Bennett Capers
Biographic Data
| ID | 5721935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bennett Capers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bennett |
| FAMILY NAME | Capers |
| SIGNATURE | CAPERS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fordham Law School |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Teaching Criminal Law a Decade into the Movement for Black Lives
After George Zimmerman was acquitted of the murder of Trayvon Martin in 2013, three women, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi, created, in their words, “a Black-centered, political-movement-building project called #BlackLivesMatter.” Just over a decade later, this movement has grown into a powerful, decentralized coalition catalyzed by the protest actions following the deaths of Ferguson teen Michael Brown and New Yorker Eric Garner …
Now
This essay brings Afrofuturism, and its notion of the plasticity of time, to imagine how we will think of the past in the future and, more specifically, to consider what will “enrapture, haunt, and/or plague thinkers in the future.” Although many answers come to mind, including this country’s original sin-slavery-ultimately this essay turns to our current technologies, especially policing technologies. And this essay turns the question around to …
Race-ing Antitrust
Antitrust law has a race problem. To spot an antitrust violation, courts inquire into whether an act has degraded consumer welfare. Since anticompetitive practices are often assumed to enhance consumer welfare, antitrust offenses are rarely found. Key to this framework is that antitrust treats all consumers monolithically; that consumers are differently situated, especially along lines of race, simply is ignored. We argue that antitrust law must …
Critical Race Judgments
By re-writing US 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. Ferguso…
Afrofuturism and the Law
Long before the film Black Panther captured the public’s imagination, the cultural critic Mark Dery coined the term “Afrofuturism” to describe “speculative fiction that treats African-American themes and addresses African-American concerns in the context of twentieth-century technoculture.” Since then, the term has been applied to speculative creatives as diverse as the pop artist Janelle Monae, the science fiction writer Octavia Butler, and the …
Free-ing Criminal Justice
A Review of Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America. By Sara Mayeux
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Critical Race Judgments
By re-writing US 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. Ferguso…
Afrofuturism and the Law
Long before the film Black Panther captured the public’s imagination, the cultural critic Mark Dery coined the term “Afrofuturism” to describe “speculative fiction that treats African-American themes and addresses African-American concerns in the context of twentieth-century technoculture.” Since then, the term has been applied to speculative creatives as diverse as the pop artist Janelle Monae, the science fiction writer Octavia Butler, and the …
Free-ing Criminal Justice
A Review of Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America. By Sara Mayeux
Race-ing Antitrust
Antitrust law has a race problem. To spot an antitrust violation, courts inquire into whether an act has degraded consumer welfare. Since anticompetitive practices are often assumed to enhance consumer welfare, antitrust offenses are rarely found. Key to this framework is that antitrust treats all consumers monolithically; that consumers are differently situated, especially along lines of race, simply is ignored. We argue that antitrust law must …
Now
This essay brings Afrofuturism, and its notion of the plasticity of time, to imagine how we will think of the past in the future and, more specifically, to consider what will “enrapture, haunt, and/or plague thinkers in the future.” Although many answers come to mind, including this country’s original sin-slavery-ultimately this essay turns to our current technologies, especially policing technologies. And this essay turns the question around to …
Teaching Criminal Law a Decade into the Movement for Black Lives
After George Zimmerman was acquitted of the murder of Trayvon Martin in 2013, three women, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi, created, in their words, “a Black-centered, political-movement-building project called #BlackLivesMatter.” Just over a decade later, this movement has grown into a powerful, decentralized coalition catalyzed by the protest actions following the deaths of Ferguson teen Michael Brown and New Yorker Eric Garner …
Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law, Rights, and Freedoms (3 works) · Criminal justice (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Economic Justice (2 works) · History (2 works) · Legal Systems and Judicial Processes (2 works) · Supreme court (2 works)