Outsider Jurisprudence, Critical Pedogogy and Social Justice Activism: Marking the Stirrings of Critical Legal Education

It surely is no coincidence that the syllabi of courses on Asian Americans and the Law featured in this Tenth Anniversary Issue of the Asian Law Journal share structural, substantive and methodological commonalities. They each marshal interdisciplinary materials to bring into sharp relief the uses of Law in the origin and construction of everyday realities shaping Asian American lives. They each study the milestones buried and ignored in mainstream education that nonetheless define, in historical and formal terms, these realities shameful milestones like the web of acts constituting the Chinese Exclusion, for example. They each employ formal legal education to teach antisubordination knowledge and foster the ability of students to decolonize themselves and others. In the tradition of remembrance and resistance, the courses described in these syllabi effectively constitute a form of praxis that reflect the four primary functions of critical outsider jurisprudence' at least as viewed from a