The Law School founded the Center
for the Study of Race and Law in 2003. Its mission is
to provide opportunities for students, scholars, practitioners,
and community
members to examine and exchange ideas related to race and law.
The Center coordinates and promotes the substantial array of
existing Law School programs on race and law, including courses,
public lectures, scholarly workshops, symposia, and informal
discussions, and enhances these offerings by sponsoring
additional programs, often in partnership with interested student
organizations. The Center
also offers a concentration of courses on race and law, including
10 core courses and more than 20 related offerings, and serves
as a resource for faculty whose teaching or scholarship addresses
subjects related to race.
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Law students are invited to join the Executive Board of the Center. Applications are due to Professor Forde-Mazrui by 5 p.m. on April 20, 2008.
The Center for the Study of Race and Law is pleased to announce the inaugural Race and Law Student Scholarly Paper Competition. The competition encourages and recognizes outstanding scholarship pertaining to race and law by law students in the Commonwealth of Virginia. We hope to expand the geographical scope of the program in future years.
The Center’s first annual student scholarly paper competition is open to submissions from all current, full-time law students at accredited law schools in the Commonwealth of Virginia as of Spring 2007 (Class of 2007 graduates are eligible). The authors of the three winning papers will be invited to present an oral summary of their work at a special program to be held at the University of Virginia in the fall of 2007. Copies of the papers will be made available for distribution to those attending the presentation. At the presentation of the papers in the fall of 2007, the top winning author will receive a prize of $1,000. The two runners-up will each receive a prize of $300. The winning paper will be strongly considered for publication in the Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law. Authors are not obligated to publish in this journal.
Contact: Center Director Professor Kim Forde-Mazrui
2007 Student Scholarly Paper Competition Winners
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