Abstract In May 2024, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or “Court”) requested arrest warrants against five individuals—three Palestinians and two Israelis. These included arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant for international crimes dating back to October 7, 2023, the date of an armed attack by Palestinian...
Special Issue Editors' Note
Eliminating Racial Assault of Black Bodies in Law School
Abstract The failure of the legal academy to create professional law school environments embracing the tenets of Critical Race Theory (CRT) sustains racial assault on Black Bodies. Embracing the tenets of CRT can help to improve law school environments, because CRT examines systemic racism and causes individuals to rethink policies and procedures with an antiracist mindset. Further, law school is...
Exiting the American Dream
Abstract Exit planning among U.S. citizens is on the rise. A confluence of worrisome domestic conditions— including societal violence, the curtailment of individual rights, and creeping authoritarianism— has prompted U.S. citizens to contemplate and plan for a possible departure from the country. Among the more popular exit pathways, particularly for minorities in the United States who have...
Abortion Costs and the Language of Torture
Abstract Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org., several states imposed significant restrictions on abortion. Some of these states established medical exceptions that would allow a woman or any other pregnant person to receive an abortion only if they face “a life-threatening physical condition aggravated by, caused by, or arising from a pregnancy that...
Episode 9.2 - Reproducing Inequality with Thalia González & Paige Joki
In this episode, we are joined by Professor Thalia González of UC San Francisco School of Law and Paige Joki, staff attorney at the Education Law Center, to discuss their recently published article "Reproducing Inequality: Racial Capitalism and the Cost of Public Education".
Dialectic UCLA Law Review · Reproducing Inequality with Thalia González & Paige Joki
Silencing the Sex Worker
Abstract This Article argues that sex workers are silenced when they attempt to contribute to lawmaking processes. As a result, they are unable to contribute their knowledge in a meaningful way. The consequence is that laws reflect only one perspective of life in the sex trades: the prostitution abolitionist position that all sex work is inherently a form of violence against women. Without the...
Corporate Law as Decolonization
Abstract After centuries of colonial subordination, Black and Brown former colonies are still fighting to achieve the fruits of decolonization. The traditional theory is that former colonies will emerge from the colonial period with the legal mandate and international recognition needed to chart their own futures. But, for those Black and Brown British colonies that achieved political...