Founded in 1985 as the Journal of Legal Commentary, the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development is committed to publishing high-quality scholarship and hosting innovative symposia on issues of social, racial, and economic justice. In 2010, the Journal became the official journal of the Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights at St. John’s University School of Law in Queens, New York. The Journal publishes four issues each year, calling for submissions from scholars, practitioners, and students on a range of social, racial, and economic topics. Issues 1-24 previously published as the St. John's Journal of Legal Commentary.
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Current Issue:
Volume 37, Spring 2026, Issue 3
Table of Contents
Officers of Administration and Faculty
Editorial Board
Articles
Diversity is More Than Non-Discrimination: Groupthink in Higher Education
Adam Goldstein, Sean Stevens, and Nathan Honeycutt
The First Amendment, Student Protest on Campus and the Law
Gene Policinski