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Diversity & Racial Justice Resources

General - Books

General - Articles

Discovering Identity in Civil Procedure
Anthony V. Alfieri
83 S. Cal. L. Rev. 453 (2010)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Integrating Racial Justice into the Civil Procedure Survey Course
Kevin R. Johnson
54 J. Legal Educ. 242 (2004)
SSRN            HeinOnline

A Diamond in the Rough: Trans-Substantivity of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Its Detrimental Impact on Civil Rights
Suzette Malveaux
92 Wash. U. L. Rev. 455 (2014)
Wash. U. L. Rev. Archive            HeinOnline

Access to the Courts - Articles

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

The Vanishing Plaintiff
Brooke D. Coleman
42 Seton Hall L. Rev. 501 (2012)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Critical Race Empiricism: A New Means to Measure Civil Procedure
Victor D. Quintanilla
3 UC Irvine L. Rev. 187 (2014)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Facilitating Wage Theft: How Courts Use Procedural Rules to Undermine Substantive Rights of Low-Wage Workers
Nantiya Ruan
63 Vand. L. Rev. 727 (2010)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Access to Civil Justice and Race, Class, and Gender Inequality
Rebecca L. Sandefur
34 Ann. Rev. Soc. 339 (2008)
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United States v. Hatahley: A Legal Archaeology Case Study in Law and Racial Conflict
Debora Threedy
34 Am. Indian L. Rev. 1 (2008)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Alternative Dispute Resolution - Articles

Arbitration and the Batson Principle
Sarah Rudolph Cole & E. Gary Spitko
38 Ga. L. Rev. 1145 (2004)
SSRN            HeinOnline

The Mediation Alternative: Process Dangers for Women
Trina Grillo
100 Yale L.J. 1545 (1991)
HeinOnline

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

Negotiating the Situation: The Reasonable Person in Context
Lu-in Wang
14 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 1285 (2010)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Resolving Race Discrimination in Employment Disputes Through Mediation: A Win-Win for All Parties
Floyd D. Weatherspoon & Kendall D. Isaac
5 Am. J. Mediation 111 (2011)
SSRN            HeinOnline

United States v. Hatahley: A Legal Archaeology Case Study in Law and Racial Conflict
Debora Threedy
34 Am. Indian L. Rev. 1 (2008)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Class Actions - Books

Class Actions - Articles

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Protecting Gender Discrimination Named Plaintiffs from Employer Attacks
Hillary Jo Baker
20 Hastings Women's L.J. 83 (2009)
HeinOnline

Why Slavery Reparations Are Good for Civil Procedure Class
Bob Carlson
47 St. Louis U. L.J. 139 (2003)
HeinOnline

Reinvigorating Commonality: Gender & Class Actions
Brooke D. Coleman & Elizabeth G. Porter
92 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 895 (2017)
SSRN            HeinOnline

The History Behind Hansberry v. Lee
Allen R. Kamp
20 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 481 (1987)

U.C. Davis            HeinOnline

The Modern Class Action Rule: Its Civil Rights Roots and Relevance Today
Suzette M. Malveaux
66 U. Kan. L. Rev. 325 (2017)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Disability, Disparate Impact, and Class Actions
Michael Stein & Michael Evan Waterstone
56 Duke L.J. 861 (2006)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Discovery - Articles

Unfolding Discovery Issues That Plague Sexual Harassment Suits
Katie M. Patton
57 Hastings L.J. 991 (2006)
HeinOnline

Injunctions - Articles

Difference Made Legal: The Court and Dr. King
David Luban
87 Mich. L. Rev. 2152 (1989)

HeinOnline

Kennedy, King, Shuttlesworth and Walker: The Events Leading to the Introduction of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
David Benjamin Oppenheimer
29 U.S.F. L. Rev. 645 (1995)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Martin Luther King, Walker v. City of Birmingham, and the Letter from Birmingham Jail
David Benjamin Oppenheimer
26 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 791 (1993)
U.C. Davis            HeinOnline

Judges, Juries, & Lawyers - Judges

Do Judges Vary in Their Treatment of Race?
David Abrams et al.
41 J. Legal Stud. 347 (2012)
SSRN            HeinOnline

The Realism of Race in Judicial Decision Making: An Empirical Analysis of Plaintiffs' Race and Judges' Race
Pat K. Chew & Robert E. Kelley
28 Harv. J. Racial & Ethnic Just 91 (2012)

SSRN            HeinOnline

Judging Women
Stephen J. Choi et al.
8 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 504 (2011)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Implicit Bias in the Courtroom
Jerry Kang et al.
59 UCLA L. Rev. 1124 (2012)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Judges, Juries, & Lawyers - Juries

Implicit Bias in the Courtroom
Jerry Kang et al.
59 UCLA L. Rev. 1124 (2012)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Race and Representation in Jury Service Selection
Kurt M. Saunders
36 Duq. L. Rev. 49 (1997)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Judges, Juries, & Lawyers - Lawyers

Are Ideal Litigators White? Measuring the Myth of Colorblindness
Jerry Kang et al.
7 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 886 (2010)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Jurisdiction - Articles

Negotiating Jurisdiction: State Authority over Indian Country Granted by Public Law 280
Robert T. Anderson
87 Wash. L. Rev. 915 (2012)
SSRN            HeinOnline

New Evidence that Dred Scott was Wrong About Whether Free Blacks Could Count for the Purposes of Federal Diversity Jurisdiction
Stanton D. Krauss
37 Conn. L. Rev. 25 (2004)

SSRN            HeinOnline

Categorical Federalism: Jurisdiction, Gender and the Globe
Judith Resnik
111 Yale L.J. 619 (2001)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Reconstructing Equality: Of Justice, Justicia, and the Gender of Jurisdiction
Judith Resnik
14 Yale J. L. & Feminism 393 (2002)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Procedural Due Process - Articles

Judicial Deference to Nonlegal Decisionmakers: Imposing Simplistic Solutions on Problems of Cognitive Complexity in Mental Disability Law
Donald N. Bersoff
46 SMU L. Rev. 329 (1992)
SMU Law Review            HeinOnline

Lassiter v. Department of Social Services: Why is it Such a Lousy Case?
Brooke D. Coleman
12 Nev. L.J. 591 (2012)

SSRN            HeinOnline

Politics and Due Process: The Rhetoric of Social Security Disability Law
Anthony Taibi
1990 Duke L.J. 913 (1990)
Duke Law Journal            HeinOnline

Rulemaking - Articles

#SoWhiteMale: Federal Civil Rulemaking
Brooke D. Coleman
113 Nw. U. L. Rev. Online 52 (2018)
Northwestern Univ. Law Review            HeinOnline

The Committee That Dictates the Rules of American Courts Looks Nothing Like America—or the Federal Judiciary
Brooke D. Coleman
Oct. 24, 2018
Slate

Statute of Limitations - Articles

Statutes of Limitations: A Policy Analysis in the Context of Reparations Litigation
Suzette M. Malveaux
74 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 68 (2005)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Summary Judgment - Articles

Processing Civil Rights Summary Judgment and Consumer Discrimination Claims
Deseriee A. Kennedy
53 Depaul L. Rev. 989 (2004)
SSRN            HeinOnline

The Dangers of Summary Judgment: Gender and Federal Civil Litigation
Elizabeth M. Schneider
59 Rutgers L. Rev. 705 (2007)
SSRN            HeinOnline