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Modern Disparities In Legal Education: Emancipation From Racial Neutrality, David Mears

David Mears

Abstract

Wealth, leadership and political power within any democratic society requires the highest caliber of a quality legal education. The Black experience is not necessarily a unique one within legal education but rather an excellent example of either poor to substandard quality disseminated unequally among racial and socioeconomic stereotypes based upon expected outcomes of probable success or failure. It is often said, “Speak and so it will happen” – many within the halls of academia work hard to openly predict failure yet seemingly do very little to foster success internally within the academic procedures and processes based on the customer …

The Internationalization Of The American Journal Of International Law: Reality Or Chimera? - A Survey, Christos A. Ravanides

Christos A. Ravanides

In 2006, the American Society of International Law ("ASIL") celebrated its centennial anniversary. In 2007, it is the turn of the Society’s flagship publication, the American Journal of International Law ("AJIL"), to celebrate the centennial year since its inception in 1907. This first-of-its-kind detailed survey dissects the Journal’s “international” attribute: how truly “international” and how “American” has this prestigious publication proved in the course of a century? How accommodating a host has it been to international lawyers with no U.S. affiliation or with “deviating” views on international law? The research has been multi-fold; we examine the content, the structure and …