The first year professors have curated this list of critical perspective readings. The purpose of these sources is to ensure that critical perspectives are not separate from, but are instead fully integrated into, our curriculum.
Brooke D. Coleman, #SoWhiteMale (federal civil rulemaking), 113 Nw. U. L. Rev. Online 52 (2018).
Jerry Kang et al., Are Ideal Litigators White? Measuring the Myth of Colorblindness, (UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 09-24, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, 2009).
Suzette Malveaux, A Diamond in the Rough: Trans-Substantivity of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Its Detrimental Impact on Civil Rights, 92 Wash. U. L. Rev. 455 (2014).
Shirin Sinnar, The Lost Story of Iqbal, 105 Georgetown L. J. 379 (2017).
Eric K. Yamamoto, Critical Procedure: ADR and the Justices’ “Second Wave” Constriction of Court Access and Claim Development, 70 SMU L. Rev. 765 (2017).
Robert Chang, Our Constitution Has Never Been Colorblind, 54 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1307 (2024).
Robert Chang, Will LGBT Antidiscrimination Law Follow the Course of Race Antidiscrimination Law?, 100 Minn. L. Rev. 2103 (2016).
Robert Post & Reva Siegel, Roe Rage: Democratic Constitutionalism and Backlash, 42 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 373 (2007).
Devon W. Carbado & Kimberle W. Crenshaw, An Intersectional Critique of Tiers of Scrutiny: Beyond "either/or" Approaches to Equal Protection, 129 Yale L.J. F. 108 (2019-2020).
Devon W. Carbado, Strict Scrutiny & the Black Body, 69 UCLA L. Rev. 2 (2022).
Katie Eyer, Anti-Transgender Constitutional Law, 73 Vand. L. Rev. 1113 (2024).
Katie Eyer, Constitutional Crossroads and the Canon of Rational Basis Review, 48 U.C.D. L. Rev. 527 (2014).
Katie Eyer, Transgender Constitutional Law, 171 U. PA. L. Rev. 1405 (2023).
Dov Fox & Mary Ziegler, The Lost History of "History and Tradition" (May 5, 2024), San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 24-015, 98 S. Calif. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024).
Darren Lenard Hutchinson, 'Not Without Political Power': Gays and Lesbians, Equal Protection, and the Suspect Class Doctrine, 65 Ala. L. Rev. 975 (2014).
Nazune Menka, Native Nation Resistance to the Machinations of Settler Colonial Democracy, 59 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 149 (2024).
Douglas NeJaime & Reva Siegel, Answering the Lochner Objection: Substantive Due Process and the Role of Courts in a Democracy, 96 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1902 (2021).
Blake D. Morant, The Relevance of Race and Disparity in Discussions of Contract Law, 31 New Eng. L. Rev. 889 (1997).
Deborah Post & Deborah Zalesne, Vulnerability in Contracting: Teaching First Year Law Students about Inequality and Its Consequences (2010).
Debora L. Threedy, Feminists & Contract Doctrine, 32 Ind. L. Rev. 1247 (1999).
Lisa Avalos, The Under-Policing of Crimes Against Black Women, 73 Case W. Rsrv. L. Rev. 795 (2023).
Michele Godwin, The Thirteenth Amendment: Modern Slavery, Capitalism, and Mass Incarceration, 104 Cornell L. Rev., (May 15, 2019).
Alexis Hoag-Fordjour, Black on Black Representation, 96 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1493 (2021) (also straddles Con Law and Crim Law).
Darren Lenard Hutchinson, 'Continually Reminded of Their Inferior Position': Social Dominance, Implicit Bias, Criminality, and Race, 46 Wash. U. J. L. & Pol’y, 23 (2015).
Rashida Richardson et al., Dirty Data, Bad Predictions: How Civil Rights Violations Impact Police Data, Predictive Policing Systems, and Justice, 94 N.Y.U. L. Rev. Online 192 (2019).
Sam Spital, The US Supreme Court Should Stop the Execution of a Man Sentenced, in Part, Because He’s Black, National Law Journal (reprinted with permission in Legal Defense Fund on Feb. 15, 2019).
Jean Stefancic & Richard Delgado, Critical Perspectives on Police, Policing, and Mass Incarceration, 104 Geo. L. J. 1531 (2016).
Robert L. Tsai, After McCleskey, 96 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1031 (2023) (straddles Con Law and Crim Law).
Lorraine K. Bannai & Anne Enquist, (Un)Examined Assumptions and (Un)Intended Messages: Teaching Students to Recognize Bias in Legal Analysis and Language, 27 Seattle U. L. Rev. 1 (2003).
Robert S. Chang, Whitewashing Precedent: From the Chinese Exclusion Case to Korematsu to the Muslim Travel Ban Cases, 68 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 1183 (2018).
Lucy Jewel, Comparative Legal Rhetoric, 110 Ky. L.J. 107 (2022).
Susan McMahon, What We Teach When We Teach Legal Analysis, 107 Minn. L. Rev. 2511 (2023).
Teri McMurtry-Chubb, Still Writing at the Master’s Table: Decolonizing Rhetoric in Legal Writing for a “Woke” Legal Academy, 21 The Scholar 255 (2019).
Cheryl I. Harris, Whiteness as Property, 106 Harv. L. Rev. 1707 (1993).
Mark Lazarus III, An Historical Analysis of Alien Land Law: Washington Territory and State 1853-1889,12 U. Puget Sound L. Rev., 197 (1987).
Joseph William Singer, Indian Title: Unraveling the Racial Context of Property Rights, or How to Stop Engaging in Conquest, 10 Alb. Gov't L. Rev. 1 (2017).
Richard Delgado, Words that Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name-Calling, 17 Harv. C. R.-C.L.L. Rev. 133 (1982).
On the impact that race, gender and ethnicity have on torts damages awards:
DARIELY RODRIGUEZ & HOPE KWIATKOWSKI, LAWYERS’ COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER LAW, HOW RACE, ETHNICITY, AND GENDER IMPACT YOUR LIFE'S WORTH: DISCRIMINATION IN CIVIL DAMAGE AWARDS (2018).
Ronan Avraham & Kim Yuracko, Torts and Discrimination, 78 Ohio St. L. J. 661 (2017).
Nora Freeman Engstrom & Robert L. Rabin, California Bars the Calculation of Tort Damages Based on Race, Gender and Ethnicity, SLS BLOGS (Nov. 13, 2019).
On the consequences of law’s failure to define discrimination as an actionable tort:
Sandra Sperino, Let’s Pretend Discrimination is a Tort, 75 Ohio St. L. J. 1105 (2014).
