INTRODUCTION: THREE RESPONSES TO REWRITTEN OPINIONS IN CRITICAL RACE JUDGMENTS.

• Date: 01 April 2023
• Author: Chess, Gabe,Meth, Elena
• Published date: 01 April 2023
• Author: Chess, Gabe

CRITICAL RACE JUDGMENTS: REWRITTEN U.S. COURT OPINIONS ON RACE AND THE LAW. Edited by Bennett Capers, Devon W. Carbado, RA. Lenhardt and Angela Onwuachi-Willig. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. Pp. xxx, 694. Cloth, $84.75; paper, $39.19.

Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and the Law invites us to imagine. Imagine what could have been; imagine what could be. Imagine a legal landscape where judges not only consider but actively seek to dismantle the racist regime that has preceded them. Such a landscape may seem impossible, particularly given the recent polemicization of critical race theory. (1) But Professors Bennett Capers, (2) Devon W. Carbado, (3) Robin A. Lenhardt, (4) and Angela Onwuachi-Willig (5) have invited us to imagine. Through a collection of thirty-seven rewrites of landmark Supreme Court (and a sprinkling of lower federal court) cases using a critical race theory lens, the rewriters show us that racial consciousness in judicial decisionmaking...