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Publications

Explore original scholarship, reports, and policy analysis produced by our team. Our work draws on interdisciplinary expertise and community insight to confront racial injustice and advance transformative legal and policy change. 

Reports

  1. State Courts in the Fight for Racial Justice
  2. The People's Report - Data Centers in Prince George's County, MD
  3. The Data Justice Act: Reining In the State’s Collection and Use of Personal Data
  4. Freedom Delayed, Justice Denied (November 2024), (January 2025), (May 2025)
  5. Building Roads to a Just & Equitable Future
  6. What Does Fairness Look Like? Conversations on Race, Risk Assessment Tools, and Pretrial Justice 
  7. The Problem With Parole: New York State’s Failing System of Release (2021), (2023)
  8. Litigating Algorithms (2018), (2019)

Scholarship

  1. The Master’s Tools and a Mission: Using Community Control and Oversight Laws to Resist and Abolish Police Surveillance Technologies — UCLA Law Review
  2. “White Men’s Roads through Black Men’s Homes”: Advancing Racial Equity through Highway Reconstruction — Vanderbilt Law Review
  3. Monopolizing Whiteness — Harvard Law Review
  4. The New Housing Segregation: The Jim Crow Effects of Crime-Free Housing Ordinances — Michigan Law Review
  5. Exile from Main Street — Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
  6. Toward a Just Future: Anticipating and Overcoming a Sustained Resistance to Reparations — NYU Review of Law & Social Change

Opinions

  1. The Supreme Court Blesses the Destruction of Black Electoral Power - Hammer and Hope
  2. Why Abandoning Disparate Impact Protections Is a Disaster in the Age of AI — HR Executive
  3. Despite Misinformation from Washington, Environmental Justice Is About Common Sense, Fairness, and Access to Clean Air and Clean Water for All —The Equation
  4. Justice LaSalle Blessed Skin Color Discrimination in Jury Selection. That’s Disqualifying — Queens Eagle
  5. Black and Brown Children Are Not “Superpredators” and Should Not Spend Life in Prison — The Hill
  6. The Racist Fearmongering Campaigns Against Bail Reform, Explained — The Appeal