Kimberlé Crenshaw

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Kimberlé Crenshaw
Basic facts
Organization:	Columbia Law School & University of California, Los Angeles Law School
Role:	Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law
Expertise:	Civil rights, critical race theory, Black feminist legal theory, and race, racism and the law
Education:	•LL.M., University of Wisconsin, 1985 •J.D., Harvard Law School, 1984 •B.A., Cornell University, 1981
Website:	Official website

Kimberlé Crenshaw is an American legal scholar and professor. As of June 2022, she was the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. She is also a Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles Law School. Crenshaw is the co-founder of the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) at Columbia Law School. According to her faculty profile page on Columbia Law School's website, Crenshaw's areas of interest include civil rights, critical race theory, Black feminist legal theory, and race, racism and the law.

Career

Below is a summary of Kimberlé Crenshaw's education and career:

Academic degrees:

• LL.M., University of Wisconsin (1985)
• J.D., Harvard Law School (1984)
• B.A., Cornell University (1981)

Professional positions and honors:

• Association of American Law Schools Triennial Award for Lifetime Service to Legal Education and the Legal Profession (2021)
• Elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2021)
• Lucy Terry Prince Unsung Heroine Award
• Alphonse Fletcher Fellowship (2008-2009)
• Fulbright Distinguished Chair for Latin America
• In-residence Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Science at Stanford University (2008-2009)
• ACLU Ira Glasser Racial Justice Fellowship (2005-2007)
• Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles Law School (1986-Present)
• Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, Present

Academic scholarship

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

Scholarly work
Title	Source
Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness across the Disciplines	University of California Press (2019)
Critical Race Theory	New Press (1995)
Words that Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech and the First Amendment	Westview (1993)
How Colorblindness Flourished in the Age of Obama, in Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness across the Disciplines	University of California Press (2019)
Unmasking Colorblindness in the Law: Lessons from the Formation of Critical Race Theory, in Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness across the Disciplines	University of California Press (2019)
"An Intersectional Critique of Tiers of Scrutiny: Beyond “Either/Or” Approaches to Equal Protection"	The Yale Law Journal Forum (2019)
'We Still Have not Learned from Anita Hill's Testimony"	UCLA Women's Law Journal (2019)
"Race Liberalism and the Deradicalization of Racial Reform"	Harvard Law Review (2017)
"Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies: Theory, Applications, and Praxis"	Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (2013)
"From Private Violence to Mass Incarceration: Thinking Intersectionally About Women, Race, and Social Control"	UCLA Law Review (2012)

See also

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