Category: Law

  • Gordon Fox Pleads Guilty in Rhode Island Corruption Case The New York Times 2015-03-03 Richard Pérez-Peña The climb took decades, but the fall was swift. Less than a year removed from his reign as speaker of the Rhode Island House, Gordon D. Fox pleaded guilty on Tuesday to taking bribes, wire fraud and filing a…

  • Unique among books on interracial relationships, this book examines the lives of high profile men who have produced public discourses on race and interracial relationships and who themselves, often contradictory to their rhetoric, were or continue to be involved in love relationships across the color line.

  • Because of Our Success: The Changing Racial and Ethnic Ancestry of Blacks on Affirmative Action Carolina Academic Press December 2014 404 pages Paper ISBN: 978-1-61163-444-0 Kevin Brown, Richard S. Melvin Professor of Law Maurer School of Law Indiana University When selective colleges, universities, and graduate programs instituted affirmative action policies in the 1960s, 99.4 percent…

  • 394. Paper Session: New Issues in Race and Identity Crossing Borders: 2015 Annual Meeting Eastern Sociological Society Millennium Broadway Hotel New York, New York 2015-02-26 through 2015-03-01 Sunday, 2015-03-01, 10:15-11:45 EST (Local Time) Presider: Vilna Bashi Treitler, Baruch College, City University of New York Blacks, Latinos, Jews and Foreigners are Taking Over: How Innumeracy About…

  • Baby Gammy and the Sexual Politics of Mixed Race Asians Multiracial Asian Families: thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID/Asian 2015-02-25 Sharon H. Chang A couple years ago young Thai mother Pattaramon Chanbua agreed to be a surrogate for Australian couple David and Wendy Farnell. It was a disaster. Last week…

  • Controversial ruling in Spence unlikely to apply to many other estates cases AdvocateDaily.com: Canada’s Legal News 2015-02-24 Lisa Laredo The court decision in Spence v. BMO Trust Company, 2015 ONSC 615 (CanLII) has led to concerns about court interference and uncertainty in estate planning. An Ontario court judge held a will to be invalid due…

  • Building a Face, and a Case, on DNA The New York Times 2015-02-23 Andrew Pollack The police in Columbia, S.C.,  released this sketch of a possible suspect based on DNA left at the crime scene. Parabon NanoLabs, which made the image, has begun offering DNA phenotyping services to law enforcement agencies. There were no known…

  • The Kidnapping of Mollie Digby: Was the Fair-Haired Stranger Actually Mollie? All Things Crime 2015-02-20 Darcia Helle In 1870, New Orleans was a city divided by politics, class, and race. The Civil War had left much of the south reeling, and now the government’s Radical Reconstruction attempted to force change by integrating the black population…

  • Once White in America Nation of Change 2015-02-16 Jane Lazarre Jane Lazarre provides a very intimate post-Ferguson view of what it means to her to raise her two black sons in the “afterlife of such a world.” Are we living in a world of American barbarism? For Adam and Khary Black bodies swingin’ in the…

  • Checking Boxes: A close look at mixed-race identity and the law Macomb County Leagal News Mt. Clemens, Michgan 2015-02-05 Jenny Whalen, ‎Web Communications Specialist School of Law University of Michigan Professor Martha S. Jones has long struggled with the idea of checking more than one box. Her reluctance to do so has been influenced by…