Nelson, Camille (Dean)

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Redux: Towards an Empowering Model of Legal Education
(2022) Nelson, Camille
Deaning Critically: Leadership Fundamentals
(2022) Nelson, Camille
Over and under-Policing: Thoughts on Remedying Shooter Bias
(Journal of Things We Like (Lots), 2017) Camille A. Nelson
Using the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke as the starting point, this article seeks to address the common articulation of fear by police officers in the wake of such fatalities.
Disability Advocacy: Strategizing a Comprehensive and Contextual Path Forward
(Journal of Things We Like (Lots), 2015) Camille A. Nelson
This article seeks to recover the use of constitutional law to advance the umbrella of disability rights, utilizing the Disability Constitutonal Law as the foundation.
Crime, Surveillance, and Communities
(Journal of Things We Like (Lots), 2014) Camille A. Nelson
This article assess how technology might be used to assist and address interactions between police and community members, especially interracial interactions.
Help in Deconstructing the Zimmerman Acquittal: The Suspicion Heuristic
(Journal of Things We Like (Lots), 2013) Camille A. Nelson
In the wake of the killing of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, the article argues for American Jurisprudence to understand racial discrimination to explain why a person would kill another due to racial stereotypes.
Is Critical Citizenship Critical?
(Journal of Things We Like (Lots), 2012) Camille A. Nelson
Critical citizenship should deal with questions of social justice or social transformation and how institutions commit to these values. The article argues that critical citizenship will not just be based on market-driven education models, but education that embraces qualitative societal enhancement.
Lovin' the Man: Examining the Legal Nexus of Irony, Hypocrisy, and Curiosity
(Wisconsin Law Review, 2007) Camille A. Nelson
This essay explores autobiography and historical precedent the communication dynamics of interracial couples and whether those dynamics are the product of an externally constructed racial dynamic.
Lessons from an Intersecting Trilogy
(Iowa Law Review, 2008) Camille A. Nelson
This Article will explore the case of Snyder v. Louisiana17 as an example of the low threshold established by some jurisdictions that apply the Batson test. By allowing for pretext, inconsistent excuses, and flimsy explanations from prosecutors, many courts have essentially inoculated prosecutors from the rigorous potential of the Batson decision.
Racial Paradox and Eclipse: Obama as a Balm for What Ails Us
(Denver University Law Review, 2009) Camille A. Nelson
This essay will explore some of the disordered permutations of race, specifically racial construction and deconstruction, as publicly demonstrated through Obamania.
Starting Anew: The ADA's Disability with Respect to Episodic Mental Illness
(Mississippi Law Journal, 2006) Camille A. Nelson
Although lay people frequently conflate a diagnosis of mental illness with the existence of a disability, these concepts should properly be separated. The inclination towards conflation might be diminished by reference to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) distinction between the existence of a disability and the legal ability to recover under the ADA. Specifically, under the ADA the claimant must not only establish a disability, which is a physical or mental impairment, but this impairment must "substantially limit one or more major life activities."' A disability is "an alteration of an individual's capacity to meet personal, social, or occupational demands or statutory or regulatory requirements, because of impairment."' Impairment, on the other hand, is "seen as a purely medical judgment, whereas the disability created by the impairment is context specific."
From the Editors
(Journal of Legal Education, 2019) Camille A. Nelson
This issue also features explorations of how we might tackle our responsibilities as professors with greater wisdom and more humility, including what we should adopt into legal education and law itself from other disciplines, how the American Juris Doctor degree fares internationally (especially in Asia) as a teaching credential, and the problem of the proliferation of footnotes in law review articles.
Carriers of Globalization: Loss of Home and Self within the African Diaspora
(Florida Law Review, 2003) Camille A. Nelson
The project of this essay is to give content to a "post-colonial Diaspora," that is a diasporic community that emerges out of, and is structured by, the political forces of post-coloniality. Jamaicans abroad are part of this post-colonial Diaspora.
Consistently Revealing the Inconsistencies: The Construction of Fear in the Criminal Law
(Saint Louis University Law Journal, 2004) Camille A. Nelson
For purposes of this essay, I will focus upon my attempts to have Criminal Law students problematize the criminal law reasonable person. For illustrative purposes, I will focus upon two areas in the criminal law, rape and self-defense, in which the inconsistency, if not the irrationality, of the use of the reasonable person reveals the undercurrents of negative associations of both gender and racial identity constructs.
Frontlines: Policing at the Nexus of Race and Mental Health
(Fordham Urban Law Journal, 2016) Camille A. Nelson
Part I of this Article briefly explores disabling constructions that create a reality of disparate police interactions for people of color and mentally vulnerable individuals. Part II analyzes criminal law encounters in which police officers have escalated arguably minor interactions with people of color in the face of subjectively interpreted disrespect and noncompliance.
(En)Raged or (En)gaged: The Implications of Racial Context to the Canadian Provocation Defence
(University of Richmond Law Review, 2002) Camille A. Nelson
This article explores the Canadian provocation defence as provided in section 232 of the Criminal Code and argues that there is precedent and theory supportive of racial contextualization of the defence.
The Radical King: Perspectives of One Born in the Shadow of a King
(NYU Review of Law & Social Change, 2008) Camille A. Nelson
This article will explore the manner in which society has distilled Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to his simplest, most palatable essence and will address the more challenging question: why? I hypothesize that we have ignored Dr. King's more radical messages because we want to preserve current societal class positioning.
American Husbandry: Legal Norms Impacting the Production of (Re)Productivity
(Yale Journal of Law & Feminism, 2007) Camille A. Nelson
Focusing on black female slaves as racially sexualized property, this article explores the notion of legal norms as constitutive of, and imbedded within, an environment where slave owners and the larger society could harness and manipulate slave women's (re)productivity.
Multicultural Feminism: Assessing Systemic Fault in a Provocative Context
(University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2006) Camille A. Nelson
Accordingly, this essay will revisit the cases of violence against women discussed in Lee's chapter, Culture and Crime." This Essay will reveal that central to the success of these cultural defense cases is the veiled act of "ascribing otherness," the mapping of foreignness onto the body of one not consulted in the process of identification - in these cases the silent body of the deceased women.
Lyrical Assault: Dancehall versus the Cultural Imperialism of the North-West
(Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, 2008) Camille A. Nelson
This article examines Jamaican Dancehall music's implications and international perceptions and explores a possible legal remedy for what has been dubbed "Murder Music."

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