rise of Airbnb

• Losing Historic Filipinotown

• Dialectic Episode: Reclaiming Land Use Law: Using People Power to Guide Development

• Protecting Mobile Homes as Affordable Housing

• The Limits of Land Reform: A Comment on Community Land Trusts

• Public Land for Public Good: How Community Groups Are Influencing the Disposition of Public Land to Help Address the Affordable Housing Crisis

• Local Control of Land and Water Resources: Rethinking California’s Eminent Domain Standard

• From Chavez Ravine to Inglewood: How Stadiums Facilitate Displacement in Los Angeles

• We Shall Not Be Moved: Practitioners' Perspectives on Law and Organizing in Response to California's Housing Crisis

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