Marissa Jackson Sow

University of Richmond

28 Westhampton Way

Richmond, VA 23173

United States

United Nations - Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Palais des Nations

52 rue des Pâquis

CH-1201 Geneva

Switzerland

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

16

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Ideas:
“  The Necropolitical State (Social Murder and Biopower), Restorative Justice, Racial and Social Contracting, Womxn's Legal Personhood, The Supreme Court, Contracting as Citizenship, Whiteness as Law, Marriage and Social Contracting, Gentrification, Global Mobility Law, Subaltern Contracting, Wealth and Extractive Economies, Labor, Post- and Decolonial Theory, Visual Culture and Aesthetic, Radical Black Feminisms and the Law, Atrocities in Liberal Regimes, Contract and Empire, International and Comparative Law, Legal Storytelling  ”

Scholarly Papers (16)

1.

Whiteness as Contract

Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 78, No. 5 (2022), St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21-0004
Number of pages: 87 Posted: 12 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2022
Marissa Jackson Sow
University of Richmond
Downloads 702 (80,172)
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Race, Whiteness, White Supremacy, Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Property

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Neo-Colonialism, Same Old Racism: A Critical Analysis of the United States' Shift toward Colorblindness as a Tool for the Protection of the American Colonial Empire and White Supremacy

The Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy, 2009
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 13 Nov 2020
Marissa Jackson Sow
University of Richmond
Downloads 310 (212,260)
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Race, White Supremacy, Colorblindness, Supreme Court of the United States

3.

Whiteness as Guilt

UCLA Law Review, 2022
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 13 Apr 2022
Marissa Jackson Sow
University of Richmond
Downloads 276 (239,025)

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critical race theory, legal theory, Kara Walker, art, philosophy

4.

Whiteness as Contract in the Racial Superstate

14 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. ____ (2024)
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 15 Mar 2023
Marissa Jackson Sow
University of Richmond
Downloads 261 (252,948)

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(Re)Building the Master's House: Dismantling America's Colonial Politics of Extraction and Exclusion

Michigan Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 31 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 17 May 2021
Marissa Jackson Sow
University of Richmond
Downloads 190 (343,467)

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colonialism, democracy, racism, race, Congress, constitutional law, contract, philosophy, politics, voting, enfranchisement

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Coming to Terms: Applying Contract Theory to the Detroit Water Shutoffs

New York University Law Review Online (2021)
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 08 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2021
Marissa Jackson Sow
University of Richmond
Downloads 186 (350,225)

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utlities, race, gender, water, human rights, contract, critical race theory, feminist legal theory

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The Disregarded Canary: On the Plight of Black Women Voters

Northwestern University Law Review of Note, 2020
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 15 Dec 2020
Carliss Chatman and Marissa Jackson Sow
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law and University of Richmond
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Closing the Gap: Toward a Rights-Based Approach to Refugee Law

4 Nw. Interdisc. L. Rev. 147 (2011)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 16 Nov 2020
Marissa Jackson Sow
University of Richmond
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human rights, refugee law, law, persecution, asylum

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Social Murder

Washington and Lee Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 91 Posted: 17 Apr 2025
Marissa Jackson Sow
University of Richmond
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social murder, authoritarianism, democracy, social contract, necropolitics, state violence, disaster, atrocity

10.

Fighting for Whiteness in Ukraine

Creighton Law Review, Vol. 56, 2023
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 26 Feb 2023
Marissa Jackson Sow
University of Richmond
Downloads 149 (424,549)

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Ukraine, International Law, Race, Slavery, Whiteness

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Protect and Serve

California Law Review, Vol. 110, 2022
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 13 Apr 2022
Marissa Jackson Sow
University of Richmond
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Ukrainian Racial Contracting and the Geopolitics of Welcome in International Refugee Law

Race, Racism & International Law (Devon Carbado, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Justin Desautels-stein, and Chantal Thomas Eds., Stanford University Press) Forthcoming
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 26 Mar 2024
Marissa Jackson Sow
University of Richmond
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Refugees, International Law, Asylum, Race, Ukraine, War

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Crossing the Bridge: African-Americans and the Necessity of a 21st Century Human Rights Movement

5 Hum. Rts. & Globalization L. Rev. 56 (2013-2014)
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 20 Nov 2020
Marissa Jackson Sow
University of Richmond
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14.

Redemption

University of Richmond Law Review, Vol. 57, No. 39, 2023
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 08 Jun 2023
Marissa Jackson Sow
University of Richmond
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contract, race, slavery, reparations, gifts

15.

Social Murder and the Antisocial Contract

Maryland Law Review, Forthcoming (2025 Maryland Discussion on Constitutionalism Special Issue)
Number of pages: 11 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2025
Marissa Jackson Sow
University of Richmond
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Ukrainian Refugees, Race, and International Law's Choice Between Order and Justice

116 (4) American Journal of International Law Unbound (2022) doi:10.1017/ajil.2022.56
Posted: 02 Mar 2023
Marissa Jackson Sow
University of Richmond

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International Law, Refugees, Ukraine, War, Race, Racism