Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Subject "Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States"
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(Notre Dame Law Review, 2009)Race matters in the criminal justice system. Black defendants appear to fare worse than similarly situated white defendants. Why? Implicit bias is one possibility. Researchers, using a well-known measure called the implicit ...
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(Arkansas Law Review, 2002)The determination of whether racialized defenses should be permitted depends upon a number of factors. Professor Alfieri is right to emphasize race-consciousness as an important variable, but wrong to give it dispositive ...
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Racial Jurymandering: Cancer or Cure? A Contemporary Review of Affirmative Action in Jury Selection (New York University Law Review, 1993)Racial and ethnic minorities continue to be substantially underrepresented on criminal juries. At all stages of jury selection-venue choice, source list development, qualified list development, and jury panel and foreperson ...
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Selective Judicial Activism in the Equal Protection Context: Democracy, Distrust, and Deconstruction (Georgetown Law Journal, 1984)The equal protection clause, ambiguous in its language and its history,' has over the last three decades been transformed from the "last resort of constitutional arguments' into a significant force in shaping the American ...