There are more than 7,000 direct citations of slavery-law precedents that continue to guide lawyers and judges.

Black and white women worked side-by-side in the fields ... At this time, English and Colonial law did not define racial slavery; the census calls him not a slave but a "servant." ...

A year after the Supreme Court banned race-based admissions, the law school’s first-year Black student enrollment plummeted — ...

Hispanic law students nearly doubled in number between 1999 and 2019, while white and Asian-American declined both in absolute numbers and in proportion to other groups. Black law students have ...

Black people are not only disproportionately arrested for felony murder, they are  disproportionately convicted, scholars say.

His lawyers say the law was historically "used to target Black men and supposedly protect white women from them," adding that people like Jim Crow-era boxer Jack Johnson and Chuck Berry have been ...

Lawmakers demand change after a Fox 8 investigation exposed a law meant to prevent police from racial profiling may be ...

Sean "Diddy" Combs' lawyers are criticizing his federal indictment for using a "racist" law. In a Tuesday filing, lawyers for Combs filed a motion to dismiss his transportation to engage in ...