Past Prescient
Capital is dead labour which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.[1] Truth may not convince, knowledge passes in the act.[2] …
The Future of Facts: The Politics of Public Health and Medicine in Abortion Law
While a great deal of public scrutiny has focused on how information circulates through online outlets including Twitter and Facebook, less attention has been devoted to how more traditional institutions …
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Migrant Justice Now
I began drafting this Essay on the eve of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, not knowing its outcome. Some might argue that this is no time for critique, given the …
The Theory of Legal Characters
For decades, we took for granted that jurists just “spoke the law.” This was good news: the law, thanks to the continuous efforts of legal science to systematize it in …
The Common Law and Critical Theory
Before I got out of bed this morning, I had an exchange on Facebook Messenger, which began this way: Aunt Lucy: Question for you. Do you actually think there is …
Conversations After Class: ‘Becoming Critical,’ or the Steps Necessary to Achieve Critical Thought for Law Students
When Gregor Samsa awoke from troubled dreams one morning, he found that he had been transformed in his bed into an enormous bug.[2] PDF: Sequeira, ‘Becoming Critical.‘ Introduction The first wave of …
Not Your Mule? Disrupting the Political Powerlessness of Black Women Voters
On the one hundredth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, this Article reflects on the legacy of Black women voters. The Article hypothesizes that even though suffrage was hard fought, it …
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Contesting the Legacy of the Nineteenth Amendment: Abortion and Equality from Roe to the Present
Beyond the question of suffrage, the Nineteenth Amendment raised the issue of what it would take for women in America to achieve equal citizenship. The meaning of both the Nineteenth …
Working Mothers and the Postponement of Women’s Rights from the Nineteenth Amendment to the Equal Rights Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment’s ratification in 1920 spawned new initiatives to advance the status of women, including the proposal of another constitutional amendment that would guarantee women equality in all legal …
The Political (Mis)Representation of Immigrants in Voting
Who is a member of the political community? What barriers to inclusion do immigrants face as outsiders to this political community? This Essay describes several barriers facing immigrants and naturalized …
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