Scholarship and Publications on Bias, Race, and Ethnicity Issues in Law Schools
AccessLex’s “Diversity and Inclusion in Law School and Higher Education”
Summary from Access Lex: “AccessLex Institute seeks to expand access to legal education for underrepresented students through research, grantmaking, data analysis, and the dissemination of information and resources. The goal is for graduating law school cohorts to reflect the diversity of the nation by 2025. In this Collection, you’ll find research identified as being specifically concerned with underrepresented students’ successful matriculation into law school and entry into the legal profession.”
“Diversity and Inclusion in Law School and Higher Education” is a subsection of the AccessLex’s Diversity and Inclusion Collection, a compiled bibliography of scholarship submitted to AccessLex from 1987-2021. Links to the full-text articles largely direct users to HeinOnline or other scholarship databases. Please consult the library for any assistance needed in accessing these articles.
Frances Lee Ansley,
Race and the Core Curriculum in Legal Education,
79 CALIF. L. REV. 1511 (1991).
Taifha N. Baker,
How Top Law Schools Can Resuscitate an Inclusive Climate for Minority and Low-Income Law Students,
9 GEO. J. L. & MOD. CRITICAL RACE Persp. 123 (2017).
Faisal Bhabha,
Towards a Pedagogy of Diversity in Legal Education,
52 Osgoode HALL L. J. 59 (2014).
Elizabeth Bodamer,
Do I Belong Here? Examining Perceived Experiences of Bias, Stereotype Concerns, and Sense of Belonging in U.S. Law Schools,
69 J. Legal Educ. 455 (2020).
Anastasia M. Boles,
Seeking Inclusion From the Inside Out: Towards a Paradigm of
Culturally Proficient Legal Education,
11 Charleston L. REV. 209 (2017).
Lauren Carasik,
Renaissance or Retrenchment: Legal Education at a Crossroads,
44 IND. L. REV. 735 (2011).
Debra Chopp,
Addressing Cultural Bias in the Legal Profession,
41 N.Y.U. REV. L. & Soc. CHANGE 364 (2017).
Sha-Shana Crichton,
Incorporating Social Justice into the 1L Legal Writing Course: A Tool for Empowering Students of Color and of Historically Marginalized Groups and Improving Learning,
24 Mich. J. Race & L. 251 (2019).
Richard Delgado & Derrick Bell,
Minority Law Professors’ Lives: The Bell-Delgado Survey,
24 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 349 (1989)
Meera E. Deo,
Looking Forward to Diversity in Legal Academia,
29 Berkeley J. Gender L. & Just. 352 (2014).
Meera E. Deo, Maria Woodruff & Rican Vue,
Paint by Number? How the Race and Gender of Law School
Faculty Affect the First-Year Curriculum,
29 CHICANA/o-LATINA/o L. REV. 1 (2010).
Nancy E. Dowd, Kenneth B. Nunn & Jane E. Pendergast,
Diversity Matters: Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Legal Education,
15 U. FLA. J. L. & PUB. POL’y 11 (2003).
Rebecca Flanagan,
Anthrogogy: Towards Inclusive Law School Learning,
19 CONN. PUB. INT. L. J. 93 (2019).
Kendra Fox-Davis,
A Badge of Inferiority: One Law Student’s Story of a
Racially Hostile Educational Environment,
23 NAT’l BLACK L. J. 98 (2009).
Chris Chambers Goodman & Sarah E. Redfield,
A Teacher Who Looks Like Me,
27 J. C. R. & ECON. DEV. 105 (2013).
Anna P. Hemingway,
Intentionally and Systematically Integrating Diversity Discussions and Lessons in the Law School Classroom during a Race-Conscious Era,
73 Rutgers U. L. REV. 33 (2020).
Lucille A. Jewel,
Bourdieu and American Legal Education: How Law Schools Reproduce Social Stratification and Class Hierarchy,
56 Buff. L. Rev. 1155 (2008).
Erin C. Lain,
Racialized Interactions in the Law School Classroom: Pedagogical Approaches to Creating a Safe Learning Environment,
67 J. LEGAL EDUC. 780 (2018).
Nicholas Loh,
Diasporic Dreams: Law, Whiteness, and the Asian American Identity,
48 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1331 (2021).
Carolyn Jin-Myung Oh,
Questioning the Cultural and Gender-Based Assumptions of the Adversary System: Voices of Asian-American Law Students,
7 BERKELEY WOMEN’s L.J. 125 (1992).
Michele Benedetto Neitz,
Socioeconomic Bias in the Judiciary,
61 Clev. St. L. Rev. 137 (2013).
Kenneth Oldfield,
Structural Nepotism: On the Reluctance of Law Schools to Include Social Class Origins Among Their Faculty Diversity Goals,
69 J. Legal Educ. 239 (2020).
Brian Owsley,
Black Ivy: An African-American Perspective on Law School,
28 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 501 (1997).
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Catherine J. K. Sandoval , Patricia A. Cain , Stephen F. Diamond , Jean C. Love , Stephen E. Smith, Solmaz Nabipour & Allen S. Hammond,
Legal Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Put Health, Safety and Equity First,
61 Santa CLARA L. REV. 367 (2021).
Amy H. Soled & Barbara Hoffman,
Building Bridges: How Law Schools Can Better Prepare Students from Historically Underserved Communities to Excel in Law School,
69 J. Legal Educ. 268 (2020).
Aaron N. Taylor,
The Marginalization of Black Aspiring Lawyers,
13 FIU L. Rev. 489 (2019)
Francisco Valdes,
Barely at the Margins: Race and Ethnicity in Legal Education – A
Curricular Study with LatCritical Commentary,
13 BERKELEY LA RAZA L.J. 119 (2002).
Francisco Valdes,
Outsider Jurisprudence, Critical Pedogogy and Social Justice Activism: Marking the Stirrings of Critical Legal Education,
10 Asian L.J. 65 (2003).
* Part of a Special Section: Teaching Asian Americans and the Law: Insights and Syllabi