Assessing the Racial Implications of NCAA Academic Measures
In 1983, the NCAA’s adoption of heightened initial eligibility standards for incoming intercollegiate athletes was met with applause and criticism. Proponents lauded the measure as a legitimate means...
View ArticleTitle IX's Trans Panic
Sport has long been a site of struggle over competing conceptions of social justice, with no cultural flashpoint more contested than gender. A key site of contention has been the meaning and...
View ArticleTitle IX in Historical Context: 50 Years of Progress and Political Gamesmanship
On the fiftieth anniversary of Title IX, it is important to recognize both its historic nature and how it has evolved in political and social context. This Article will begin by examining the history...
View ArticleWhat's Wrong with the NCAA's New Transgender Athlete Policy?
In 2022, the NCAA changed its long-standing policy permitting transgender athletes to participate in teams that correspond to their affirmed gender. For twelve years, the NCAA permitted transgender...
View ArticleDefending the Less Dead: Using the Decriminalization of Sex Work to Combat...
Sex workers have historically represented a disproportionate percentage of all victims of serial murder. Several serial murderers in the past thirty years have evaded detection for years, taking the...
View ArticleChecking Out Indefinitely: Supporting Survivors of Sex Trafficking Alongside...
There are roughly five million victims of sex trafficking in the United States. Over the course of a decade, over 3,500 instances of human trafficking involved a hotel or motel. Traffickers are...
View ArticleShaky Science: Shaken Baby Syndrome and Its Disproportionate Impact on False...
Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) is a controversial diagnosis and an even more controversial basis for conviction. The syndrome is questioned by scientists and doctors who have yet to come to a consensus on...
View ArticleRace, Space, and Place: Interrogating Whiteness Through a Critical Approach...
Drawing from George Lipsitz’s notion that whiteness is “not so much a color as a condition,” this Article embarks on the project of framing the manner and methods through which whiteness continues to...
View ArticleDecolonizing Equal Sovereignty
In Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013), the Supreme Court announced that a tradition of equal sovereignty among the states prohibits unwarranted federal intrusions into state sovereignty and...
View ArticleThe New Insular Cases
The Insular Cases is a name given to a series of cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court dealing with the status of the territories the United States acquired at the turn of the twentieth century. The...
View ArticleSelling Aloha: The Fight for Legal Protections Over Native Hawaiian Culture
In 2018, a Chicago-based restaurant attempted to enforce a registered trademark of “Aloha Poke” by sending cease-and-desist letters to small businesses with names containing some variation of the...
View ArticleGiven Equal Weight Under the Law: Expanding Title VII Protections to Prohibit...
Approximately half of Americans have an overweight or obese body mass index (BMI), yet weight discrimination is legal in nearly every jurisdiction. This means employers can set BMI limits, maximum...
View ArticleDeath After Dobbs: Addressing the Viability of Capital Punishment for Abortion
Pre-Dobbs legislative efforts and states’ reactions in the immediate aftermath of Dobbs indicate the post-Dobbs reality that deeply conservative states will seek to criminalize abortion and impose...
View ArticleGet Out: Structural Racism and Academic Terror
Released in 2017, Jordan Peele’s critically acclaimed film Get Out explores the horrors of racism. The film’s plot involves the murder and appropriation of Black bodies for the benefit of wealthy,...
View ArticleDispelling Sex Trafficking Conspiracy Theories: The Truth Behind Who Is...
Through an analysis of the 1,954 sex trafficking cases prosecuted federally from 2000 to 2020, this Article aims to provide insight into how sex traffickers commonly operate in the United States. Part...
View ArticleKids, Cognition, and Confinement: Evaluating Claims of Inadequate Access to...
In the United States, almost 60,000 juveniles are incarcerated in juvenile jails and prisons every day, and, as of March 2021, at least seventy percent of juveniles in the juvenile justice system have...
View ArticleFriends With Benefits: Expanding Virginia's Domestic Violence and Mutual...
On June 26, 2015, the Obergefell decision recognized same-sex marriage. While same-sex couples celebrated their new rights to marriage equality, they still face legal battles in the realm of domestic...
View ArticleBeating Justice: Corporal Punishment in American Schools and the Evolving...
This Note will discuss the Supreme Court’s holding in Ingraham v. Wright, and the subsequent developments in public school corporal punishment practices. Rather than focus exclusively on the case law,...
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