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Dec 14, 2025
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LAW 2982 - Legal Education in a Post Racial World
This two-credit course is being proposed further to my award of a Faculty Diversity Research and Curriculum Grant for the development of a law school seminar to address the pressing issues of diversity within the legal profession, and the law school specifically. This seminar will seek to engage law students, as graduate students, in the important, yet controversial, issues surrounding diversity and affirmative action faced by legal practitioners, academics, students, faculty and college/university administrators. The seminar would seek to push beyond the standard fare of affirmative action cases, as text and precedent, and will ask students to explore diversity as a much more robust concept. In particular I will engage students in analysis that explores the meaning of similarity and difference in a country that is said to be “post-racial,” and presumably beyond other identity markers as well. As such, seminar students will explore the significance of gender, race, sexuality, class, religion and ability as it impacts the law, legal practice and legal education, in particular. I anticipate, however, that the focus of the seminar will revolve around racial diversity, as this seems to be most elusive in legal circles. Central to our inquiry will be whether, or in what ways diversity, writ large, is a goal to be sought after in the legal profession.
Credits: 2
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