WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal court sided with Common Cause and voters in their lawsuit against the Department of Justice (DOJ), ruling the DOJ’s...

Climate adaptation must become a civil rights project.

SEATTLE — A federal judge in Seattle on Tuesday tossed the Trump administration’s lawsuit against Washington seeking the state’s voter rolls, in line with many rulings across the country. This marks t...

The civil rights framework we built to enforce our founding document’s promise of liberty continues to fall short.

CBFS: Scholars investigate and discuss the relationship between race and mobility in America. This is an online event program.

Civil rights enforcement is often imagined as the work of lawyers in court. But over the course of the twentieth century, the administrative state quietly emerg

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YouTube video by ACLU

YouTube video by ACLU

Race-neutral transportation and housing policies built an environment in which segregation was embedded in concrete and asphalt.

Hurricane Katrina reminds us how racial justice and infrastructure are intertwined, ACLU President Deborah N. Archer writes 20 years after the storm.

Hurricane Katrina reminds us how racial justice and infrastructure are intertwined, ACLU President Deborah N. Archer writes 20 years after the storm.

Chris Dunn reviews New York University School of Law professor Deborah Archer's book America's long history of building transportation infrastructure that tore apart communities of color.

Civil rights lawyer Archer debuts with a searing look at how government decisions about transportation, including where to locat...

The Chicago area is facing the prospect of bleak service cuts to public transit if Illinois legislators adjourn this weekend without plugging a $770 million hole in the transportation budget.

Deborah N. Archer & Joseph Schottenfeld, Defending Home: Toward a Theory of Community Equity, __ U. Chi. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming, 2025), available at SSRN (Sept. 30, 2024).Sarah SwanFor communities su...

America’s infrastructure is crumbling beneath our feet. We must reorient our thinking, writes Deborah N. Archer.

Immigration officials signaled that the Trump administration would continue to pursue efforts to terminate the legal status of the students, despite a wave of legal challenges.

The administration was seeking to cut off money from public schools that allowed certain diversity and equity programs.

You know that phrase “born on the wrong side of the tracks”? Well, there’s something to it: highways, roads, and sidewalks across America have, for decades, been racial and economic dividers. These th...