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34 S. Ill. U. L.J. [i] (2009-2010)

handle is hein.journals/siulj34 and id is 1 raw text is: SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY LAW JOURNAL Volume 34 Fall 2009 ARTICLES RESISTING ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM AND PROMOTING LEGAL LITERACY Leonard J. Long ..................................... 1 Professor Long urges everyone involved in legal education, including professors, lawyers, students, and judges, to ask just one question: Of what use is a law school education? Those involved with law school educations should strive to be intellectually curious and well-rounded in education, and not to maintain the narrow view of simply training lawyers. For the benefit of society, consumers of legal services, lawyers, and law firms, we must encourage the pursuit of legal literacy. Law students should be encouraged to explore American literature and traditions of Anglo-American law to facilitate their legal literacy and to become cultural elitists. Students and law professors today, in attempting to broaden their legal knowledge, are starting off with already narrow general law knowledge which then continues to get narrower, when, in fact, they should be starting with a broad range of general law knowledge which then becomes narrowly tailored into a few specific areas to nurture their intellectual curiosity and be classified as culturally elite. Unfortunately, law professors, school administrators, and members of the legal bar today do not, for the most part, value legal literacy because they have not embraced such a notion themselves and, consequently, they do not encourage it in the majority of legal education institutions. Legal education is not just about obtaining a job after graduation, making money, or acquiring social status, power or influence, but rather, it should nurture law students' ability to better address complex social and legal problems affecting real people living real lives and further enhance their legal literacy. Articles Editor: Cyndi Bollman STANDING AND SPEAKING CONSTITUTIONAL TRUTH TO LOCAL POWER REGARDING UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT RESIDENTS DWELLING WITH WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES L. Darnell Weeden ................................... 55 Under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution, undocumented immigrants must be treated fairly. Across the nation, state and municipal governments attempt to regulate immigration by enacting laws with harsh penalties directly aimed at undocumented immigrants. When state and municipal governments take such action, they cause fear and unrest among all citizens living in their communities. This fear and unrest often leads to violence against the undocumented immigrants. In addition, federal courts sometimes fail to recognize that undocumented immigrants have standing to challenge local government attempts to regulate immigration. Not only do these regulations negatively affect economic opportunities for undocumented immigrants, they also interfere with the rights of all citizens to work and earn a living. It is not the job of state and municipal governments to regulate immigration; this is an area that rests solely with the federal government. To combat these issues, American citizens must insist that Congress enact comprehensive legislation to make undocumented immigrants authorized employees, citizens, and taxpayers. Articles Editor: Leslie M Warren

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