Rachel Harmon
- University of Virginia School of Law
Preventing police misconduct often requires changing the department in which it arises, but police departments have proved largely resistant to legal efforts to reform them. A promising federal law, 42 U.S.C. § 14141, permits the Justice Department to sue police departments that are engaged in a “pattern or practice” of… Read More »
Jill Elaine Hasday
- University of Minnesota Law School
Defenders of sex and race inequality often contend that women and people of color are better off with fewer rights and opportunities. This claim straddles substantive debates that are rarely considered together, linking such seemingly disparate disputes as the struggles over race-based affirmative action, antiabortion laws, and marital rape exemptions.… Read More »
Zachary A. Kramer
- Dickinson School of Law (Penn. State)
Dawn Dawson was an outsider among outsiders. A self-described gender-nonconforming lesbian woman, Dawson worked as a hair assistant and stylist trainee at Bumble & Bumble, a high-end salon in New York City. Her coworkers at the salon were an eclectic mix of outsiders, and the salon management encouraged its employees to… Read More »