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    • McKanders, Karla M. (Howard Law Journal, 2015)
      Through discriminatory rhetoric state and local officials construct delinquent juvenile immigrant youth as the embodiment of a threat to public safety and American values. Accordingly, alleged delinquent undocumented ...
    • Clarke, Jessica A. (Indiana Law Journal, 2011)
      Sexual harassment law and family leave policy originated as feminist reform projects designed to protect women in the workplace. But many academics now ask whether harassment and leave policies have outgrown their gendered ...
    • McKanders, Karla Mari (Saint Louis University Public Law Review, 2010)
      This essay explores how the past Civil Rights Movement and discrimination against persons of color, mainly Latinos and African Americans, can help to address current forms of discrimination in our country. In particular, ...
    • Siracusa, Anthony Christopher III (2015-03-25)
      Department: History
      This paper attempts to deepen historical understanding of how non-violence became a vital force in modern US politics. It interrogates the indelible association between the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and non-violent ...
    • Moran, Beverly; Hersch, Joni (SMU Law Review, 2015)
      Scholars have found that men who physically harm their intimate partners receive less punishment than men who harm strangers. In other words, in the criminal setting, coitus has consequences. In particular, for female ...
    • Mayeux, Sara (Stanford Law Review, 2018)
      In 2015, the city council of Birmingham, Alabama enacted an ordinance establishing a local minimum wage of $10.10 an hour-a significant raise for the city's low-income workers from the federal floor of $7.25. The ordinance ...
    • Siracusa, Anthony Christopher III (2015-03-25)
      Department: History
      This paper suggests nonviolence in the United States was a form of moral being with roots in Gandhism and the Christian tradition whose central architect was James M. Lawson, Jr. Commonly described as a leading “tactician” ...
    • McKanders, Karla Mari (Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy, 2013)
      Recently, immigration scholars have focused on the relationship between federal, state, and local governments in regulating immigration to the exclusion of civil rights issues. States and localities assert that they should ...
    • Clarke, Jessica (Texas Law Review Online, 2018)
      Gender and the Tournament: Reinventing Antidiscrimination Law in the Age of Inequality, by Naomi Cahn, June Carbone, and Nancy Levit, offers a new account of the glass ceiling, connecting the phenomenon with shoddy corporate ...
    • Quiros, Ansley Lillian (2014-12-05)
      Department: History
      This dissertation, ‘God’s on our Side, Today’: Lived Theology in the Civil Rights Movement in Americus, Georgia, 1942-1976, explores the theological elements embedded within the conflict over civil rights in the American ...
    • Clarke, Jessica A. (New York University Law Review, 2017)
      Courts routinely begin their analyses of discrimination claims with the question of whether the plaintiff has proven he or she is a “member of the protected class.” Although this refrain may sometimes be an empty formality, ...
    • McKanders, Karla Mari (Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, 2009)
      On July 13, 2006, the city of Hazleton made national news as the first municipality in the country to pass ordinances against illegal immigrants. The majority of municipal legislation that passed regulated the employment ...