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Our Mission
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The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues seeks to speak on behalf of minorities by reaching out to the larger community, to inform them, to share with them. to educate them and to grow with them. The goal of The Scholar is to give all minorities a "voice" in the publication of a legal journal on issues affecting all minorities. In
today's climate, where affirmative action is seen as a necessary evil, and
where discrimination is viewed as a problem of the past, this scholar journal
wishes to extend and further the discourse of issues that touch upon race,
ethnicity, class, gender and sexual identity, as well as the countless other
labels applied to individuals and groups in our society.
Our primary goal is to educate ourselves and, in the process, offer some
different perspectives not often allowed or sought after in our society. The
Scholar members and staff will strive diligently and honestly to produce
articles that will offer insights into the daily struggles of minorities today. The articles published in The Scholar will be
building blocks for an understanding of the issues that face all of us today.
These building blocks will form bridges: bridges to bring together all the
members in our society, bridges to connect all groups that comprise our
community and bridges to access self-discovery and an understanding of the
other. We wish to add to the existing discourse on the role of the
law and the influence of one state over others hegemony in the lives and
identities of minorities. We plan for the work of this journal to be
transformative: it will educate, inform and enlighten those who participate. We
are creating an environment that will allow everyone to learn, to teach, to
share, to work together and to contribute to the legal and educational
communities. The
Scholar is a sign of hope for a promising future and for a better
understanding of all members of our society. ~The
Scholar
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Community Service
In recent years, The
Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues has grown to be
something much greater than a law review. On top of publishing quality
scholarly pieces aimed at bringing awareness and support to issues surrounding
minorities. The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues has
chosen to also support the people that fill the pages of our Law Review through
our community service. The Law Review seeks to speak on behalf of
minorities by reaching out to the larger community, to inform them, to share
with them, to educate them, and to grow with them. While The
Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues has always
brought a "voice to the voiceless," we now bring food to the hungry,
homes to the homeless, and hope to the hopeless.
Service Award, Volume 11
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Washington and Lee School of Law, http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ/index.aspx currently ranks The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues as the 8th most cited out of 44 U.S. minority issues law journals!
