Ryan H. Nelson (South Texas; Google Scholar) & Michael Ashley Stein (Harvard), Ability Diversity in the First-Year Law School Classroom, 71 J. Legal Educ. 202 (2021) (reviewing Integrating Doctrine and Diversity: Inclusion and Equity in the Law School Classroom (Nicole P. Dyszlewski (Roger Williams), Raquel J. Gabriel (CUNY), Suzanne Harrington-Steppen (Roger Williams), Anna Russell & Genevieve B. Tung (Penn) (eds. 2021)):

Recognizing the urgent need for a renewed focus on equity and inclusion in our law school classrooms, co-editors Nicole P. Dyszlewski, Raquel J. Gabriel, Suzanne Harrington-Steppen, Anna Russell, and Genevieve B. Tung’s Integrating Doctrine and Diversity: Inclusion and Equity in the Law School Classroom offers a compendium of advice for law schools and law teachers about how to integrate equity and inclusion into first-year classrooms. Integrating Doctrine and Diversity is not only welcome, but essential, for law school administrators and anyone who teaches 1Ls.It lays out concrete, equitable initiatives that law schools and law teachers can adopt to improve the fairness of processes that are neutral on their face but tend to silence students from marginalized communities. It also offers real, easily accessible examples of how law teachers can increase inclusion in their 1L classrooms.

Conclusion
Integrating Doctrine and Diversity is one of those books that one should pass around to law school administrators and all law professors and instructors teaching 1L courses, tenured and untenured alike, to help them brainstorm innovative ways to make their classrooms more inclusive. In so doing, readers will undoubtedly improve students’ learning experiences, especially students from oft-marginalized communities.

We applaud the practical utility of this new book and hope that our recommendations can proactively help to augment ability equity and further welcome law students with disabilities into the legal community.