Thanks to my colleague Dorothy Roberts for highlighting this NPR article -- which draws on research by @PennLaw/Penn History JD/PhD grad Justin Simard (now MSU College of Law). Kudos to the The Citing Slavery Project Project.

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 Justin Simard. msutoday.msu.edu/news/2023/how-…

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, Justin Simard says. His team The Citing Slavery Project is pushing for change, starting with footnotes. Read/listen: npr.org/2023/06/14/118…

NEW: deray Kaya Henderson @DeAraBalenger & @pharaohrapture chat crime decrease with shortage of police officers, the small group of conservative doctors behind restrictive abortion policies, and more. DeRay interviews Justin Simard about The Citing Slavery Project bit.ly/3D8FrdI