Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resources

• Emily A. Bishop, Avoiding “Ally Theater” in Legal Writing Assignments, 26(1) Persp.: Teaching Legal Res. & Writing 3 (2018).
• Lorraine Bannai & Anne Enquist, (Un)Examined Assumptions and (Un)Intended Messages: Teaching Students to Recognize Bias in Legal Analysis and Language, 27 Seattle U. L. Rev. 1 (2004).
• Steven K. Homer, Hierarchies of Elitism and Gender: The Bluebook and the ALWD Guide, 41 Pace L. Rev. 1 (2021).
• Kim D. Chanbonpin, Legal Writing, the Remix: Plagiarism and Hip Hop Ethics, 63 Mercer L. Rev. 597 (2012).
• Gerald Lebovits, He Said – She Said: Gender-Neutral Writing, 74 N.Y. St. B.A. J. 64 (2002). 
• Leslie M. Rose, Teaching Gender as a Core Value in the Legal-Writing Classroom, 36 Okla. City U. L. Rev. 531 (2011).
• Pat K. Chew & Lauren K. Kelley-Chew, Subtly Sexist Language, 16 Colum. J. Gender & L. 643 (2007).
• Mary Pat Gunderson, Gender and the Language of Judicial Opinion Writing, 21 Geo. J. Gender & L. 1 (2019).
• Keith Cunningham-Parmeter, Alien Language: Immigration Metaphors and the Jurisprudence of Otherness, 79 Fordham L. Rev. 1545 (2011).
• Pamela Edwards & Sheilah Vance, Teaching Social Justice Through Legal Writing, 7 Legal Writing: J. Legal Writing Inst. 63 (2001).
• Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb, Still Writing at the Master’s Table: Decolonizing Rhetoric in Legal Writing for a “Woke” Legal Academy, 21 Scholar 255 (2019).
• Kathyn M. Stanchi, Resistance is Futile: How Legal Writing Pedagogy Contributes to the Law’s Marginalization of Outsider Voices, 103 Dick. L. Rev. 7 (1999).
• SpearIt, Enslaved by Words: Legalities & Limitations of “Post-Racial” Language, 2011 Mich. St. L. Rev. 705 (2011).
• Charles R. Calleros, In the Spirit of Regina Austin’s Contextual Analysis: Exploring Racial Context in Legal Method, Writing Assignments and Scholarship, 34 J. Marshall L. Rev. 281 (2001).

Online Resources

• Diversity and Inclusion in the Classroom Reading List, Association of Legal Writing Directors.
• Written in Black & White: Exploring Confirmation Bias in Racialized Perceptions of Writing Skills, Perspectives, Nextions.
• The Language Project, the Marshall Project.

Associations

• Association of Legal Writing Directors
• Legal Writing Institute

Journals

• Law Library Journal
• Legal Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD
• Journal of the Legal Writing Institute
• Scribes Journal of Legal Writing