Reggie Shuford, EJS Director of Law and Policy, was the guest lecturer today at Ruth Chance Monday, sponsored by Berkeley Law’s Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice. Joining theory and practice, Ruth Chance Mondays is a biweekly luncheon speakers series that brings prominent social justice practitioners to Boalt Hall to discuss current issues andContinueContinue reading “Reggie Shuford Lecture on Implicit Bias and the Law at Berkeley Law’s Ruth Chance Mondays”
Category Archives: Intent Doctrine
Senate Committee Approves Proposed Law to Reduce Discrimination in Death Penalty Sentencing (Updated)
UPDATE MAY 27, 2010: The Senate Appropriations Committee did not pass out the bill, which effectively kills it for this session. The state Senate Public Safety Committee yesterday approved a bill proposing changes in the criminal justice system to ensure that no one is sentenced to die because of race or ethnicity. Senate Bill 1331,ContinueContinue reading “Senate Committee Approves Proposed Law to Reduce Discrimination in Death Penalty Sentencing (Updated)”
Dying While Black: An Examination of Race and the California Death Penalty
Photo by nodeathpenalty.org The foundation of the Equal Justice Society is based on the premise that racial justice cannot be achieved when the law fails to reflect actual experience. Under existing equal protection law, the constricted “Intent Doctrine” (as established in the 1976 United States Supreme Court decision Washington v. Davis) ignores much of whatContinueContinue reading “Dying While Black: An Examination of Race and the California Death Penalty”