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Vanderbilt Social Justice Reporter

The only Vanderbilt Law journal with an explicit social justice mission, the Vanderbilt Social Justice Reporter (“VSJR”) is envisioned as a national go-to resource for social justice-oriented scholars, practitioners, students, and community members, with content spanning intersectional issues of law and social equity.

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April 4, 1968: A Law Student’s Night in the Memphis Jail
Alex Jay Hurder

Will This Too Pass? How The Criminalization And Derogation Of Unhoused People Is One Mark Of Our Descent Into Fascism
Michaela R. Martin Strout

Tennessee’s Families Rights and Responsibilities Act: A Risky Gamble with Adolescent Health and Safety
Oluwafunmilayo Oguns

Looking Down the Road: The First Steps to a Public Interest Law Career
Amy Leipziger

Inclusive Constitutionalism as a Framework for Remedying Past Discrimination in Higher Education
Kyle Jordan Smith

Give Me Your Hungry, Your Poor: How Welfare Restrictions Perpetuate Recidivism
Kaitlyn Hammond

Queering Carceralism
James Gacek

Why Legal Attacks on Transgender People Should Concern All of Us
Kyle C. Velte

Movement Lawyering For Pretrial Justice In Eastern Tennessee
Kiah Duggins, Allen Shropshire, Avery Fairburn, and Tyler Foster

Foreward
Edward Rubin

Voting Rights in the South: Challenges and Opportunities for an Equal Right to Vote
Anita Earls

Sustained, Strategic Organizing Paves the Way for Jail Voting Work in Tennessee

Redefining Race in Redistricting
R. Jared Evans and Victoria Wenger

New Digital Dangers to Democracy: How Artificial Intelligence Could Supercharge Black Voter Suppression
Paul M. Barrett and Cecely Richard-Carvajal

Voting Rights in the South Foreword
Karla McKanders

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