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May 14, 2024 · Prof. Kim Forde-Mazrui of the University of Virginia responds to Sonja Starr’s print Article, The Magnet School Wars and the Future of Colorblindness.Forde-Mazrui argues that even if courts adopt the “ends-colorblindness” framework described by Starr, “alternative action” policies meant to promote diversity may still be constitutionally permissible.
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May 14, 2024 · As part of Stanford Law Review's 2023 Symposium on Access to Justice, this Essay explains how medical-legal partnerships--community-based programs that embed lawyers within healthcare teams--offer a promising model to address our country's justice gap.By using trusted institutions to connect people to the resources they need and embracing a bottom-up "patients-to-policy" approach, medical ...
General Law and the Fourteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment’s Section One is central to our constitutional law. Yet its underlying principles remain surprisingly obscure. Its drafting history seems filled with contradictions, and there is no scholarly consensus on what rights it protects, …
The Making of the A2J Crisis | Stanford Law Review
Nov 7, 2023 · After decades of neglect, access to justice has roared onto legal and political radars, fueled by a growing realization—first among lawyers but increasingly among the wider American public—that the civil justice system is in crisis.
Interpreting Obstruction: The Capitol Riot & Donald Trump
Jan 6, 2024 · Introduction. At 1:00 PM on January 6, 2021, a Joint Session of Congress convened to certify the election results of President Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump. 1 Open this footnote Close this footnote 1 United States v. Montgomery, 578 F. …
Law Schools, Professionalism, and the First Amendment
After students at Stanford Law School disrupted a Federalist Society event featuring Judge Kyle Duncan in March 2023, then-Dean Jenny Martinez issued a lengthy statement recognizing that “offensive, vulgar, or provocative” expression at campus events is “perhaps constitutionally protected” but argued “it is within our educational mandate to …
Lawyers Aren’t Rent - Stanford Law Review
Jul 8, 2023 · Abstract. Most low-income tenants facing eviction do not need a lawyer. They need rent money. Recent policy emphasis on right to counsel obscures the real injustice at play in our eviction courts: the monetization of residential housing, the protection of property and profit at the expense of the poor, and the exploitation of the human need for shelter as a mechanism to line the pockets of the ...
Rethinking Strategy After Dobbs | Stanford Law Review
Introduction. Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v.Wade and Planned Parenthood v.Casey, the movement for abortion rights and access finds itself in uncharted territory. 1 Open this footnote Close this footnote 1 See Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org., 142 S. Ct. 2228, 2242 (2022) (overruling Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), and Planned Parenthood of Se. Pa. v. Casey, 505 U.S ...
The Right to Vote - Stanford Law Review
Apr 29, 2022 · An election undoubtedly requires some rules to ensure that it is ‘free and fair,’ but at what point do these rules diminish the equal opportunity
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