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Reforming Mandated Reporting Laws After Sandusky, Starla J. Williams
Reforming Mandated Reporting Laws After Sandusky, Starla J. Williams
Starla J. Williams
This article explores the intersection of poverty, power, and privilege in the child protection system that contributed to the child sexual abuse scandal at Penn State University. The article first reviews the facts underlying the case of former Penn State football coach Gerald A. Sandusky, who was convicted on forty-five counts of child sexual abuse. It also offers insight into the actions of former University leaders whose nondisclosure and active roles in the cover up of child sexual abuse resulted in disgrace to one of the nation’s premier college athletic programs. Next, the article considers the irony in the failure …
A Values-Based Pedagogy For The Legal Academy In The Post-Racial Era, Starla J. Williams
A Values-Based Pedagogy For The Legal Academy In The Post-Racial Era, Starla J. Williams
Starla J. Williams
This article explores shifting paradigms for teaching law in the post-racial legal academy. It proposes a normative design to teach legal analysis based on values that are consistent with expanded concepts of diversity in the post-racial era. It offers a fresh look at diversity discourse by exposing obsolete race consciousness that impedes authentic diversity dialogue and inclusiveness in legal communities. Consistent with the understanding that diversity entails more than increased visibility for people of color in the legal profession, this work reveals progressive notions of diversity that include reflections on gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, and other attributes on the …
Thurgood Marshall: The Writer, Anna Hemingway, Starla J. Williams, Jennifer Lear, Ann Fruth
Thurgood Marshall: The Writer, Anna Hemingway, Starla J. Williams, Jennifer Lear, Ann Fruth
Starla J. Williams
This article profiles Thurgood Marshall as a writer in his roles as an advocate and social activist, a legal scholar and a Supreme Court Justice. It examines the techniques that he used as a writer to inform and persuade his audiences in his life-long endeavor to achieve equality for everyone. This examination of Marshall’s legal, scholarly, and judicial writings can help lawyers, academics, and students increase their knowledge of how the written word profoundly impacts society. The article first studies his arguments and legal strategy in two early civil rights cases, University of Maryland v. Murray and Smith v. Allwright. …