Abstract: In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, all levels of government are considering how to protect public health by keeping people in their homes, even if they can no longer afford their monthly mortgage or rent payments. The protections that have emerged thus far have been far more protective of homeowners than renters. This […]The post How the Law Fails Tenants (And not Just During a Pandemic) appeared first on UCLA Law Review. PubDate: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 14:17:21 +000
Abstract: Within weeks of the coronavirus pandemic appearing in the United States, the American economy came to a grinding halt. The unprecedented modern health crisis and the collapsing economy forced Congress to make a critical choice about how to help families survive financially. Congress had two basic options. It could enact policies that provided direct […]The post The Folly of Credit as Pandemic Relief appeared first on UCLA Law Review. PubDate: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 13:58:58 +000
Abstract: This Article takes immigration federalism “all-the-way-down” by focusing on two counties in Southern California—Los Angeles County and Orange County—to consider the role that subfederal governmental entities play in immigration enforcement. Part I synthesizes the existing literature on immigration federalism with particular attention to the role of sublocal, local, county and regional actors. Part II […]The post Immigration Federalism in the Weeds appeared first on UCLA Law Review. PubDate: Sat, 06 Jun 2020 07:12:00 +000
Abstract: The influence of race on the administration of capital punishment had a major role in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1972 decision in Furman v. Georgia to invalidate death penalty statutes across the United States. To avoid discriminatory and capricious application of capital punishment, the Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment requires legislatures to […]The post Death by Stereotype: Race, Ethnicity, and California’s Failure to Implement Furman’s Narrowing Requirement appeared first on UCLA Law Review. PubDate: Sat, 06 Jun 2020 07:09:00 +000
Abstract: Two historical episodes have indelibly influenced the development of Latinx identity and sense of belonging in the United States. During the Great Depression, state and local governments, with the support of the U.S. government, repatriated approximately one million persons of Mexican ancestry, including many U.S. citizen children and immigrant parents, to Mexico. Similarly, in […]The post Trump’s Latinx Repatriation appeared first on UCLA Law Review. PubDate: Sat, 06 Jun 2020 07:01:16 +000
Abstract: In Atkins v. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the execution of a person with intellectual disability violates the Eighth Amendment’s Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause. After more than a decade of Atkins litigation, we perceived there to be a substantial risk that race influences intellectual disability—and consequently, life and death—determinations. Due to […]The post Race, Intellectual Disability, and Death: An Empirical Inquiry Into Invidious Influences on Atkins Determinations appeared first on UCLA Law Review. PubDate: Sat, 06 Jun 2020 06:56:34 +000
Abstract: By the 1950s, the criminal justice system had long combined with other systems, institutions, and individuals to target all the residents of East LA—particularly Mexicans—as criminals. In equating Mexicans with criminality, these networked forces and actors regarded and treated these residents as exceptions—as morally requiring and legally meriting authoritarian rather than accountability practices. These […]The post Growing Up in Authoritarian 1950s East LA appeared first on UCLA Law Review. PubDate: Sat, 06 Jun 2020 06:53:03 +000
Abstract: Contradicting widespread belief, scholarly research has confirmed that Mexican American (Latino/a/x) communities have lower levels of homicide than expected, given their high levels of economic disadvantage, residential instability, and rapid population change. But scholars are just beginning to explore the various social dynamics underlying this relationship at the community level for Mexican Americans throughout […]The post Were Mexican American Communities Safer Than Others' Some Surprising Findings From San Antonio, 1960–1980 appeared first on UCLA Law Review. PubDate: Sat, 06 Jun 2020 06:49:23 +000
Abstract: U.S. Highway 99 is often coined the Golden State Highway and the Main Street of California. The road originally extended from the U.S.–Mexico border all the way to the Oregon border while passing through the Central Valley. When you travel along this route, you pass a little over half of all California prisons. By […]The post Prison Row: A Topographical History of Carcerality in California appeared first on UCLA Law Review. PubDate: Sat, 06 Jun 2020 06:46:16 +000
Abstract: This Article builds upon literature on immigration surveillance, border control, and policing to explore the role of interoperable information systems and data sharing practices in the social control of immigrants from Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. Based upon an analysis of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) documents and statistical data, this Article examines […]The post Bordering Circuitry: Crossjurisdictional Immigration Surveillance appeared first on UCLA Law Review. PubDate: Sat, 06 Jun 2020 06:42:03 +000
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