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American Courtroom

2021 Edition

This edition of the California Legal Studies Journal focuses on differing ideas surrounding "democracy".

Featured Pieces

Social Contracts: Unconscionability, Vulnerability, and Other Sociopolitical Constructions of the Judicial Imagination

This piece focuses on unconscionability, vulnerability, and other sociopolitical constructions of the judicial imagination.

The Civil War that Never Ended: Gender-Based Violence in Guatemala

In this article, the author focuses on taking a deep dive into gender-based violence in Guatemala and it's effects.

The Implicit Threat Undermining Democracy

The main focus of this writing, includes concerns over implicit bias in polling and voting areas.

Sousveillance: A New Form of Resistance

This paper takes a look at a new form of resistance emerging in today's political society.

Democracy: A Discourse of a Fair and Just Society

A discourse of a fair and just society takes place in this writing concerned with the exclusion of a diverse range of individuals in today's modern democracy.

Contributing Authors

Anthony R. Carrasco, UC Berkeley

Jissel Aceves, UC Berkeley

Lara Horhor, UC Berkeley

Caitlin Holbrook, UC Berkeley

Arely Alarcon, UC Riverside

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