Center for the Study of Race and Law

Research

Remembering: The Constitution and Federally Funded Apartheid
Joy Milligan
For much of the twentieth century, the U.S. government authorized and invested heavily in segregation and racial inequality. Often it did so through... MORE
Algorithmic Risk Assessment in the Hands of Humans
Megan T. Stevenson
We evaluate the impacts of adopting algorithmic risk assessments as an aid to judicial discretion in felony sentencing. We find that judges'... MORE
Why the Equal Rights Amendment Would Endanger Women’s Equality: Lessons from Colorblind Constitutionalism
Kim Forde-Mazrui
The purpose of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to those who drafted it and those who worked for nearly a century to see it ratified, is women’s... MORE

Dynamic Property Taxes and Racial Gentrification
Andrew Hayashi
Many jurisdictions determine real property taxes based on a combination of current market values and the recent history of market values, introducing... MORE
Does Cash Bail Deter Misconduct?
Megan T. Stevenson
Courts routinely use low cash bail as a financial incentive to ensure that released defendants appear in court and abstain from crime. This can... MORE
For Cause: Rethinking Racial Exclusion and the American Jury
Thomas Frampton
Peremptory strikes, and criticism of the permissive constitutional framework regulating them, have dominated the scholarship on race and the jury for... MORE

Misdemeanors by the Numbers
Megan T. Stevenson
Recent scholarship has underlined the importance of criminal misdemeanor law enforcement, including the impact of public-order policing on... MORE
The Equal-Protection Challenge to Federal Indian Law
Michael Doran
This article addresses a significant challenge to federal Indian law currently emerging in the federal courts. In 2013, the Supreme Court suggested... MORE
Foreword: One Year After Charlottesville: Replacing the Resurgence of Racism with Reconciliation
Risa Goluboff
On August 11 and 12, 2017, Charlottesville, Virginia — the home of the University of Virginia and this law journal — played unwitting host to two... MORE

What Justice Thomas Gets Right about Batson
Thomas Frampton
Justice Thomas’s dissent in Flowers v. Mississippi has been met with disdain in the popular press. In the New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin declared Justice... MORE
When White Supremacists Invade a City
Richard C. Schragger
In August 2017, hundreds of white supremacists came to Charlottesville, Virginia, ostensibly to protest the city council’s decision to remove a... MORE
The Jim Crow Jury
Thomas Frampton
Since the end of Reconstruction, the criminal jury box has both reflected and reproduced racial hierarchies in the United States. In the Plessy era,... MORE

About

Lawyers cannot fully understand the American legal landscape without studying the impact of race. The Law School founded the Center for the Study of Race and Law in 2003 to provide opportunities for students, scholars, practitioners and community members to examine and exchange ideas related to race and law through lectures, symposia and scholarship. The center also coordinates with the Law School to offer a concentration of courses on race and law, and serves as a resource for faculty whose teaching or scholarship addresses subjects related to race.