Announcing this year's theme for Volume VII, "We still have a Dream: Continuing the Dialogue for Legal Progress in Black America."

 


Interested in Joining the Journal?


Every summer, the Journal accepts applications from BLSA members across the nation who want to contribute to the Journal’s mission of serving as a vehicle for social, economical, and political upliftment in the African-American community. Students who are selected to be new editors will have the opportunity to write a comment with the support of the Executive Editors and will gain significant editorial experience while benefiting from the prestige of being on a legal journal.

If you are a law student graduating in 2014 or later, check back in May 2013 for more details on how to apply to join the team next year.  

 

Links

 The National Black Law Students Association, the largest student-run

organization in the Nation. 

 

The National Black Law Journal, a scholarly discourse exploring the

intersection of race and the law for 35 years.

 

The Modern American, a publication dedicated to diversity and the law.

 

 The Harvard Black Letter Law Journal, founded in 1983, a publication

that critiques traditional constitutionalism and promotes civil rights.

 

 

  The State of Black America 2006, published by the National Urban League.  An annual report that examines issues central to Black America, and provides a cohesive and systematic approach for closing the nation's equality gaps. Included in this year's report are essays on Hurricane Katrina and poverty, race and healthcare disparities, racial disparity and prison boom, and the state of civil rights.

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In Summer 2012, we published Volume VI of the Journal under the theme "Streets Not Yet Paved with Gold: Roadblocks on the Path Towards an Integrated America."

 

The following articles were published:


Antoine Marshall, Wake Forest University School of Law

Pathways for Procurement: Operating Minority Business Programs After Rothe

 

 

Zainab Wurie, Emory University School of Law

Tainted: The Need for Equity Based Federal Expungement

 

 

Ashley Scott, Emory University School of Law

From the Trenches to the Workplace: Are Military Service Members Protected From a Hostile Work Environment?

 

 

Brooke DuBois, Vanderbilt University Law School
Morgan v. Richmond School of Health and Technology: Who's Really Profiting at For-Profit Schools?

 

 

Nerissa-Anne D. Robinson, University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law

Deferring Environmental Justice in Mississippi: Agency Deference Legacy Impacts Southern Black Communities

 

 

David Gan-wing Cheng, Mercer University School of Law

The McCleskey Court, Jury Discretion, and the Death Penalty: What Is A Black Life Worth?

 

 

Fallon Justine Speaker, University of North Carolina School of Law

An Endless Battle: The Rise of Anti-Abortion Legislation and Decline of the Woman's Fundamental Right to Reproductive Privacy


 

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