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In this episode, activist Kempis “Ghani” Songster and Professor Rachel Lopez discuss their article, written with co-author Terrell Carter: Redeeming Justice. You can read their article here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3728752.

After Jones, mandatory life without parole sentences for juveniles remain unconstitutional; if someone under 18 is sentenced to life without parole under a mandatory sentencing scheme, that person is entitled to a rehearing. Yet the majority’s opinion in Jones suggests that youth need not be considered explicitly when LWOP is part of a discretionary sentencing scheme.

In this episode, professor and attorney David Shapiro discusses the recent Supreme Court decision in Jones v. Mississippi. Professor Shapiro argued for the Petitioner, Brett Jones, before the Supreme Court. You can read the Court’s decision here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-1259_8njq.pdf.

In this episode, professor and attorney David Shapiro discusses the upcoming Supreme Court decision in Jones v. Mississippi. Professor Shapiro argued for the Petitioner, Brett Jones, before the Supreme Court.

In this episode, Amanda Frost, Professor of Law at American University, discusses her Essay, Alienating Citizens, in which she declares that denaturalization is back. Over the past couple of years, she explains, the Trump Administration has revived denaturalization. This episode and her Essay situate denaturalization within the Trump Administration’s broader approach to immigration. Under a policy known as “attrition through enforcement,” the Trump Administration has sought to discourage immigration and encourage “self-deportation.”

For more, read Alienating Citizens in the Northwestern University Law Review Online here: https://northwesternlawreview.org/articles/alienating-citizens/

Keep an eye out for Unmaking Americans: A History of Citizenship Stripping in the United States, coming out in 2020.

In this episode, Professor Michele Goodwin discusses her Essay, The Transgender Military Ban: Preservation of Discrimination Through Transformation, which she co-authored with Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. Their Essay contends that the Trump Administration’s ban on transgender individuals serving in the military is based on prejudice and bias, lacking any legitimate justification. The Essay identifies several problems with the Trump Administration’s policy to ban transgender individuals from serving in the U.S. military, and posits that promoting equality in the military will only occur when the humanity of those who wish to serve and are qualified to serve are permitted to do so with dignity and respect.

Read the Essay here: https://northwesternlawreview.org/issues/the-transgender-military-ban-preservation-of-discrimination-through-transformation/

Danny Greenfield and Maggie Filler of the MacArthur Justice Center discuss solitary confinement. Namely, why we should end it, why we should care about it, and why listeners should come to Northwestern Law Review's 2019 Symposium: Rethinking Solitary Confinement.

Rethinking Solitary Confinement will be held at Northwestern Law on November 8, 2019, and will feature activists, lawyers, survivors, and more. Details and registration here: https://northwesternlawreview.org/symposium/symposium-home/

Recommendations from the podcast:

-Solitary by Albert Woodfox (book)

-Solitary: Inside Red Onion State Prison (HBO documentary)

-Ear Hustle (podcast)

Websites for more information:

-MJC: https://www.macarthurjustice.org/

-ACLU Stop Solitary: https://www.aclu.org/issues/prisoners-rights/solitary-confinement/we-can-stop-solitary

-Solitary watch: https://solitarywatch.org/

Hosts: Danielle Berkowsky & Amanda Wells, NULR Online

In this episode of Below the Line, Professor Issa Kohler-Hausmann discusses her article, Eddie Murphy and the Dangers of Counterfactual Causal Thinking About Detecting Racial Discrimination.

Bonus! Watch Eddie Murphy's "White Like Me" here: https://youtu.be/l_LeJfn_qW0

In this episode of Below the Line, Professor Daniel Croxall of McGeorge School of Law discusses craft beer law and his essay "Cheers to Central Hudson: How Traditional Intermediate Scrutiny Helps Keep Craft Beer Viable."

In this episode, Professor Clay Calvert discusses his essay "Reconsidering Incitement, Tinker, and the Heckler's Veto on College Campuses: Richard Spencer and the Charlottesville Factor."

In this episode of Below the Line, Professor Courtlyn Roser-Jones joins us to discuss her article in Volume 112 Issue 4, "Reconciling Agency Fee Doctrine, the First Amendment, and the Modern Public Sector Union," and the Janus v. AFCSME oral argument.