The New York Times, Room for Debate, February 23, 2012 by Ian Haney-Lopez
http://nyti.ms/Af4rxh
The court seems intent on making federal laws banning discrimination as ineffective as they’ve rendered the constitution in detecting racial mistreatment; and also poised to extend the ban on affirmative action to corporations, private hospitals, foundations and unions. If these come to pass, the court will have curtailed every direct means of achieving an integrated society.
The New York Times, November 2, 2011 by Ian Haney-López
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/opinion/a-new-way-to-achieve-civil-rights.html
Today’s narrow focus on isolated victims, rightly decried by Mr. Ford, does not reflect a failure of vision by civil rights leaders. Instead, it stems from four decades of efforts by conservative judges and justices (reflecting the preferences of the politicians who appointed them) to restrictively construe civil rights laws to ensure that they challenge discrimination barely at all.
Social Science Research Network, September 1, 2011 by Ian F. Haney-Lopez
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1920418
Intent doctrine was once the undivided heart of equal protection, and worked tolerably well for detecting the mistreatment of nonwhites and also in distinguishing benign from invidious discrimination.
The American Prospect, March 29, 2011 by Ian Haney-Lopez
http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=blind_spot_sr
Reactionary colorblindness asserts that explicitly using race is always immoral and unjust…. Conservatives wield reactionary colorblindness like a sword to slash away at programs designed to achieve the integration ideals of the civil-rights movement.
New American Media, January 8, 2011 by Ian Haney-López
http://newamericamedia.org/2011/01/op-ed.php
Under U.S. constitutional law, children born here are citizens here, irrespective of their parents’ citizenship. Seeking to end this purported outrage, Arizona and other states have announced plans to challenge this right…. Key to whipping up populist fervor is the specter of the “anchor baby”: the child born here to noncitizen parents, ostensibly as part of a nefarious plot to establish roots in this country.
The Daily Journal, June 1, 2010 by Susan McRae
http://www.dailyjournal.com/ (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)
“I think this is fantastic,” said Berkeley law professor Ian F. Haney Lopez. “I think she would make a phenomenal dean.”
In a brief interview with UC Irvine, Moran said her decision to go into law came when she was helping her professors at Stanford…. “That experience made me realize how powerful law could be in changing people’s lives, and so I went to law school instead of graduate school in psychology,” Moran said in the interview.
San Francisco Chronicle, June 2, 2009 by Ian Haney Lopez
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/01/EDV017URB2.DTL
Sotomayor posited that racial identity matters in how judges make decisions. She said: “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life….” Does this sound like a racist? No. It sounds like someone wrestling frankly with the heterogeneous identities we previously used to erect inequalities, and on which America now seeks to build its strength.
The Nation, May 25, 2009 by Ian Haney Lopez
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090525/following_souter
The central point is not to provide diverse role models, and it’s certainly not to maximize differences of every stripe. The essential thrust of identity politics is to accord special consideration to race, gender and class (plus sexual orientation and disability)—because these constitute core, persistent, unjust hierarchies…. Judge Sotomayor deserves our support not because of who she is but because of what she thinks—especially about the most injurious forms of structural injustice in the United States: race, gender and class.
CNN.com, April 10, 2009 by Kristi Keck
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/10/obama.immigration/
“We are a country of immigrants, and immigrants have always been essential to who we are culturally and socially. So it’s simply a mistake to see these people as somehow interlopers,” he said…. If immigrants were given amnesty and the opportunity to work for minimum wage, Americans wouldn’t see themselves as in competition with the undocumented workers, he said. “The way to reduce the attractiveness of immigrant labor is to legalize immigrant labor,” he said.