CLEAR Scholarship
CLEAR faculty actively contribute to ongoing scholarly and policy debates through their academic and policy scholarship and policy-related publications. A sampling of their work is provided here.
Mario Barnes, Finding the Courage to Once Again “Enter”: Managing Faculty Classroom Dynamics in A Period of Doctrinal Upheaval, UCLA L. Rev. Discourse 720 (2025 forthcoming)
Mario Barnes, Introduction to the Special Issue on Empirical Methods and Critical Race Theory, 59 Law and Society Rev. 231 (2025) (with Osagie Obasogie).
Mario Barnes, Its Structural, Not Personal: Disrupting the Fallacy that Renders the Court “Unreasonably” Blind to the Meaning of Color in Policing, 71 UCLA Law Rev. Discourse 328 (2024).
Mario Barnes, McCleskey v. Kemp in Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and Law (2022, Capers, et al. eds).
Mario Barnes, We Will Turn Back?: On Why Regents of the University of California v. Bakke Makes the Case for Adopting More Radically Race-Conscious Admissions Policies, 52 UC Davis L. Rev. 2265 (2019).
Mario Barnes, What Can Brown Do for You?: Addressing McCleskey v. Kemp as a Flawed Standard for Measuring the Constitutionally Significant Risk of Race Bias, 112 Northwestern L. Rev. 1293 (2018) (with Erwin Chemerinsky).
Mario Barnes, Empirical Methods and Critical Race Theory: A Discourse on Possibilities for a Hybrid Methodology, 2016 Wisconsin L. Rev. 443 (2016).
- Kaaryn Gustafson, Why Privilege Marriage?, in Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives (Gwyn Kirk & Margo Okazawa Rey eds., 6th ed. 2013).
- Kaaryn Gustafson, Degradation Ceremonies and the Criminalization of Low-Income Women, 3 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 297 (2013).
- Kaaryn Gustafson, Cheating Welfare: Public Assistance and the Criminalization of Poverty (2011).
- Kaaryn Gustafson, Breaking Vows: Marriage Promotion, The New Patriarchy, and the Retreat from Egalitarianism, 5 Stanford J. C.R. & C.L. 269 (2009).
- Stephen Lee, The Food We Eat and the People Who Feed Us, 94 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1249 (2017).
- Stephen Lee, Productivity and Affinity in The Age of Dignity, 114 Mich. L. Rev. 1137 (2016) (book review).
- Stephen Lee, Growing Up Outside the Law, 128 Harv. L. Rev. 1405 (2015) (book review).
- Stephen Lee, Policing Wage Theft in the Day Labor Market, 4 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 655 (2014).
- Stephen Lee, De Facto Immigration Courts, 101 Cal. L. Rev. 553 (2013).
- Stephen Lee, Screening for Solidarity, 80 U. Chi. L. Rev. 225 (2013).
- Annie Lai, Confronting Proxy Criminalization, 92 Denv. U. L. Rev. 879 (2015).