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Race, Ethnicity, and Civil Law
Mon, August 10, 10:00 to 11:30am, TBASession Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)
Description
Civil law and civil legal processes play a critical role in constructing race and ethnicity and reproducing inequality. This session invites papers examining how civil legal frameworks, institutions, and processes interact with race and ethnicity in areas such as immigration, housing, family, employment, debt collection, and torts law. We welcome work exploring disparate access to civil justice, due process, discriminatory enforcement, racialized damage calculations, how civil legal categories construct racial meanings, and legal mobilization for racial justice. Submissions may address any area of civil law and may employ diverse theoretical and methodological approaches.
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Individual Presentations
Climate Litigation in the Brazilian Amazon: Analyzing the Legal Struggles of Quilombola Environmental Claims - Mathaus Viana Campos, University of Oklahoma
Education as Property: Gong Lum v. Rice and Intersections of Chinese, Black, and Choctaw Education - Mia Xia, Johns Hopkins University
How Neighborhood Inequalities Shape Police Misconduct Redress: Findings from an Impact Evaluation of Chicago Police Reforms - Michelle Shames, Northwestern University
Not Diverse, Just Black: Reparative and Cultural Justifications for Affirmative Action in Supreme Court - Michaela McMillian Jenkins, Rutgers University
Parental Rights Claims and the Political Construction of the Child - Lauren Hagani, University of Chicago