Honored & humbled to be a recipient of the inaugural AALS Deborah L. Rhode Award; deeply grateful for an incredible village of cheerleaders and supporters of my scholarly activism to #FreeTheHair for nearly 15 years. Without your support the work simply could not be done. 🙏🏽

Congrats to Lisa Tucker & Anil Kalhan • @akalhan.bsky.social who were elected as members to the American Law Institute! “Professors Kalhan’s and Tucker’s election to the American Law Institute recognizes their leadership role in creating better, more just law,” said Dean Dan Filler. bit.ly/32WqjS6

Why is Fla. the Bluebook abbreviation for Florida and not Fl. or Flo.?

Help us spread the word! My clinic @DrexelKline & Revolutionary Vision are hosting a series of workshops to help those with loved ones behind bars to navigate the commutation process. We are so grateful to celeste for joining us at the first workshop on March 5th!

Great program advocating for the commutation of men and women who have served their time. Redemption is real. My thanks to all the folks doing this important work. #SaturdayMorning

What should the American public know about Jackson before the hearings start? What are the highlights of her career? Drexel University @DrexelKline Law Professor Lisa Tucker joined KYW Newsradio In Depth with @mattleon1060 to unveil more of her story. audacy.com/kywnewsradio/n…

So looking forward to participating in this important discussion on the significance of the #CROWNAct and parallel civil rights legislation affirming our human rights to be free from racial discrimination and to freely express our racial & cultural identities. #FreeTheHair 👑

In 1776, only two states offered constitutional protections against imprisoning people for debt. Today, forty-one states do. This Article traces that history. Read “A Constitutional History of Debtors’ Prison” by Nino C. Monea on the DLR website!

Public charities currently face wide variance from state-to-state with respect to the activity thresholds that trigger charitable solicitation. Read David Nows’s article, “Modernizing Charitable Fundraising Regulation,” published in Volume 14 on the DLR website!

Breonna Taylor represents only one name of the lives lost to police killings. Now is the perfect time for the Supreme Court to modernize the excessive force doctrine. Read “Recalibrating the Graham Standard Using an Evidence-Backed, Community Based Model” by DiAsia Dozier now!

Same-sex couples must overcome numerous hurdles to achieve parental recognition. Read “An Inequitable Means to an Equitable End: Why Current Legal Processes Available to Non-Biological, LGBTQ+ Parents Fail to Live Up to Obergefell v. Hodges” by Marisa S. Fein now!

The Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) genetic testing market includes the collection of peoples’ genomes, and it must be safeguarded. Read Kevin C. Gilligan’s, “Protecting Consumers and Regulating Data: The Need for Comprehensive Federal Oversight of the DTC Genetic Testing Industry” now!

Law reviews and journals are typically not very transparent about their selection processes, and DLR wants to take steps to remedy that. At our session, we will provide more in-depth information about the Write-On Competition, what it entails, and how students can best tackle it.

I think I forgot to mention that my article on the value of critical race theory (and other critical theories of law) to legal education will be coming out in 2023 in the California Law Review

The Immigration and Nationality Act has resulted in system where protection is unequal. Read, Shannon Murphy’s Article,Interpreting the Immigration and Nationality Act in Federal Circuit Courts: How the 9th Circuit Became a Vessel Traveling "At Some Distance From The Main Fleet.”

This Article surveys cases of emotional distress recovery for negligent mishandling of human remains among the fifty states. Read Christopher Ogolla’s Article,”Emotional Distress Recovery for Mishandling of Human Remains: A Fifty State Survey,” on the DLR website!

Voter suppression continues to be an obstacle for Black voters. Read Brielle Brown’s Note, “Where's my Ballot?: Why Congress Should Amend House Bill H.R.1 to Include a National Mandate of Drop Boxes for Federal Elections to Help Protect the Black Vote” on the DLR website!

Following the Civil War, there was a rise of neo-Confederate hate groups who preached the “Lost Cause” ideology. To this day, these groups continue to plague the U.S. Read Emily Larrabee’s Note “Violence in the Name of the Confederacy: America's Failure to Defeat the Lost Cause.”

Videoconferencing became one of the most useful features of the pandemic. But what control, do we as individuals retain over such data? Read, Marcus Schuldnt Bodien’s Note, “‘This Meeting is Being Recorded:’ “Zoom”-ing Away from the Third-Party Doctrine.”