Abstract: Abstract Recent litigation about the Citizenship Clause’s applicability in American Samoa exposes tensions between competing goals of inclusion, self-determination, and cultural preservation. The noncitizen national category and the Insular Cases are both legacies of a long tradition of racial exclusion in the United States, but their current significance is more complicated, as shown by American […]The post Citizenship, Self-Determination, and Cultural Preservation in American Samoa appeared first on UCLA Law Review. PubDate: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 21:18:02 +000
Abstract: Abstract The battle to protect abortion rights in the United States has not been this fierce in fifty years. From the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision to a precipitously growing number of states passing draconian laws that drastically limit—and in some states, entirely ban—access to safe and legal abortion […]The post Including Disabled People in the Battle to Protect Abortion Rights: A Call-to-Action appeared first on UCLA Law Review. PubDate: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 21:15:38 +000
Abstract: Abstract Anti-protest legislation is billed as applying only in the extreme circumstances of mass-movements and large scale civil disobedience. Mass protest exceptionalism provides justification for passage of anti-protest laws in states otherwise hesitant to expand public order criminal regulation. Examples include a Virginia bill that heightens penalties for a “failure to disperse following a law […]The post Unexceptional Protest appeared first on UCLA Law Review. PubDate: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 21:12:55 +000
Abstract: Abstract The ability to reclassify legal sex as male (M), female (F), and even X, is a core issue of trans and non-binary legal engagements. A wave of legal reform and debate has recently swept across the United States, resulting in a spectrum of laws and policies, from a complete ban on reclassification to the […]The post Transitions in Sex Reclassification Law appeared first on UCLA Law Review. PubDate: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 21:10:20 +000
Abstract: Introduction This Essay critically analyzes the wartime framing that both Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden relied upon in fighting a “War on COVID-19.” According to this militarized framing, they sought to, in Trump’s words, “fight that invisible enemy,” the coronavirus.[2] The conundrum this Essay explores is: Even as Biden has announced plans to let […]The post War on COVID: Warfare and its Discontents appeared first on UCLA Law Review. PubDate: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 23:18:35 +000
Abstract: The post The Art of Abolition: Interview with Angela Davis by Bryonn Bain appeared first on UCLA Law Review. PubDate: Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:59:45 +000
Abstract: Abstract Jurisdictions increasingly employ algorithms in public sector decisionmaking. Facing public outcry about the use of such technologies, jurisdictions have begun to increase democratic participation in the processes by which algorithms are procured, constructed, implemented, used, and overseen. But what problem is the current approach to democratization meant to solve' Policymakers have tended to view […]The post To Democratize Algorithms appeared first on UCLA Law Review. PubDate: Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:57:58 +000
Abstract: Loser I’m a loser I lose I lost my way I lost my kids I lost my say I lost my power Plucked right out of my chest In my heart’s final hour Motherhood stolen for family court to devour Still I demand and I plead Bring my babies home to me! It’s my blood […]The post Loser appeared first on UCLA Law Review. PubDate: Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:54:49 +000
Abstract: Abstract This Article profiles and interviews seven artists and organizers who are leaders throughout five distinct Los Angeles grassroots, abolitionist organizations at the forefront of dismantling and abolishing the largest penal system in the world, which is comprised of lethal policing and carceral institutions operated by the County and City of Los Angeles. Through an […]The post Abolitionist Aesthetics and the Abolitionist Movement: Los Angeles Grassroots Organizations and the Aesthetic Foundations of Real-Time Abolition appeared first on UCLA Law Review. PubDate: Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:41:48 +000
Abstract: Abstract Since the unprecedented Summer 2020 uprisings against policing and racism, many elites have embraced an “anti-woke” politics that openly celebrates law-and-order authoritarianism, heteropatriarchy, and white nationalism. This Article attends to a different but reinforcing response to the George Floyd uprisings: repression through a politics of recognition, as elites fortified policing while chanting “Black Lives […]The post Say Their Names, Support Their Killers: Police Reform After the 2020 Black Lives Matter Uprisings appeared first on UCLA Law Review. PubDate: Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:38:09 +000