Inequality Inquiry
Articles
Statement on COVID-19: Addressing Inequity Within Our Law School
January 31, 2022
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
January 27, 2022
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
January 24, 2022
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
January 19, 2022
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
January 12, 2022
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
January 11, 2022
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...