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  • A Letter From the Editor, Former Editor-in-Chief Nathaniel Pettit

    Institutions – either naturally[1] or purposefully[2] – resist change. Despite its prestige, the Tennessee Law Review is no different. When I started as Editor-in-Chief, it only took a few weeks to elucidate how an organization with both financial and social capital can be such a stranger to progress: it simply feels easier to not change…

  • Introducing the 2023-2024 TLR Executive Board

    February 9, 2023 Please join us in welcoming the TLR Executive Board for the 2023-2024 academic year: Editor In Chief: Virginia Saylor Managing Editor: Naudia O’Steen Copy Editor: Anna Grace Cole Publications Editor: Lisle Whitman Digital Editor: Bryce Danielle Bradley For more information on our executive board members, click here. For more information on our…

  • The Impact of the Doll Test

    By: Anna Grace Cole April 3, 2023 In 1954, the Supreme Court overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, establishing that segregated schools were unconstitutional with the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education.[1] The ruling was due in part to the work of Doctors Mamie and Kenneth Clark. Doctor Kenneth Clark was the first African American to…