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Diversity & Racial Justice Resources

Bias in Analysis & Language - Articles

(Un)Examined Assumptions and (Un)Intended Messages: Teaching Students to Recognize Bias in Legal Analysis and Language
Lorraine Bannai & Anne Enquist
27 Seattle U. L. Rev. 1 (2003-2004)
Seattle Univ. Law Review            HeinOnline

Citation Guides - Articles

Hierarchies of Elitism and Gender: The Bluebook and the ALWD Guide
Steven K. Homer
41 Pace L. Rev. 1 (2020)
SSRN            HeinOnline            Pace Law Review

Critical Legal Research - Articles

Why Do We Tell the Same Stories?: Law Reform, Critical Librarianship, and the Triple Helix Dilemma
Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic
42 Stan. L. Rev. 207 (1989)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Why Do We Ask the Same Questions? The Triple Helix Dilemma Revisited
Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic
99 Law Libr. J. 307 (2007)
HeinOnline

Gender-Neutral Language, Sexist Language - Articles

Gender-Free Legal Writing: Managing the Personal Pronouns
British Columbia Law Institute
British Columbia Law Institute Report, No. 2, 1998
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He Said - She Said: Gender-Neutral Writing
Gerald Lebovits
74 N.Y. St. B. Ass'n J. 64 (2002)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Framing Gender: Federal Appellate Judges' Choices About Gender-Neutral Language
Judith D. Fischer
43 U.S.F. L. Rev. 473 (2009)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Gender Neutrality, the 'Violence Against Women' Frame, and Transformative Reform
Julie Goldscheid
82 UMKC L. Rev. 623 (2014)
SSRN            HeinOnline

The Supreme Court and Gender Neutral Language
Leslie Rose
17 Duke J. Gender L. & Pol'y 81 (2010)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Teaching Gender as a Core Value in the Legal-Writing Classroom
Leslie M. Rose
36 Okla. City U. L. Rev. 531-35 (2011)
HeinOnline

Subtly Sexist Language
Pat K. Chew & Lauren K. Kelley-Chew
16 Colum. J. Gender & L. 643 (2007)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Hip-Hop & Rap - Articles

Rap Exegesis: Interpreting the Rapper in an Internet Society
Andrew Jensen Kerr
7 Colum. J. Race & L. 341 (2016)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Legal Writing, the Remix: Plagiarism and Hip Hop Ethics
Kim D. Chanbonpin
63 Mercer L. Rev. 597 (2012)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Conversations with the Law: Irony, Hyperbole and Identity Politics or Sake Pase? Wyclef Jean, Shottas, and Haitian Jack—A Hip-Hop Creole Fusion of Rhetorical Resistance to the Law
Nick J. Sciullo
34 Okla. City U. L. Rev. 455-513 (2009)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Si Se Puede, But Who Gets the Gravy?
Richard Delgado
11 Mich. J. Race & L. 9 (2005)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Implicit Bias - Articles

Written in Black & White: Exploring Confirmation Bias in Racialized Perceptions of Writing Skills
Arin N. Reeves
2014
Nextions Yellow Paper Series

Judicial Opinions - Articles

Gender and the Language of Judicial Opinion Writing
Mary Pat Gunderson
21 Geo. J. Gender & L. 1 (2019)
HeinOnline            Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law

Language of Incarceration - The Language Project (Marshall Project)

Law Reviews - Articles

From Imperial Scholar to Imperial Student: Minimizing Bias in Article Evaluation by Law Reviews
Rachel J. Anderson
20 Hastings Women's L.J. 197 (2009)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Two Colored Women's Conversation about the Relevance of Feminist Law Journals in the Twenty-First Century
Taunya Lovell Banks & Penelope Andrews
12 Colum. J. Gender & L. 498-509 (2003)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Law Reviews, Citation Counts, and Twitter (Oh my!): Behind the Curtains of the Law Professor’s Search for Meaning
Lawprofblawg & Darren Bush
50 Loyola U. Chi. L.J. 327 (2018)
SSRN            HeinOnline            Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

The Persistent Gender Disparity in Student Note Publication
Nancy Leong & Jennifer Mullins
23 Yale J. L. & Feminism 385 (2011)
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Reactions to the Persistent Gender Disparity in Student Note Publication
Jennifer Mullins
2012 Mich. St. L. Rev. 1685 (2012)
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The Underrepresentation of Women of Color in Law Review Leadership Positions
Adriane Kayoko Peralta
25 Berkeley La Raza L.J. 68, 85 (2015)
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The Law Review Symposium: A Hard Party to Crash for Crits, Feminists, and Other Outsiders
Jean Stefancic
71 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 989 (1996)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Metaphor - Articles

Metaphor, Women and Law
Adam Arms
10 Hastings Women's L.J. 257, 286 (1999)
HeinOnline

Deadbeat Dads & Welfare Queens: How Metaphor Shapes Poverty Law
Ann Cammett
34 B.C. J. L. & Soc. Just. 233 (2014)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Metaphors Matter: How Images of Battle, Sports and Sex Shape the Adversary System
Elizabeth G. Thornburg
10 Wis. Women's L.J. 225 (1995)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Alien Language: Immigration Metaphors and the Jurisprudence of Otherness
Keith Cunningham-Parmeter
79 Fordham L. Rev. 1545 (2011)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Other Disciplines - Articles

Passing through the Door: Social Movement Literature and Legal Scholarship
Edward L. Rubin
150 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1 (2001)
HeinOnline

Channeling: Identity-Based Social Movements and Public Law
William N. Jr. Eskridge
150 U. Pa. L. Rev. 419, 526 (2001)
HeinOnline

Outsider Scholarship - Articles

Feminist Legal Writing
Kathryn Stanchi
39 San Diego L. Rev. 387 (2002)
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Where Do the Prophets Stand?: Hamdi, Myth, and the Master's Tools
Linda H. Edwards
13 Conn. Pub. Int. L.J. 43 (2013)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Measuring the Effects of Feminist Legal Research: Looking Critically at "Failure" and "Success"
Lisa Philipps
42 Osgood Hall L.J. 603-14 (2004)
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Authority, Credibility, and Pre-Understanding: A Defense of Outsider Narratives in Legal Scholarship
Marc A. Fajer
82 Geo. L.J. 1845 (1994)
HeinOnline

When a Story Is Just a Story: Does Voice Really Matter?
Richard Delgado
76 Va. L. Rev. 95-111 (1990)
SSRN            HeinOnline

The Imperial Scholar Revisited: How to Marginalize Outsider Writing, Ten Years Later
Richard Delgado
140 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1349 (1992)
SSRN            HeinOnline

The Colonial Scholar: Do Outsider Authors Replicate the Citation Practices of the Insiders, But in Reverse?
Richard Delgado
71 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 969 (1996)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Crossover
Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic
33 Am. Indian L. Rev. 1 (2009)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Pedagogy - Articles

Incorporating Social Justice into the Law School Curriculum with a Hybrid Doctrinal/Writing Course
Rosa Castello
50 J. Marshall L. Rev. 221 (2017)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Teaching Social Justice Through Legal Writing
Pamela Edwards & Sheilah Vance
7 Legal Writing: J. Legal Writing Inst. 63 (2001)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Still Writing at the Master's Table: Decolonizing Rhetoric in Legal Writing for a Woke Legal Academy
Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb
21 Scholar 255 (2019)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Writing at the Master's Table: Reflections on Theft, Criminality, and Otherness in the Legal Writing Profession
Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb
2 Drexel L. Rev. 41 (2009)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Teaching Gender as a Core Value in the Legal-Writing Classroom
Leslie M. Rose
36 Okla. City U. L. Rev. 531, 536 (2011)
HeinOnline

Resistance Is Futile: How Legal Writing Pedagogy Contributes to the Law's Marginalization of Outsider Voices
Kathryn M. Stanchi
103 Dick. L. Rev. 7 (1998)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Racist Language - Articles

The Use of the Term 'Boy' as Evidence of Race Discrimination: Apparently the 11th Circuit Didn't Get the Memo?
Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander
Southeastern Academy of Legal Studies in Business, Nov. 11-13, 2010
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Enslaved by Words: Legalities & Limitations of 'Post-Racial' Language
SpearIt
2011 Mich. St. L. Rev. 705
SSRN            HeinOnline

Sources of Law & Legal Reasoning - Articles

In the Spirit of Regina Austin’s Contextual Analysis: Exploring Racial Context in Legal Method and Writing Assignments and Scholarship
Charles R. Calleros
34 J. Marshall L. Rev. 281 (2000)
SSRN            HeinOnline

The Forgotten Sovereigns
Tonya Kowalski
36 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 765-825 (2009)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Storytelling - Articles

I Am Jack's Radical Self-Degradation: A Pedagogical Argument for the Inclusion of the Indigenous Narrative in the Postmodern Legal Education
Brennan P. Breeland
March 27, 2010
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Resistance to Stories
Jane B. Baron
67 S. Cal. L. Rev. 255 (1994)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Vampires Anonymous and Critical Race Practice
Robert A. Williams
95 Mich L. Rev. 741 (1997)
SSRN            HeinOnline

The Ethics of Narrative: A Nation’s Role in Victim/Survivor Storytelling
Teresa Godwin Phelps
18 Ethical Persp. 169 (2011)
Ethical Perspectives

Voices from the Bottom - Articles

Race to the Bottom
Devon W. Carbado
49 UCLA L. Rev. 1283 (2002)
HeinOnline

It's Critical: Legal Participatory Action Research
Emily M.S. Houh & Kristin Kalsem
19 Mich. J. Race & L. 287-343 (2014)
SSRN            HeinOnline