The Citing Slavery Project @CitingSlavery
The official twitter of the Citing Slavery Project. The Project provides a database of slave cases and the modern cases that continue to cite them as precedent. linktr.ee/citingslaveryp… Joined July 2021-
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Today, March 21, is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. To learn more about how the Citing Slavery Project is fighting to end racial bias in the legal field, visit citingslavery.org and washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/maga…
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@CitingSlavery Is Nat a man? I don’t see in the case text where it indicates Nat was female.
@CitingSlavery There may have been more of these instances of “success” in Maryland than in any other state below the Mason Dixon Line. Hundreds of enslaved people like Cager were granted their freedom by MD’s courts through the beginning of the 19th century.
Professor Justin Simard was awarded the Mary L. Dudziak Legal History Prize for the Citing Slavery Project. The award recognizes outstanding digital legal history projects. bit.ly/3QWnSoS
Thank you all SO MUCH for doing REAL humanitarian work, phenomenal
Do you love podcasts? Listen to these episodes to learn more about the Citing Slavery Project and the work our team is doing! “Then and Now (With Justin Simard)” by Pod Save the People @CrookedMedia @PodSaveThePpl (Continued below)
Slavery was abolished in 1865 – but in some states, including Louisiana, state courts still cite cases involving enslaved people as good legal precedent. Today on @LAConsidered, we hear from the @CitingSlavery Project, which documents these examples in an effort to change that.
Slavery was abolished in 1865 – but in some states, including Louisiana, state courts still cite cases involving enslaved people as good legal precedent. Today on @LAConsidered, we hear from the @CitingSlavery Project, which documents these examples in an effort to change that.
@thesnews Ping to the @CitingSlavery Project!
Michigan State University College of Law professor Justin Simard started the "Citing Slavery Project" in 2020 after researching sources for a project and stumbling upon citations of slave cases by modern judges. Read about how his work has continued. statenews.com/article/2023/1…
"They are, unequivocally, the most dehumanizing & despicable documents I've ever read" –Bret Bicoy Fascinating article by @rachel_treisman on the common practice in US courts of citing slavery cases but without acknowledging the slavery, and the @CitingSlavery Project
Slavery still shapes law (and social policy, science, medicine, etc) today. This study found that almost 20% of all published US court decisions cite a slavery case or a case that cites one. Where do you think the “insane delusion rule” comes from? npr.org/2023/06/14/118…
Former ABF Visiting Scholar @JustinLSimard of @MSULaw launched the @CitingSlavery Project, a comprehensive map of slave cases and the modern cases that cite them as precedent. "The influence is really, really extensive," Simard tells @NPR @MorningEdition. npr.org/2023/06/14/118…
NEW: @deray @HendersonKaya @DeAraBalenger & @pharaohrapture chat crime decrease with shortage of police officers, the small group of conservative doctors behind restrictive abortion policies, and more. DeRay interviews @JustinLSimard about @CitingSlavery bit.ly/3D8FrdI
Law professor @JustinLSimard discusses slavery's ongoing and often overlooked influence on contemporary American jurisprudence. today.westlaw.com/Document/I490d… @JoshNumainville #MSULaw @CitingSlavery
Everyone in the legal profession must hold ourselves accountable for the harms we perpetuate. @CitingSlavery reminds us that former slave cases are STILL cited as good case law. Help support us by donating/learning more lnkd.in/gQHPdKf6 givingto.msu.edu/crowdpower/cit…
A recent NPR article n.pr/3PEkcrQ highlights the @CitingSlavery Project and slavery related Bluebook rule changes bit.ly/3NSthMk, as does a recent @HarvLRev blog post bit.ly/448D4DC. The database of slave cases is at citingslavery.org.
@CitingSlavery is doing important work & inspiring transformative research. It inspired my chapter contribution to the text "Antiracist Library & Information Science" @EmeraldGlobal, "Slave Cases and Ingrained Racism in Legal Information Infrastructures" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
You can listen to the NPR article about the Citing Slavery Project here! one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId…
Amazing to learn what my previous @NULegalStudies colleague Justin Simard @michiganstateu is up to! Slave cases are still cited as good law across the U.S. This team aims to change that. one.npr.org/i/1181834798:1…
@CitingSlavery has “successfully advocated for the Bluebook — the country's legal citation style guide — to add a rule requiring cases involving enslaved people to be labeled with a parenthetical, just as moot or overturned cases are.” buff.ly/3PdbXTh
Resources from The Citing Slavery Project (@CitingSlavery), including: Papers/Law Review Articles and Related Doctrine citingslavery.org/resources
And while many people describe [Justin] Simard's work as timely, he doesn't necessarily agree. "I think it would have been timely 50 years ago, and I'm afraid it'll probably still be timely in 50 years," he says.
Slavery still shapes law (and social policy, science, medicine, etc) today. This study found that almost 20% of all published US court decisions cite a slavery case or a case that cites one. Where do you think the “insane delusion rule” comes from? npr.org/2023/06/14/118…
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