Volume 5, Issue 1
Spring 2009


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Letter from Executive Board

Transitioning Our Prisons Toward Affirmative Law: Examining the Impact of Gender Classification Policies on U.S. Transgender Prisoners
Richael Faithful

Ain’t No Peace Until We Get A Piece: Exploring the Justiciability and Potential Mechanisms of Reparations for American Blacks Through United States Law, Specific Modes of International Law, and the Covenant for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
Dekera Greene

Cutt ing Funds for Oral Contracept ives: Violation of Equal Protection Rights and the Disparate Impact on Women’s Healt hcare
Rachel V. Rose

Jones v. Bennet: The Bifurcated Legal Status of Early Nineteenth Century Free Blacks in Kentucky
Alexander J. Chenault

Robust Exchange of Ideas and the Presence of the African-American Voice in the Law School Environment: A Review of Literature
Artika Tyner, Esq.

This Game is Rigged: The Unequal Protection of Our Mentall y-Ill Incarcerated Women
Joanna E. Saul

Commentary on Proposition 8: Much Ado About Nothing; or A Wake-Up Call to Do Something
Lydia Edwards, Esq.

Movie Review: Vincent Who?
Yeon Me Kim

Legislative Updates
Guadalupe A. Lopez


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