Publications - Maryam Ahranjani

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Books & Book Chapters

Celebrate Constitution and Citizenship Day Every Day, Not Just Sept. 17th, Pasa Por Aquí (2024).
Available at: UNM-DR

Maryam Ahranjani, The Role of the Law School Dean and Faculty in Supporting and Sustaining Ethical and Antiracist Admissions Practices, Antiracist Approaches to Admissions and Financial Aid (Jay Austin and Patricia Roberts, ed., forthcoming).

Maryam Ahranjani and Adria Kimbrough, Is Standardized Testing Antithetical to Antiracism Efforts in Law School Admissions?, Antiracist Approaches to Admissions and Financial Aid (Jay Austin and Patricia Roberts, ed., forthcoming).

Maryam Ahranjani, Public K-12 Education in the Wake of the Guatemalan Civil War and the Continuing Path to Educational Success, Dictators and the Disappeared: Democracy Lost and Restored (Russ Davidson and Leslie Blaugrund Kim, ed., 2023).

Maryam Ahranjani and J.C. Blokhuis, Purposes of Education, Legal Foundations of Education (J.C. Blokhuis, ed., 2023).

Erecting a Virtual Schoolhouse Gate, Constitutional Knowledge and Its Impact on Citizenship Exercise in a Networked Society (Ana Melro and Lídia Oliveira ed. 2019).
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Youth Justice in America (2014) (co-authored with Andrew G. Ferguson and Jamin B. Raskin).
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High School to Law School: Marshall-Brennan and Moot Court,  The Education Pipeline to the Professions: Programs that Work to Increase Diversity (Sarah E. Redfield ed. 2012).
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The Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project: A Case Study in Law and Social Justice,  Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation: Implications for Policy and Practice (Lynn M. Nybell et al. ed. 2009).
Available at:  UNM-DR

Articles

Unarresting School Safety, 25 Nev. L. J. 709 (2025).
Available at: NLJ

The Constitutional Costs Of School Policing, 72 American University Law Review 337 (2022) (co-authored with Natalie Saing).
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Sprinting a Marathon: Next Steps for Gender Equity in Criminal Law Employment, 106 Minnesota Law Review: Headnotes 228 (2022).
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The Role of Lawyers in Bridging the Gap between the Robust Federal Rights to Education and Relatively Low Education Outcomes in Guatemala, 2021 Auctoritas Prudentium 25 (2021).
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“ Toughen Up, Buttercup" versus #TimesUp: Initial Findings of the ABA Women in Criminal Justice Task Force,  25 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 99 (2020).
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School "Safety" Measures Jump Constitutional Guardrails,  44 Seattle University Law Review 273 (2020).
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Universities as “Sanctuaries,” 44 J. C. & U.L. 1 (2018).
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The Prisonization of America’s Public Schools: Prioritizing “Security” over Privacy, 45 Hofstra Law Review 4 (2017).
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Evaluating High School Students’ Constitutional and Civic Literacy: A Case Study of the Washington, DC Chapter of the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project  90 Denver University Law Review 917 (2013) (co-authored with Jeffrey J. Shook and Caleb Medearis).
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Can They Do That to Me?! Does the 8th Amendment Protection Children’s Best Interests? 63 South Carolina Law Review 403 (2011).
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Mary Daly v. Boston College: The Impermissibility of Single-Sex Classes in Private Universities, 9 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law 179 (2001).
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Bar & Trade Publications

Pulling Back the Curtain: A Follow-Up Report from the ABA Criminal Justice Section Women in Criminal Justice Task Force, CRIM. JUST. (October 2, 2021).
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Looking Back, Looking Forward: Women in Criminal Justice Task Force , CRIM. JUST. (October 26, 2020).
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Developing Youth Voices, CLEO EDGE 52 (Winter/Spring 2020).
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Listening Session Participants Express Feelings of Isolation – and Demonstrate Resilience, CRIM. L. 52 (Fall 2019).
Available at:  Criminal Justice

What Does Immigration Status Have to do with Law School, CLEO 50 (2018).
Available at:  UNM-DR

Presentations

Women's TaskForce, and  Training the Next Generation of Criminal Justice Leaders, ABA CJS Fall Institute (November 19, 2020)
Abstract at:  ABA CJS

Popular Press

Why are Women Lawyers Underrepresented in Criminal Justice?, TYL MAG. (March 31, 2021).
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Task Force Ops: Initial Findings from the Women in Criminal Justice Task Forc‪e, THE JUSTPOD (March 3, 2021).
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Immigration Trends in the D.C. Area and What They Mean for Public Education, THE WASHINGTON POST (July 9, 2004).

Young Lawyers Rising Podcast, Breaking Barriers: Women in Criminal Law, American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division (Oct. 20, 2022).
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Teaching Resources

We've Got Letters: Three Integrated Curriculum Guides For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program, 17 THE WASHINGTON POST (2017).
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Available at:  We've Got Letters

National Constitution Day Teaching Modules, BAND OF RIGHTS (2005-2013).
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Available at:  Band of Rights

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