Kenneth Mack

On Leave: 2009-2010

Professor of Law

Research Interests

• American Legal and Constitutional History
• Civil rights history
• Race and the Law

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• American Legal and Constitutional History
• Civil Rights History
• Property
• Race and the law

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• American Legal and Constitutional History
• Civil Rights History
• Race and the law

Education

• Drexel University B.S. 1987, Electrical Engineering
• Harvard Law School J.D. 1991
• Princeton University M.A. 1996, History
• Princeton University Ph.D. 2005, History

Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Law, 2000
• Professor of Law, 2006

Representative Publications

• Mack, Kenneth. Representing the Race: Creating the Civil Rights Lawyer, 1920-1955 (Harvard University Press 2010).
  
• Mack, Kenneth. "Law and Mass Politics in the Making of the Civil Rights Lawyer, 1931-1941," 93 Journal of American History 37 (2006).
  Full text: WWW
  
• Mack, Kenneth. "Rethinking Civil Rights Lawyering and Politics in the Era Before Brown," 115 Yale Law Journal 256 (2005).
  Full text: WWW || LEXIS || WESTLAW
  
• Mack, Kenneth. "A Social History of Everyday Practice: Sadie T. M. Alexander and the Incorporation of Black Women into the American Legal Profession, 1925-60," 87 Cornell Law Review 1405 (2002).
  Full text: HEIN (Harvard Users) || HEIN || LEXIS || SSRN (Harvard Users) || SSRN || WESTLAW
  (reprinted in Susan D. Carle, ed., Lawyers’ Ethics and the Pursuit of Social Justice: A Critical Reader, New York University Press, 2005; and reprinted in Adrien Katherine Wing, ed., Critical Race Feminism: A Reader, 2d ed., New York University Press, 2003)
  
• Mack, Kenneth. "Law, Society, Identity and the Making of the Jim Crow South: Travel and Segregation on Tennessee Railroads, 1875-1905," 24 Law and Social Inquiry 377 (1999).
  Full text: HEIN (Harvard Users) || HEIN || LEXIS || WESTLAW
  (reprinted in Race, Law and Society (Ashgate 2007))
  
• Mack, Kenneth. "Legality of Divestment Statutes," 103 Harvard Law Review 817 (1990).
  

Bibliography

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