Volume 26.1, Footnote Forum
Footnote Forum’s Moderated Conversation With the Authors of The Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act and Criminalized Immigrant Survivors, Assia Serrano and Nathan Yaffe...
View ArticleThe First Amendment’s True Threats Doctrine Needs Updating. Counterman Ain’t It
Annie Seifullah and Jillian Bowen The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects freedom of speech, but this protection is not absolute. True threats, which our courts have identified...
View ArticleTrans Youth Athletes Are Under Attack. It’s Time to Push Back
Hirsha Venkataraman It’s 2023, and here in the United States, we–or at least some of us–still can’t decide whether or not we want to be on the right side of history. The Supreme Court has gutted...
View ArticleGhost Guns Are Fueling the Gun Violence Epidemic. After Bruen, Can Our Laws...
Photo credit: Adam Schultz Creative Commons/FlickrNick Leiber As we are reminded by headlines such as “A School Bus Crosses U.S., Linking Families of Mass Shooting Victims” and “Teens buying ‘ghost...
View ArticleLessons from The Revolution Will Not Be Litigated
Nick LeiberHow can attorneys, activists, and others work together to fight more effectively for social justice? An upcoming panel discussion at CUNY Law School seeks to answer this question as the...
View ArticleNo Settled Law on Settled Land: Legal Struggles for Native American Land and...
Laura Waldman Volume 26.2 Abstract Since the early years of colonization, Native American people have engaged in continuous legal struggles for land and sovereignty, which have exposed the colonial...
View Article“What if You’re Disabled and Undocumented?”: Reflections on...
Elizabeth Butterworth Volume 26.2 Abstract In Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Leah L. Piepzna-Samarasinha asks a series of questions to illustrate how disability rights law fails to address the...
View ArticleWomen’s Dignity, Women’s Prisons: Combatting Sexual Abuse in America’s Prisons
Erin Daly, Paul Stanley Holdorf, Kelly Harnett, Jane Doe, and Domonique Grimes Volume 26.2 Abstract Staff sexual abuse is rampant throughout the American prison system. This is true despite a federal...
View ArticleThe Heirs’ Property Problem: Racial Caste Origins and Systemic Effects in the...
Brenda D. Gibson Volume 26.2 Abstract This article enters the conversation about Black poverty in a new way—discussing the phenomenon of the heirs’ property ownership model as an impediment to Black...
View ArticleHuman Rights Attorneys Grapple with the Law’s Promises and Failures Amid...
Nick LeiberThe current situation in Gaza is horrifying and dire, even more so than it has been over the last several decades. Following Hamas militants killing over 1,200 people in Israel and taking...
View ArticleDemand for Compensation and Call for Solidarity
The editors of this journal have come together with the editors of journals across the country to demand compensation for the work we do to publish legal scholarship. Our demand rests on one...
View ArticleA Statement of Reflection and Solidarity with Palestinian Liberation
Leora Johnson and Salimah Khoja* Editors-in-Chief, CUNY Law ReviewIt has been a devastating few months for all human beings invested in collective justice, liberation, and freedom–from Palestine and...
View ArticleProsecutors Must Use Their Immense Discretion to End the Criminalization of...
Tracy Renee McCarter and Samah Sisay Volume 26.2 Abstract In March 2020, Tracy McCarter defended her life during a domestic violence incident that resulted in the death of her husband. She was arrested...
View ArticleSexual Intimacy as a Fundamental, Human Right: Conjugal Visits and the Right...
Deema Nagib Volume 26.2 Abstract The United States incarcerates approximately 2 million people on any given day, more than any other country in the world. Over the years, we’ve seen growing emphasis on...
View ArticleAn Asian American Challenge to Restrictive Voting Laws: Enforcing Section 208...
Kyuwon Shim, Michelle David, and Susana Lorenzo-Giguere Volume 26.2 Abstract Under Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act (“VRA”), any voter who is blind, disabled, or unable to read or write is entitled...
View ArticleHow ‘Human Rights Mechanic’ John Boston Empowers Incarcerated Individuals
Nick Leiber John Boston is one of America’s leading prisoners’ rights litigators and co-author of the bestselling Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual, which has aided countless incarcerated...
View ArticleA Jailscraper Rises in New York City’s Skyline and Casts a Shadow Over...
Kimberly Fong Volume 26.2 Abstract New York City will soon have the distinction of constructing one of the tallest jails—if not the tallest—in the world. The jail will be a new addition to New York...
View ArticleAn Exegesis of the Meaning of Dobbs: Despotism, Servitude, & Forced Birth
Athena D. Mutua Volume 27.1 The post An Exegesis of the Meaning of Dobbs: Despotism, Servitude, & Forced Birth appeared first on CUNY LAW REVIEW.
View ArticleIdea Bank for New York City’s Chief Public Realm Officer: Imagining a Broad,...
Tara Eisenberg, Althea Lamel, Lindsay Matheos, Carolyn Weldy, and Andrea McArdle Volume 27.1 Tara-Eisenberg-et-al.-Idea-Bank-for-New-York-Citys-Chief-Public-Realm-Officer-27-CUNY-L.-Rev.-F.-30-2024...
View ArticleCharacter and Fitness in America’s Neo-Redemptive Era
Tolu Lawal and Al Brooks Volume 27.1 (download PDF) Abstract The Character and Fitness process is the last major institutional hurdle that aspiring attorneys must overcome to gain licensure to the...
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