Reparations

Title	Author
Black Boarding Academies as a Prudential Reparation	Roy L. Brooks
Echoes of the Zong: Confronting Legal Realism in the Arguments for Reparations from the Atlantic Slave Trade and Modern-day Human Trafficking	Glenys P. Spence
Making Amends: Localizing and Implementing Housing Reparation Programs for African Americans Affected by Discriminatory Housing Policies	Erica Witter
Black Lives Matter and the Push for Colonial-era Cultural Heritage Restitution	Kathryn G. Speckart
Municipal Fair Housing Act Litigation and Reparations	Allison Roy Kawachi
Forty Acres and a Mule: America's Bill for Reparations Is Long past Overdue	Hal Clay
Reparations and Restorative Justice: A Path to Racial Healing	Darryl Heller
Understanding the Legal Difference Between Equitable and Compensatory Reparations	Vernellia Randall
Reparations Can Mitigate Wealth Inequity	Keeshea Turner Roberts
France and Haiti: A Debt of Dishonor	Kim Oosterlinck, Ugo Panizza, W. Mark C. Weidemaier and Mitu Gulati
Reparations for Descendants of Africans Enslaved in the United States and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)	Prof. Vernelia Randall
Remedying the Health Implications of Structural Racism Through Reparations	Kendall Lawrenz
America to Me--A Public Nuisance Reparations Framework Through the Lens of the Tulsa Massacre	Kerri M. Gefeke
Reparations, Restitution, and Transitional Justice: American Chattel Slavery & its Aftermath, A Moral Debate Whose Time Has Come	Joyce Hope Scott
Reparations for a Public Nuisance? The Effort to Compensate Survivors, Victims, and Descendants of the Tulsa Race Massacre One Hundred Years Later	Adam Coretz
Reparations for Racial Wealth Disparities as Remedy for Social Contract Breach	Martha M. Ertman
Reparations & H.R. 40: Call to Action for Congress	Kendall Godley
Criminalized Students, Reparations, and the Limits of Prospective Reform	Amber Baylor
Regulatory Reparations	Vanessa Zboreak
The Wilmington Massacre and Coup of 1898 and the Search for Restorative Justice	Sandra L. Rierson and Melanie H. Schwimmer
Toward a Just Future: Anticipating and Overcoming a Sustained Resistance to Reparations	Vincent M. Southerland
Critique of the Black Commons as Reparations	Norrinda Hayat
Reparations and the Right to Return	Deborah N. Archer
The Unmaking of “Black Bill Gates”: How the U.s. Patent System Failed African-American Inventors	Olivia Constance Bethea
Reparations for Police Violence	Alexis Karteron
The Reparations Work Underway in Evanston, Il: Promoting an Affirmative and Accountable Government	Robin Snyderman and Robin Rue Simmons
3/5ths to 1/10th, How to Make Black America Whole: Exploring Congressional Act H.R.40 -- Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act	Christopher Burton
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade's African Elephant in the International Courtroom: West Africa's Debt of Reparations to the Descendants of the Black Diaspora	Patricia M. Muhammad
When Righteousness Fails: The New Incentive for Reparations for Slavery and its Continuing Aftermath in the United States	Tuneen E. Chisolm
The Science of Reparations: A Balanced Approach	Ari S. Merretazon
Rights, Race, Redistribution, and Responsibility: A Case Study of the United States, South Africa, Canada and Palestine	Zinaida Miller
Event (Nov20): Breaking the Chain of Oppression: Comprehensive Reparations	Vernellia Randall
The Coronavirus Pandemic And the Demand for Reparations	National African American Reparations Commission
An Uphill Battle for Reparationists: A Quantitative Analysis of the Effectiveness of Slavery Reparations Rhetoric	Michael Conklin
Towards a More Perfect Union: An Approach to Rectifying White-Black Racial Inequality in American Life	John Torpey
Black Reparations for Twentieth Century Federal Housing Discrimination: The Construction of White Wealth and the Effects of Denied Black Homeownership	Jane Kim
The U.S. Reparations Debate: Where Do We Go from Here?	Patricia M. Muhammad
Recognition of Responsibility and Reparation for Massive and Flagrant Violations of Human Rights	United Nations
Documenting the Costs of Slavery, Segregation, and Contemporary Racism: Why Reparations Are in Order for African Americans	Joe R. Feagin
Historic and Modern Social Movements for Reparations: The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'cobra) and its Antecedents	Adjoa A. Aiyetoro and Adrienne D. Davis
The Case for a Reparations Law School Clinic	Brian G. Gilmore and Hannah D. Adams
National Education Association (NEA) Votes to Support Reparation for Descendants of Africans Enslaved in the United States	Erika Strauss Chavarria
Educational Inequality and the Science of Diversity in Grutter: A Lesson for the Reparations Debate in the Age of Obama	Derrick Darby
HR 40 Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act	US House of Representatives
2019 New York Assembly Bill 3080 Commission on Reparations Remedies	New York Assembly
Illinois House Resolution 45, Study Reparations for Slavery (2017)	Illinois House of Representative
Vermont Bill Apology and Proposal for Reparations	Rep. Brian Cina, Rep. Kevin Christie. Rep. Selene Colburn, Rep. Harold "Hal" Colston, Rep. Mari Cordes , Rep. Diana Gonzalez
Reparations Lawsuit (2004) Bob Brown v. John Paul II, et. al.	Attorney for the Plaintiff
The Rhetoric of Race, Redemption, and Will Contests: Inheritance as Reparations in John Grisham's Sycamore Row	Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb
Racial Justice Demands Truth & Reconciliation	Michael A. Lawrence
American Reparations Theory and Practice at the Crossroads	Eric K. Yamamoto, Sandra Hye Yun Kim, and Abigail M. Holden
Racial Reparations: Japanese American Redress and African American Claims	Eric K. Yamamoto
A No-excuse Approach to Transitional Justice: Reparations as Tools of Extraordinary Justice	David C. Gray
Correcting the Harms of Slavery: Collective Liability, the Limited Prospects of Success for a Class Action Suit for Slavery Reparations, and the Reconceptualization of White Racial Identity	Ryan Fortson
Responsibility for Historical Injustices: Reconceiving the Case for Reparations	Amy J. Sepinwall
Re-assembling Osiris: Rule 23, the Black Farmers Case, and Reparations	Kindaka Jamal Sanders
Reparations Theory and Practice Then and Now: Mau Mau Redress Litigation and the British High Court	Eric K. Yamamoto and Susan K. Serrano
A Consideration of Black Life under American Law from 1619 to 1972 and a Challenge to Prevailing Notions of Legally Based Reparations	Carlton Waterhouse
Extraordinary Justice: Reparations for Historic Abuses	David C. Gray
A "Legacy Preference" for Descendants of Slaves: Why Georgetown's Approach to Admissions Is Misguided	Latiqua Liles
This Means War: A Case for Just Reparations under the Doctrine of Inalienability	Makiba Gaines
Declaration of the International Conference on Reparations	International Conference on Reparations
Speaking Truth to Power: An Analysis of American Truth-telling Efforts Vis-À-vis the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission	Olivia Ensign
Reparation and DAEUS (Selected Law Review Articles)	Vernellia Randall
The Case For Black Reparations (Book Review)	Ewart Guinier
Re-assembling Osiris: Rule 23, the Black Farmers Case, and Reparations	Kindaka Jamal Sanders
The Trans-atlantic Slave Trade: A Legacy Establishing a Case for International Reparations	Patricia M. Muhammad
Shocking List of 10 Companies that Profited from the Slave Trade	Your Black World
MANY BILLIONS GONE: IS IT TIME TO RECONSIDER THE CASE FOR BLACK REPARATIONS?	Robert Westley
Dominant Perspectives on Reparations	Vincene Verdun
The Case for Black Reparations	Robert Westley
Slavery, Segregation and Reparations	Cynthia McKinney
Political Autonomy as a Form of Reparations	Lee A. Harris
Transforming Public Perceptions of Reparations	Harvard Law Review
The Case for Black Reparations Redux	Watson Branch
Reparation Debate Beyond 1865	Alberto B. Lopez
White America and Reparations	Art Alcausin Hall
Black America and Reparations	Art Alcausin Hall
New Avenues for Slavery Reparations	Michelle E. Lyons
Legal Issues and Reparations	Adjoa A. Aiyetoro
Uncivil Wars and Reparation	David Boyle
The Race-Skewed Notion of Victimhood	Charles J. Ogletree
Failure to Enforce the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments	Edieth Y. Wu
Taking Conservatives Seriously	Kim Forde-Mazrui
The Cultural War over Reparations for Slavery	Alfred L. Brophy
The Utility and Disadvantages of Reparations	Vernellia Randall
JP Morgan Chase Manhattan Bank and Slavery	Deadria C. Farmer-Paellmann
The Case Against Black Reparations	Richard A. Epstein
The Mass Tort Analogy and African American Reparations	James R. Hackney, Jr.
Slavery and Tort Law	Keith N. Hylton
Unjust Enrichment and Reparations for Slavery	Dennis Klimchuk
Reparations as Redistribution	Kyle D. Logue
The Role of the Federal Government in Slavery and Jim Crow	David Lyons
Slavery, Reproductive Abuse, and Reparations	Pamela D. Bridgewater
Statutes of Limitations and Reparations	Suzette M. Malveaux
Takings Clause Solution to Reparations	Yanessa L. Barnard
Plaintiffs' Memorandum in Opposition to Defendants' Joint Motion to Dismiss	Vernellia Randall
Second Consolidated and Amended Complaint and Jury Demand	Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, Plaintiff, et al
Motion for Reconsideration of Dismissal Order	Deadria Farmer-Paellmann
First Consolidated and Amended Complaint and Jury Demand	Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, et. al.
Response of Defendants-Appellees to Appellate Brief	Aetna, Fleetboston, and New York Life . et. al.
Opinion and Order: Appeal	Judge Posner
Opinion and Order: Defendants' Joint Motion to Dismiss	United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.
Opinion and Order: Defendants' Joint Motion to Dismiss	United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division
Opinion and Order: Plaintiffs' Motion to Recuse	TBA
Opinion and Order: Plaintiffs' Motion to Appoint a Mediator	United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division
Opinion and Order: Plaintiffs' Motion to Preserve Evidence: (July 15, 2003)	United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division
Opinion and Order: Motion to Transfer	Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Defendants' Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion for Enlargement of Time to Respond	Brown Brothers Harriman & Co, et. al.
Memorandum in Support of Defendants' Joint Motion to Dismiss	Brown Brothers Harriman & Co, et. al.
Reply in Support of Defendants' Joint Motion to Dismiss	TBA
Reply Brief of Plaintiffs-Appellants	Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, Timothy Hurdle, et al.
Reply in Support of Defendants' Joint Motion to Dismiss Plaintiffs' Second Consolidated and Amended Complaint	Brown Brothers Harriman & Co, et. al.
Brief of Plaintiffs-Appellants	Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, Timothy Hurdle, et al.
Brief of Defendants-Appellees	Brown Brothers Harriman & Co, et. al.
A Critical Legal Rhetoric Approach to In Re African-American Slave Descendants Litigation	Lolita Buckner Inniss
A Critical Legal Rhetoric Approach to In Re African-American Slave Descendants Litigation	Lolita Buckner Inniss

Subcategories

In re African–American Slave Descendants Litigation 21

Trial Court Documents - African American Slave Litigation 4

Cases - African American Slave Litigation 7

Briefs - African American Slave Litigation 7

SecondarySources - African American Slave Litigation 2

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