Derrick Bell
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| Derrick Bell | |
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| 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.[1]
Career
Below is a summary of Derrick Bell's education and career:[2]
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.[1]
| 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) | ||
See also
- Education Policy
- Overview of trends in K-12 curricula development
- Index of articles about education policy
External links
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