Inequality Inquiry

Articles

Statement on COVID-19: Addressing Inequity Within Our Law School

JLI Editorial Board Over the past year and a half, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted deeply-rooted inequities within our law school community. Coupled with the...

It’s Time to End the Use of Race & Gender Statistics in Damage Award Calculations

By Joe Scanlon* There are well-documented inequalities in the American legal system. For instance, numerous studies indicate that Black Americans are arrested more often and...

How a New Ohio Law and Other State Reforms Are Changing the Landscape of Mental Health and Criminal Justice

By Bailey Martin* In 2021, two men sentenced to death in 1999 and 2004, David Braden and Donald Ketterer, were removed from Ohio’s death row...

A New Minneapolis: Opportunities in the Redistricting of Minneapolis Wards

By Hannah Stephan* Since the completion of the 2020 U.S. Census, states and cities around the country have begun the process of redistricting. On the...

The Rise and Fall of Legalized Recreational Marijuana in South Dakota

by Lottie James* By the late evening of November 3, 2020, it had become abundantly clear that a majority of South Dakotans support the legalization...

Who Is the Foreseeable User?: Manufacturers’ Duty to Warn Multilingual Users

by Abbie Maier* More than 350 languages are spoken in United States homes. In certain U.S. cities, Spanish speakers represent the majority of the population...