Publication Date
6-2018
Abstract
The project of using social science to help win equal protection claims is doomed to fail if its premise is that the Supreme Court post-McCleskey just needs more or better evidence of racial discrimination. Everyone—including the Justices of the Court—already knows that racial discrimination is endemic in the criminal justice system. Social science does help us to understand the role of white supremacy in U.S. police and punishment practices. Social science also can help us understand how to move people to resist, and can inform our imagination of the transformation needed for equal justice under the law.
Recommended Citation
Paul Butler,
Equal Protection and White Supremacy,
112
Nw. U. L. Rev.
1457
(2018).
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/nulr/vol112/iss6/8
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