Abstract At its core, Critical Race Theory (CRT) provides us with a panoply of necessary tools and a lens through which to analyze the multilayered relationship between Black girls, their education, and the criminal legal system. Florida’s history, especially the historical landscape of Central Florida, distinctly highlights the grave importance of CRT when attempting to understand how society...
Critical Race Theory: Another Casualty in the Attack on Facts
Abstract The attack on Critical Race Theory is the latest attempt to undermine the interracial coalition that has been building over the last twenty years. In the wake of the murder of George Floyd in May of 2020, a global movement for Black lives ensued, which in turn motivated a calculated resistance that mobilized around education. Not unlike the attempts of the past to stall racial...
Professionalism as a Racial Construct
Abstract This Essay examines professionalism as a tool to subjugate people of color in the legal field. Professionalism is a standard with a set of beliefs about how one should operate in the workplace. While professionalism seemingly applies to everyone, it is used to widely police and regulate people of color in various ways including hair, tone, and food scents. Thus, it is not merely that...
Whiteness as Guilt: Attacking Critical Race Theory to Redeem the Racial Contract
Abstract The year of racial justice awakening following George Floyd’s 2020 murder have been accompanied by a rise in attacks on Black thought, including Critical Race Theory, led by far-right activists who are invested in maintenance of a white supremacist status quo in the United States. This Essay uses artist Kara Walker’s 2014 Sugar Sphinx to contextualize the critiques on Critical Race...
The Mandate for Critical Race Theory in This Time
Abstract A necessary conclusion from Critical Race Theory (CRT) is that Black people cannot look to the law for justice because racism is baked into the law. As a result, the movement for Black liberation cannot rely on the law for just outcomes. This result does not, however, mean that we have to abandon legal interventions altogether. Instead, for those of us who are lawyers working...
Season 6, Episode 4: Exploring Critical Race IP with Dean Deidre Keller and Kimberly Tignor
Dialectic UCLA Law Review · Season 6, Episode 4: Exploring Critical Race IP with Dean Deidre Keller and Kimberly Tignor We explore the intersections of race and intellectual property with Dean Deidre Keller and Kimberly Tignor, uncovering how such a lens can empower creators of color and reorganize distributions of wealth.
Platforms as Blackacres
ABSTRACT This Article argues that this indiscriminate treatment of all websites as blackacres violates the First Amendment. Applying cyber-trespass rules identically across the internet undermines core constitutional values by giving platforms unlimited discretion to prevent access to information that’s already within the public sphere. To avoid these unconstitutional applications of cyber...
ALI Data Privacy: Overview and Black Letter Text
ABSTRACT In this Article, the Reporters for the American Law Institute Principles of Law, Data Privacy provide an overview of the project as well as the text of its black letter. The Principles aim to provide a blueprint for policymakers to regulate privacy comprehensively and effectively. The Principles propose comprehensive privacy principles for legislation that are consistent with key...