Kimberlé Crenshaw begins the discussion by asking "how can the law be marshalled to serve the historically marginalized?"
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Devon Carbado, a professor at
@UCLA_Law, disusses Justice Ginsburg in Florida v. J.L., where she held that reasonable suspicion doesn't mean you get to stop people based on an anonymous tip that there's a Black man out there in a plaid shirt.Näytä tämä ketju
Prof. Crenshaw explains that we need to recognize how racial advantages are embedded in systems that distribute social opportunities and try to interrupt those processes. Yet working toward greater equity is exactly what President Trump would call "reverse racism."
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@ProfMMurray discusses Coker v. Georgia, in which Justice Ginsburg filed a brief arguing against a Georgia law authorizing the death penalty in cases of rape, and argued that it served to highlight the degree to which women were seen historically as the property of men.Näytä tämä ketju -
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@ProfMMurray and@sandylocks talk about Pauli Murray, one of the pre-eminent civil rights activists and lawyers of her time who worked with Justice Thurgood Marshall and deeply influenced Justice Ginsburg.#UnderTheBlacklightNäytä tämä ketju -
Suzanne Goldberg, Executive Vice President of
@Columbia, discusses her role in litigating Romer v. Evans, in which the Court held that civil rights are not special rights. They are laws that enable people to access basic protections and fully participate in our society.Näytä tämä ketju -
"There is a part of the profession that has been reserved in particularly elite ways and that actually fails to reach out and include all of the people who ought to be part of this aspect of the profession." -
@Sifill_LDF on the lack of diversity in certain prestigious legal jobs.Näytä tämä ketju
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