Building an Antiracist Law School, Legal Academy, and Legal Profession

This is an ambitious, transformative book series that creates the building blocks for wholesale change within law schools, across the legal academy, and in the entire legal profession, uncovering the complicity of law in propping up white supremacy and structural racism. Volumes in the series chart the landscape of subordination and oppression generally, and racial inequality specifically, baked into our legal structures, as well as the systemic inequities at the root of our crumbling democratic infrastructure. Importantly, they provide action steps that law deans, administrators, faculty, staff professionals, and students must take to actively commit resources to promote antiracist teaching, learning, and practice.

Inspiring the launch of the Antiracist Development Institute, this series offers practical tools and teaching and learning resources and is rooted firmly in systems design and critical pedagogy. It is in proud partnership with the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, AccessLex Institute, the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Law School Admission Council (LSAC), and the National Association for Law Placement (NALP).

With Dean Danielle M. Conway of Penn State Dickinson Law coordinating the collaboration and laying out an overarching vision, this series answers an urgent call to rebuild our legal institutions by identifying and eliminating the inequities built into their constituent parts.

The Antiracist Development Institute works with institutions and organizations inside and outside of the legal academy and legal profession to implement antiracist principles using design-thinking methodology.

For more information about the series development, including chapter abstracts, teasers, and videos, please visit https://dickinsonlaw.psu.edu/adi-book-series.