Mari Matsuda

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Mari Matsuda
Basic facts
Organization:	University of Hawai'i at Mānoa School of Law
Role:	Professor of law at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Expertise:	Critical race theory
Education:	•L.L.M. Harvard Law School, 1983 •J.D. William S. Richardson School of Law, 1980 •B.F.A. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2020 •B.A. Arizona State University, 1975
Website:	Official website

Mari Matsuda is an American legal scholar and professor. As of June 2022, she was a professor of law at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Law School. According to her faculty page on University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's website, Matsuda's area of interest includes critical race theory.

Career

Below is a summary of Mari Matsuda's education and career:

Academic degrees:

• L.L.M. Harvard Law School (1983)
• J.D. William S. Richardson School of Law (1980)
• B.F.A. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (2020)
• B.A. Arizona State University (1975)

Professional positions and honors:

• Elected Member, American Law Institute (2017)
• Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (2016)
• Harvard Law International Women’s Day, Women Inspiring Change (2015)
• Critical Race Theory in Education Association Derrick Bell Award (2012)
• William S. Richardson School of Law Alumna of the Year (2010)
• Hawaii Women Lawyers Outstanding Lawyer Award (2004)
• Society of American Law Teachers 2002 Teaching Award
• Second National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Distinguished Scholar Award (2004)
• A Magazine 100 Most Influential Asian Americans of the Decade Award (1999)
• Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America (1998)
• Most Cited Law Review Articles (1989, 1991)
• 100 Most Cited Law Review Authors

Academic scholarship

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

Scholarly work
Title	Source
We Won't Go Back: Making the Case for Affirmative Action	Houghton-Mifflin (1997)
Where is Your Body? And Other Essays on Race, Gender and the Law	Beacon Press (1996)
Words that Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment	Westview Press (1993)
Called From Within: Early Women Lawyers of Hawaiʻi	University of Hawaiʻi Press (1992)
“Somebody Else’s Child” in Bell and Southerland, Carving Out a Humanity	NYU Press (2020)
"Dissent in a Crowded Theater"	SMU Law Review (2019)
"This Is (Not) Who We Are: Korematsu, Constitutional Interpretation, and National Identity"	Yale Law Journal (2019)
"The Next Dada Utopian Visioning Peace Orchestra: Constitutional Theory and the Aspirational"	McGill Law Journal (2017)
Japanese American Progressives: A Case Study in Identity Formation, in Y. Takezawa & G. Okihiro, eds., Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies: Conversations on Race and Racializations	University of Hawai‘i Press (2016)
"Admit That The Waters Around You Have Grown: Change and Legal Education"	Indiana Law Review (2014)

See also

• Education Policy
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