His Name is George Floyd

Robert Samuels & Toluse Olorunnipa, His Name is George Floyd: One Man’s Struggle and the Struggle for Racial Justice (Viking, 2022).

His Name is George Floyd tells the story of a beloved figure from Houston’s housing projects as he faced the stifling systemic pressures that come with being a Black man in America. Placing his narrative within the context of the country’s enduring legacy of institutional racism, this deeply reported account examines Floyd’s family roots in slavery and sharecropping, the segregation of his schools, the overpolicing of his community amid a wave of mass incarceration, and the callous disregard toward his struggle with addiction. Drawing upon hundreds of interviews with Floyd’s closest friends and family, his elementary school teachers and varsity coaches, civil rights icons, and those in the highest seats of political power, Washington Post reporters Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa offer a poignant and moving exploration of George Floyd’s America, revealing how a man who simply wanted to breathe ended up touching the world. 

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Championship Mock Trial

Hon. David Nelmark & Justin Berstein, Championship Mock Trial: The Guide for Students and Coaches (American Bar Association, 2022). 

Championship Mock Trial is the culmination of lessons learned and techniques developed by Judge David Nelmark and Professor Justin Berstein during their more than 50 years of combined experience. They have competed for and coached teams to dozens of championships and run hundreds of Middle School, High School, College, and Law School Mock Trial tournaments. Both are former presidents of the American Mock Trial Association. 

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Critical Race Judgments

Bennett Capers, Devon W. Carbado, R. A. Lenhardt & Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and the Law (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

By re-writing U.S. Supreme Court opinions that implicate critical dimensions of racial justice, Critical Race Judgments demonstrates that it’s possible to be judge and a critical race theorist. Specific issues covered in these cases include the death penalty, employment, voting, policing, education, the environment, justice, housing, immigration, sexual orientation, segregation, and mass incarceration. While some rewritten cases – Plessy v. Ferguson (which constitutionalized Jim Crow) and Korematsu v. United States (which constitutionalized internment) – originally focused on race, many of the rewritten opinions – Lawrence v. Texas (which constitutionalized sodomy laws) and Roe v. Wade (which constitutionalized a woman’s right to choose) – are used to incorporate racial justice principles in novel and important ways. This work is essential for everyone who needs to understand why critical race theory must be deployed in constitutional law to uphold and advance racial justice principles that are foundational to U.S. democracy.

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