Dionne KollerProfessor of Law & Director of the Center for Sport and the Law Professor Dionne Koller is a leading scholar in sports law, with a particular focus in the areas of youth, Olympic and Paralympic, and education-based sports. In addition to her publications, Koller plays an active role in helping to shape sports law…

Julie Chi-Hye SukHonorable Deborah A. Batts Distinguished Research Scholar and Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law.  Julie Suk is a leading legal scholar of constitutional amendment, equality, and feminism in the United States and globally. In addition to dozens of scholarly articles in law reviews and edited volumes, Suk is the author…

On November 7th at New England Law | Boston, author and scholar Daniel Medwed led our symposium discussing how the United States’ current justice system keeps people in prison rather than crime, identifying the factors in his book Barred: Why the Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison. Professor Medwed identified how the procedural rules within…

Shaping the Bar describes how current attorney licensing practices are failing the public and the practice of law. Howarth explores the systemic disadvantages people of color face while attempting to join the legal profession in both law school and taking the bar. Howarth discusses ways to improve our current system and create a more diverse…

Tyrants on Twitter does a deep dive into how Chinese and Russian agents used Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube as a weapon to destabilize the 2016 U.S. election. In addition, Sloss explores Russia’s use of foreign influence operations to threaten democracies in Europe, as well as China’s use of social media to interfere in Western…

In this groundbreaking book, Identity Capitalists, Leong coined the term “identity capitalist” to label the powerful insiders who eke out social and economic value from people of color, women, LGBTQ people, the poor, and other outgroups. Leong deftly uncovers the rules governing a system all Americans must survive: the identity marketplace. 

Prisoner of Politics focuses on how the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, yet society would be safer if there were fewer people in prison. Barkow argues that the focus on “tough on crime” is not helping the United States but rather transforming our criminal justice system into a façade based…

In The Color of Creatorship, Vats argues that intellectual property formation in the United States reflects and shapes racial formation. The Color of Creatorship explores copyright, trademark, and patent discourses and argues that it is interwoven together, operating to form American ideals about race.

Through a series of three powerful essays, Karakatsanis explores the criminal justice system through the lens of a former public defender and current radical movement lawyer, urging law students and practicing attorneys alike to examine their complicity in perpetuating what he refers to as “the punishment bureaucracy.” In Usual Cruelty, Karakatsanis asks us to critically…

Corporations Are People Too (And They Should Act Like It) dives into the complexity of corporations within the United States judicial system. Greenfield argues corporations should have personhood, identifying the Constitution as support that corporations have partial rights. Corporations Are People Too (And They Should Act Like It) focuses on the problem of who corporations…