Empowering teachers and students for a brighter future

Our justice system is broken. Racial violence, police brutality, wrongful imprisonment, mass shootings, segregation, slavery, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and genocide plague the American psyche. The average American is dumbfounded by the recurrent cruelties that occupy his news cycle---his heart wonders, "How is mankind capable of such evil?". The Melvin Lee Wrongful Conviction Law School has a clear response: The legal education system is broken. 

If you study law at a traditional school like Harvard, Yale, or Georgetown, you will be told that American law and policy is based upon the British commonwealth and the ancient empires of Greece and Rome. You might also study colonial law as it relates to the formation and ratification of the US Constitution. Then, your professor would skip ahead to the aftermath of the Civil War, the reconstruction of the American south, the rise of progressivism, the industrial revolution, the reformation of labor laws, and everything else up to now. If you pay attention, you might notice that the legal history of over 200 years of American slavery has been erased from the curriculum. Your professor is unable to tell you that the actual foundations of American law are the laws of slavery.

Your law professor does not realize the reality of American law because his teachers never taught him, his school never took it seriously, and the legal community never recognized slavery as unconstitutional. Ever since 1619, when the first boat of African slaves came to colonial Virginia, our judicial system has upheld, defended, and enforced legalized discrimination as the primary engine of economic growth and nation-building. The Melvin Lee Wrongful Conviction Law School intends to teach you about the real history of American Law, how to recognize the signs of injustice, and how to litigate in every branch and level of law. 

The primary aim of the Melvin Lee Wrongful Conviction Law School is to end racism and restore justice to our broken legal system. Our method is a comprehensive, three-year study of American law with a focus on the nexus between slave law and wrongful conviction. We envision that our unique and valuable curriculum will be adopted by law schools all over the world to help understand the fundamental causes of racial injustice. We seek students with a preliminary understanding of African-American history and judicial studies. We are open to applicants from all career paths and we intend to prepare our students to be among the first scholars of slave law.

We would like to extend a special invitation for law students who have stood against injustice and have faced rescinded law firm offers, academic harassment, and personal threats.