In the high desert east of San Diego, the international border between the United States and Mexico is sometimes a fence, sometimes a wall and sometimes no more than an…
On Black Friday of 2012, four teenagers stopped at a gas station in Jacksonville, Florida, to buy gum and cigarettes and got into an argument with a stranger about their…
There’s no shortage of discussion about lack of diversity in the workplace, especially the legal profession. But solutions to the diversity problems and ways to combat implicit bias are harder…
Images of prostitutes walking the streets and picking up johns are pervasive in popular culture. But the reality is that commercial sex is just a click away.
Key segments of the U.S. student population that are most in need of support from schools instead are being siphoned off into the criminal justice system, says a report that…
After a year when race and bias have been important parts of the national conversation—and when a woman of color is serving as ABA president for the first time—diversity and…
Fifteen out of 16 Manhattan lawyers captured on video in a group’s undercover operation—including a then-ABA president—offered advice on how an African official could buy pricey Manhattan real estate without…
When the ABA House of Delegates considered a number of proposals in August to revise the association's governance structure, the process resulted in a familiar outcome: The existing structure was…
A proposed change in the law school accreditation standards that would lift the ban on students receiving academic credit for paid externships has drawn a lot of comment—and much of…
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