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Designing a Latter-Day Freedmen's Bureau

Abstract This Essay, based on written and oral testimony before the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, addresses how best to translate substantive reparations proposals into durable, legible...

Warrantying Health Equity

Abstract The United States is experiencing a significant rise in the prevalence of asthma and other debilitating respiratory and cardiovascular ailments that disproportionately burden low income and marginalized Americans. This is due in large...

Public Defenders as Gatekeepers of Freedom

Abstract Nearly half a million people are currently held in pretrial detention across the United States. Legal scholarship has explored many of the actors and factors contributing to the deprivation of freedom of those presumed innocent. And while...

Federalizing Caremark

Abstract When corporations misbehave, the normal government response is to saddle the industry with more federal oversight requirements. But reactive policies fail to curb corporate misconduct and can incentivize corporations to ignore or break the...

Money as an Instrument for Justice

Abstract According to the conventional wisdom, money is a scarce private commodity that needs to be rationed. Both households and businesses need enough income to cover their obligations, such as food, rent, payroll, and principal and interest...