Civil Rights and Liberties — Topics
Immigration, Citizenship, and Voting Rights in the Second Trump Administration
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 23, 2026
What Happened to Liam? The Detention of Immigrant Youth
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 26, 2026
“Words Written on Water”—Targeted Immigration Enforcement Under the Trump Administration
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, January 22, 2026
The Justice Gap: The Case for Expanded Legal Aid Services
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 10, 2025
Administrative Censorship: The Pentagon’s Press Rules as an Abridgment of Press Freedoms
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 7, 2025
Minneapolis Organization Spotlight: New Justice Project MN
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 11, 2025
Punishment or “Protection”? The Case Challenging Racialized Homelessness Nationwide
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 7, 2025
The Deportation Marketplace: The Unethical and Potentially Illegal Deal with El Salvador’s Mega-Prison
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 1, 2025
Expanding Compassionate Release Eligibility in a Post-COVID World
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, February 27, 2025
FBI Breaks It, FBI Buys It: Will SCOTUS Finally Make Sure the Feds Pick Up the Tab When They Raid the Wrong House?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, February 27, 2025
Fifth Circuit En-Banc Split Produces Dangerous Theories of Racialized Politics
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, January 27, 2025
Artificial Intelligence and Facial Recognition: Biases & Privacy Concerns
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 25, 2024
The Cost of Bad Apples: Recovery for Sexual Assault Victims Against Public Employers Post-Sterry
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 25, 2024
Waupun Correctional Institution: A Case Study in the Failures of the PLRA’s Administrative Remedies Requirement
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 22, 2024
Supporting Criminalized Survivors: The Ongoing Need for Minnesota to Pass the Survivor’s Justice Act
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 18, 2024
Two Years Since Dobbs: How Access to Contraceptives and IVF Has Changed
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 9, 2024
Delaying Justice: How Jurisdictional Gaps Fuel the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Crisis in the United States
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, October 21, 2024
“Mind Your Own Damn Business”: Why Governor Walz Is Right that The Right to Control Your Body Should Not Be Based on Geography
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, October 19, 2024
Sleep Tight? Not on This Bench: Grants Pass and the Criminalization of Unhoused Individuals
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, October 4, 2024
Title IX’s 50th Anniversary: Time for the NCAA to Step in the Arena and Start Playing by the Rules
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, September 30, 2024
Seneca Re-Ad Industries Reinforces Why Congress Should Eliminate 14(c) Certificates
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 29, 2024
A Civil Gideon? The Case for Universal Representation in Immigration Courts
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 5, 2024
Will Minnesota’s New Automatic Expungement Laws Have an Effect on Federal Sentences?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, February 14, 2024
Right to Spiritual Advisors During Executions: Missouri’s Latest Refusal and the Supreme Court’s Evolving Jurisprudence
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, June 12, 2023
Examining the Constitutionality of Targeted Residential Protest Bans
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, May 12, 2023
Expungement: The Missing Federal Piece
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, May 10, 2023
Minnesota Crisis Pregnancy Centers and The Positive Pregnancies Bill
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, May 9, 2023
Breonna Taylor is Not Forgotten: Department of Justice Finds Civil Rights Violations by the Louisville Metro Police Department and the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, May 9, 2023
The Clash Between LGBTQ Anti-Discrimination Law and Freedom of Speech in 303 Creative v. Elenis: Which Will Take the Cake?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 2, 2023
Fundamental, Not Absolute: Implications of the Minnesota Supreme Court’s Ruling in Schroeder v. Simon
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 29, 2023
The Right to Choose From An Empty Shelf: Anti-Abortionists Sue to Remove FDA Approval of Crucial Medication
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 28, 2023
How Current Law Fails to Protect Defendants with Mental Illnesses from the Death Penalty
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 27, 2023
Reason-Specific Abortion Bans Under Current Abortion Jurisprudence
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 13, 2023
Face It: Police Can't Be Trusted with Facial Recognition Technology
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 7, 2023
The Respect for Marriage Act: Limitations, Protections, and Future Implications
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 3, 2023
Not-So Affordable Housing: Regulatory Blocks on Accessory Dwelling Units in the Twin Cities
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 2, 2023
Police Questioning of Juveniles
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, February 9, 2023
All in the Family: How Polyamorous Families Can Use Businesses Models and Contracts to Secure Legal Benefits
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, February 8, 2023
Expungement of Marijuana Convictions: Lessons Learned from Minnesota Prohibition
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, February 7, 2023
Unhoused and Handcuffed
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, January 13, 2023
D.C. Statehood: A Half-Made Promise Losing Momentum
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, January 10, 2023
First Down, First Amendment: A Case Comment on Kennedy v. Bremerton School District
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, December 2, 2022
The Forgotten Child Bride in the United States
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, December 1, 2022
Reforming the Troubled Teen Industry
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 30, 2022
Telehealth Providers: A Temporary, Tenuous Solution for Post-Dobbs Access to Medication
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 29, 2022
Cuba’s 2022 Family Code: A Different Model for Social Progress
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 2, 2022
Abortion Asylees: Is There Still a Path Forward After Dobbs?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, October 30, 2022
What's Brewing with Bruen?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, October 30, 2022
Purging False Narratives Around Cash Bail
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, October 28, 2022
More than Miranda: Exploring Preventive Solutions to Juvenile False Confessions
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, May 31, 2022
Gentrification, Displacement, and Disparate Impact Liability: How Gentrification Theory is Not Cognizable Under the Fair Housing Act
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, May 2, 2022
The Constitutionality of SB 1142
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 28, 2022
What’s Wrong With My Hair?: Discrimination Against Black Hair in the Workplace
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 26, 2022
Signing Away Your Right to Parent: How Safety Plans Evade Due Process Requirements in Child Welfare Proceedings
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 20, 2022
Attack on the Right to Choose
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 12, 2022
“The Harvest of Solidarity”: Achievements of Black Activists Following the 1921 Duluth Lynchings
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 11, 2022
Protecting Civil Liberties: Easier Said Than Done
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 1, 2022
A Constitutional Necessity, Not a Luxury: States Must Provide Public Defender Offices With More Resources to Provide Indigent Defendants With Effective Counsel
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 30, 2022
Biden’s Private Prison Ban Must Include ICE Detention
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 16, 2022
Above the Law: How Kim Potter’s Sentencing Serves as Another Example of Police Receiving Disproportionately Low Sentences
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 7, 2022
Are New York's Bail and Discovery Reforms in Renewed Danger?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, February 9, 2022
We Finally (Kind of) Understand COVID - What Does That Mean at the Voting Booth?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, February 1, 2022
How a New Ohio Law and Other State Reforms Are Changing the Landscape of Mental Health and Criminal Justice
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, January 24, 2022
The Sex Offender Registry is a Life Sentence for Juveniles
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, December 2, 2021
Where is the U.S. Military?: An Update on the Department of Defense’s Efforts to Prevent Sexual Assault and to Protect Victims
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 17, 2021
The Shadow of Buck v. Bell: How Ignoring the United States’ History of Forced Sterilization Has Fostered an Environment Ambivalent to Widespread Abuse
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 11, 2021
Constitutional Arguments for the Legal Recognition of Bigamous Marriages
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, October 7, 2021
Children's Online Privacy in the Age of Influencers
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, September 24, 2021
The Prison Phone Industry Exemplifies How Eliminating Private Prisons is Insufficient to Protect Inmates from Being Exploited for Profit
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, September 15, 2021
The Long Scalpel of the Law: How United States Prisons Continue to Practice Eugenics Through Forced Sterilization
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, June 6, 2021
Constitutional Avenues for Challenging Social Media Monitoring by Law Enforcement
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, May 25, 2021
The History of Anti-Asian Discrimination, Racism, and Xenophobia - Interview with Prof. Linus Chan
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 5, 2021
How We Got Here: Race, Police Use of Force, and the Road to George Floyd
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 1, 2021
“How Are We Supposed to Move Forward with THIS Police Force After This?”: The Stalled Reform Movement in Minneapolis
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 26, 2021
Where There’s Not a Will, There’s a Way: What We Can Learn From Same-Sex Adult Adoption
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 24, 2021
The $2 Billion-Plus Price of Injustice: A Methodological Map for Police Reform in the George Floyd Era
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 22, 2021
Refunding the Community: What Defunding MPD Means and Why It Is Urgent and Realistic
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 18, 2021
Does Minnesota’s Third-Party Visitation Rights Statute Apply to Unmarried, Same-Sex Couples?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 16, 2021
Deadly Force: How George Floyd's Killing Exposes Racial Inequities in Minnesota's Felony-Murder Doctrine Among the Disenfranchised, the Powerful, and the Police
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 8, 2021
The Burying of Boumediene v. Bush
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, February 11, 2021
Covid-19 in Prisons: Human Rights Violations and Inmate Exploitation
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, January 29, 2021
The Law in Politics: A Conversation with Rep. Ryan Winkler
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, January 12, 2021
An American Caste System: A Conversation with Professor Sheryll Cashin
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, December 30, 2020
2020 Summit for Civil Rights - Awards Ceremony
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, December 1, 2020
2020 Summit for Civil Rights - What Is To Be Done? How Can We Help?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, December 1, 2020
Why a Tuesday in November? An Original Intent Argument for Increased Voter Accessibility
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 25, 2020
Does the Minneapolis Police Department Traffic Stop Data Reveal Racial Bias?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 24, 2020
2020 Summit for Civil Rights - Is America Ready for a 2nd Reconstruction? A 3rd "Founding"?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 23, 2020
2020 Summit for Civil Rights - Who's Profiting?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 23, 2020
2020 Summit for Civil Rights - The State of American Apartheid
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 20, 2020
Avoiding Atkins: How Tennessee is on the Verge of Unconstitutionally Executing an Individual with Intellectual Disabilities
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 18, 2020
2020 Summit for Civil Rights - Opening Statements
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 16, 2020
2020 Summit for Civil Rights - The State of Multi-Racial America and Black Power
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 16, 2020
The Movement Lawyer of 2020
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, August 11, 2020
JLI's Statement of Solidarity
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, June 2, 2020
Response to MPD's Killing of George Floyd
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, June 2, 2020
Inmate Rights and the Prison/Jail System During COVID-19—Interview with Prof. Susanna Blumenthal
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, May 9, 2020
Attacks on Reproductive Rights During COVID-19—Interview with Gender Justice's Megan Peterson
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, May 7, 2020
Eviction/Housing Issues During COVID-19—Interview with Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid's Joey Dobson
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 30, 2020
Stretched Thin: Parents Lacking Resources Who Are Accused of Negligent Child Abuse Need Solutions, Not Prisons
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, January 21, 2020
The Newclear Family: The Broadening Recognition of Non-Traditional Families and Where to Draw the Line
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 11, 2018
The Case for Preserving Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Health Care Protections
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, December 5, 2017
Proscribing Prescriptions: A Legal Analysis of State Off-Label Restrictions on Medication Abortion
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 21, 2016
A Solution to Hoffman’s Choice for Unauthorized Workers: Creating New Incentives to Report Unlawful Workplace Discrimination
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, October 4, 2016
Turning Gaming Dollars into Non-Gaming Revenue: Hedging for the Seventh Generation
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, May 27, 2016
Pass Senate Bill 355: How Proposed Minnesota Legislation Brings the U.S. into Compliance with International Norms
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, May 25, 2016