Diversity in the Legal Profession

This course will explore the law and policy regarding diversity in the legal profession in the United States. The specific topics covered are women lawyers, and other minority groups such as African American, Asian-American, Latinx, LGBTQ+, as well as lawyers with disabilities and undocumented immigrant attorneys. The course will address the presence of these attorneys in the legal profession, starting with the history, the latest statistics, and first-person accounts of their experiences and will explore areas of improvement to achieve diversity, equity and inclusion in the U.S. legal system. International law instruments that touch upon these topics will also be discussed. This course satisfies the Law and Poverty requirement. When taught by certain professors, students completing the course earn one skills credit, once confirmed that the student has successfully completed the course's skills component.