My past publications
Books
Angela A. Allen-Bell, UNDER INDICTMENT: Race, Juries & Justice in Louisiana (2024).
Angela A. Allen-Bell, Diversity in the jury box & Beyond: A FORMULA FOR TRANSFORMING LOUISIANA’S LEGAL SYSTEM & OTHER SYSTEMS THAT HARM (2024).
Angela A. Allen-Bell, THE SUMMONS: ADVOCACY INSIGHTS FOR SYSTEMIC & TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE (2025).
Book Chapters
Angela A. Allen-Bell, Incarcerating the Speech, Expressions & Messages of Black Women: An Overlooked Obstacle in the Campaign to Dismantle the Carceral State, Chapter in Black Women and the Carceral State: Tell Them We Are Not Monsters (Erin S. Corbett & Katherine Wheatle eds., Routledge Press) (forthcoming 2025)
Journals
Angela A. Allen-Bell, Taking Exception to Criminal Justice Reforms that Fail to Transform: Using Transitional Justice to End the Carceral State, 11 Penn. St. J.L. & Intl Aff. 1 (2023).
Angela A. Allen-Bell, A Primer on the “Bell Case Synthesis Method” & A Lesson On Adult Child’s Play, 2 Univ. of Bologna L. Rev. 1, 68 (2017).
Angela A. Allen-Bell, Student Author, Comment, The Birth of The Crime: Driving While Black (DWB), 25 S.U.L. Rev. 195 (1997) reprinted in 44 S.U.L. Rev. 39 (2016).
Angela A. Allen-Bell, The Incongruous Intersection of the Black Panther Party and the Ku Klux Klan, 39 Seattle U. L. Rev. 1157 (2016).
Angela A. Allen-Bell, How The Narrative About Louisiana’s Non-Unanimous Criminal Jury System Became A Person Of Interest In The Case Against Justice In The Deep South, 67 Mercer L. Rev. 585 (2016) (Lead Article).
Angela A. Allen-Bell, A Prescription for Healing a National Wound: Two Doses of Executive Direct Action Equals a Portion of Justice and a Serving of Redress for America & The Black Panther Party, 5 Univ. Miami Race & Soc. Justice L.Rev. 1 (2015) (Lead Article).
Angela A. Allen-Bell, Activism Unshackled & Justice Unchained: A Call to Make a Human Right Out of One of the Most Calamitous Human Wrongs to Have Taken Place on American Soil, 7 J. of Law & Social Deviance 125 (2014).
Angela A. Allen-Bell, Perception Profiling & Prolonged Solitary Confinement Viewed Through The Lens of The Angola 3 Case: When Prison Officials Become Judges, Judges Become Visually Challenged and Justice Becomes Legally Blind, 39 Hastings Const. L.Q. 763 (2012) (Lead Article).
Angela A. Allen-Bell, Bridge Over Troubled Waters and Passageway on a Journey to Justice: National Lessons Learned About Justice From Louisiana’s Response to Hurricane Katrina, 46 Cal. W. L. Rev. 2 (2010) (Lead Article).
Angela A. Allen-Bell, Student Author, Comment, The Birth of The Crime: Driving While Black (DWB), 25 S.U.L. Rev. 195 (Fall 1997).
Encyclopedia Entries
Angela A. Allen-Bell, Angola 3, in 64 Parishes Encyclopedia.
Angela A. Allen-Bell, Students United, in 64 Parishes Encyclopedia.
Angela A. Allen-Bell, Southern University, in 64 Parishes Encyclopedia.
Reports
Co-authored ABA Criminal Justice Section Resolution and Report as to the use of non-unanimous juries in Louisiana and Oregon (along with Marjorie Esman and Heather Johnson), Feb. 2018. Resolution passed by the ABA’s Criminal Justice Council, spring 2018.
Statements
Angela A. Allen-Bell, Reassessing Solitary Confinement II: The Human Rights, Fiscal, and Public Safety Consequences, Hearing Before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights, 113th Cong. (Feb. 25, 2014) (statement of Angela A. Allen-Bell).
Angela A. Allen-Bell, Louisiana Justice Commission Hearing (Nov. 2, 2013) (statement of Angela A. Allen-Bell).
Angela A. Allen-Bell, Reassessing Solitary Confinement: The Human Rights, Fiscal, and Public Safety Consequences, Hearing Before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights (June 19, 2012) (statement of Angela A. Allen-Bell).
News/Magazines
Angela A. Allen-Bell, Honorable John Michael Guidry, Around the Bar, March/April 2023, at 21.
Angela A. Allen-Bell & Brittany Dunn, The 5oth Anniversary of a Student Movement and the Deaths of Denver Smith and Leonard Brown is an Opportunity, Not Just an Occasion, Think 504 News, Nov. 11, 2022.
Angela A. Allen-Bell, When Voter Suppression Joined Jury Selection in Holy Matrimony, San Francisco Bay View, Aug. 19, 2021.
Angela A. Allen-Bell, Bankrupt Justice & Subprime Juries in Louisiana, Think 504 News, Aug. 1, 2021.
Angela A. Allen-Bell, Making the Case for Voting Yes on Amendment 2 (Non-Unanimous Jury Law) on November 6, Data News Weekly, Oct. 3, 2018.
Angela A. Allen-Bell, La’s Non-Unanimous Jury System: An Assault Upon the Sixth Amendment & An Attack Upon Justice, The Trial Lawyer, Summer 2018.
Angela A. Allen-Bell, La’s Non-Unanimous Jury Law: An Instrument of Legal, Political, Social Oppression, The Drum News, March 9, 2018.
Angela A. Allen-Bell, ‘Soledad Brother’ John Clutchette Granted Parole – Will California Gov. Jerry Brown Reverse the Decision? (Written Interview), Angola 3 News & San Francisco Bay View (01/19/18).
Angela A. Allen-Bell, Why Stop at Confederate Monuments? Remove the Codification of Supremacy and Oppression by Abandoning the Use of Non-Unanimous Juries in Criminal Cases (ABA Section of Litigation, Diversity & Inclusion), Fall 2017.
Angela A. Allen-Bell, Statement About Today’s SCOTUS Decision on the Dale Lambert Case, Think504, Oct. 3, 2017.
Angela A. Allen-Bell, Non-Unanimous Juries Are Relics of White Supremacy, Wash. Post, Sept. 23, 2017, at A17.
Angela A. Allen-Bell, Louisiana’s Non-Unanimous Jury System: A Legal Injustice for Many Criminal Defendants, Around the Bar, Sept. 2017, at 16.
Angela A. Allen-Bell, Plantations Were Prisons: Mobilizing for the Millions for Prisoners Human Rights March (Written Interview), Angola 3 News & Facing South (8/17/17).
Angela A. Allen-Bell, Healing Our Wounds: Restorative Justice is Needed for Albert Woodfox, The Black Panther Party & The Nation (Written Interview), Angola 3 News & The Institute for Southern Studies (6/29/15).
Angela A. Allen-Bell, Terrorism, COINTELPRO, and the Black Panther Party (Written Interview), Angola 3 News & OpEdNews (Sept. 7, 2014).
Angela A. Allen-Bell, Nelson Mandela: A World-Class Sportsman and the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the Civil and Human Rights League, in a tribute to Nelson Mandela (12/13).
Angela A. Allen-Bell, Solitary Confinement on Trial (Written Interview), Angola 3 News & San Francisco Bay View Newspaper (6/18/12).