Cases and Supporting Materials

Overview

This page contains cases that incorporate issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in their subject matter, and may be suitable to use in 1L doctrinal classes. Secondary sources discussing the diversity, equity, and inclusion issues in the case are also included.

Permalinks have been provided where possible. Materials with an "*" mean that Permalink could not be created. Check your institution's resources for these materials.

New materials will be added on an ongoing basis.

Civil Procedure

Civil Procedure Cases & Materials

Articles

  • Kerry Abrams, Citizen Spouse, 101 California Law Review 407 (2013), https://perma.cc/X4EK-ZZUK.

  • Kerry Abrams & Kathryn Barber, Domicile Dismantled, 92 Indiana Law Journal 387 (2017), https://perma.cc/9BUE-BPLJ.

  • Helen A. Anderson, Police Stories, 111 Nw. U.L. Rev. Online 19 (2016), https://perma.cc/3Z32-KQ9N.

  • Phyllis Tropper Baumann, Judith Olans Brown & Stephen N. Subrin, Substance in the Shadow of Procedure: The Integration of Substantive and Procedural Law in Title VII Cases, 33 Boston College Law Review 211 (1992).*

  • Roy L. Brooks, Conley and Twombly: A Critical Race Theory Perspective, 52 How. L.J. 31 (2008).*

  • Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Identity Matters: The Case of Judge Constance Baker Motley, 117 Columbia Law Review 1691 (2017), https://perma.cc/P269-QYQ5.

  • John O. Calmore, Social Justice Advocacy in the Third Dimension: Addressing the Problem of "Preservation-Through-Transformation", 16 Florida Journal of International Law 615 (2004).*

  • Christopher D. Cameron & Kevin R. Johnson, Death of A Salesman? Forum Shopping and Outcome Determination Under International Shoe, 28 U.C. Davis Law Review 769 (1995), https://perma.cc/BU8D-H76R.

  • Bob Carlson, Why Slavery Reparations Are Good for Civil Procedure Class, 47 St. Louis University Law Journal 139 (2003), https://perma.cc/9HFG-3KAN.

  • Andrea Catania & Charles A. Sullivan, Judging Judgments: The 1991 Civil Rights Act and the Lingering Ghost of Martin v. Wilks, 57 Brooklyn Law Review 995 (1992).*

  • Christine N. Cimini, Ask, Don't Tell: Ethical Issues Surrounding Undocumented Workers' Status in Employment Litigation, 61 Stan. L. Rev. 355 (2008), https://perma.cc/6R2E-WQQ8.

  • Melissa Cole, Projecting Civil Litigation Through the Lens of Film Theory, 47 St. Louis University Law Journal 21 (2003), https://perma.cc/5NDZ-CCVZ.

  • Sarah Rudolph Cole & E. Gary Spitko, Arbitration and the Batson Principle, 38 Ga. L. Rev. 1145 (2004), https://perma.cc/PK4V-RGBF.

  • Brooke D. Coleman, Lassiter v. Department of Social Services: Why Is It Such A Lousy Case?, 12 Nevada Law Journal 591 (2012), https://perma.cc/V77J-6CZ9.

  • Keith Cunningham-Parmeter, Fear of Discovery: Immigrant Workers and the Fifth Amendment, 41 Cornell Int'l L.J. 27 (2008), https://perma.cc/QPN8-VX5H.

  • Thomas A. Doyle, Competing Concerns in Employment Litigation: How Courts Are Managing Discovery of an Employee's Immigration Status, 28 ABA J. Lab. & Emp. L. 405, 406 (2013).*

  • Linda H. Edwards, Where Do the Prophets Stand? Hamdi, Myth, and the Master's Tools, 13 Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal 43 (2013), https://perma.cc/5DWR-AYWE.

  • Cynthia Ford, Including Indian Law in A Traditional Civil Procedure Course: A Reprise, Five Years Later, 37 Tulsa Law Review 485 (2001), https://perma.cc/P4FK-5LZ4.

  • Michael Z. Green, Reconsidering Prejudice in Alternative Dispute Resolution for Black Work Matters, 70 SMU L. Rev. 639 (2017), https://perma.cc/7WQZ-3QHV.

  • Helen Hershkoff, Poverty Law and Civil Procedure: Rethinking the First-Year Course, 34 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1325 (2007).*

  • Kevin R. Johnson, Integrating Racial Justice into the Civil Procedure Survey Course, 54 Journal of Legal Education 242 (2004).*

  • Dan M. Kahan et al., Whose Eyes Are You Going to Believe? Scott v. Harris and the Perils of Cognitive Illiberalism, 122 Harvard Law Review 837 (2009), https://perma.cc/P77S-K927.

  • Allen R. Kamp, The History behind Hansberry v. Lee, 20 U.C. Davis Law Review 481 (1987).*

  • Deseriee A. Kennedy, Witnessing the Process: Reflections on Civil Procedure, Power, Pedagogy, and Praxis, 32 Loyola Los Angeles Law Review 753 (1999), https://perma.cc/F75L-RXCS.

  • Harold Hongju Koh, The Haitian Refugee Litigation: A Case Study in Transnational Public Law Litigation, 18 Maryland Journal of International Law & Trade 1 (1994), https://perma.cc/39ZN-29FV.

  • David Luban, Difference Made Legal: The Court and Dr. King, 87 Michigan Law Review 2152 (1989), https://perma.cc/628Y-2K7B.

  • Suzette M. Malveaux, The Modern Class Action Rule: Its Civil Rights Roots and Relevance Today, 66 U. Kan. L. Rev. 325 (2017), https://perma.cc/W77K-U94G.

  • David Marcus, Flawed but Noble: Desegregation Litigation and Its Implications for the Modern Class Action, 63 Fla. L. Rev. 657 (2011), https://perma.cc/3PB3-RKB4.

  • Nancy S. Marder, Teaching Civil Procedure Stories, 55 Journal of Legal Education 138 (2005), https://perma.cc/UF7E-9MPH.

  • Jenny S. Martinez, Process and Substance in the "War on Terror", 108 Columbia Law Review 1013 (2008).*

  • Solomon Oliver, Jr., Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and Minorities in the Federal Court, 39 Cap. U.L. Rev. 805 (2011).*

  • David Benjamin Oppenheimer, Kennedy, King, Shuttlesworth and Walker: The Events Leading to the Introduction of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 29 University of San Francisco. Law Review 645 (1995).*

  • David Benjamin Oppenheimer, Martin Luther King, Walker v. City of Birmingham, and the Letter from Birmingham Jail, 26 U.C. Davis Law Review 791 (1993), https://perma.cc/F2EH-49L3.

  • Victor D. Quintanilla, Critical Race Empiricism: A New Means to Measure Civil Procedure, 3 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 187 (2013), https://perma.cc/JW7R-EMSH.

  • Alexander A. Reinert, Measuring the Impact of Plausibility Pleading, 101 Va. L. Rev. 2117 (2015), https://perma.cc/D57P-C73S.

  • Megan A. Reynolds, Comment, Immigration-Related Discovery After Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. NLRB: Examining Defending Employers' Knowledge of Plaintiffs' Immigration Status, 2005 Mich. St. L. Rev. 1261 (2005).*

  • Kurt M. Saunders, Race and Representation in Jury Service Selection, 36 Duq. L. Rev. 49 (1997), https://perma.cc/27AZ-ENSQ.

  • Joseph A. Seiner, The Discrimination Presumption, 94 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1115 (2019), https://perma.cc/49CG-296R.

  • Joseph A. Seiner, Plausibility and Disparate Impact, 64 Hastings L.J. 287 (2013), https://perma.cc/LZ6K-KKZZ.

  • Shirin Sinnar, The Lost Story of Iqbal, 105 Georgetown Law Journal 379 (2017), https://perma.cc/7C24-MWF7.

  • Stephen N. Subrin, Teaching Civil Procedure While You Watch It Disintegrate, 59 Brooklyn Law Review 1155 (1993), https://perma.cc/UF7E-9MPH.

  • Tanvir Vahora, Working Through A Muddled Standard: Pleading Discrimination Cases After Iqbal, 44 Columbia Journal of Law & Social Problems 235 (2010), https://perma.cc/5VWG-47DQ.

  • Lu-in Wang, Negotiating the Situation: The Reasonable Person in Context, 14 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 1285 (2010), https://perma.cc/F5BG-8J6K.

  • Howard M. Wasserman, Iqbal, Procedural Mismatches, and Civil Rights Litigation, 14 Lewis & Clark Law Review 157 (2010), https://perma.cc/N7LN-MKYZ.

  • Howard M. Wasserman, Civil Rights Plaintiffs and John Doe Defendants: A Study in Sec. 1983 Procedure, 25 Cardozo L. Rev. 793 (2003), https://perma.cc/AZN8-YMYZ.

  • Floyd D. Weatherspoon and Kendell D. Isaac, Resolving Race Discrimination in Employment Disputes Through Mediation: A Win-Win for all Parties, 5 Am. J. Mediation 111 (2011), https://perma.cc/6M3E-TN35.

  • Andrew T. Williamson, Clearly Unfair: Mccleary-Evans and the Problems Associated with Pleading an Employment Discrimination Case, 11 Charleston L. Rev. 270 (2017).*

  • Eric K. Yamamoto, Critical Procedure: ADR and the Justices’ “Second Wave” Constriction of Court Access and Claim Development, 70 SMU L. Rev. 765 (2017), https://perma.cc/Z9VQ-B8US.

Constitutional Law

Constitutional Law Cases and Materials

Articles and Books

  • Austin Allen, Rethinking Dred Scott: New Context for an Old Case, 82 Chicago-Kent Law Review 141 (2007), https://perma.cc/SP9B-GRHX.

  • Ann Althouse, Late Night Confessions in the Hart and Wechsler Hotel, 47 Vanderbilt Law Review 993 (1994), https://perma.cc/D6F4-FBD9.

  • Frances Lee Ansley, Race and the Core Curriculum in Legal Education, 79 California Law Review 1512 (1991), https://lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/1114027?ln=en.

  • William Araiza, If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Procreation: Methodology and Subject-Matter in Fourteenth Amendment Pedagogy, 62 St. Louis University Law Journal 623 (2018), https://perma.cc/SGY7-HPX3.

  • Stephen Ansolabehere & Samuel Issacharoff, The Story of Baker v. Carr, in Constitutional Law Stories 271 (Michael C. Dorf ed., 2d ed. 2009).*

  • Paul R. Baier, Beyond Black Ink: From Langdell to the Oyez Project--the Voice of the Past, 55 Loy. L. Rev. 277 (2009), https://perma.cc/HPM6-CVEL.

  • Jack M. Balkin & Sanford Levinson, The Canons of Constitutional Law, 111 Harvard Law Review 963 (1998), https://perma.cc/8GGK-NQKG.

  • Derrick Bell, Race, Racism, and American Law 99-122 (2008).*

  • Leslie Bender & Daan Braveman, Impassioning a Civil Rights Course, 16 Vermont Law Review 943 (1992).*

  • David E. Bernstein, The Story of Lochner v. New York: Impediment to the Growth of the Regulatory State, in Constitutional Law Stories 299 (Michael C. Dorf ed., 2d ed. 2009).*

  • Sarah B. Bowman et al., Racial Integration and the Legacy of Brown at Seattle University School of Law, 3 Seattle Journal of Social Justice 143 (2004), https://perma.cc/7PRV-UQRR.

  • Francis A. Boyle, The Hypocrisy and Racism Behind the Formulation of U.S. Human Rights Foreign Policy: In Honor of Clyde Ferguson, 16 Social Justice 71 (1989).*

  • Sarah M. Buel, The Pedagogy of Domestic Violence Law: Situating Domestic Violence Work in Law Schools, Adding the Lenses of Race and Class, 11 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & Law 309 (2003), https://perma.cc/UD46-ZS29.

  • Jim Chen, The Story of Wickard v. Filburn: Agriculture, Aggregation, and Commerce, in Constitutional Law Stories 69 (Michael C. Dorf ed., 2d ed. 2009).*

  • Mathilde Cohen, Of Milk and the Constitution, 40 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 115 (2017), https://perma.cc/U5MU-LFL2.

  • Douglas L. Colbert, Liberating the Thirteenth Amendment, 30 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 1 (1995), https://perma.cc/T5PU-QY7H.

  • Richard C. Cortner, Civil Rights and Public Accommodations: The Heart of Atlanta Motel and McClung Cases (2001).*

  • Bridget J. Crawford et al., Teaching with Feminist Judgments: A Global Conversation, 38 Law & Inequality 1 (2020), https://perma.cc/7P6Q-VMGV.

  • Barry Cushman, Teaching the Lochner Era, 62 St. Louis University Law Journal 537 (2018), https://perma.cc/D7EB-Y4S5.

  • Martha F. Davis, The Upside of the Downside: Local Human Rights and the Federalism Clauses, 62 St. Louis University Law Journal 921 (2018), https://perma.cc/D4TQ-S9KZ.

  • Kate Nace Day & Russell G. Murphy, Just Trying to Be Human in This Place: Storytelling and Film in the First-Year Law School Classroom, 39 Stetson Law Review 247 (2009), https://perma.cc/95ZZ-LGS5.

  • Christopher L. Eisgruber, The Story of Dred Scott: Originalism's Forgotten Past, in Constitutional Law Stories 155 (Michael C. Dorf ed., 2d ed. 2009).*

  • Daniel A. Farber, The Story of McCulloch: Banking on National Power, in Constitutional Law Stories 33 (Michael C. Dorf ed., 2d ed. 2009).*

  • Zaneta E. Fenton, State-Enabled Violence: The Story of Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzalez, in Women and the Law Stories (Elizabeth M. Schneider & Stephanie M. Wildman eds., 2011).*

  • Paul Finkelman, Teaching Slavery in American Constitutional Law, 34 Akron Law Review 261 (2000), https://perma.cc/4287-L3JF.

  • David Fontana, A Case for the Twenty-First Century Constitutional Canon: Schneiderman v. United States, 35 Connecticut Law Review 35 (2002), https://perma.cc/KJ8Y-PU7B.

  • Joel K. Goldstein, Approaches to Brown v. Board of Education: Some Notes on Teaching a Seminal Case, 49 St. Louis University Law Journal 777 (2005), https://perma.cc/F3YN-R4XC.

  • Cheryl Hanna, Gender as a Core Value in Teaching Constitutional Law, 36 Oklahoma City University Law Review 513 (2011).*

  • Rachel Harmon, Reconsidering Criminal Procedure: Teaching the Law of the Police, 60 St. Louis University Law Journal 391 (2016), https://perma.cc/8SYQ-PCN4.

  • Cheryl I. Harris, The Story of Plessy v. Furgeson: The Death and Resurrection of Racial Formalism, in Constitutional Law Stories 187 (Michael C. Dorf ed., 2d ed. 2009).*

  • Pamela S. Karlan, Equal Protection, Due Process, and the Stereoscopic Fourteenth Amendment, 33 McGeorge Law Review 473 (2002), https://perma.cc/86HB-M4V3.

  • Mark R. Killenbeck, Constitutional Heresy?, 62 St. Louis University Law Journal 667 (2018), https://perma.cc/58WW-ULYT.

  • Helen J. Knowles, Cases, Costumes, and Civic Concepts: Three Decades of the Equal Justice under Law Video Series, 58 Journal of Legal Education 290 (2008).*

  • Inga N. Laurent and Teri McMurtry-Chubb, Loving v. Virginia, 388 US 1 (1967), in Feminist Judgments : Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court ( Kathryn M. Stanchi et al. eds., 2016).*

  • Michael A. Lawrence, The Thirteenth Amendment as Basis for Racial Truth & Reconciliation, 62 Arizona Law Review 637 (2020), https://perma.cc/CPQ4-MESB.

  • William E. Leuchtenburg, The Supreme Court Reborn: The Constitutional Revolution in the Age of Roosevelt (1995).*

  • Sanford Levinson, Slavery in the Canon of Constitutional Law, 68 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1087 (1993), https://perma.cc/AJ72-R824.

  • Sanford Levinson, Reply: Why I Still Won't Teach Marbury (Except in a Seminar), 6 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 588 (2004), https://perma.cc/DCU8-TH4B.

  • Martha T. McCluskey, Facing the Ghost of Cruikshank in Constitutional Law, 65 Journal of Legal Education 278 (2015), https://perma.cc/TYU4-7D66.

  • Michael W. McConnell, The Story of Marbury v. Madison: Making Defeat Look Like Victory, in Constitutional Law Stories 13 (Michael C. Dorf ed., 2d ed. 2009).*

  • Nina A. Mendelson, Tribes, Cities, and Children: Emerging Voices in Environmental Litigation, 34 J. Land Use & Environmental Law 237 (2019), https://perma.cc/R9VQ-692F.

  • Karin Mika, Self-Reflection within the Academy: The Absence of Women in Constitutional Jurisprudence, 9 Hastings Women's Law Journal 273 (1998), https://perma.cc/CEU2-JGW9.

  • Juan F. Perea, Race and Constitutional Law Casebooks: Recognizing the Proslavery Constitution, 110 Michigan Law Review 1123 (2012), https://perma.cc/24E5-ZJEL.

  • Juan F. Perea et al., Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America (3d ed. 2015).*

  • James Gray Pope, Section 1 of the Thirteenth Amendment and the Badges and Incidents of Slavery, 65 UCLA Law Review 426 (2018), https://perma.cc/S5D2-MDXU.

  • Edward A. Purcell, Jr., The Particularly Dubious Case of Hans v. Louisiana: An Essay on Law, Race, History, and Federal Courts, 81 North Carolina Law Review 1927 (2003), https://perma.cc/G6MD-ZVNG.

  • Logan E. Sawyer III, Creating Hammer v. Dagenhart, 21 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 67 (2012), https://perma.cc/D4T7-Q6C6.

  • Susan K. Serrano, Elevating the Perspectives of U.S. Territorial Peoples: Why the Insular Cases Should Be Taught in Law School, 21 Journal of Gender, Race & Justice 395 (2018), https://perma.cc/S5CE-WC9M.

  • Raj Shah, An Article III Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand: A Critical Race Perspective on the US Supreme Court's Standing Jurisprudence, 61 UCLA Law Review 198 (2013), https://perma.cc/8RBK-XZJS.

  • Carlos R. Soltero, Katzenbach v. Morgan (1966) and Voting Rights of Puerto Ricans with Limited English Proficiency, in Latinos and American Law: Landmark Supreme Court Cases (2006).*

  • Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., Classical Racism, Justice Story, and Margaret Morgan's Journey from Freedom to Slavery: The Story of Prigg v. Pennsylvania, in Race Law Stories (Rachel F. Moran & Devon Wayne Carbado eds., 2008).*

  • Janel Thakmul, The Plenary Power-Shaped Hole in the Core Constitutional Law Curriculum: Exclusion, Unequal Protection, and American National Identity, 96 California Law Review 553 (2008), https://lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/1121715?ln=en.

  • Mark Tushnet, The Story of City of Boerne v. Flores: Federalism, Rights, and Judicial Supremacy, in Constitutional Law Stories 483 (Michael C. Dorf ed., 2d ed. 2009).*

  • Benjamin Wittes & Hannah Neprash, The Story of the Guantanamo Cases: Habeas Corpus, the Reach of the Court, and the War on Terror, in Constitutional Law Stories 513 (Michael C. Dorf ed., 2d ed. 2009).*

  • Barbara Bennett Woodhouse, "Who Owns the Child?": Meyer and Pierce and the Child As Property, 33 William & Mary Law Review 995 (1992), https://perma.cc/TCN8-X8NY.

  • Rebecca Zietlow, Teaching Congressional Enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment, 62 St. Louis University Law Journal 655 (2018), https://perma.cc/5PX4-D9NX.

Contracts

Contracts Cases and Materials

Articles

  • Lorraine Bannai & Anne Enquist, (Un)examined Assumptions and (Un)Intended Messages: Teaching Students To Recognize Bias In Legal Analysis And Language, 27 Seattle University Law Review 1 (2003), https://perma.cc/L5BT-GTFV.

  • Steven J. Burton, Racial Discrimination in Contract Performance: Patterson and a State Law Alternative, 25 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 431 (1990).*

  • William R. Casto & Val D. Ricks, "Dear Sister Antillico: The Story of Kirksey v. Kirksey, 94 Georgetown Law Journal 321 (2005).*

  • Anthony R. Chase, Race, Culture, and Contract Law: From the Cottonfield To The Courtroom, 28 Connecticut Law Review 1 (1995).*

  • Miriam A. Cherry, Exploring (Social) Class in the Classroom: The Case of Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, 28 Pace Law Review 235 (2008), https://perma.cc/RLA3-WK5H.

  • Clare Dalton, An Essay in the Deconstruction of Contract Doctrine, 94 Yale Law Journal 997 (1985), https://perma.cc/Z4QM-CNCA.

  • Anne Fleming, The Rise and Fall of Unconscionability as the "Law of the Poor," 102 Georgetown Law Journal 1383 (2013), https://perma.cc/3EBZ-2Z7Y.

  • Marjorie Florestall, Is A Burrito A Sandwich - Exploring Race, Class, and Culture in Contracts, 14 Michigan Journal of Race & Law 1 (2008), https://perma.cc/76UB-4GAQ.

  • Mary J. Frug, Re-Reading Contracts: A Feminist Analysis of a Contracts Casebook, 34 American University Law Review 1065 (1985).*

  • Orit Gan, Anti-Stereotyping Theory and Contract Law, 42 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 83 (2019).*

  • Orit Gan, Promissory Estoppel: A Call For A More Inclusive Contract Law, 16 Journal of Gender, Race & Justice 47 (2013).*

  • Beverly Horsburgh, Decent and Indecent Proposals in the Law: Reflection on Opening The Contracts Discourse To Include Outsiders, 1 William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law 57 (1994), https://perma.cc/L63L-PYK8.

  • Amy Kastely, Out of the Whiteness: On Raced Codes and White Race Consciousness in Some Tort, Criminal, and Contract Law, 63 University of Cincinnati Law Review 269 (1994).*

  • Nancy S. Kim, Reasonable Expectations in Sociocultural Context, 45 Wake Forest Law Review 641 (2010), https://perma.cc/JTP8-93XZ.

  • Angela Mae Kupenda, Making Traditional Courses More Inclusive: Confessions of an African American Female Professor Who Attempted to Crash All the Barriers at Once, 31 University of San Francisco Law Review 975 (1997), https://perma.cc/48EP-VH3A.

  • Martha R. Mahoney, Class and Status in American Law: Race, Interest, and the Anti-Transformation Cases, 76 Southern California Law Review 799 (2003), https://perma.cc/ENX6-BZGC.

  • Judith L. Maute, Peevyhouse v. Garland Coal & Mining Co. Revisited: The Balld of Willie and Lucille, 89 Northwestern University Law Review 1341 (1995).*

  • Blake D. Morant, The Relevance of Race and Disparity in Discussions of Contract Law, 31 New England Law Review 889 (1997).*

  • Katheryn K. Russell, Affirmative (Re)Action: Anything but Race, 45 American University Law Review 803 (1996), https://perma.cc/K3WR-STFT.

  • Sean M. Scott, Contractual Incapacity and the Americans With Disabilities Act, 124 Dickinson Law Review 253 (2020), https://perma.cc/T8E9-U4EB.

  • Muriel Morisey Spence, Teaching Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co., 3 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review 89 (1993).*

  • Kevin M. Teeven, Moral Obligation Promise For Harm Caused, 39 Gonzaga Law Review 349 (2004).*

  • Deborah L. Threedy, Dancing Around Gender: Lessons From Arthur Murray on Gender and Contracts, 45 Wake Forest Law Review 749 (2010), https://perma.cc/6AGG-JWFF.

  • Deborah Zalesne, Racial Inequality in Contracting: Teaching Race as a Core Value, 3 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 23 (2013), https://perma.cc/X7FZ-TMSP.

Criminal Law

Criminal Law Cases and Materials

Articles

  • Beverly Balos, Teaching Prostitution Seriously, 4 Buffalo Criminal Law Review 709 (2001).*

  • Alletta Brenner, Resisting Simple Dichotomies: Critiquing Narratives of Victims, Perpetrators, and Harm in Feminist Theories of Rape, 36 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 503 (2013), https://perma.cc/K9ZX-BJ4L.

  • David Cole, The Paradox of Race and Crime: A Comment on Randall Kennedy's 'Politics of Distinction,' 83 Georgetown Law Journal 2547 (1994-1995).*

  • I. Bennett Capers, Real Rape Too, 99 California Law Review 1259 (2011), https://perma.cc/T25Z-V23F.

  • Richard Delgado, Rotten Social Background: Should the Criminal Law Recognize a Defense of Severe Environmental Deprivation, 3 Law & Inequality 9 (1985), https://perma.cc/B7J5-SEU6.

  • William N. Eskridge, Jr., Privacy Jurisprudence and the Apartheid of the Closet, 1946-1961, 24 Florida State University Law Review 703 (1997), https://perma.cc/29PL-GN5T.

  • Henry F. Fradella et al., Stephen S. Owen & Tod W. Burke, Integrating Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues into the Undergraduate Criminal Justice Curriculum, 20 Journal of Criminal Justice Education 127 (2009).*

  • Dwight L. Greene, Justice Scalia and Tonto, Judicial Pluralistic Ignorance, and the Myth of Colorless Individualism in Bostick v. Florida, 67 Tulane Law Review 1979 (1992-1993).*

  • Robert Heller, Selective Prosecution and the Federalization of Criminal Law: The Need for Meaningful Judicial Review of Prosecutorial Discretion, 145 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1309 (1997), https://perma.cc/MR5H-J4TV.

  • Sheri Lynn Johnson, Unconscious Racism and the Criminal Law, 73 Cornell Law Review 1016 (1987-1988), https://perma.cc/L6RC-YCKL.

  • Randall Kennedy, The State, Criminal Law, and Racial Discrimination: A Comment, 107 Harvard Law Review 1255 (1994).*

  • Susan S. Kuo, Cultural Clash: Teaching Cultural Defenses in the Criminal Law Classroom, 48 St. Louis University Law Journal 1297 (2004), https://perma.cc/8JTB-9YMX.

  • Tamara F. Lawson, Mainstreaming Civil Rights in Law School Curriculum: Criminal Law and Procedure, St. Louis University Law Journal 837 (2010), https://perma.cc/3L7Q-LGV7.

  • Cynthia Lee, The Gay Panic Defense, 42 U.C. Davis Law Review 471 (2008), https://perma.cc/324H-3ARY.

  • Cynthia Kwei Yung Lee, Race and Self-Defense: Toward a Normative Conception of Reasonableness, 81 Minnesota Law Review 367 (1996), https://perma.cc/UZM3-ZDE9.

  • Erin Lutes, James Purdon & Henry F. Fradella, When Music Takes the Stand: A Content Analysis of How Courts Use and Misuse Rap Lyrics in Criminal Cases, 46 American Journal of Criminal Law 77 (2019).*

  • Melissa Murray, Teaching Gender as a Core Value: The Softer Side of Criminal Law, 36 Oklahoma City University Law Review 525 (2011).*

  • Janai S. Nelson, Disparate Effects in the Criminal Justice: A Response to Randall Kennedy's Comment and its Legacy, 14 National Black Law Journal 222 (1994-1997), https://perma.cc/5ZHY-7M9A.

  • Editha Roasrio-Moore & Alexios Rosario-Moore, From the Ground Up: Criminal Law Education for Communities Most Affected by Mass Incarceration, 23 Clinical Law Review 753 (2017), https://perma.cc/NKM5-QDM8.

  • Leti Volpp, (Mis) Identifying Culture: Asian Women and the Cultural Defense, 17 Harvard Women's Law Journal 57 (1994).*

  • Nancy A. Wanderer & Catherine R. Connors, Culture and Crime: Kargar and the Existing Framework for a Cultural Defense, 47 Buffalo Law Review 829 (1999), https://perma.cc/4HVJ-J29P.

  • Gregory Howard Williams, Teaching Criminal Law: Objectivity in Black and White, 9 Harvard Blackletter Journal 27 (1992).*

Legislation and Regulation (coming soon)

Property

Property Law Cases and Materials

Books and Articles

  • Gregory Ablavsky, The Rise of Federal Title, 106 California Law Review 631 (2018), https://perma.cc/2CSP-EXP9.

  • Frances Lee Ansley, Race and the Core Curriculum in Legal Education, 79 California Law Review 1512 (1991), https://lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/1114027?ln=en.

  • Alfred Brophy, Alberto Lopez & Kali Murray, Integrating Spaces: Property Law and Race (2011).*

  • Angela Gilmore, Incorporating Issues of Sexual Orientation Into a First Year Property Law Course: Relevance and Responsibility, 32 Nova Law Review 595 (2008), https://perma.cc/6VA9-S4DC.

  • Dana G. Jim, Johnson v. M'Intosh and the South Dakota Fossil Cases, 46 St. Louis University Law Journal 791 (2002), https://perma.cc/5TR4-HEFG.

  • K-Sue Park, Conquest and Slavery as Foundational to the Property Law Course, in The Oxford Handbook of Race and Law in the United States (Devon Carbado, Khiara Bridges & Emily Houh eds., forthcoming), https://perma.cc/8LJV-DRUA.

  • Ezra Rosser, The State as the Foundation of Property, Law and Political Economy Project (Oct. 13, 2018), https://perma.cc/66CN-PXTW.

  • Vanita Saleema Snow, The Untold Story of the Justice Gap: Integrating Poverty Law into the Law School Curriculum, 37 Pace Law Review 642 (2017), https://perma.cc/JH8Z-HH8T.

  • Peter W. Salsich, Property Law Serves Human Society: A First-Year Course Agenda, 46 St. Louis University Law Journal 617 (2002), https://perma.cc/U6CM-MBMY.

  • Justin Simard, Citing Slavery, 72 Stanford Law Review 79 (2020), https://perma.cc/Z9SG-AK9J.

  • Joseph William Singer, Indian Title: Unraveling the Racial Context of Property Rights, or How to Stop Engaging in Conquest, 10 Albany Government Law Review 1 (2017), https://perma.cc/X5GX-86QY.

  • Joseph William Singer, Property and Sovereignty Imbricated: Why Religion is Not an Excuse to Discriminate in Public Accommodations, 18 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 519 (2017), https://perma.cc/L7AG-PT8S.

  • Amy Starecheski, How Does Private Property Work? A Case Study of Law-Breaking and Law-Making (unpublished manuscript) (Columbia Oral History MA Program).*

  • Rebecca Tushnet, Foreclosures and the Mortgage Crisis, in Open Source Property: A Free Casebook (Stephen Clowney et al. eds. 2020), https://opensourceproperty.org/download/.

  • Rebecca Tushnet, Zoning and Race, From Ladue to Ferguson, Law and Political Economy Project (Oct. 31, 2018), https://perma.cc/TKB2-G57L.

  • Alexander Vasudevan, From Shantytown to 'Operation Move-In' in Autonomous, in The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting (2017).*

  • Alexander Vasudevan, Reclaiming New York: Squatting and the Neoliberal City, in The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting (2017).*

  • Joan C. Williams, Gender as a Core Value: Teaching Property, 36 Oklahoma City University Law Review 551 (2011), https://perma.cc/2XHV-88YY.

Torts

Copy of Copy of Torts_Case Research

Articles

  • Ronen Avraham & Kimberly Yuracko, Torts & Discrimination, 78 Ohio State Law Journal 661 (2017), https://perma.cc/9D6J-8NVG.

  • Taunya Lovell Banks, Teaching Laws with Flaws: Adopting a Pluralistic Approach to Torts, 57 Missouri Law Review 443 (1992), https://perma.cc/F4T8-WPPJ.

  • Leslie Bender, A Lawyer's Primer on Feminist Theory and Tort, 38 Journal of Legal Education 3 (1988).*

  • Richard W. Bourne, A "Traditionalist’s" Approach to Teaching O'Brien and to Ideology in the Classroom, 57 Missouri Law Review 455-499 (1992).*

  • Martha Chamallas, The Architecture of Bias: Deep Structures in Tort Law, 146 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 463 (1998), https://perma.cc/X32T-C5JK.

  • Martha Chamallas, Civil Rights in Ordinary Tort Cases: Race, Gender, and the Calculation of Economic Loss, 38 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 1435 (2005), https://perma.cc/B6JN-K6VP.

  • Martha Chamallas, Gaining Some Perspective in Tort Law: A New Take on Third-Party Criminal Attack Cases, 14 Lewis & Clark Law Review 1351 (2010), https://perma.cc/SB34-FCQC.

  • Martha Chamallas, Vicarious Liability in Torts: The Sex Exception, 48 Valparaiso University Law Review 133 (2013), https://perma.cc/E58R-4DFV.

  • Martha Chamallas, Will Tort Law Have its #MeToo Moment?, 11 Journal of Tort Law 39 (2018).*

  • Martha Chamallas & Linda K. Kerber, Women, Mothers, and the Law of Fright: A History, 88 Michigan Law Review 814 (1990), https://perma.cc/EB6W-UBWF.

  • Jay M. Feinman, The Ideology of Legal Reasoning in the Classroom, 57 Missouri Law Review 363 (1992).*

  • Dan M. Kahan, David A. Hoffman & Donald Braman, Whose Eyes are you Going to Believe? Scott v. Harris and the Perils of Cognitive Illiberalism, 122 Harvard Law Review 837 (2009), https://perma.cc/P77S-K927.

  • Harry J.F. Korrell, The Liability of Mentally Disabled Tort Defendants, 19 Law & Psychology Review 1 (1995).*

  • Robert H. Lande, A Law & Economics Perspective on a "Traditional" Torts Case: Insights for Classroom and Courtroom, 57 Missouri Law Review 399-441 (1992), https://perma.cc/A2A5-ZF2W.

  • Mari Matsuda, On Causation, 100 Columbia Law Review 2195 (2000), https://perma.cc/TK5J-5THS.

  • Adam A. Milani, Living in the World: A New Look at the Disabled in the Law of Torts, 48 Catholic University Law Review 323 (1999), https://perma.cc/FLL5-B8EK.

  • Camille A. Nelson, Considering Tortuitous Racism, DePaul Journal of Healthcare Law 9 (2005).*

  • Lisa R. Pruitt, "On the Chastity of Women All Property in the World Depends": Injury from Sexual Slander in the Nineteenth Century, 78 Indiana Law Journal 965 (2003), https://perma.cc/3UG3-QFUH.

  • Margaret Radin, Compensation and Commensurability 43 Duke Law Journal 56 (1993), https://perma.cc/5YJM-NVU4.

  • Margo Schlanger, Injured Women Before Common Law Courts, 1860-1930, 21 Harvard Women's Law Journal 79 (1998), https://perma.cc/D79G-2SJ4.

  • Ann C. Shalleck, Feminist Legal Theory and the Reading of O'Brien v. Cunard, 57 Missouri Law Review 371 (1992), https://perma.cc/Z3NB-Y8RD.

  • Debora L. Threedy, United States v. Hatahley: A Legal Archaeology Case Study in Law and Racial Conflict, 34 American Indian Law Review 1 (2009), https://perma.cc/4XZY-VFGN.

  • Mark C. Weber, The Common Law of Disability Discrimination, 2012 Utah Law Review 429 (2012).*

  • Jennifer B. Wriggins, Toward a Feminist Revision of Torts, 13 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & Law 139 (2005), https://perma.cc/M9X7-NFHS.

  • Kimberly A. Yuracko & Ronen Avraham, Valuing Black Lives: A Constitutional Challenge to the Use of Race-Based Tables in Calculating Tort Damages, 106 California Law Review 325 (2018), https://perma.cc/X2DK-HNJY.