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Justin Simard

@JustinLSimard

Assistant Professor, @MSULaw. I study slavery, commerce, and the legal profession.

Joined July 2020
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NEW: @deray @HendersonKaya @DeAraBalenger & @pharaohrapture chat crime decrease with shortage of police officers, the small group of conservative doctors behind restrictive abortion policies, and more. DeRay interviews @JustinLSimard about @CitingSlavery bit.ly/3D8FrdI
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Thanks to my colleague @DorothyERoberts for highlighting this NPR article -- which draws on research by @PennLaw/@PennHistory JD/PhD grad @JustinLSimard (now @MSULaw). Kudos to the @CitingSlavery Project.
Dorothy Roberts (@DorothyERoberts) profile pictureDorothy Roberts@DorothyERoberts16 Jun 2023
Slavery still shapes law (and social policy, science, medicine, etc) today. This study found that almost 20% of all published US court decisions cite a slavery case or a case that cites one. Where do you think the “insane delusion rule” comes from? npr.org/2023/06/14/118183479…

Slave cases are still cited as good law across the U.S. This team aims to change that

Michigan State law professor Justin Simard says 18% of all published American cases are within two steps of a slave case. His team has spent years documenting them, hoping to force a legal reckoning.

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Judges and lawyers commonly cite to cases involving slavery for good legal precedent, but in 80% of the cases identified by the Citing Slavery Project’s researchers, there is no mention of the original case involving slavery, per @JustinLSimard. msutoday.msu.edu/news/2023/h…

How the legal system continues to treat once-enslaved people as property

When Michigan State University’s Justin Simard was conducting research for his dissertation, he came across a case predating the Civil War related to slavery that was cited as precedent in 2012.

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Cases involving enslaved people are still being cited as precedent: 18% of all published U.S. legal cases are within two steps of a slave case, @JustinLSimard says. His team @CitingSlavery is pushing for change, starting with footnotes. Read/listen: npr.org/2023/06/14/118183479…

Slave cases are still cited as good law across the U.S. This team aims to change that

Michigan State law professor Justin Simard says 18% of all published American cases are within two steps of a slave case. His team has spent years documenting them, hoping to force a legal reckoning.

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