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"Headwinds" Minority Placement In The Legal Profession, Harry T. Edwards
"Headwinds" Minority Placement In The Legal Profession, Harry T. Edwards
Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)
It is an undisputed fact that less than 2 per cent of the nation's estimated 200,000 lawyers are black. To paraphrase the words of one commentator:
"There is no need here to define exactly what constitutes 'shortage' or to dwell upon the question whether the number of black lawyers should be exactly proportionate to black population. The number of black lawyers is so small that there is a shortage by definition, and obviously we are years from facing the more refined question of whether, by definition, such a shortage has ceased to exist.
However, in the decade since 1960, particularly …
Black Perspective: Justice And The Judicial System, Harry T. Edwards
Black Perspective: Justice And The Judicial System, Harry T. Edwards
Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)
Based on a speech delivered at the University of Michigan Center for Afro-American and African Studies, Nov. 4, 1970
To most blacks in America, "equal justice under law" is nothing more than a neat slogan etched into the stone and marble in and around those glorious structures we call "courthouses."