What is Slave Law?
Slave law is the very foundation of American law...
Historical Analysis
Trace legal doctrines from their origins in Slave Law to their modern applications.
Legal Education
Study the foundations of American jurisprudence often omitted from traditional curricula.
Wrongful Conviction Studies
Equip students to recognize and challenge wrongful convictions through historical understanding.
Our Vision
How can you know justice if you are not educated in injustice?
Our Mission
Melvin Lee Wrongful Conviction Law School focuses on slave law and contemporary law. Melvin Lee Wrongful Conviction Lawsuits asserts that injustice persists because the legal education system does not teach the true foundation of American law, which is slave law. Three hundred years of judicial opinion can be attributed as the "real" foundation of American law, which is our curriculum.
In 1619, American courts began upholding, defending, and enforcing legalized slave laws. Our mission is to teach the true history of American law, train students to recognize injustice, and prepare them to litigate across every level and branch of the legal system.
Our three-year program focuses on the nexus between slave law and wrongful conviction.
What You Will Be Learning - Various articals on slave case law from boston univerity, Yale, stanford and other universities. These students will be the first generation of slave law jurist.
Historical Overview
Historical overview of slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Enslavement Laws
Enslavement laws, including slave codes and fugitive slave statutes
Property & Chattel Doctrines
Property and chattel doctrines defining enslaved people as property
Civil Rights Restrictions
Civil rights restrictions and legal disabilities imposed on enslaved persons
Key Case Law
Key case law such as Dred Scott v. Sandford and Prigg v. Pennsylvania
Slave Resistance
Slave resistance, rebellion, and legal consequences
Abolitionist Strategies
Abolitionist legal strategies and courtroom challenges
Post-Emancipation Law
Post-emancipation law, citizenship, labor, and civil rights
Comparative Perspectives
Comparative and international perspectives on slave law
Modern Criminal Justice
The impact of slave law on modern criminal justice and wrongful conviction
Ethical & Moral Analysis
Ethical, moral, and intersectional analysis of law and injustice
A Special Invitation
We extend a special invitation to law students and scholars who have stood against injustice and faced rescinded offers, academic harassment, professional retaliation, or personal threats for speaking truth.
"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."