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Restorative Relationships and “Radical Help”: Reimagining Welfare-to-Work Beyond the Market-Family Divide
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Student Demands: How Should Law Schools and Their Deans Respond?
Get PDFLaw students are sometimes caricatured as money-hungry careerists, merely punching their ticket to an outsized law firm salary. Those of us in legal education know that stereotype is entirely invalid. In fact, most students come to law school because they want to make the world a better place.
The death of George Floyd in police custody on a Minneapolis street corner in May 2020 shocked the conscience of the nation. Unsurprisingly, many law students were moved to action and inspired to put their nascent legal skills to work in support of racial justice. Much of their advocacy focused on campaigns for policing reforms at the federal, state and local levels. But some students used the occasion to challenge the law schools they attend (and to which they pay tuition) to live up to the values of diversity, equity and inclusion.
At a number of law schools, including mine, that energy was channeled into the development of a set of “demands” posed by students to their schools. In this essay I will recount the experience at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where I serve as dean, and offer my thoughts on steps law school administrators can take and pitfalls they should avoid in response to this form of student activism
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No full textAn answer to the assault on voting rights—crucial reading in light of the 2020 presidential election
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is considered one of the most effective pieces of legislation the United States has ever passed. It enfranchised hundreds of thousands of voters, particularly in the American South, and drew attention to the problem of voter suppression. Yet in recent years there has been a continuous assault on access to the ballot box in the form of stricter voter ID requirements, meritless claims of rigged elections, and baseless accusations of voter fraud. In the past these efforts were aimed at eliminating African American voters from the rolls, and today, new laws seek to eliminate voters of color, the poor, and the elderly, groups that historically vote for the Democratic Party.
Uncounted examines the phenomenon of disenfranchisement through the lens of history, race, law, and the democratic process. Gilda R. Daniels, who served as Deputy Chief in the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and has more than two decades of voting rights experience, argues that voter suppression works in cycles, constantly adapting and finding new ways to hinder access for an exponentially growing minority population. She warns that a premeditated strategy of restrictive laws and deceptive practices has taken root and is eroding the very basis of American democracy—the right to vote!https://scholarworks.law.ubalt.edu/fac_books/1113/thumbnail.jp
Professors Cure, Academic Support Cares: The Potential Role of Academic Support in Increasing Graduation Rates at Law Schools at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
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