SOL Lawyer Magazine_Summer 2021

FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH

committed to training, inspiring and equipping the next generation of leaders. Tyner’s recent book, The Inclusive Leader: Taking Intentional Action for Justice and Equity, provides an in-depth look at the qualities of an inclusive leader, provides practical methods, and is an effective road map for success. She sets the benchmark for inclusive leaders, providing actionable items and the tools they need to be change agents and champions of justice for everyone. Robert Vischer | DEAN AND MENGLER CHAIR IN LAW Rob Vischer’s research explores the intersection of law, faith and professional identity. This is where conflicts arise between a provider’s religious liberty and a customer’s access to goods and services. He also explores liberty’s relational aspect – i.e., it’s not just individual versus state; our associations matter (a lot). Vischer has had a closely related focus on the moral dimension of legal practice, encouraging attorneys and law professors to acknowledge the ways in which a person’s moral perspective shapes their advice and advocacy. Vischer believes that moral and religious commitments are vital to our work, and they can only be sustained, expressed and lived out through relationship. He has published two books with Cambridge University Press and three dozen law review articles and book chapters.

writing is focused on whether the ABA’s accreditation requirements should be revised to require law schools to teach students to be culturally competent, that is (1) to recognize the adverse assumptions individuals and groups make about race and other differences that distinguish people within our society; (2) to understand how such assumptions affect not only a lawyer’s personal perceptions and decision-making, but the perceptions and decision-making of others within our justice system; and (3) to be able to account for and counteract these effects in the representation of clients. Virgil Wiebe | ROBINS KAPLAN DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL EDUCATION AND PROFESSOR Virgil Wiebe created the image of a hotel with each floor representing different immigration statuses, with citizenship at the top and immigration detention in the basement. This image has served as a way to introduce students and the public to the confounding immigration system we have in the United States, on both technical and policy levels. Wiebe has also examined how the poor and marginalized often face high challenges, not only to securing immigration status but also to securing stable living situations. In addition, he has written on evidentiary standards in asylum cases, the role and impact of mental health providers in immigration adjudications, the humanitarian impact of cluster munitions and landmines, and the history of oaths and religious objection to oaths. Yohuru Williams | DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY CHAIR, PROFESSOR AND FOUNDING DIRECTOR OF THE RACIAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE Dr. Yohuru Williams is a nationally recognized expert on the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. His research focuses on the history of lynching, capital punishment and racial violence as well as the struggle for Black equality in the United States. The author, editor and/or co-editor of eight books, Dr. Williams’s scholarly articles have appeared in the American Bar Association’s Insights on Law and Society, The Journal of Urban History, The Organization of American Historians Magazine of History, The Black Scholar, The Journal of Black Studies, Pennsylvania History, Delaware History and the Journal of Civil and Human Rights. He is presently finishing a new book titled In the Shadow of the Whipping Post: Lynching, Capital Punishment, and Jim Crow Justice in Delaware 1865-1965 .

Carl Warren

Carl Warren | CLINICAL PROFESSOR Carl Warren has taught and been a frequent speaker on issues concerning race, civil rights and the impact of bias on perception, judgment, the administration of justice and the practice of law. His current research and

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