andré douglas pond cummings

Widener University - Commonwealth Law School

Dean; Professor of Law

3800 Vartan Way

Harrisburg, PA 17110-9380

United States

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Scholarly Papers (41)

1.

'All Eyez on Me': America's War on Drugs and the Prison-Industrial Complex

Journal of Gender, Race and Justice, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 05 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2018
andré douglas pond cummings
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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prison industrial complex, privatization of prisons, profit maximization, mass incarceration

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A Furious Kinship: Critical Race Theory and the Hip Hop Nation

University of Louisville Law Review, Vol. 48, 2010
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 16 Nov 2010
andré douglas pond cummings
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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critical race theory, hip hop, kinship, civil rights

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Toward a Critical Corporate Law Pedagogy and Scholarship

Washington University Law Review, Vol. 92, No. 2, 2015
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 07 Jun 2015
andré douglas pond cummings, Steven A. Ramirez and Cheryl Lyn Wade
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School, Loyola University of Chicago School of Law and St. John's University - School of Law
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critical corporate law, corporate justice, too big to fail, diversity in the boardroom, CEO primacy, financial market crisis, economic justice

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Private Prisons and the New Marketplace for Crime

Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 13 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 08 Jul 2016
andré douglas pond cummings, Adam Lamparello and Adam Lamparello
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School and Assistant Professor of Public LawGeorgia College and State University
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private prisons, civil rights, the war on drugs, constitutional law

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Thug Life: Hip Hop’s Curious Relationship with Criminal Justice

Santa Clara Law Review, Vol. 50, 2009
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 18 Jul 2009
andré douglas pond cummings
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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hip hop, crime, punishment, imprisonment, culture, recidivism, stigma

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'Ain't No Glory in Pain': How the 1994 Republican Revolution and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act Contributed to the Collapse of the United States Capital Markets

Nebraska Law Review, Vol. 83, p. 979, 2005
Number of pages: 94 Posted: 17 Feb 2006
andré douglas pond cummings
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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corporate scandal, private securities litigation reform act, deregulation, Enron, WorldCom, class action securities lawsuits

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Abolishing Private Prisons: A Constitutional and Moral Imperative

University of Baltimore Law Review, Vol. 49, No. 261, 2020
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 10 Jul 2020
andré douglas pond cummings and Robert Craig
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School and Abolish Private Prisons
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Private Prisons, Unconstitutional, Mass Incarceration, CoreCivic, GEO Group, perverse incentives, for-profit incarceration

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Roadmap for Anti-Racism: First Unwind the War on Drugs Now

Tulane Law Review, Vol. 96, No. 3, 2022
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 07 Jun 2022
andré douglas pond cummings and Steven A. Ramirez
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School and Loyola University of Chicago School of Law
Downloads 468 (119,942)
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War on Drugs, Anti-Racism, Mass Incarceration, Ending and Repairing the War on Drugs

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Still 'Ain't No Glory in Pain': How the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and Other 1990s Deregulation Faciliated the Market Crash of 2002

Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law, Vol. 12, 2007
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 08 Sep 2006
andré douglas pond cummings
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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Telecommunications Act, Commodities Futures Modernization Act, Market Crash, Corporate Fraud, WorldCom, Adelphia, Enron

10.

Junior Seau, Head Trauma, and the NFL's Concussion Problem

University of Mississippi Sports Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 21 Apr 2013
andré douglas pond cummings
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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Junior Seau, Head Trauma, Concussion, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, National Football League, Concussion Litigation

11.

Grutter V. Bollinger, Clarence Thomas, Affirmative Action and the Treachary of Originalism: The Sun Don't Shine Here in this Part of Town

Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal, Vol. 21, pp. 1-72, 2005
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 22 Sep 2006
andré douglas pond cummings
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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affirmative action, clarence thomas, grutter, bollinger, originalism, critical mass, aesthetic, frederick douglass

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The Racist Roots of the War on Drugs & the Myth of Equal Protection for People of Color

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review, Vol. 44, No. 4, 2022
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 07 Jun 2022
andré douglas pond cummings and Steven A. Ramirez
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School and Loyola University of Chicago School of Law
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War on Drugs, Racist Roots, Equal Protection, Failure, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, animus, racial animus, Fifth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, United States Supreme Court

13.

Progress Realized? The Continuing American Indian Mascot Quandary

Marquette Sports Law Review, Vol. 18, 2008
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 16 Jun 2008
andré douglas pond cummings
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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American Indian, Native American, mascots, nicknames, moniker, Fighting Sioux, Cheif Illiniwek, hostile, abusive, racist

14.

The Integration Conunudrum: Debilitating Failures of the Securities and Exchange Commission Must Be Addressed as Corporate Malfeasance is 'Getting Serious, so Serious'

Wayne Law Review, Vol. 48, No. 4, p. 1306, 2003
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 24 Apr 2007
andré douglas pond cummings
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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securities regulation, integration, conundrum, corporate scandals

15.

Wide Right: Why the NCAA's Policy on the American Indian Mascot Issue Misses the Mark

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Class and Gender, Vol. 9, p. 135, 2009
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 18 May 2010
andré douglas pond cummings and Seth Harper
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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American Indian Mascots, Native American Mascots, racism, NCAA

16.

A Shifting Wind?: Media Stereotyping of American Indians and the Law

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 18 May 2010
andré douglas pond cummings
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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stereotyping, American Indians, media, racism, Native American mascots

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Procuring ‘Justice’?: Citizens United, Caperton, and Partisan Judicial Elections

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 95, No. 4, 2010
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 18 May 2010 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2012
andré douglas pond cummings
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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Citizens United v. FEC, Caperton v. Massey, Partisan Judicial Elections

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Racial Coding and the Financial Market Crisis

Utah Law Review, Vol. 2011, No. 1, 2011
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 17 May 2010 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2012
andré douglas pond cummings
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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racial coding, financial market crisis, market collapse, meltdown, community reinvestment act

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Open Water: Affirmative Action, Mismatch Theory and Swarming Predators: A Response to Richard Sander

Brandeis Law Review, Vol. 44, 2006
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 17 Feb 2006
andré douglas pond cummings
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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affirmative action, mismatch theory, racial testing gap, richard sander, open water, a systematic analysis, racism, paternalism, great white father

20.

Racial Capitalism and Race Massacres: Tulsa's Black Wall Street and Elaine's Sharecroppers

Tulsa Law Review, Vol. 57, 2021
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 30 Nov 2021
andré douglas pond cummings and Kalvin Graham
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School and University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law
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racial capitalism, race massacres, black wall street, greenwood, tulsa OK, elaine AR, economic equality

21.

Pushing Weight

Thurgood Marshall Law Review, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2008
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 16 Jun 2008
andré douglas pond cummings
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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pushing weight, rooney rule, johnnie cochran, cyrus mehri, paul tagliabue, dan rooney, minority head coaches, national football league, fritz pollard alliance, black coaches association

22.

Reforming Policing

10 Drexel Law Review 573 (2018)
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 24 Jul 2018
andré douglas pond cummings
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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Police Reform, Police Brutality, Police Killing of Unarmed Black Men, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Philando Castile

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From 'My Mind Playing Tricks on Me' to 'Trauma': Adverse Childhood Experiences and Hip Hop’s Prescription

Washburn Law Journal, Vol. 59, 2020
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 28 Apr 2020
andré douglas pond cummings and Caleb Gregory Conrad
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School and University of Arkansas at Little Rock - William H. Bowen School of Law
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Trauma, Adverse Childhood Experiences, Hip Hop, Meek Mill, Geto Boys, My Mind Playing Tricks on Me

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Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My or Redskins and Braves and Indians, Oh Why: Ruminations on Mcbride V. Utah State Tax Commission, Political Correctness and the Reasonable Person

California Western Law Review, Vol. 36, No. 11, 1999
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 19 Nov 2006
andré douglas pond cummings
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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American Indian, Native American, mascots, nicknames, Redskins, Braves, Indians, Blackhawks, Chiefs, Seminoles, Utes, Fighting Sioux, Illini,

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‘Lord Forgive Me, but He Tried to Kill Me’: Proposing Solutions to the United States’ Most Vexing Racial Challenges

13 Wash. & Lee J. Civ. Rts. & Soc. Just. 3 (2016)
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 03 Mar 2017
andré douglas pond cummings
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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Mass Incarceration; Police Killing of Unarmed Black Men; Homicide Rates; Private Prisons; War on Drugs; Cities United; Fort Wayne United; My Brother's Keeper; Social Justice; Explicit Bias; Implicit Bias

26.

Post Racialism?

Journal of Gender, Race and Justice, Vol. 14, p. 601, 2011
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 26 Aug 2011
andré douglas pond cummings
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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Post Racialism, Financial Market Crisis, Henry Louis Gates, Shirley Sherrod, Jordan Miles

27.

Trauma: Community of Color Exposure to the Criminal Justice System as an Adverse Childhood Experience

University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 90, No. 3, 2022, St. Thomas University School of Law (Florida) Research Paper
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 06 Apr 2022
Todd Clark, Caleb Gregory Conrad, andré douglas pond cummings and Amy Dunn Johnson
St. Thomas University School of Law, University of Arkansas at Little Rock - William H. Bowen School of Law, Widener University - Commonwealth Law School and 15th Division, 6th Judicial District of Arkansas
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trauma, adverse childhood experiences, ACE, criminal justice reform, discrimination, anti-black policing, police reform, prosecutorial discretion

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Trauma-Informed Policing: The Impact of Adult and Childhood Trauma on Law Enforcement Officers

Case Western Reserve Law Review, Vol. 73, No. 3, 2023
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 06 Dec 2023
Todd Clark, Caleb Gregory Conrad, andré douglas pond cummings and Amy Dunn Johnson
St. Thomas University School of Law, University of Arkansas at Little Rock - William H. Bowen School of Law, Widener University - Commonwealth Law School and 15th Division, 6th Judicial District of Arkansas
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Trauma, Adverse Childhood Experiences, ACEs, Trauma informed policing, Police brutality, Killing of unarmed black Americans

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The Associated Dangers of ‘Brilliant Disguises,’ Color-Blind Constitutionalism, and Postracial Rhetoric

Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 85, No. 4, 2010
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 18 May 2010
andré douglas pond cummings
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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Affirmative Action, Brilliant Disguise, Clarence Thomas, Richard Sander, Ward Connerly, racism

30.

Trauma

Fight the Power: Hip Hop Law & Policy; Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 29 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2021
andré douglas pond cummings
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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trauma, adverse childhood experiences, meek mill, police brutality, criminal justice reform

31.

Derrick Bell: Godfather Provocateur

Harvard Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice, Vol. 28, 2012
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 22 Apr 2013
andré douglas pond cummings
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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Derrick Bell, Critial Race Theory, Chuck D, Public Enemy, Hip Hop, Socially Conscious, A Furious Kinship

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Meek Mill's Trauma: Brutal Policing as an Adverse Childhood Experience

33 St. Thomas L. Rev. 158 (2021)
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 01 Sep 2021
Todd Clark, Caleb Gregory Conrad, andré douglas pond cummings and Amy Dunn Johnson
St. Thomas University School of Law, University of Arkansas at Little Rock - William H. Bowen School of Law, Widener University - Commonwealth Law School and 15th Division, 6th Judicial District of Arkansas
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adverse childhood experiences; meek mill; police brutality; criminal justice reform

33.

Richard Delgado and Ice Cube: Brothers in Arms

Law and Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice, Vol. 33, 2015
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 09 Jun 2015
andré douglas pond cummings
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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critical race theory, hip hop, Richard Delgado, Ice Cube

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Teaching Social Justice Through 'Hip Hop and the Law'

North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 42, No. 1, 2019
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 28 Apr 2020
andré douglas pond cummings
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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Social Justice, Hip Hop, Legal Pedagogy

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Lawless Capitalism and the Dangerous Rule of the Corporate Elite

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 20 Apr 2014
andré douglas pond cummings
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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lawless capitalism, deregulation, law and economics, financial market crisis

36.

Toward a Socially Just Peace in the War on Drugs?: The Illinois Cannabis Social-Equity Program

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Vol. 53, No. 4, 2022
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 24 Aug 2022
andré douglas pond cummings and Steven A. Ramirez
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School and Loyola University of Chicago School of Law
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War on Drugs, Social Equity Program, Anti-Racism, Mass Incarceration, Ending and Repairing the War on Drugs

37.

The Black Wall Street Insurance Grift: Claim Denied - Access Denied

35 St. Thomas L. Rev. 100 (2023)
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 28 Mar 2024
andré douglas pond cummings and Kalvin Graham
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School and University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law
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Corporate Reparations, Black Wall Street, Racial Capitalism, Race Massacre, Race Riot, Insurance Industry, Wrongfully Denied Claims, Grift,

38.

The Farcical Samaritan's Dilemma

St. John's Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development , Vol. 35, No. 2, 2022
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 24 Aug 2022
andré douglas pond cummings
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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Law & Economics, Samaritan's Dilemma, Intellectually Bankrupt, Public Choice Theory, James M. Buchanan, The Good Samaritan, Bible, Parable

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Amicus Curiae Brief: Private For Profit Incarceration Violates the 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 29 Mar 2022
andré douglas pond cummings
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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13th Amendment, Punishment Clause, Private For-Profit Incarceration, Convict Leasing, Black Codes, Abolish Private Prisons

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Chief Justice Christine M. Durham: Trailblazer, Pioneer, Exemplar

Albany Law Review, Vol. 75, p. 101, 2012
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 22 Apr 2013
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Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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Justice Christine Durham, Utah Supreme Court

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Families of Color in Crisis: Bearing the Weight of the Financial Market Meltdown

Howard Law Journal, Vol. 55, 2012
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 24 Jul 2018
andré douglas pond cummings
Widener University - Commonwealth Law School
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War on Drugs, Racial Wealth Gap, Predatory Lending, Financial Market Crisis of 2008, Prison Industrial Complex