Jan 30, 2025 · Summary This article critically examines how the legal community can play a pivotal role in debunking persistent myths surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Five key misconceptions—The Myth of Meritocracy, The Myth of a Post-Racial America, The Myth of Colorblindness, The Myth that DEI is a Bad Word, and The Myth of DEI Fatigue—are covered. In addition to demystifying DEI ...

Jan 22, 2025 · PROTECTING CIVIL RIGHTS AND EXPANDING INDIVIDUAL OPPORTUNITY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an historic Executive Order that protects the civil rights of all Americans and expands ...

Jan 17, 2025 · UC Berkeley professor Dylan Penningroth's book "Before the Movement" reveals the many ways Black Americans navigated the law by asserting their civil rights of property.

May 24, 2022 · In the second quarter of 2021, 88% of people incarcerated in jails in the state were white, 16% were Black, 2% were Native American and 1% were classified as “other race.”

This timeline provides an overview of some of these laws, beginning with the first known case marking the legal difference between Africans and Europeans in 1640 in Virginia, and continuing with laws recently introduced in the wake of the killing of …

Alexandra Natapoff, Constitutional Rights in Black and White: A Video Casebook (2021). Harvard Law School provides unparalleled opportunities to study law with extraordinary colleagues in a …

May 21, 2019 · Black Americans are far more likely than whites to say the nation’s criminal justice system is racially biased and that its treatment of minorities is a serious national problem.

Oct 30, 2024 · Black codes and Jim Crow laws were laws passed at different periods in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation and curtail the power of Black voters.

We find that the majority of the disparity between black and white sentences can be explained by differences in legally permitted characteristics, in particular, the arrest offense and the defendant’s criminal history.

Feb 7, 2023 · At the same time, law firms have been at the center of a history of intentional discrimination in the legal profession. It is no secret that law firms historically explicitly refused to hire women, Jewish people, and of course Black, Latinx, and Asian lawyers.