Abstract The disestablishment of religion, also commonly referred to as the separation of church and state or separation of religion and government, has been a salutary constitutional principle in the United States. The diminishment of the disestablishment of religion by the U.S. Supreme Court and accelerated superordination of (conservative) Christianity—like so much of the output of the Supreme...
Episode 9.3 - Shielding the Police with Joanna Schwartz
In this episode we are joined by Joanna Schwartz, Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law to discuss her book Shielded, which explores the various ways in which the police are protected from accountability for misconduct.
When Disciplines Disagree: The Admissibility of Computer-Generated Forensic Evidence in the Criminal Justice System
Abstract Criminal trials increasingly rely on computer programs to generate forensic evidence. But experts in the fields of computer science and forensic science often disagree over whether programs are sufficiently trustworthy to meet the legal admissibility standards for scientific evidence. When adjudicating between these disciplines, courts overwhelmingly side with forensic experts—even when...
Eliminating Racial Assault of Black Bodies in Law School
Abstract The failure of the legal academy to create professional law school environments embracing the tenets of Critical Race Theory (CRT) sustains racial assault on Black Bodies. Embracing the tenets of CRT can help to improve law school environments, because CRT examines systemic racism and causes individuals to rethink policies and procedures with an antiracist mindset. Further, law school is...
Exiting the American Dream
Abstract Exit planning among U.S. citizens is on the rise. A confluence of worrisome domestic conditions— including societal violence, the curtailment of individual rights, and creeping authoritarianism— has prompted U.S. citizens to contemplate and plan for a possible departure from the country. Among the more popular exit pathways, particularly for minorities in the United States who have...
Abortion Costs and the Language of Torture
Abstract Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org., several states imposed significant restrictions on abortion. Some of these states established medical exceptions that would allow a woman or any other pregnant person to receive an abortion only if they face “a life-threatening physical condition aggravated by, caused by, or arising from a pregnancy that...
Episode 9.2 - Reproducing Inequality with Thalia González & Paige Joki
In this episode, we are joined by Professor Thalia González of UC San Francisco School of Law and Paige Joki, staff attorney at the Education Law Center, to discuss their recently published article "Reproducing Inequality: Racial Capitalism and the Cost of Public Education".
Dialectic UCLA Law Review · Reproducing Inequality with Thalia González & Paige Joki
Silencing the Sex Worker
Abstract This Article argues that sex workers are silenced when they attempt to contribute to lawmaking processes. As a result, they are unable to contribute their knowledge in a meaningful way. The consequence is that laws reflect only one perspective of life in the sex trades: the prostitution abolitionist position that all sex work is inherently a form of violence against women. Without the...