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Cheryl Harris (Legal Scholar)
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| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | UCLA School of Law |
| Role: | Vice dean for Community, Equality and Justice, & Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Professor in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties |
| Expertise: | Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, Employment Discrimination, Critical Race Theory, Race Conscious Remedies |
| Education: | •J.D. Northwestern, 1978 •B.A. Wellesley, 1973 |
| Website: | Official website |
Cheryl Harris is an American legal scholar and professor. As of June 2022, she was the vice dean for Community, Equality and Justice, and the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Professor in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at UCLA School of Law. According to her faculty page on UCLA's website, Harris' areas of interest include constitutional law, civil rights, employment discrimination, critical race theory, and race conscious remedies.[1]
Career
Below is a summary of Cheryl Harris' education and career:[1]
Academic degrees:
- J.D., Northwestern University (1978)
- B.A., Wellesley College (1973)
Professional positions and honors:
- Consultant, MacArthur Foundation (Current)
- Board member, American Studies Association (Current)
- ACLU Foundation of Southern California's Distinguished Professor Award for Civil Rights Education
- UCLA School of Law Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Professor in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (Current)
- UCLA Vice Dean for Community, Equality and Justice (Current)
- UCLA Law School’s Rutter Prize (2018)
Academic scholarship
The following table contains a selection of works by professor Harris about critical race theory and related issues. Any links in the table below feature Ballotpedia summaries of that scholarly work.[1] All of her publications can be found here.
| Scholarly work | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Source | ||
| "Whiteness as Property" | Harvard Law Review (1993) | ||
| "Law Professors of Color and the Academy" | Chicago-Kent Law Review (1992) | ||
| "Myths of Race and Gender in the Trials of O.J. Simpson and Susan Smith–Spectacles of Our Times" | Washburn Law Journal (1996) | ||
| "Finding Sojourner's Truth: Race, Gender and the Institution of Slavery" | Cardozo Law Journal (1997) | ||
| "Re-Imagining Community" | UCLA Law Review (2000) | ||
| "Equal Treatment and the Reproduction of Inequality" | Fordham Law Review (2001) | ||
| "Critical Race Studies: An Introduction" | UCLA Law Review (2002) | ||
| "What the Supreme Court did not Hear in Grutter and Gratz" | Drake Law Review (2003) | ||
| "The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson: The Death and Resurrection of Racial Formalism" | Constitutional Law Stories (2004) | ||
| "Whitewashing Race: Scapegoating Culture" | California Law Review (2006) | ||
See also
- Education Policy
- Overview of trends in K-12 curricula development
- Index of articles about education policy
External links
Footnotes
