Angela P Harris
Visiting Professor, Baldy Center Distinguished Scholar
J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 1986
M.A., University of Chicago, 1983
B.A., University of Michigan, 1981
University at Buffalo Law School
The State University of New York
523 O'Brian
Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
Phone:(716) 645-6216
Assistant:
Susan Martin, 622 O'Brian Hall, Phone: (716) 645-2080
Biography:
Angela Harris is a visiting professor and Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy Distinguished Scholar for the 2009-10 academic year. A legal scholar in the fields of critical race theory, feminist legal scholarship, and criminal law, Harris is a professor of law and Executive Committee Member for the Center for Social Justice at Berkeley Law School at the University of California.
She received her J.D. (1986) and M.A. (1983) from the University of Chicago and B.A. from the University of Michigan (1981).
Her publications include Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America (with Juan Perea, Richard Delgado and Stephanie Wildman) (West Group Publishing (2000)) and Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine, Commentary (with Katherine Bartlett) (Aspen Law & Business (1998)).
Harris has served as a law clerk to Judge Joel M. Flaum of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, and as an attorney in the San Francisco office of Morrison & Foerster. She was a visiting professor at Stanford Law School (1991), Yale Law School (1997) and Georgetown Law Center (2000).
In 2003 Harris received Berkeley Law School's Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction, an annual award that honors a Boalt Hall professor who has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to teaching. She also received the 2003 Mathew O. Tobriner Public Service Award, an annual prize that recognizes Bay Area law school professors for their commitment to academic diversity and for mentoring the next generation of lawyers.
Selected Publications:
Books
Race and Races: cases and resources for a multiracial America (with Richard Delgado, Juan Perea, and Stephanie Wildman) (West Publishing, 2nd edition, 2007) [SSRN]
Criminal Law: cases and materials (with Cynthia Lee) (Cengage Learning, 2005) (2nd edition, forthcoming 2009)
Cultural Economics: markets and culture (with Emma Coleman Jordan) (Foundation Press, 2005)
Economic Justice: race, gender, identity, and economics (with Emma Coleman Jordan) (Foundation Press, 2005)
A Woman's Place is in the Marketplace: gender and economics (with Emma Coleman Jordan) (Foundation Press, 2005)
When Markets Fail: race and economics (with Emma Coleman Jordan) (Foundation Press, 2005)
Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory (with Francisco Valdes and Jerome McCristal Culp) (Temple University Press, 2002)
Articles
From Color Line to Color Chart?: Racism and Colorism in the New Century, Berkeley Journal of African American Law & Policy vol. 10: 52-69 (2008)
Loving Before and After the Law, Fordham Law Review vol. 76: 2821-2848 (2008)
From "The Art of War" to "Being Peace:"Mindfulness and Community Lawyering in a Neoliberal Age (with Margaretta Lin and Jeff Selbin) California Law Review vol. 95: 2073-2132 (2007) [SSRN]
Afterward: Beyond the First Decade: A Forward-Looking History of LatCrit Theory, Community, and Praxis (with Berta Hernandez- Truyól and Francisco Valdes), Chicana/O-Latina/0 Law Review vol. 26: 237-298 (2006)
From Stonewall to the Suburbs? Toward a Political Economy of Sexuality, William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal vol. 14: 1539-1582 (2006)
Love and Architecture: Race, Nation, and Gender Performances Inside and Outside the State, Cleveland State Law Review vol. 52: 121-129 (2005)
Theorizing Law and Political Economy: A Seminar on Law, Markets, and Culture, Griffith Law Journal vol. 14: 174-186 (2005)
Under Construction (tribute to Jerome M. Culp, Jr.), Villanova Law Review vol. 50 (4): 775-776 (2005)
Vultures in Eagles' Clothing: Conspiracy and Racial Fantasy in Populist Legal Thought, Michigan Journal Race & Law vol. 10: 269- 326 (2005)
Afterward: Bad Subjects: The Practice of Theory and the Constitution of Identity in Legal Culture, Cardozo Women's Law Journal vol. 9: 515-525 (2003)
Introduction: Cluster III, LatCrit Symposium, Florida Law Review vol. 55: 319-339 (2003)
Equality Trouble: Sameness and Difference in Twentieth-Century Race Law, California Law Review vol. 88: 1923-2015 (2000)
Foreword: Beyond Equality: Power and the Possibility of Freedom in the Republic of Choice, Cornell Law Review vol. 85: 1181-1193 (2000)
Gender Violence, Race, and Criminal Justice, Stanford Law Review vol. 52: 777-807 (2000)
Building Theory, Building Community, Social & Legal Studies vol. 8(3): 313-325 (1999)
Afterward: Embracing the Tar Baby: LatCrit Theory and the Sticky Mess of Race (with Leslie Espinoza), California Law Review vol. 85: 1585-1645 (1997)
Afterward: Other Americas, Michigan Law Review vol. 95: 1150-1158 (1997)
Criminal Justice as Environmental Justice, Journal of Gender, Race and Justice vol. 1: 1-45 (1997)
Comment: Seductions of Modern Culture, Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities vol. 8: 213- 239 (1996)
Foreword: The Unbearable Lightness of Identity, Berkeley Women's Law Journal and African-American Law and Policy Report vol. 11: 207-221 (1996)
Foreword: The Jurisprudence of Reconstruction, California Law Review vol. 82: 741-785 (1994)
The Jurisprudence of Victimhood, Supreme Court Review vol. 7: 77-102 (1991)
Representing La Mestiza, Berkeley Women's Law Journal vol. 6: 107-112 (1991)
On Doing the Right Thing: Education Work in the Academy, Vermont Law Review vol. 15: 125-137 (1990)
Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory, Stanford Law Review vol. 42: 581-616 (1990)
Re-reading Punitive Damages, Alabama Law Review vol. 40: 1079-1116 (1989)
Chapters
Foreword: Economies of Color in Shades of Difference (E. Glenn, editor) (Stanford University Press, 2009)
Power and Resistance in Contemporary Legal Education (with Donna Maeda) in Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: a polemic against the system (D. Kennedy, editor) (New York University Press, 2004)
Foreword in Gypsy Law: Romani legal traditions and culture (W.O.Weyrauch, editor) (University of California Press, 2001)
Women of Color and the Law in Feminist Jurisprudence, Women, adn the Law: critical essays, research agenda, and bibliography (B. Taylor, S. Rush, and R. J.Munro, editors) (Fred B. Rothman & Co., 1999)
Forcible Rape, Date Rape, and Communicative Sexuality: A Legal Perspective in Date Rape: feminism, philosophy, and the law (L. Francis, editor) (Penn State Press, 1996)
Reivews
Women's Studies Quarterly vol. 36: 315 (2008) (reviewing Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang and Shannon Price Minter, Transgender Rights (2006) and Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: a transexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity (2007))
Reforming Alone?, Stanford Law Review vol. 54: 1449 (2002) (reviewing Deborah Rhode, The Interests of Justice: reforming the legal profession (2003))
