Diversity Readings Related to First-Year Courses

Diversity issues are not restricted to specialized courses like Civil Rights, Feminist Jurisprudence, or Disability Law & Policy. They are present throughout the curriculum, including in foundational courses like Contracts and Civil Procedure. To assist students and faculty who want to explore these areas, the Dean's Advisory Committee on Diversity requested a list of readings to highlight how issues of race, class, sex, and sexuality can arise in traditional first-year courses.

Separate pages in this guide address different courses, such as Civil Procedure and Torts. See the navigation bar on the left.

Many articles will be available in several places

• Papers on SSRN can generally be downloaded free. See our guide.
• HeinOnline is available to all UW users.
• Nexis Uni is licensed for all UW users. It has the same law reviews that are in Lexis Advance.
• Bloomberg Law, Lexis Advance, and Westlaw are licensed for UW Law users only.

None of these lists is comprehensive. If you would like to suggest another reading, please send a note to whisner [at] uw.edu.

The Law Stories series provides context for and commentary on cases (and other developments) often studied in law school courses. Most contributors are law professors.

The series is available online to UW Law students via the West Academic Study Aids package.

Volumes specifically addressing topics related to diversity are listed here. But almost any —volumewhether Corporate Law Stories or Civil Procedure Stories—will have at least some chapters that explore how the law affects race, sex, class, sexual identity, or religion.

Annette Demers, Cultural Competence and the Legal Profession: An Annotated Bibliography of Materials Published between 2000 and 2011, 39 Int'l J. Legal Info. 22 (2011), HeinOnline.