Recent developments in abortion politics and prenatal genetic testing are currently on a collision course that has the potential to change the way we think about reproduction and reproductive rights. In the fall of 2011, the first noninvasive prenatal genetic test for Down syndrome entered the commercial market, offering highly accurate prenatal genetic tests from a sample of a pregnant woman’s...
Marriage This Term: On Liberty and the “New Equal Protection”
The story of equal protection’s demise is a familiar one. It has been decades since any new group has been afforded heightened scrutiny. Even for established protected groups, retrenchment in applicable standards has devitalized meaningful equal protection coverage. As a result, scholars such as Kenji Yoshino have contended that we are at “the end of equality doctrine as we have known it”—that we...
The 2013-2015 Bernard A. and Lenore S. Greenberg Law Review Fellowship
UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW THE 2013-2015 BERNARD A. AND LENORE S. GREENBERG LAW REVIEW FELLOWSHIP The UCLA School of Law is pleased to offer a two-year fellowship designed to attract UCLA law graduates who were members of the UCLA Law Review and who are interested in pursuing a career in law teaching. The two-year fellowship will commence on July 1, 2013 and end June 30, 2015. ProgramThe Greenberg...
Juvenile Justice Information Exchange Discusses Two Symposium Articles
The Juvenile Justice Information Exchange discusses two articles from our most recent symposium here: .
UCLA Law Review Scholar Forum: “Prosecutors Hide, Defendants Seek: The Erosion of Brady Through the Defendant Due Diligence Rule”
On Thursday, October 18, at 12:15 pm, the UCLA Law Review will host its first Scholar Forum for the 2012–13 academic year. The Scholar Forum will feature a public lecture by Professor Kate Weisburd of U.C. Berkeley School of Law. The title of the lecture is “Prosecutors Hide, Defendants Seek: The Erosion of Brady Through the Defendant Due Diligence Rule.” This is also the title of Professor...
The New Racially Restrictive Covenant: Race, Welfare, and the Policing of Black Women in Subsidized Housing
This Article explores the race, gender, and class dynamics that render poor Black women vulnerable to racial surveillance and harassment in predominately white communities. In particular, this Article interrogates the recent phenomenon of police officers and public officials enforcing private citizens’ discriminatory complaints, which ultimately excludes Black women and their children from...
Blind Discretion: Girls of Color & Delinquency in the Juvenile Justice System
The juvenile justice system was designed to empower its decisionmakers with a wide grant of discretion in hopes of better addressing youth in a more individualistic and holistic, and therefore more effective, manner. Unfortunately for girls of color in the system, this discretionary charter given to police, probation officers, and especially judges has operated without sufficiently acknowledging...
Prison, Foster Care, and the Systemic Punishment of Black Mothers
This Article analyzes how the U.S. prison and foster care systems work together to punish black mothers in the service of preserving race, gender, and class inequality in a neoliberal age. The intersection of these systems is only one example of many forms of overpolicing that overlap and converge in the lives of poor women of color. I examine the statistical overlap between the prison and foster...