SCHOLAR

We wish to add to the existing discourse on the role of the law and 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... It started out as a brave vision in the minds of six law students. In the waning years of the 1990s, following the decision in Hopwood v. University of Texas-along with Proposition 187 in California, Amendment 2 in Colorado, the end of federal and state affirmative action programs, and the termination of Dean Aldave, and other various aggressive assaults on civil rights laws, immigrant rights, and bilingual education-we decided to revive a project to create a legal..