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    • By Katherine M. Perez-Oviedo
    • Volume 30, Issue 2
    • September, 2025

    An In-Depth Criticism of Shaw v. Reno

    If I have learned one thing from my semester taking Critical Race Theory, it is that the United States Supreme Court has repeatedly issued decisions that directly impede on remedial efforts to address past racial discrimination. When the question of “how can we use the law to instill social change?” is proposed in class discussion, it is difficult to imagine a world in which the Court would support the progressive measures suggested.

Internal Scholarship

  • Implications for Race-Based Scholarships in the Wake of SFFA

    This past summer (June 29, 2023) the United States Supreme Court overturned 45 years of precedent and ruled that the University of North Carolina and Harvard University’s affirmative action programs violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by considering race in their admissions process–effectively ending affirmative…
  • Teaching Slavery in Commercial Law: The Simulation

    THIS SIMULATION IS REFERRED TO IN VOLUME 28, ISSUE 1, TEACHING SLAVERY IN COMMERCIAL LAW BY CARLISS N. CHATMAN. The Simulation: Syllabus: Slavery and Commercial Law At Washington and Lee Teacher’s Manual…
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    • February, 2023

    Online Student Notes: Africana Legal Studies

    Professor Angi Porter’s article from Volume 27.2, Africana Legal Studies: A New Theoretical Approach to Law & Protocol, introduces an innovative interdisciplinary approach to studying the stories of Law and African people. In her words, the work of African Legal Studies “centers the humanity and self-defined thoughts and actions…

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