Remarks: Caperton\u27s Next Generation -- Beyond the Bank

On November 14, 2014, a symposium entitled, Courts, Campaigns, and Corruption: Judicial Recusal Five Years After Caperton, was held at New York University. The symposium was sponsored by the Brennan Center for Justice, the American Bar Association\u27s Center for Professional Responsibility, and NYU\u27s Journal of Legislation and Public Policy. This document contains the transcript starting from Dmitry Bam\u27s remarks from one of the four panels, and is entitled Caperton\u27s Next Generation: Beyond the Bank. The panel members included Professors Jed Shugerman, Debra Lyn Bassett, Gregory S. Parks, Dmitry Bam, and Rex Perschbacher

The Litigation Landscape of Fraternity and Sorority Hazing: Defenses, Evidence, and Damages

In recent years, increasing public and media attention has focused on hazing, especially in collegiate fraternities and sororities. Whether it is because of the deaths, major injuries, or litigation, both criminal and civil, collegiate fraternities and sororities have received increased scrutiny. In this Article, we explore a range of tactical considerations that lawyers must consider—from defenses to evidentiary concerns. We also explore how damages are contemplated in the context of hazing litigation

Hazing in High School Athletics: An Analysis of Victims

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Barack Obama, Implicit Bias, and the 2008 Election

The election of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth president of the United States suggests that the United States has made great strides with regard to race. The blogs and the pundits may laud Obama’s win as evidence that we now live in a “post-racial America.” But is it accurate to suggest that race no longer significantly influences how Americans evaluate each other? Does Obama’s victory suggest that affirmative action and antidiscrimination protections are no longer necessary? We think not. Ironically, rather than marking the dawn of a post-racial America, Obama’s candidacy reveals how deeply race affects judgment

The Sons of Indiana: Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity and the Fight for Civil Rights

The common narrative about African Americans’ quest for social justice and civil rights during the twentieth century consists, largely, of men and women working through organizations to bring about change. The typical list of organizations includes, inter alia, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Urban League, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. What are almost never included in this list are African American collegiate-based fraternities. However, at the turn of the twentieth century, a small group of organizations emerged founded on personal excellence, the development and sustainment of fictive-kinship ties, and racial uplift. These organizations immediately created highly functioning alumni chapters in cities across the United States. Members of these organizations, who were college graduates, could continue their work in actualizing their respective organizations’ ideals. One such organization, founded at Indiana University in 1911, was Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. This Article explores the history of this fraternity’s, and its members’, involvement in African Americans’ quest for social justice and racial equality in the United States