The Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard will undoubtedly generate enormous debate. Much of that debate will likely focus on whether Chief
Justice Roberts effectively overruled the very precedent he purported to apply. Whether the Chief Justice evidenced fidelity to the affirmative action case law he [...]
In this Essay, I illustrate how Asian Americans’ positioning intersected with litigation strategy and constitutional issues in Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board—an
important recent ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that deals with race-neutral public magnet school admissions policies. [...]
Table of Contents Show The common wisdom about the Court’s unprecedented decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization[1] is that it moved decision-making
about abortion from the federal government to the states. No doubt this is true: A regime that regulated abortion through a single federal constitutional standard [...]
This Note explores the idea of paying Americans to cast their ballots as a mechanism to increase electoral participation among lower income voters and rebalance the influence
that wealthy Americans have on policy outcomes. The Note begins by exploring the rationale behind the idea, drawing on political science, economic, and legal literature [...]
Hatred and disinformation on the internet have ushered in a state of emergency for gender-variant people. Among other effects, they have generated political will to enact sweeping
regulations that threaten to eradicate gender variance “from public life entirely,” as one political commentator has announced. [...]
Occupational licensing has been under attack from across the political spectrum. Economists argue that it is inefficient and costly; policymakers argue that it limits employment
opportunities and hurts consumers; and antitrust regulators argue that it limits competition and creates cartels. [...]
It’s widely understood today that inequality is a major social problem that in turn contributes to other crises. By most accounts, tax systems are supposed to be our engines
of equality. Yet in today’s United States, state and local tax systems mostly do the opposite: They take a greater percentage of the resources of the poor and middle [...]
Scholars and advocates have long argued that a person’s consent to a warrantless police search is often so inherently coerced, uninformed, and shaped by race, class, gender,
citizenship status, and disability that to call it a “choice” is fiction. This critique is not limited to police searches based on consent. [...]
Social Sciences, Vol. 14, Pages 414: Interpreting “Translanguages” in Transnational Women’s Literature: Socially Situated Perspectives and Feminist Close-Readings
Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci14070414 [...]
Social Sciences, Vol. 14, Pages 413: Refusing Surveillance, Reframing Risk: Insights from Sex-Working Parents for Transforming Social Work Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci14070413
Authors: Kimberly Fuentes [...]
