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Shakira D. Pleasant

Assistant Professor and Director of Writing Resource Center

Pleasant's UIC faculty page available here.

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Present	Assistant Professor and Director of Writing Resource Center, UIC School of Law
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UIC John Marshall Law School

The University of Illinois at Chicago

300 S. State Street, MC 300

Chicago, Illinois 60604

Articles (7)

Fisher’s Forewarning: Using Data to Normalize College Admissions (Shakira D. Pleasant) University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law (2019)

This Article presents a nuanced view of Fisher v. University of Texas that has largely been ignored in mainstream discourse in the case. In Fisher, Justice Anthony Kennedy cast the deciding vote to uphold the ...

Fisher's Forewarning: Using Data to Normalize College Admissions, 21 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 813 (2019) (Shakira D. Pleasant) UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship (2019)

This Article presents a nuanced view of Fisher v. University of Texas that has largely been ignored in mainstream discourse in the case. In Fisher, Justice Anthony Kennedy cast the deciding vote to uphold the ...

More than Just the Numbers: Fisher v. Texas and the Practical Impact of Texas’s Top Ten Percent Law (Shakira D. Pleasant) University of Miami Business Law Review (2016)

Gaining Exposure to Law Practice Through Best Practices (Shakira Pleasant) Denver Law Review Forum (2016)

Gaining Exposure to Law Practice through Best Practices, 93 Denv. L. Rev. Online 83 (2016) (Shakira D. Pleasant) UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship (2016)

More Than Just the Numbers: Fisher v. Texas and the Practical Impact of Texas’s Top Ten Percent Law, 24 U. of Miami Bus. L. Rev. 111 (2016) (Shakira D. Pleasant) UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship (2016)

Overcoming Writing Challenges: Counsel for Aspiring, Novice, and Experienced Legal Professionals, 13 Leg. Comm. & Rhetoric: JALWD 245 (2016) (Shakira Pleasant) Leg. Comm. & Rhetoric: JALWD (2016)

The Unique Effect of Texas’ Top Ten Percent Law on Fisher v. Texas (Shakira Pleasant) (2016)

Brief of Legal Scholars Defending Diversity in Higher Education as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, et al. (14-981) (United States Supreme Court November 2, 2015) (Shakira Pleasant) (2015)

The Intersectionality of Leadership and Diversity (Shakira Pleasant, Suzanne Rowe and L. Danielle Tully) ALWD 2019 Biennial Conference (2019)

Using Technology to Teach the Flipped Classroom: A Presentation of Various Tools, Techniques, and Tips (Duane R Donahoe, Jessica Wherry, Shakira Pleasant, et al.) The Sixth Annual Capital Area Legal Writing Conference (2016)