After completion of the assigned reading and the articleLaw Schools Have a Moral and Social Responsibility to End Systemic Racism",engage in the discussion with your classmates on the following questions. https://www.californialawreview.org/online/law-schools-have-a-moral-and-social-responsibility-to-end-systemic-racism (here's the link but you can find this article online)

A long line of scholarship evaluates the work of the United States Supreme Court in effecting social change. Much of this scholarship centers on the role of the Supreme Court in creating, defining, and shaping racial equality rights and remedies. In a series of legal battles in the first decades of the twentieth century, civil rights advocates engaged in a lengthy and deliberate strategy to break the back of legal apartheid in American education by challenging the constitutionality of state policies barring African Americans from matriculation in exclusively white public colleges and universities throughout southern and border states. The strategy resulted in several Supreme Court opinions that articulate the early contours of a constitutional right to racial equality in educational opportunity.

1. Discuss , based on the article, whether you believe adjudicatory (Court) remedies are the sole solution that play a powerful role in creating the equitable remedies that give meaning to constitutional rights, but higher education institutions, particularly law schools, have a moral and social responsibility to take necessary steps outside the courts to eradicate and end systemic racism. Explain your position in the discussion.

1. In the Sweatt v. Painter case , Sweatt was subjected to both individual racism and systemic racism from the operation of established and respected forces in society. Discuss how the intersectionality of "established respected forces" in Sweatt with the moral obligations of law schools as discussed in the article. Explain your position in the discussion and how you reached your conclusions.

1. A state historic marker in front of the Travis County courthouse tells the story of the life of Herman Sweatt, and his filing of his civil rights lawsuit in that Travis County courthouse, and his U.S. Supreme Court victory. On June 18, 2021 Omaha Nebraska took the same steps to honor Will Brown with a historical marker in front of the Douglas County Court House (visit the marker if you have not). Discuss if you believe these and similar gestures are adequate steps toward committing to the "moral and social responsibility to end systemic racism" as discussed in the article.

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