Ep 228: The Law Students Working to End Racism in the Legal System

Each year for the past three years, the LexisNexis African Ancestry Network LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation Fellowship has awarded fellowships to promising law students to participate in research projects related to eliminating racism in the legal system. This year, 15 students received fellowships of $10,000 each to spend nine months working in teams to research one of five “cluster projects” that the fellowship program targeted for the potential to make a meaningful impact.

The students – all from law schools that are members of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Law School Consortium – recently published the findings of their research in the publication, Advancing and Impacting Equity in the Legal System, and on today’s LawNext, we are joined by two of those students to share more details about their work:

• Whitney Triplet, who is in her final semester at Southern University Law Center.
• Paul Campbell, a part-time student in his fourth year at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law.

Also joining the show today is Adonica Black, director of global diversity and inclusion at LexisNexis, who helped coordinate the fellowship program.

In previous episodes of this podcast, we interviewed students who took part in this program in 2021 and 2022. Here are those episodes:

• On LawNext Podcast: Two Law Students Who Took On Systemic Racism in the Legal System.
• On LawNext Podcast: The Legal Fellows Tackling Systemic Racism in Law.

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