Penn State Dickinson Law, one of the oldest U.S. law schools, and other campuses are revamping their curriculums with the goal of teaching aspiring lawyers how to fight racism.
Spurred on by events, including the killing of George Floyd, the Carlisle, Pa.-based school created a year-long required course called “Race and Equal Protection of the Laws.” It teaches students the relationship between race and law in areas such as housing, health care, criminal justice, democracy, and capitalism.
“We are rebuilding our 187-year-old law school on an anti-racist platform,” Dickinson Law’s dean, Danielle M. Conway, said in an interview. “We are ...
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