Athena D. Mutua
Professor
B.A., Earlham College, 1982
J.D., American University, 1986
M.A., American University, 1986
LL.M., Harvard Law School, 1987
University at Buffalo Law School
The State University of New York
528 O'Brian
Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
Phone:(716) 645-2873
Faculty Assistant:
Barbara Kennedy, 507 O'Brian Hall, Phone: (716) 645-2167
Biography:
Athena Mutua is a Professor of Law at the University at Buffalo Law School. She received a B.A. from Earlham College, a J.D. and M.A. from The American University, and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. She writes in the areas of critical race and feminist legal theory.
Her work includes the edited collection entitled, Progressive Black Masculinities (Routledge, 2006); and articles entitled, Restoring Justice to Civil Rights Movement Activists: New Historiography and the 'Long Civil Rights Era' (forthcoming 2009); The Rise, Development, and Future Directions of Critical Race Theory, 84 Denver University Law Review 329 (2006); and Gender Equality and Women's Solidarity across Religious, Ethnic, and Class Difference in the Kenya Constitutional Review Process, 13 William and Mary Journal of Women and Law 1 (2006). The latter article involved activism and research for which she received the University of Buffalo Exceptional Scholars Young Investigator's Award. Her article Introducing ClassCrits: From Class Blindness to a Critical Legal Analysis of Economic Inequality, 56 Buffalo Law Review 859 (2008) explores issues of race and gender as they relate to class structures and introduces the concepts and boundaries of a project she helped to found called ClassCrits.
Selected Publications:
Books
Progressive Black Masculinities (editor) (Routledge, September, 2006)
Articles
Restoring Justice to Civil Rights Movement Activists?: New Historiography and the “Long Civil Rights Era”, Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 2008-12 (2008) [SSRN]
Gender Equality and Women’s Solidarity Across Religious, Ethnic, and Class Differences in the Kenya Constitutional Review Process, William and Mary Journal of Women and Law vol. 13: 1-106 (2006)
The Rise, Development, and Future Directions of Critical Race Theory, Denver University Law Review vol. 84: 329-394 (2006)
Who Gets In? The Quest for Diversity after Grutter, Buffalo Law Review (Introduction and Afterword, 2004 Mitchell Lecture) vol. 52: 531-587 (2004)
Why Retire the ‘Feminization of Poverty’ Construct, Denver University Law Review vol. 78: 1179-1210 (2001)
Five Years After Beijing: A Report Card on Women’s Human Rights, American Society of International Law Proceedings vol. 94: 287-288 (2000)
Shifting Bottoms and Rotating Centers: Reflections on LatCrit III and the Black/White Paradigm, Miami Law Review vol. 53 at 1177 (1999)
Reports & Essays
The Constitutional Review Process: A Gender Audit of "Bomas", FIDA Kenya Revised Annual Report (2003)
Foreward, Eyes on the Prize: the Quest for a Human Rights State in Kenya, Eyes on the Prize (Kenya Human Rights Commission, 2003)
