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9 Geo. J. L. & Mod. Critical Race Persp. 123 (2017)
How Top Law Schools Can Resuscitate an Inclusive Climate for Minority and Low-Income Law Students

handle is hein.journals/gjmodco9 and id is 128 raw text is: NOTES How Top Law Schools Can Resuscitate An Inclusive Climate for Minority And Low-Income Law Students TAIFHA N. BAKER* Diversity is being invited to the party. Inclusion is being asked to dance. - Verna Myers, Esq., TED Talk presenter, nationally-recognized diversity expert specializing in law school and law firm diversity trainings, and Principal of Verna Myers Consulting Group, LLC. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ......................................... 124 I. DEFINING TERMS: MINORITY AND Low-INCOME STUDENTS AT ToP LAW SCHOOLS ...................................... 127 II. THE NEED FOR ToP LAW SCHOOLS To CREATE A MORE INCLUSIVE CLIMATE .......................................... 130 A. Problems Related to TLS Deans and OtherAdministrative Leaders ... ..................................... 131 1. Neglected Racial Injustices ....................... 131 2. Consequences of Neglecting Racial Injustices .......... 132 3. No Robust Critical Race Theory or Social Justice Program .................................... 134 4. Insufficient Recruitment Structures ................. 135 B. Problems Related to TLS Faculty ....................... 137 1. Poor Curriculum Design ........................ 137 2. Lack of Inclusive Teaching Methods ................ 139 J.D. Candidate, Georgetown University Law Center (2017); B.S., St. John's University (2012). The author thanks Professor Eloise Pasachoff for providing insightful comments on earlier versions of this article and continued support in this endeavor. She also thanks the administrators, faculty, students and alumni who offered constructive comments to this article including: Dean Naomi Mezey, Professor Aaron N. Taylor, Professor Jamillah Williams, Maura DeMouy, Nicole Sandoz, J. Trent Kennedy, Dr. Judith Perez-Caro, student and alumni leaders from New York University Black Allied Law Student Association, Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Cornell Law School and the Georgetown Law November 2016 Roundtable Session participants. Finally, the author thanks her fiance, James Marcus Alexander, mother, Merdith Rowe, and sisters, Takaria Baker, Simone Archer and Nadine Archer for their unconditional love and unwavering support. @ 2017, Taifha N. Baker. 1. AppNexus, Diversity is Being Invited to the Party: Inclusion is Being Asked to Dance, YouTUBE (Dec. 10, 2015), https://perma.cc/LKC3-RSUF. 123

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