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High Anxiety: Racism, The Law, And Legal Education, Elayne E. Greenberg

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

Conspicuously absent from the United States’ ongoing discourse about its racist history is a more honest discussion about the individual and personal stressors that are evoked in people when they talk about racism. What if they got it wrong? The fear of being cancelled -- the public shaming for remarks that are deemed racist -- has had a chilling effect on having meaningful conversations about racism. What lost opportunities!

This paper moves this discussion into the law school context. How might law schools rethink their law school curricula to more accurately represent the role systemic racism has played in shaping …

A Blueprint For A Fairer Aba Standard For Judging Law Graduates’ Competence: How A Standard Based On Students’ Scores In Relation To The National Mean Mbe Score Properly Balances Consumer Safety With Increased Diversity In The Bar, William Wesley Patton

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

Current and recently proposed American Bar Association (ABA) standards regarding students’ bar passage rates have a significant disparate impact on states that have adopted difficult bar examination passage standards (the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE cut scores). Many scholars have demonstrated that the ABA bar passage standards have a negative impact on diversity in the bar by discouraging law schools from enrolling large numbers of minority students, who have, traditionally, performed below state mean in passage rates on the exam. This study presents a new and supplemental standard for the ABA to use in monitoring student outcome measures and law schools’ …

Plyler Students At Work: The Case For Granting Law Licenses To Undocumented Immigrants, Lindy Stevens

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Collection Of Student Loans: A Critical Examination, Doug Rendleman, Scott Weingart

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Valuing And Nurturing Multiple Intelligences In Legal Education: A Paradigm Shift, Kristen A. Dauphinais

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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Recruiting And Retaining Faculty Of Color In The Legal Academy: A Longstanding Commitment Of The Association Of American Law Schools, Veryl Victoria Miles

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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The Creed According To The Legal Academy: Nihilistic Musings On Pedagogy And Race Relations, Barbara L. Bernier

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.