Derrick Bell

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Derrick Bell
Basic facts
Organization:	New York University School of Law
Role:	Professor of law
Expertise:	Civil rights, community justice, critical race theory
Education:	•LL.B University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 1957 •B.A., Duquesne University, 1952
Website:	Official website

Derrick Bell was an American legal scholar and professor. Prior to his death in 2011, he was a full-time visiting professor of law at New York University's School of Law. According to NYU's website, Bell's areas of interest included civil rights, community justice, and critical race theory.

Career

Below is a summary of Derrick Bell's education and career:

Academic degrees:

• LL.B University of Pittsburgh School of Law (1957)
• B.A., Duquesne University (1952)

Professional positions and honors:

• First assistant counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (1960-1966)
• Director of Public-Interest Legal center, University of Southern California School of Law(1966)
• Harvard Law’s first Black tenured professor (1971)
• Dean, University of Oregon Law School (1980-1985)
• Full-time visiting professor of law, NYU School of Law (1990-2011)

Academic scholarship

The following table contains a selection of books and articles by Professor Bell about critical race theory and related issues. Any links in the table below feature Ballotpedia summaries of that scholarly work.

Scholarly work
Title	Source
“Serving Two Masters"	Yale Law Journal (1976)
"Brown v. Board of Education and the Interest-Convergence Dilemma"	Harvard Law Review (1980)
Race, Racism and American Law	Aspen Publishers (1970)
Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism	Basic Books (1993)
Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth	Bloomsbury USA (2002)
Silent Covenants	Oxford University Press (2005)
And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice	Basic Books (1989)
Afrolantica Legacies	Third World Press (1997)
Civil Rights: Leading Cases	Little Brown & Co (1980)
Gospel Choirs: Psalms Of Survival In An Alien Land Called Home	Basic Books (1997)

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