Articles, notes, and symposia pieces published in CLR’s print volumes.
Print Edition
The Equal Right to Exclude: Religious Speech and the Road to 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis
This Article explains how speech became the constitutional vehicle for the right to discriminate on religious grounds in places of public accommodation. It argues that cause lawyers for the New Christian Right cobbled together a right to exclude from a surprising doctrinal source: the egalitarian tendencies within the First Amendment.
Lam’s Legacy: Mapping Employment Discrimination Doctrine under the Green-light of Intersectionality
The Ninth Circuit’s decision in Lam v. University of Hawaiʻi is the “high water mark” of intersectional Title VII jurisprudence. However, this Note suggests that despite thirty years since Lam, courts have struggled to conceptualize the intersectional identities of plaintiffs and the multifaceted discrimination they face.
Violence in the Administrative State
Drawing on an original, interview-based case study of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and a synthesis of six decades of social science literature, this Article offers a theory of physical violence in the administrative state that challenges foundational assumptions about administrative law.
Under the Watchful Eye of All: Disabled Parents and the Family Policing System’s Web of Surveillance
The child welfare system, more accurately referred to as the family policing system, employs extensive surveillance that disproportionately targets marginalized families and subjects them to relentless oversight. This Article provides a nuanced and novel analysis of the family policing system and its extensive surveillance targeted at disabled parents and their children.
E Ola Mau Ka ‘Ōlelo Hawaiʻi: Language Revitalization, Reparations, and the Courts
Once considered a dying language, ‘ōlelo Hawaiʻi (the Hawaiian language) has made a powerful resurgence in recent decades, thanks in large part to the proliferation of Hawaiian immersion programs at schools across the State. In 2019, the Hawaiʻi State Supreme Court strengthened these programs in Clarabal v. Department of Education, which held that the State of Hawaiʻi has a constitutional obligation to make all reasonable efforts to provide access to Hawaiian immersion education. This Note argues that Clarabal serves as an example of the type of reparative jurisprudence that is necessary to provide tangible restitutive benefits to historically victimized peoples.
The Antisubordination Eighth Amendment
Through an examination of the history, structure, jurisprudence, and theory of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, the Article concludes that an Antisubordination Eighth Amendment is both possible and necessary to address the systemic racism of the criminal legal system.