The Southern Region Black Law Students Association Law Journal has selected  the following theme for the Volume VI Issue:


Streets Not Yet Paved with Gold: Roadblocks on the Path Towards an Integrated America.



Interested in Being Published?

 

The SRBLSA Law Journal will be accepting submissions for publication in Volume VI until Friday, December 2, 2011. Please see our Submissions Criteria Page for more details.






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 May 2013 or later, visit the website in Spring 2012  for 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 2011, we published Volume V of the Journal under the theme "Southern Discomfort: A Critical Analysis of the Southern Black Community's Legal Strides and Struggles in the 21st Century."


The following comments were published:


Malaika Caldwell, The John Marshall Law School-Chicago

Trafficking from the Streets to the Borders: Why the Search for Justice under the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 Ended on a Dead-End Street in the Black Community


Donnalee Donaldson, Emory University School of Law

Can We Stop the Madness? Finding Legal Solutions to the Housing Crisis Facing the Mentally Ill.


Shakira Mack, The George Washington University Law School

Beyond Brown v. Board of Education: Finding Equal and Adequate Education in the 21st Century


Carmela E. Orsini, Georgia State University College of Law

 On Our Terms: Using Environmental Justice to Formulate a Peace Agreement to end the Tri-State Water Wars.


Kelly Toledano, Emory University School of Law

Making Good on Broken Promises: How the Pigford Settlement has Given African-American Farmers a Second Chance


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To order copies of any Journal volume, please email your request to SRBLSACirculation@gmail.com.