University of Minnesota Law offers racial equity and justice courses
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW — New racial equity and justice courses have been added, and faculty members are further integrating these topics into their teaching—not only in courses such as Constitutional Law and Criminal Law, but also in Torts and Mergers and Acquisitions as well. On the clinical side, more than 100 students and faculty.
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW — The Law Library’s Riesenfeld Rare Books Research Center opened a new exhibit on racial justice. The exhibit explores the quest for racial justice in America through historical legal cases, legislation, and events that saw civil rights denied, limited, and advanced by determined legal and political action.
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PEPPERDINE CARUSO SCHOOL OF LAW — Caruso Law hosted the inaugural Black Women and the Law Summit: Invisibly Visible, Black Women in the Law Matter. Programming centered on legal and systemic barriers to Black women’s advancement, offering strategies to dismantle those barriers. Viewers joined from 28 different campuses.
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MCCA — The Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA) in partnership with Russell Reynolds Associates (RRA) is proud to announce our latest benchmark research assessing diverse and inclusive leadership within the legal profession: Leading Through Crisis.
Read More about Minority Corporate Counsel Association co-publish report on law firm diversity and inclusionAccessLex Institute publishes aggregated information on law school enrollment, diversity, and bar passage
ACCESSLEX — The 2020 Legal Education Data Deck utilizes datasets made publicly available by third parties to offer a snapshot of certain data and trends organized around the three guiding principles of AccessLex Institute’s research agenda: access, affordability and value in legal education. This is a living document that is updated periodically.
Read More about AccessLex Institute publishes aggregated information on law school enrollment, diversity, and bar passageAmerican Council on Education publishes report on racial disparities in higher education
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The American Council on Education recently published a six-chapter supplement to its original February 2019 report on race and ethnicity in higher education, which provides additional analysis of federal data to examine how the education system in the United States is serving and failing students of color.
Read More about American Council on Education publishes report on racial disparities in higher educationUniversity of Colorado Law Suzette Malveaux discusses need for new civil rights legislation
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO LAW SCHOOL — In this lecture, Malveaux will explore how the U.S. Supreme Court’s civil procedure jurisprudence has undermined access to justice and civil rights enforcement, and why a new civil rights law is necessary during this critical and tumultuous time in our country.
Read More about University of Colorado Law Suzette Malveaux discusses need for new civil rights legislationGeorgetown Law faculty reflect on racism and inequality in the US
GEORGETOWN LAW — Georgetown Law’s Professor Paul Butler and Georgetown Professor of History and African American Studies Dr. Marcia Chatelain reflected on the Trump presidency and how the United States could move forward in addressing the persistent scourges of racism and inequality.
Read More about Georgetown Law faculty reflect on racism and inequality in the USNortheastern Law Civil Rights & Restorative Justice Project hosts conference on restorative racial justice
NEWS@NORTHEASTERN — The conference convened people whose family members had been lynched alongside leaders including Coates, activist Angela Y. Davis, artists Dread Scott and Quanda Johnson, U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, and others, for an in-depth conversation about the entrenched trauma of race-based violence.
Read More about Northeastern Law Civil Rights & Restorative Justice Project hosts conference on restorative racial justicePenn State Dickinson Law receives CLEO EDGE Award for commitment to diversity and inclusion in legal education
PENNSYLVANIA STATE DICKINSON LAW — Penn State Dickinson Law received a Council on Legal Education Opportunity Inc. (CLEO) EDGE Award during a virtual reception hosted by CLEO on Thursday, Nov. 12, in recognition of its significant commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in legal education.
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