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The Legal Education Gap

How a High School Legal Education Can Lay the Foundation for a Just Society

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Trayvon Martin, Race, and American Justice

Part of the book series: Teaching Race and Ethnicity ((RACE))

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Abstract

George Zimmerman’s acquittal resulted in a call from activists and academics across the country to repeal stand-your-ground laws. What followed was a movement that began in Florida to eliminate a legal mechanism that has racist applications and bias in favor of perpetrators and produced unjust outcomes (Alvarez, 2013). Yet many Americans were confused or ill informed about the other legal concerns at issue.

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  1. Editha Rosario
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA

    Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner

  2. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

    Rema E. Reynolds

  3. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

    Katrice A. Albert

  4. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA

    Lori L. Martin

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Rosario, E. (2014). The Legal Education Gap. In: Fasching-Varner, K.J., Reynolds, R.E., Albert, K.A., Martin, L.L. (eds) Trayvon Martin, Race, and American Justice. Teaching Race and Ethnicity. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-842-8_27

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