From the Katrina disaster to the Duke lacrosse scandal to the most recent Don Imus uproar, current events involving race and economics surround us. To provide a forum for scholarly discussion of issues like these, Dana Griffin ’08 teamed up with fellow students Robert Hawkins and Tamika Crawl-Bey to launch a law journal devoted to race and economics.
At Widener Law, Griffin found an administration open to new ideas and ventures. Leaders from
Widener Law’s two campuses were impressed and supportive of the students’ initiative and backed them 100 percent.
“I don’t know if at any other school we would have been able to pitch a new journal and receive the support we did here,” Griffin says. “It’s exciting to see an idea turn into something real . . . something that has the potential to positively influence jurisprudence.”
The Widener Journal of Law, Economics and Race, set to launch in the spring of 2008, will focus on a wide variety of issues surrounding economics and race. Griffin sees the journal not as a partisan vehicle, but as an open discussion framework for diverse points of view on the legal issues around money and race.
Griffin, the mother of an eight-year-old girl, works full time as program and policy analyst for a private foundation. She’s able to pursue her goal of a law degree by attending evening classes through Widener Law’s
4-year program and exercising excellent time management. She looks forward to practicing law and has many more ideas that she’d like to bring to life.