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Interview with David Iglesias

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David Iglesias¹David Iglesias has a legal career of over 35 years, which has been exceptionally diverse and global. He has been a U.S. Attorney, U.S. Navy JAG Officer, White House Fellow, college professor, political economy think tank director, state prosecutor, military war crimes/terrorism prosecutor and spokesman, rule of law instructor in Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia, civil rights defense attorney, state-wide political candidate, and criminal defense attorney (representing legendary Navy SEAL Team Commanding Officer Dick Marcinko). His defense of a marine in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba partially inspired the hit movie “A Few Good Men.” Iglesias was named to Esquire Magazine’s 2009 “Best and Brightest” list and authored the book In Justice. He is the son of missionaries and was raised tri-cultural and trilingual in Panama and New Mexico. Iglesias is a graduate of a public high school in Santa Fe, Wheaton College, and the University of New Mexico School of Law.

Foreword: The Dispossessed Majority: Resisting The Second Redemption In America Posfascista (Postfascist America) With Latcrit, Scholarship, Community, And Praxis Amidst The Global Pandemic

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by Marc Tizoc Gonzalez¹Professor of Law, University of New Mexico School of Law, gonzalezm@law.unm.edu, @marctizoc, https://foodsharinglaw.net, https://habeasdatalaw.net. Thanks to my coauthors; the LatCrit 2019 conference participants and organizers—especially Shelley Cavalieri, Natsu Taylor Saito, and Nirej Sekhon; Steve Bender and Stephen Lee for thoughtful editorial suggestions; my research assistants, Felisha Adams and Amanda Garcia; and the myriad people with whom I’ve discussed America Posfascista (Postfascist America) over the past sixteen years. Finalmente, gracias a mi querida esposa y compa˜nera, Teague Gonzalez, Saru Matambanadzo ² Jack and Lovell Olender Professor of Asylum Refugee and Immigration Law University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Many thanks to the organizing committee of the LatCrit Conference for bringing together such a diverse and engaging group of presenters. Special thanks to Steve Bender for always being a constant mentor and friend and to CLI for many hours of socially distanced walks that helped me fine tune the ideas in this paper., and Sheila I. Velez Martinez³Gregory Armstrong, Preface, in GEORGE L. JACKSON, BLOOD IN MY EYE (1972, Black Classic Press 1990), at xviii. See also GEORGE JACKSON, SOLEDAD BROTHER THE PRISON LETTERS OF GEORGE JACKSON (1994).

Gut Renovations: Using Critical And Comparative Rhetoric To Remodel How The Law Addresses Privilege And Power

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by Elizabeth Berenguer, Lucy Jewel, and Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb¹ Elizabeth Berenguer, Associate Professor of Law, Stetson University College of Law; Lucy Jewel, Professor of Law and Director of Legal Writing, University of Tennessee Knoxville College of Law; Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb, Professor of Law UIC John Marshall Law School. We collectively thank the Lat Crit and Class Crit organizations for their continued support of our scholarship and for providing a platform to study and critique the traditions, systems, and apparatuses that perpetuate inequality and injustice.

Against Fascism: Toward A Latcritical Legal Genealogy

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by Elizabeth M. Iglesias¹ Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law. Thanks to my dean, colleague and friend, University of Miami School of Law, Dean Tony Varona, for his unwavering support and inexhaustible enthusiasm; the editors of Harvard Latinx Law Review for your thoughtful edits; the organizers of the 2019 LatCrit Biennial Conference for taking up the cause of the dispossessed majority; Barbara Cuadras for unfailing success securing any and every book requested. I am profoundly grateful to my spouse Madeleine M. Plasencia for friendship, love and endurance.

Hate On The Ballot: Election 2020 And The Quest For A Diverse And Inclusive Democracy

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by Steven A. Ramirez¹Abner J. Mikva Professor of Law and Director of the Business Law Center at Loyola University Chicago. John Dehn, Michael Kaufman, Mary Ramirez, Barry Sullivan and Neil Williams each provided helpful comments and insights that improved this article. This article also benefited from comments at the LatCrit conference held at Georgia State School of Law in October of 2019. Adrian Gonzalez Cerrillo provided outstanding research assistance. All errors are mine. I welcome comments regarding this article via email to sramir3@luc.edu

Disabling Fascism: A Struggle For The Last Laugh In Trump’s America

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by Madeleine M. Plasencia¹Copyright © 2020 Madeleine M. Plasencia, B.A. Cornell University; J.D. University of Pennsylvania. Formerly tenured Associate Professor at the University of Tulsa, School of Law, currently Affiliated Law Professor, University of Miami School of Law. Thanks to the University of Miami School of Law Dean Anthony E. Varona for support funds to travel to Atlanta, GA to present an early version of this paper at the 2019 LatCrit Biennial conference; and many thanks to the LatCrit conference organizers. Thanks are due to the work of editors of the HARVARD LATINX LAW REVIEW. Thanks also to the timely and thorough research and reference support of Robin C. Schard, Associate Director, Law Library & Lecturer in Law at the University of Miami, School of Law. I am profoundly grateful to my spouse, Elizabeth M. Iglesias for theorizing, cofounding, and incorporating LatCrit, Inc. All errors are my own.