Carolina Academic Press publishes SALT & GGU Book

Carolina Academic Press has published VULNERABLE POPULATIONS AND TRANSFORMATIVE LAW TEACHING: A CRITICAL READER, a collaboration between SALT and Golden Gate University School of Law.  The book is now available for purchase on Carolina Academic Press's website. 

The essays included in this volume began as presentations at the March 19–20, 2010, “Vulnerable Populations, Economic Realities” teaching conference organized and hosted by Golden Gate University School of Law and co-sponsored by  SALT. That conference, generously funded by a grant from The Elfenworks Foundation, brought together law faculty, practitioners, and students to reexamine how to infuse issues of race, gender, sexual identity, nationality, disability, and poverty into law school courses.

Conference contributors have transformed their presentations into essays, offering a variety of roadmaps for incorporating social issues into classrooms, clinics, externships, study abroad programs, and the law school curriculum in general. The authors’ stories and experiences provide guidance to create “teaching moments,” both deliberate and spontaneous, that will help trigger opportunities for students and faculty to question their own perceptions and preconceptions about who creates and interprets law, and who has access to power and the force of law.

The goal of this book is to expand the parameters of law teaching so that the next generation of attorneys will be dedicated to their roles as public citizens, broadening access to justice, and securing democracy through the fair administration of the rule of law for all.

Review the Table of Contents and read the Foreword.

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We want to thank our contributors for bringing their expertise and passion to this project: The Honorable Thelton E. Henderson, United States District Court Judge for the Northern District of California; John Payton, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; Richard Delgado; Douglas Colbert; Deirdre Bowen, Daniel Bonilla Maldonado, Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Colin Crawford, and James Forman, Jr.; Gilbert Paul Carrasco; Deborah Post and Deborah Zalesne; Steven W. Bender; Florence Wagman Roisman; Sarah Valentine; Cynthia D. Bond; Robin R. Runge; Anne Marie Harkins and Robin Clark; Doug Simpson; Raquel Aldana and Leticia Saucedo; Marci Seville; Susan Rutberg; Michael L. Perlin and Deborah Dorfman; Libby Adler; MaryBeth Musumeci, Elizabeth Weeks Leonard, and Brutrinia D. Arellano; Paulette J. Williams; Mary B. Culbert and Sara Campos.

We also want to thank the Editorial Board: Raquel Aldana, Steven Bender, Olympia Duhart, Michele Benedetto Neitz, Angela Onwuachi- Willig, Hari Osofsky, and Hazel Weiser.