Co-author: Danny Katch
Racial justice organizers in the legal profession are gearing up for an American Bar Association (ABA) House of Delegates meeting this August that will decide whether the ABA will officially drop its commitment to promoting diversity in law schools — and reversing the longstanding exclusion of women and people of color from the legal profession.“We’re trying to put pressure on the House of Delegates vote,” says Kara Sheli Wallis, an associate professor of law at the City University of New York and board member of the Critical Legal Collective, which has been organizing in defense of Standard 206, which requires law schools to demonstrate “a commitment to diversity and inclusion” by having faculty, staff, and student bodies that are “diverse with respect to gender, race, and ethnicity.”
