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Black Masculinity and the Government
Paul Butler
Albert Brick Professor in Law at Georgetown University Law Center

This essay was presented as a work in progress at the University of Arkansas School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, and Pepperdine Caruso School of Law. I thank the participants in those sessions. Special shout out to Chris Gordon and K-Sue Park. Chibunkem Ezenekwe, Aubrianna Mierow, and Torrell Mills provided exemplary research assistance. Much respect to Timothy Kowalczyk and Kristen Powell, the student editors of a law professor’s dreams.

Black male bodies have long been the subject of special attention from the state. This essay focuses on two government interventions in Black masculinity, dating from the 1960s, and their continuing consequences—including for the criminal justice system, and race and gender justice.

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Bringing Up the Bodies
Bennett Capers
John D. Feerick Research Professor of Law and Director of the Center on Race, Law, and Justice, Fordham School. B.A. Princeton University; J.D. Columbia Law School. E-mail: capers@law.fordham.edu.

Claudio Rezende provided invaluable research assistance.

Allow me to begin with a scene from one of my favorite novels of the last twenty years. The novel is Hilary Mantel's 'Bring Up the Bodies,' the second in her award-winning trilogy of historical novels about Thomas Cromwell and King Henry VIII.

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Long COVID and Temporary Conditions As Disabilities Under the ADA
Emily P. King
B.A., University of Florida, 2020; J.D. Candidate, The University of Chicago Law School, 2023.

I would like to thank Professor Ryan Doerfler for his guidance and insight into this topic, which made this Comment possible.

COVID-19 is a highly contagious disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. The symptoms range from mild to severe, and can even be fatal. As of June 2022, there have been over 85.6 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States since the first reported cases in February 2020.

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Law for the Next Pandemic
Enjoined and Incarcerated: Complications for Incarcerated People Seeking Economic Relief under the CARES Act
Mitchell Caminar
J.D. Candidate, The University of Chicago Law School, 2022; B.A., Northwestern University, 2016.

The author is grateful for feedback from Professor Daniel Hemel and Professor Julie Roin and the efforts of the entire Legal Forum Board to prepare the Comment for publication. The author is also grateful for support from Emily Halpern and his family.

No COVID-19 stimulus provision captured public attention quite like the multiple rounds of no-strings-attached cash payments. The first round of checks, authorized by Congress in March 2020, was such a political winner that President Trump insisted on including a personal letter in the mailing; the second, passed in December 2020, may have swung control of the Senate; and the third was the centerpiece of President Biden’s legislative agenda in early 2021.