BY: JANYL RELLING, Outgoing Editor-in-Chief The death of Freddie Gray while in police custody and subsequent unrest in Baltimore, MD. The racially motivated mass shooting of nine parishioners at the historically black “Mother Emanuel” African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC. The landmark Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. The traffic stop that lead to […]
BY: MIAMI LAW STAFF REPORT Miami Law’s Race & Social Justice Law Review recently held its panel discussion, “Mass Incarceration: Prison Conditions and the Collateral Damage to Communities of Color” on the Coral Gables campus. This year’s event provided an in-depth discussion on the mass incarceration phenomenon in the United States, with a specific focus […]
The University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review is proud to announce its annual panel entitled, “Mass Incarceration: Prison Conditions and the Collateral Damage to Communities of Color.” Scholarship from this event will be featured in Volume VI of the Review. A video of the panel will be available on this page shortly […]
The Race & Social Justice Law Review, in association with the Criminal Law Society, Innocence Clinic, and the Trial Team sponsored a screening of the film The Central Park Five and a discussion with the exonerees. By Catherine Skipp – On April 19, 1989, five black and Latino teenagers were arrested for the rape, sexual assault, and attempted […]
