Gary Peller

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Gary Peller
Basic facts
Organization:	Georgetown Law School
Role:	Professor of law
Expertise:	Civil rights and discrimination, constitutional law, contracts, education law, jurisprudence and philosophy, torts
Education:	•J.D., Harvard University •B.A., Emory University
Website:	Official website

Gary Peller is an American legal scholar and professor. As of June 2022, he was a professor of law at Georgetown Law School. According to his faculty page on Georgetown's website, Peller's areas of interest include civil rights and discrimination, constitutional law, contracts, education law, jurisprudence and philosophy, and torts.

Career

Below is a summary of Gary Peller's education and career:

Academic degrees:

• J.D., Harvard University
• B.A., Emory University

Professional positions and honors:

• Clerk for the Honorable Morris Lasker of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
• University of Virginia Law faculty (1982-1988)

Academic scholarship

The following table contains a selection of books and works by Professor Peller 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
Critical Race Consciousness: Reconsidering American Ideologies of Racial Justice	Paradigm (2012)
"The Moynihan Report, Self-Help, and Black Power"	Geo. J. L. & Mod. Critical Race Persp (2016)
"Privilege"	Georgetown Law Journal (2016)
"The True Left"	Harvard Journal of the Legal Left (2015)
"Legal Education and the Legitimation of Racial Power"	Journal of Legal Education (2015)
"History, Identity, and Alienation"	Connecticut Law Review (2011)
"State Action and a New Birth of Freedom"	Georgetown Law Journal (2004)
"A Subversive Strand of the Warren Court"	Washington & Lee Law Review (2002)
"The Metaphysics of American Law"	California Law Review (1985)
"Race Consciousness"	Duke Law Journal (1990)

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