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109 Minn. L. Rev. 1 (2024-2025)

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Article


If Lived Experience Could Speak:
A  Method for Repairing Epistemic
Violence in Law and the Legal Academy


Terrell   Carter   and   Rachel   L6pezi

     Terrell Carter grew up only a stone's throw from Drexel Uni-
versity, the institution of higher learning where the other coau-
thor of this Article, Rachel L6pez, would find her academic home
years later. Even as a child, Terrell remembers feeling like other
institutions that were miles away, like State Correctional Institu-
tion Graterford where he would  spend most of his adult life, were
much   more proximate.  Paradoxically,  he would  later come  to
learn that behind the walls of institutions like Drexel, academics
like Rachel would develop ideas and  theory that would shape his
fate and define his existence behind other walls. Through Partic-
ipatory Law  Scholarship (PLS)   legal scholarship written in col-
laboration with those without formal legal training, but expertise

    t  Terrell Carter was a Community Fellow of Law and Learning at Drexel
University from 2022 to 2024. After being incarcerated for three decades, he
was released in July of 2022 when Tom Wolf, then Governor of Pennsylvania,
commuted his life without parole sentence. He is the author of three published
novels and a graduate of Villanova University. Rachel Lopez is a James E.
Beasley Professor of Law at Temple Beasley School of Law, but she spent over
a decade at the Kline School of Law at Drexel University. The authors are grate-
ful to Lia Knox-Hershey for her tremendous research assistance. We are also
grateful for the opportunity to present this Article at the AALS 2024 Annual
Meeting, Princeton University, University of York, and Loyola Law School. We
would specifically like to thank Kim Lane Scheppele, Hendrik A. Hartog, Jane
Manners, Mattia Pinto, Ruth Kelly, Piergiuseppe Parisi, Nicola Palmer, Netta
Barak-Corren, Kish Parella, Lauren Katz Smith, Tristin K. Green, Julia Men-
doza, Meghan Morris, Stephanie Bornstein, Eric Miller, Swethaa Ballakrish-
nen, Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Jane Baron, Wendy Greene, Shanda Sibley, and Ga-
yatri Chakravorty Spivak. We are also deeply indebted to the editors of the
Minnesota Law Review, in particular Chloe Chambers and Nolan Meghrouni-
Brown, for their thoughtful edits and feedback on this Article. Copyright © 2024
by Terrell Carter and Rachel Lopez.


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