Inequality Inquiry
Articles
The Constitutionality of SB 1142
April 28, 2022
By Chase Lindemann [1] On March 1, 2022, Oklahoma State Senator Rob Standridge introduced Senate Bill 1142 to the Oklahoma Senate Floor. [2] SB 1142’s...
What’s Wrong With My Hair?: Discrimination Against Black Hair in the Workplace
April 26, 2022
By Jocelyn Rimes* I spent the days leading up to my first day of my summer law clerk position agonizing over how I would do...
Signing Away Your Right to Parent: How Safety Plans Evade Due Process Requirements in Child Welfare Proceedings
April 20, 2022
By Eleanor Khirallah* Our legal system prides itself on the right to due process when facing deprivations of “ life, liberty, or property.” It is...
An Illogical and Harmful Assessment: Credibility Findings in Trauma Survivor Asylum Applicants
April 18, 2022
By Linnea VanPilsum-Bloom* The current focus on and process for establishing credibility in asylum application interviews is illogical and harmful. A person who seeks asylum...
Racism, Social Control, and the Regulation of Bar Admissions
April 14, 2022
By Professor David Schultz* Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. famously declared: “The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.” When...
Out of the Cell and Into the Fire: Inherently Dangerous Prison Work Assignments, the Eighth Amendment’s Guarantee of Safe Conditions of Confinement, and California’s AB-2147
April 13, 2022
by River Lord [1] Using the labor of inmates in the United States has a long and controversial tradition. Many observers have identified how higher...
Attack on the Right to Choose
April 12, 2022
By Laura Gustafson* A person’s right to choose has been under attack by state actions for some time, making headlines as the Supreme Court rules...
“The Harvest of Solidarity”: Achievements of Black Activists Following the 1921 Duluth Lynchings
April 11, 2022
By Brenna Evans [1] Minnesota’s history with lynchings is a long and bloody one. [2] Over two dozen lynching attacks stain Minnesota’s history, but none...
Discriminating Against Survivors of Domestic Violence as Sex-Based Discrimination Under Title VII
April 6, 2022
By Kendra Saathoff* Discriminating against a woman for being a victim of domestic violence is sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act...
Insurer Liability for Discriminatory Policies: Can Insurers as Agents of the Employer Be Liable Under Title VII?
April 5, 2022
By Elizabeth Wellhausen* In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964 . One section of the Act, referred...