Helen E. White

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Making Black Lives Matter: Properly Valuing the Rights of the Marginalized in Constitutional Torts

Black lives are systematically undervalued by constitutional enforcement remedies. Courts and scholars have unquestioningly adopted tort law’s corrective-justice scheme for § 1983 suits. But corrective justice is unsatisfactory in a context where the government and private parties frequently interact. This Note argues that distributive justice should be considered as a viable alternative.