This page contains cases that incorporate issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in their subject matter, and may be suitable to use in 1L doctrinal classes. Secondary sources discussing the diversity, equity, and inclusion issues in the case are also included. New materials will be added on an ongoing basis.

All materials have been linked when possible, with a note as to whether the source is behind a paywall. For a general review of all 1L classes, see Integrating Doctrine and Diversity: Equity and Inclusion in the Law School Classroom (Nicole P. Dyszlewski et al. eds. 2021).

Cases & Materials

This spreadsheet identifies constitutional law cases that incorporate issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in their subject matter that could be used in a 1L class to surface those issues. The first sheet on the spreadsheet includes the case name, the relevant constitutional law topic, and any secondary sources that discuss the DEI issues in the case. The second sheet contains additional secondary sources that generally discuss issues of DEI in the constitutional law classroom. Some of these articles are duplicated below.

Articles

• Bridget J. Crawford et al., Teaching with Feminist Judgments: A Global Conversation, 38 Law & Inequality 1 (2020).
• Michael A. Lawrence, The Thirteenth Amendment as Basis for Racial Truth & Reconciliation, 62 Arizona Law Review 637 (2020).
• Nina A. Mendelson, Tribes, Cities, and Children: Emerging Voices in Environmental Litigation, 34 J. Land Use & Environmental Law 237 (2019).
• Mark R. Killenbeck, Constitutional Heresy?, 62 St. Louis University Law Journal 667 (2018).
• Susan K. Serrano, Elevating the Perspectives of U.S. Territorial Peoples: Why the Insular Cases Should Be Taught in Law School, 21 Journal of Gender, Race & Justice 395 (2018).
• William Araiza, If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Procreation: Methodology and Subject-Matter in Fourteenth Amendment Pedagogy, 62 St. Louis University Law Journal 623 (2018).
• James Gray Pope, Section 1 of the Thirteenth Amendment and the Badges and Incidents of Slavery, 65 UCLA Law Review 426 (2018).
• Rebecca Zietlow, Teaching Congressional Enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment, 62 St. Louis University Law Journal 655 (2018).
• Barry Cushman, Teaching the Lochner Era, 62 St. Louis University Law Journal 537 (2018).
• Martha F. Davis, The Upside of the Downside: Local Human Rights and the Federalism Clauses, 62 St. Louis University Law Journal 921 (2018).
• Mathilde Cohen, Of Milk and the Constitution, 40 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 115 (2017).
• Rachel Harmon, Reconsidering Criminal Procedure: Teaching the Law of the Police, 60 St. Louis University Law Journal 391 (2016).
• Martha T. McCluskey, Facing the Ghost of Cruikshank in Constitutional Law, 65 Journal of Legal Education 278 (2015).
• Raj Shah, An Article III Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand: A Critical Race Perspective on the US Supreme Court’s Standing Jurisprudence, 61 UCLA Law Review 198 (2013).
• Logan E. Sawyer III, Creating Hammer v. Dagenhart, 21 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 67 (2012).
• Juan F. Perea, Race and Constitutional Law Casebooks: Recognizing the Proslavery Constitution, 110 Michigan Law Review 1123 (2012).
• Cheryl Hanna, Gender as a Core Value in Teaching Constitutional Law, 36 Oklahoma City University Law Review 513 (2011). [article behind paywall]
• Paul R. Baier, Beyond Black Ink: From Langdell to the Oyez Project–the Voice of the Past, 55 Loy. L. Rev. 277 (2009).
• Kate Nace Day & Russell G. Murphy, Just Trying to Be Human in This Place: Storytelling and Film in the First-Year Law School Classroom, 39 Stetson Law Review 247 (2009).
• Helen J. Knowles, Cases, Costumes, and Civic Concepts: Three Decades of the Equal Justice under Law Video Series, 58 Journal of Legal Education 290 (2008). [article behind paywall]
• Janel Thakmul, The Plenary Power-Shaped Hole in the Core Constitutional Law Curriculum: Exclusion, Unequal Protection, and American National Identity, 96 California Law Review 553 (2008).
• Austin Allen, Rethinking Dred Scott: New Context for an Old Case, 82 Chicago-Kent Law Review 141 (2007).
• Joel K. Goldstein, Approaches to Brown v. Board of Education: Some Notes on Teaching a Seminal Case, 49 St. Louis University Law Journal 777 (2005).
• Sarah B. Bowman et al., Racial Integration and the Legacy of Brown at Seattle University School of Law, 3 Seattle Journal of Social Justice 143 (2004).
• Sanford Levinson, Reply: Why I Still Won’t Teach Marbury (Except in a Seminar), 6 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 588 (2004).
• Edward A. Purcell, Jr., The Particularly Dubious Case of Hans v. Louisiana: An Essay on Law, Race, History, and Federal Courts, 81 North Carolina Law Review 1927 (2003).
• Sarah M. Buel, The Pedagogy of Domestic Violence Law: Situating Domestic Violence Work in Law Schools, Adding the Lenses of Race and Class, 11 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & Law 309 (2003).
• David Fontana, A Case for the Twenty-First Century Constitutional Canon: Schneiderman v. United States, 35 Connecticut Law Review 35 (2002).
• Pamela S. Karlan, Equal Protection, Due Process, and the Stereoscopic Fourteenth Amendment, 33 McGeorge Law Review 473 (2002).
• Paul Finkelman, Teaching Slavery in American Constitutional Law, 34 Akron Law Review 261 (2000).
• Jack M. Balkin & Sanford Levinson, The Canons of Constitutional Law, 111 Harvard Law Review 963 (1998).
• Karin Mika, Self-Reflection within the Academy: The Absence of Women in Constitutional Jurisprudence, 9 Hastings Women’s Law Journal 273 (1998).
• Douglas L. Colbert, Liberating the Thirteenth Amendment, 30 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 1 (1995).
• Ann Althouse, Late Night Confessions in the Hart and Wechsler Hotel, 47 Vanderbilt Law Review 993 (1994).
• Sanford Levinson, Slavery in the Canon of Constitutional Law, 68 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1087 (1993).
• Leslie Bender & Daan Braveman, Impassioning a Civil Rights Course, 16 Vermont Law Review 943 (1992). [article behind paywall]
• Barbara Bennett Woodhouse, “Who Owns the Child?”: Meyer and Pierce and the Child As Property, 33 William & Mary Law Review 995 (1992).
• Frances Lee Ansley, Race and the Core Curriculum in Legal Education, 79 California Law Review 1512 (1991).
• Francis A. Boyle, The Hypocrisy and Racism Behind the Formulation of U.S. Human Rights Foreign Policy: In Honor of Clyde Ferguson, 16 Social Justice 71 (1989). [article behind paywall]

Books & Book Chapters

• Inga N. Laurent and Teri McMurtry-Chubb, Loving v. Virginia, 388 US 1 (1967), in Feminist Judgments : Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court (Kathryn M. Stanchi et al. eds., 2016).
• Juan F. Perea et al., Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America (3d ed. 2015).
• Zaneta E. Fenton, State-Enabled Violence: The Story of Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzalez, in Women and the Law Stories (Elizabeth M. Schneider & Stephanie M. Wildman eds., 2011).
• Stephen Ansolabehere & Samuel Issacharoff, The Story of Baker v. Carr, in Constitutional Law Stories 271 (Michael C. Dorf ed., 2d ed. 2009).
• Mark Tushnet, The Story of City of Boerne v. Flores: Federalism, Rights, and Judicial Supremacy, in Constitutional Law Stories 483 (Michael C. Dorf ed., 2d ed. 2009).
• Christopher L. Eisgruber, The Story of Dred Scott: Originalism’s Forgotten Past, in Constitutional Law Stories 155 (Michael C. Dorf ed., 2d ed. 2009).
• Benjamin Wittes & Hannah Neprash, The Story of the Guantanamo Cases: Habeas Corpus, the Reach of the Court, and the War on Terror, in Constitutional Law Stories 513 (Michael C. Dorf ed., 2d ed. 2009).
• David E. Bernstein, The Story of Lochner v. New York: Impediment to the Growth of the Regulatory State, in Constitutional Law Stories 299 (Michael C. Dorf ed., 2d ed. 2009).
• Michael W. McConnell, The Story of Marbury v. Madison: Making Defeat Look Like Victory, in Constitutional Law Stories 13 (Michael C. Dorf ed., 2d ed. 2009).
• Daniel A. Farber, The Story of McCulloch: Banking on National Power, in Constitutional Law Stories 33 (Michael C. Dorf ed., 2d ed. 2009).
• Cheryl I. Harris, The Story of Plessy v. Furgeson: The Death and Resurrection of Racial Formalism, in Constitutional Law Stories 187 (Michael C. Dorf ed., 2d ed. 2009).
• Jim Chen, The Story of Wickard v. Filburn: Agriculture, Aggregation, and Commerce, in Constitutional Law Stories 69 (Michael C. Dorf ed., 2d ed. 2009).
• Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., Classical Racism, Justice Story, and Margaret Morgan’s Journey from Freedom to Slavery: The Story of Prigg v. Pennsylvania, in Race Law Stories (Rachel F. Moran & Devon Wayne Carbado eds., 2008).
• Derrick Bell, The Quest for Effective Schools, in Race, Racism, and American Law 99-122 (6th ed. 2008).
• Carlos R. Soltero, Katzenbach v. Morgan (1966) and Voting Rights of Puerto Ricans with Limited English Proficiency, in Latinos and American Law: Landmark Supreme Court Cases (2006).
• Richard C. Cortner, Civil Rights and Public Accommodations: The Heart of Atlanta Motel and McClung Cases (2001).
• William E. Leuchtenburg, The Supreme Court Reborn: The Constitutional Revolution in the Age of Roosevelt (1995).

Cases & Materials

This spreadsheet identifies criminal law cases that incorporate issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in their subject matter that could be used in a 1L class to surface those issues. The first sheet on the spreadsheet includes the case name, the relevant criminal law topic, and any secondary sources that discuss the DEI issues in the case. The second sheet contains additional secondary sources that generally discuss issues of DEI in the criminal law classroom. Some of these articles are duplicated below.

Articles

• Erin Lutes, James Purdon & Henry F. Fradella, When Music Takes the Stand: A Content Analysis of How Courts Use and Misuse Rap Lyrics in Criminal Cases, 46 American Journal of Criminal Law 77 (2019).
• Editha Rosario-Moore & Alexios Rosario-Moore, From the Ground Up: Criminal Law Education for Communities Most Affected by Mass Incarceration, 23 Clinical Law Review 753 (2017).
• Alletta Brenner, Resisting Simple Dichotomies: Critiquing Narratives of Victims, Perpetrators, and Harm in Feminist Theories of Rape, 36 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 503 (2013).
• I. Bennett Capers, Real Rape Too, 99 California Law Review 1259 (2011).
• Melissa Murray, Teaching Gender as a Core Value: The Softer Side of Criminal Law, 36 Oklahoma City University Law Review 525 (2011). [article behind paywall]
• Tamara F. Lawson, Mainstreaming Civil Rights in Law School Curriculum: Criminal Law and Procedure, 54 St. Louis University Law Journal 837 (2010).
• Henry F. Fradella, Stephen S. Owen & Tod W. Burke, Integrating Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues into the Undergraduate Criminal Justice Curriculum, 20 Journal of Criminal Justice Education 127 (2009). [article behind paywall]
• Cynthia Lee, The Gay Panic Defense, 42 U.C. Davis Law Review 471 (2008).
• Susan S. Kuo, Cultural Clash: Teaching Cultural Defenses in the Criminal Law Classroom, 48 St. Louis University Law Journal 1297 (2004).
• Beverly Balos, Teaching Prostitution Seriously, 4 Buffalo Criminal Law Review 709 (2001). [article behind paywall]
• Nancy A. Wanderer & Catherine R. Connors, Culture and Crime: Kargar and the Existing Framework for a Cultural Defense, 47 Buffalo Law Review 829 (1999).
• Janai S. Nelson, Disparate Effects in the Criminal Justice: A Response to Randall Kennedy’s Comment and its Legacy, 14 National Black Law Journal 222 (1997).
• William N. Eskridge, Jr., Privacy Jurisprudence and the Apartheid of the Closet, 1946-1961, 24 Florida State University Law Review 703 (1997).
• Robert Heller, Selective Prosecution and the Federalization of Criminal Law: The Need for Meaningful Judicial Review of Prosecutorial Discretion, 145 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1309 (1997).
• Cynthia Kwei Yung Lee, Race and Self-Defense: Toward a Normative Conception of Reasonableness, 81 Minnesota Law Review 367 (1996).
• Leti Volpp, (Mis)Identifying Culture: Asian Women and the Cultural Defense, 17 Harvard Women’s Law Journal 57 (1994). [article behind paywall]
• David Cole, The Paradox of Race and Crime: A Comment on Randall Kennedy’s ‘Politics of Distinction‘, 83 Georgetown Law Journal 2547 (1994-1995). [article behind paywall]
• Gregory Howard Williams, Teaching Criminal Law: “Objectivity” in Black and White, 9 Harvard Blackletter Journal 27 (1992). [article behind paywall]
• Randall Kennedy, The State, Criminal Law, and Racial Discrimination: A Comment, 107 Harvard Law Review 1255 (1994). [article behind paywall]
• Dwight L. Greene, Justice Scalia and Tonto, Judicial Pluralistic Ignorance, and the Myth of Colorless Individualism in Bostick v. Florida, 67 Tulane Law Review 1979 (1992-1993). [article behind paywall]
• Sheri Lynn Johnson, Unconscious Racism and the Criminal Law, 73 Cornell Law Review 1016 (1987-1988).
• Richard Delgado, Rotten Social Background: Should the Criminal Law Recognize a Defense of Severe Environmental Deprivation, 3 Law & Inequality 9 (1985).

Cases & Materials

This spreadsheet identifies property cases that incorporate issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in their subject matter that could be used in a 1L class to surface those issues. The first sheet on the spreadsheet includes the case name, the relevant property law topic, and any secondary sources that discuss the DEI issues in the case. The second sheet contains additional secondary sources that generally discuss issues of DEI in the property law classroom. Some of these articles are duplicated below.

Articles & Online Resources

• K-Sue Park, Conquest and Slavery as Foundational to the Property Law Course, in The Oxford Handbook of Race and Law in the United States (Devon Carbado, Khiara Bridges & Emily Houh eds., forthcoming).
• Justin Simard, Citing Slavery, 72 Stanford Law Review 79 (2020).
• Gregory Ablavsky, The Rise of Federal Title, 106 California Law Review 631 (2018).
• Ezra Rosser, The State as the Foundation of Property, Law and Political Economy Project (Oct. 13, 2018).
• Rebecca Tushnet, Zoning and Race, From Ladue to Ferguson, Law and Political Economy Project (Oct. 31, 2018).
• Joseph William Singer, Indian Title: Unraveling the Racial Context of Property Rights, or How to Stop Engaging in Conquest, 10 Albany Government Law Review 1 (2017).
• Joseph William Singer, Property and Sovereignty Imbricated: Why Religion is Not an Excuse to Discriminate in Public Accommodations, 18 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 519 (2017).
• Vanita Saleema Snow, The Untold Story of the Justice Gap: Integrating Poverty Law into the Law School Curriculum, 37 Pace Law Review 642 (2017).
• Joan C. Williams, Gender as a Core Value: Teaching Property, 36 Oklahoma City University Law Review 551 (2011).
• Angela Gilmore, Incorporating Issues of Sexual Orientation Into a First Year Property Law Course: Relevance and Responsibility, 32 Nova Law Review 595 (2008).
• Dana G. Jim, Johnson v. M’Intosh and the South Dakota Fossil Cases, 46 St. Louis University Law Journal 791 (2002).
• Peter W. Salsich, Property Law Serves Human Society: A First-Year Course Agenda, 46 St. Louis University Law Journal 617 (2002).
• Frances Lee Ansley, Race and the Core Curriculum in Legal Education, 79 California Law Review 1512 (1991).
• Amy Starecheski, How Does Private Property Work? A Case Study of Law-Breaking and Law-Making (unpublished manuscript) (Columbia Oral History MA Program). [article behind paywall]

Books & Book Chapters

• Rebecca Tushnet, Foreclosures and the Mortgage Crisis, in Open Source Property: A Free Casebook (Stephen Clowney et al. eds. 2020).
• Alexander Vasudevan, From Shantytown to ‘Operation Move-In’ in Autonomous, in The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting (2017).
• Alexander Vasudevan, Reclaiming New York: Squatting and the Neoliberal City, in The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting (2017).
• Alfred Brophy, Alberto Lopez & Kali Murray, Integrating Spaces: Property Law and Race (2011).