Papers
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Plugging the School to Prison Pipeline by Addressing Cultural Racism in Public Education Discipline
U.C. Davis Journal of Juvenile Law & Policy
2012You may have heard the phrase "school-to-prison pipeline." It names the path by which a child's misbehavior at school stops being handled by a teacher or a principal and starts being handled by police, courts, and probation officers.
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Death and Texas: The Unevolved Model of Decency
Nebraska Law Review
2011Texas law now defines 146 separate ways a person can be sentenced to die. This 2011 Nebraska Law Review article argues the state capital system has grown back into the arbitrary machine the Supreme Court struck down in 1972.
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Troy Davis, Lawrence Brewer, and Timothy McVeigh Should Still Be Alive: Certainty, Innocence, and the High Cost of Death and Immorality
Charleston Law Review
2011On September 21, 2011, two men were executed on the same day.