Hernandez v. Texas: Legacies of Justice and Injustice

Peremptory Challenges: Lessons from Hernandez v. Texas

INTRODUCTION What insights can a close study of Hernandez v. Texas contribute to current debates about the use of peremptory challenges to strike non-whites from venires? In light of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Thomas Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322 (2003) and Hernandez v. New York, 111 S.Ct. 1859 (1991), analysis of the defense’s and prosecutor’s lines of reasoning in Hernandez v....

Permanent Injustice: Rawls' Theory of Justice and the Digital Divide

There are more than 700 million current Internet users, but the world population is approximately 6 billion (Trend 2001), indicating that computer technology is used by less than one-eighth of the population. Computers are becoming common tools in schools, often viewed as a democratic panacea despite the costs involved and despite the fact that the majority does not have access to computers and...

Environmental Justice/Injustice and SCAQMD’s Dry-Cleaners Initiative

This paper presents an analysis of an Environment Justice (EJ) program adopted by the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) as a part of its regulation to phase out a toxic chemical used by dry cleaners. AQMD has provided financial incentives to switch early, and establishments in EJ neighborhoods are given priority. Despite this pro-EJ policy, an analysis of available data shows t...

Some Legacies of "Brown v. Board of Education"

investigation of the electronic properties of carbon and iii-v nanotubes

boron nitride semiconducting zigzag swcnt, $b_{cb}$$n_{cn}$$c_{1-cb-cn}$, as a potential candidate for making nanoelectronic devices was examined. in contrast to the previous dft calculations, wherein just one boron and nitrogen doping configuration have been considered, here for the average over all possible configurations, density of states (dos) was calculated in terms of boron and nitrogen ...