ABSTRACT Is summary judgment constitutional? Scholars have passionately debated the question in recent years. But they have made an important oversight. Ironically, the issue surrounding summary judgment’s constitutionality that is the most important—whether it violates state constitutions— has received the least scholarly attention. This Article is the first to consider whether summary judgment...
The End of Deportation
ABSTRACT This Article introduces to legal scholarship a new horizon for pro-immigrant scholarship and advocacy: deportation abolition. The ever-present threat of deportation shapes the daily lives of noncitizens. Instead of aiming for a pathway to citizenship, most noncitizens must now contend with dodging the many pathways to banishment. Despite growing threats to immigrant survival, most pro...
“Settling” Brown’s Promise: Seeking More Equal Access to Quality Education Through Settlement
Abstract Education is universally acknowledged as fundamentally important. Yet, education advocates have long struggled to bring about effective school reform through both legislative and judicial avenues for a myriad of reasons including budgetary constraints, a lack of consensus regarding what reforms are most effective, and racist perceptions of reform. In recent years, school reform...
Season 6, Episode 3: Exposing Deputy Gangs with Cerise Castle
Dialectic UCLA Law Review · Season 6, Episode 3: Exposing Deputy Gangs with Cerise Castle We spoke with journalist Cerise Castle about telling stories that law enforcement doesn't want to be told.
Coroporate Accountability and Worker Empowerment
Book Review An Equal Place: Lawyers in the Struggle for Los Angeles. By Scott Cummings. Oxford University Press. 2020. Pp. ix, 688. Introduction Scott Cummings’s An Equal Place is a monumental rendition of the history of Los Angeles’s social movements with a multifaceted set of actors working together to obtain equality for low-wage workers. At just over 500 pages long, the book is a brilliant...
Season 6, Episode 2: Crimmigration and Banishment with Professor Jennifer Chacón
Dialectic UCLA Law Review · Season 6, Episode 2: Crimmigration and Banishment with Professor Jennifer Chacón On this episode, Professor Jennifer Chacón joins us to discuss social movements as they intersect with her work in the realm of criminal law and immigration (crimmigration).
The Jurisprudence of Trousered Apes
Abstract This Essay uses scholarly debate about the U.S. Supreme Court’s September 2021 decision on the Centers for Disease Control’s pandemic eviction ban to argue that legal elites’ view of the law is useless as it fails to capture the law’s social reality. As a more accurate lens, the Essay uplifts and sketches an alternative perspective on law it calls, “The Jurisprudence of Trousered Apes...
Becoming a Law Teacher: Three Stories - 2021 Rutter Award Acceptance Speech
Abstract Each year, the UCLA School of Law presents the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching to an outstanding law professor. On April 28, 2021, this honor was given to Professor Hiroshi Motomura. UCLA Law Review Discourse is proud to continue its tradition of publishing a modified version of the ceremony speech delivered by the award recipient. * * * Thank you very much, Dean Mnookin, and...