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This hands-on guide for student support professionals in law schools provides a set of unique tools to enhance their critical work in shaping the student experience. Grounded in antiracist principles and practices, and developed in collaboration with the Antiracist Development Institute, Antiracist Academic Success and the Bar Examination illustrates how to partner with students, faculty, staff, and administrators—from orientation through commencement—and how to build a sense of belonging for all students. It particularly focuses on outreach to those who bear the disproportionate burdens of the structural inequalities scaffolding the legal academy (including students of color, students with disabilities, students with prior criminal justice contact, and first-generation students). Chapters lay out innovations in student services, academic success, and bar exam preparation, with an emphasis on forming an academic and professional identity. Both personal and practical, Antiracist Academic Success and the Bar Examination is designed to be a go-to resource for meeting students where they are and rewiring their entire law school experience.

Ray Brescia is Director of the Daniel P. Nolan ’78 Institute for Innovation in the Legal Profession, Hon. Harold R. Tyler Chair in Law and Technology, and Professor of Law at Albany Law School. He writes at the center of access to justice, legal ethics, social change, and technology, with previous books including The Future of Change: How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions and Lawyer Nation: The Past, Present, and Future of the American Legal Profession.

Joy Kanwar is Professor of Legal Writing at Brooklyn Law School. Her writing explores questions about inclusion and exclusion in immigration and citizenship law through historical and narrative lenses, as well as techniques to help students become lawyers who are prepared to enter the profession in a well-trained, reflective, and “whole person” way.