Lani Guinier

Bennett Boskey Professor of Law

Research Interests

• Access to Higher Education
• Critical Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Class
• Law and Social Change
• Racetalks Initiatives
• Responsibilities of Public Lawyers
• Voting Rights and Democratic Theory

Education

• Radcliffe College B.A. 1971
• Yale Law School J.D. 1974

Appointments

• Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania, 1988-1998
• Visiting Professor of Law, 1996
• Professor of Law, 1998-2001
• Bennett Boskey Professor of Law, 2001

Practice Information

Assistant Counsel - NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., April 1981-1988; Special Assistant - Assistant Attorney General Drew S. Days, III Civil Rights Division, United States Department of Justice, October 1977 - February 1981

Representative Publications

• Guinier, Lani. "Supreme Court Foreword: Demosprudence Through Dissent," 122 Harv. L. Rev. 4 (2008).
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• Guinier, Lani & Susan Sturm. "The Law School Matrix: Reforming Legal Education in a Culture of Competition and Conformity," 60 Vanderbilt L. Rev. 515 (2007).
  
• Guinier, Lani. "From Racial Liberalism to Racial Literacy: Brown v. Board of Education and the Interest-Divergence Dilemma," 91 Journal of American History 92 (2004).
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• Guinier, Lani. "Admissions Rituals as Political Acts: Guardians at the Gates of Our Democratic Ideals," 117 Harvard Law Review 113 (2003).
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• Guinier, Lani & Gerald Torres. The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy (Harvard University Press 2002).
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• Guinier, Lani. "Confirmative Action," 25 Law and Social Inquiry 565 (2000).
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• Guinier, Lani. "Lessons and Challenges of Becoming Gentlemen," 24 Review of Law & Social Change 1 (1998).
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• Guinier, Lani. Lift Every Voice:Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice (Simon and Schuster 1998).
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• Guinier, Lani, Jane Balin & Michelle Fine. Becoming Gentlemen: Women, Law Schools and Institutional Change (Beacon Press 1997).
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• Guinier, Lani. The Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy (The Free Press 1994).
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Bibliography

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