In the fall 2024 issue of preLaw Magazine, Cardozo School of Law earned the No. 7 ranking for Top Law Schools for Racial Justice. The National Jurist/preLaw selected Cardozo Law as one of the national leaders in creating “educational environments that foster change and prepare students to tackle the legal challenges associated with racial justice.”

“We know that race has played a powerful role in shaping all areas of American law," said Professor Peter Markowitz, Co-Director of the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic and Associate Dean of Equity in Curriculum and Teaching earlier this year. "So, what we’ve done as a faculty is to task ourselves with the challenge to look hard within our own expertise and within our own classes, whether those classes be criminal law, torts, intellectual property or immigration and to interrogate how dynamics of race have operated historically and continue to operate now in those fields.” 

In the fall of 2021, Cardozo Law announced new initiatives and expanded course offerings to acknowledge and work to eradicate systemic racism by ensuring that Cardozo graduates are culturally competent and well-educated on issues of discrimination. Since then, the law school has remained steadfast in its commitment to educating students in ways that center black, indigenous and other people of color (BIPOC).  

Read the full release from preLaw Magazine here.