Charles R. Lawrence III

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Charles R. Lawrence, III
Basic facts
Organization:	University of Hawai'i at Mānoa School of Law
Expertise:	Antidiscrimination law, equal protection, critical race theory
Education:	•J.D., Yale Law School, 1969 •B.A., Haverford College, 1965
Website:	Official website

Charles R. Lawrence, III is an American legal scholar and professor. As of June 2022, he was the Professor of Law Emeritus and Centennial Professor at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Law School. According to his faculty page on University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's website, Lawrence's areas of interest include antidiscrimination law, equal protection, and critical race theory.

Career

Below is a summary of Charles R. Lawrence, III's education and career:

Academic degrees:

• J.D., Yale Law School (1969)
• B.A., Haverford College (1965)

Professional positions and honors:

• Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa, conferred by Nelson Mandela University (2019)
• Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa, conferred by Georgetown University (2017)
• Derrick Bell Legacy Award, Critical Race Studies in Education Association (2013)
• Society of American Law Teachers Teaching Award (2003)
• John Carroll Research Professor (2002 -2003)
• Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, conferred by Haverford College (2000)
• The Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America (1998)
• The Meyers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America (1994)
• John Bigham Hurlburt Award for Excellence in Teaching, Presented by the graduating class of Stanford Law School (1990)
• W.K. Kellogg Foundation National Fellowship (1982-1985)
• University of San Francisco School of Law's "Most Distinguished Professor Award" (1978)
• The National Black Law Students' Association's "Paul Robeson Service Award" (1978)
• Outstanding Contribution Award, National Black Police Association (1976)

Academic scholarship

The following table contains a selection of books and works by professor Lawrence about critical race theory and related issues. Any links in the table below feature Ballotpedia summaries of that scholarly work. All of his publications can be found here.

Scholarly work
Title	Source
We Won't Go Back: Making the Case for Affirmative Action	Houghton-Mifflin (1997)
Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech and The First Amendment	Westview Press (1993)
The Bakke Case: The Politics of Inequality	Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1979)
"Implicit Bias in the Age of Trump"	Harvard Law Journal (2020)
"The Fire This Time: Black Lives Matter, Abolitionist Pedagogy and the Law"	Journal of Legal Education (2015)
"Passing and Trespassing in the Academy: On Whiteness as Property and Racial Performance as Political Speech"	Harvard Journal on Racial and Ethnic Justice (2015)
"Local Kine Implicit Bias: Unconscious Racism Revisited (Yet Again)"	University of Hawaii Law Review (2015)
"‘Acting Our Color’: Racial Re-Construction and Identity as Acts of Resistance"	UCLA Asian Pacific American Law Journal (2013)
"Listening for Stories in All the Right Places: Narrative and Racial Formation Theory"	Law and Society Review Number 2 (2012)
"Unconscious Racism Revisited: Reflections on the Impact and Origins of The Id, the Ego, and Equal Protection"	Connecticut Law Review (2008)

See also

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