Thread by @NwULRev

As Black History Month comes to a close, Northwestern University Law Review would like to take a moment to highlight a few pieces by Black authors recently published in NULR. Please join us in celebrating the achievements of these outstanding authors. 1/8 #BlackHistoryMonth

In a forthcoming piece, @DrMamaEsq of @UCLA_Law explains how public school districts’ residence requirements incorrectly assume that every child has a nuclear family structure. This, she argues, systematically disregards many families that have a different family structure. 2/8

In Girls, Assaulted, @inGerri of @IUMaurerLaw explores how incarceration perpetuates sexual exploitation through nonconsensual searches by the state. She argues for eliminating blanket searches because these searches violate the constitutional rights of incarcerated girls. 3/8

@Rachel_E_Lopez, along with Terrell Carter and Kempis Songster, ask: What does it mean for the law to judge some human beings as incapable of redemption? The authors seek to show why all humans should have a legal right to redemption—a right embedded in the Eighth Amendment. 4/8

In On Beauty and Policing, @inGerri of @IUMaurerLaw draws on a two-year legal ethnography she conducted in Johannesburg, South Africa to argue that perceived standards of beauty—bound up with racial and sexual hierarchies—affect whether and how police surveilled sex workers. 5/8

@michelebgoodwin argues that Trump’s now-repealed ban on transgender persons serving in the military cannot be justified on either legal or health-and-safety grounds. Moreover, she shows that the ban failed to improve “efficiency, preparedness, or combat readiness.” 6/8

@PaulGowder in Reconstituting We the People: Frederick Douglass and Jürgen Habermas in Conversation, explains that “civic republican constitutional patriotism” affiliated with Jürgen Habermas can resolve the countermajoritarian difficulty and the problem of constituent power. 7/8

@ProfMMurray in Consequential Sex: #MeToo, Masterpiece Cakeshop, & Private Sexual Regulation, compares conservative attitudes toward sex and progressive critiques of responses to sexual violence, arguing both note state failure and employ “uncannily similar” responses to it. 8/8