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CJERSJ Welcomes Volume 30:
Volume 29 Issue 2
WINTER 2023 Articles:
Among us: impostor Syndrome and Barriers to Black success
DeShayla M. Strachan
Black women are going places—but they're not going into the practice of law. While law schools are becoming more diverse, the legal profession is not. The lack of diversity in the legal profession, coupled with existing implicit bias, causes heightened Impostor Syndrome in women, especially Black women, as well as women from other underrepresented groups. The harder the impostor feelings hit, the more difficult it is to retain women of color in the legal profession. Emotions associated with Impostor Syndrome (e.g., feelings of insufficiency) begin upon entry into the legal profession, as many roadblocks prevent marginalized groups from gaining admission to law school, law practice, the legal academy, and leadership positions. To resolve these issues and overcome barriers, institutions must be intentional about including minority women and avoiding the illusion of inclusion. Those with intersectional devalued characteristics, such as women of color, would gain confidence and combat Impostor Syndrome by asserting their needs—if they knew they would be heard.
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The Advent of Facial Recognition and the Erosion of the Rule of Law in “Moscow Smart City"
Antonina Semivolos
Imagine searching your name on Google to find how much information about you is floating on the web, looking through all the posts you had shared on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, or VKontakte3 and, unexpectedly, your gaze meets a candid portrait of yourself. You hastily search your memory, and recognize the moment this photo was taken, although it was unbeknownst to you. You were riding the subway to work or back home, wearing your everyday clothes, leaning against a subway car wall, relaxing with your eyes closed, lost in your thoughts, or leaning forward to look at the screen of your cell phone—not posing. This is how nearly one hundred of Egor Tsvetkov’s unsuspecting models felt when they discovered that their faces were part of his 2016 online art exhibit “Your Face Is Big Data.”
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Volume 29 Issue 2
WINTER 2023
Notes
Accessibility in the Digital Age — Why the United States Needs a New Approach to the Americans with Disabilities Act
William J. Seguin
The rise of the Internet has reshaped the contours of economies, elections, and cultures across the globe. Predictions for the next decade indicate an even greater interplay between humans and technology. The growth of the technology sector (“tech sector” or “big tech”) has not come without negative consequences though. Inadequate data privacy protections endanger customers’ personal information; acquisitions and anticompetitive practices cultivate monopolistic markets; and the hyperbolic growth of cryptocurrencies has been accompanied by volatility and speculation. Governments around the world responded to these developments by imposing regulations on tech companies.
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Physical Scars Are Not the Only Evidence: Crucial Expansion of New York’s Penal Law to Define Coercive Control and Technological Abuse as Domestic Violence
Bailey D. Appel
When Om Sayf, a “Syrian YouTuber with 5 million subscribers on her YouTube channel,” used a hand signal at the end of one of her online videos, it sent her followers into a frenzy. The beginning of the video consisted of Sayf speaking in Arabic, saying, “I spent the best two years on YouTube with you, I won’t upload any videos on my channel, however, I want to tell you something.” After this, she lifted her hand to the camera, put her thumb against her palm, and then closed her other four fingers on top of her thumb to make a fist. Quickly afterward, she opened her hand and waved goodbye. To those unfamiliar with this gesture, it may have just seemed like an interesting or elaborate way of waving goodbye. However, the gesture was anything but that.
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