Justin Simard

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Justin Simard

@JustinLSimard

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

Katılım Temmuz 2020

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Pod Save The People@PodSaveThePpl·12 Tem

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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Karen Tani (@kmtani.bsky.social)@kmtani·16 Haz

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

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/2023/06/14/118…

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The Citing Slavery Project@CitingSlavery·19 Haz

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/how-…

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Rachel Treisman@rachel_treisman·19 Haz

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/2023/06/14/118…

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Justin Simard@JustinLSimard·10 Mar

@JayEllGii @AP It happens more than you think. The @CitingSlavery Project has found examples of citations to slave cases in all of these states in the last 35 years!

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The Associated Press@AP·10 Mar

A Virginia judge ruled in a preliminary opinion that frozen human embryos can legally be considered property, or “chattel,” basing his decision in part on a 19th century slavery law. “It’s repulsive and it’s morally repugnant,” a lawyer said of the ruling. apnews.com/article/embryo…

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Justin Simard@JustinLSimard·10 Mar

@pppioe @AP Judges across the country still treat slave cases as good law, sometimes without even acknowledging that the cases deal with enslaved people. At the @CitingSlavery we're documenting this trend and exploring the continued legacy of the law of slavery.

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Justin Simard@JustinLSimard·10 Mar

Anna Maxwell, a first-year law student, just finished collecting more than 1,000 Virginia slave cases (including the ones cited in this opinion). They will be uploaded to our site soon. In total, these cases have been cited more than 12,000 times.

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Justin Simard@JustinLSimard·10 Mar

At the @CitingSlavery Project, we're working to make the ongoing legacy of the law of slavery visible. Visit citingslavery.org to see the cases a team of @MSULaw student editors and I have collected.

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Justin Simard@JustinLSimard·10 Mar

Although this case may seem like an outlier, a reliance on the law of slavery in modern judicial opinions is surprisingly common. My research has turned up more than 300 examples of courts citing slave cases as good law in the last 35 years.

The Associated Press@AP

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Justin Simard@JustinLSimard·1 Eyl

@djsziff @realbluebook I need to look into this more, but I'm pretty sure it's the slavery connection. Compare the citation in the official reporter to the previous not involving an enslaved person.

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Justin Simard@JustinLSimard·20 Haz

@yalelawlibrary It was great to be able to participate!

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Yale Law Library@yalelawlibrary·18 Haz

LLNE /SNELLA meeting keynote speaker @JustinLSimard spoke insightfully on the topic "Legal Citation and the Precedential Weight of Slavery"

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Justin Simard@JustinLSimard·5 Ağu

@smccurry3 It's still a work in progress, but the goal is to have a database of all of these cases. (Right now it focuses on cases that have been cited recently.) We're going to add another 3000 cases soon!

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Stephanie McCurry@smccurry3·4 Ağu

Wow @JustinLSimard I had no idea. Going to look this up.

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Justin Simard@JustinLSimard·1 Ağu

@MJSteilen @dsfarbman Yep! I started with private law cases since they get less attention. We're working on making it comprehensive. (The student editors on the project have already compiled 3000 cases to add.)

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Dan Farbman@dsfarbman·31 Tem

This is great. (now let's add Cruikshank and the Civil Rights Cases...)

The Citing Slavery Project@CitingSlavery

The legal profession must confront its role in slavery. Acknowledging & discussing the modern citation of slave cases is a first step. The Citing Slavery Project provides a database of slave cases & the modern cases that continue to cite them as precedent.

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Justin Simard@JustinLSimard·1 Ağu

@bdproctor That's exciting! Please let me know what you end up doing. We're thinking about adding some lesson plans to the site and it would be great to hear your ideas.

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Justin Simard@JustinLSimard·9 Tem

@bonuchilaw I hope this also means that Missouri courts will reconsider the precedential value of cases involving enslaved people. My research turned up a citation by the Missouri Court of Appeals as recently as 2016.

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Tony Bonuchi@bonuchilaw·30 Haz

Guys, Supreme Court of Missouri is absolutely done with citations to one of its darker moments #appellatetwitter

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