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Time For A Change: 20 Years After The "Working Group" Principles, Barbara Cox
Time For A Change: 20 Years After The "Working Group" Principles, Barbara Cox
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This article discusses three aspects of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity’s history. First, it reviews the section’s activities at the 1992 AALS Annual Meeting. Second, it discusses how the AALS implemented its Bylaw and Executive Committee Regulations that prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation (and now gender identity after a recent revision). Finally, it encourages the AALS to discontinue use of some of the guidelines adopted in the early 1990s to guide its interactions with religiously affiliated law schools when conflicts arise concerning allegations of sexual orientation or gender …
White Doors, Black Footsteps: Leveraging "White Privilege" To Benefit Law Students Of Color, Leslie Culver
White Doors, Black Footsteps: Leveraging "White Privilege" To Benefit Law Students Of Color, Leslie Culver
Faculty Scholarship
Law students of color typically avoid seeking the mentorship of white law professors, largely white males, finding female faculty and faculty of color more approachable and willing to serve as mentors. Yet, according to recent ABA statistics, white people make up eighty-eight percent of the legal profession, with sixty-four percent being male. In addition, relevant scholarship comments that one of the primary privileges of whiteness is having greater access to power and resources than people of color do. It follows then, as recent legal scholarship suggests, that law students of color who fail to develop a cultural competence may be …