Charles J. Ogletree

Jesse Climenko Professor of Law

Director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice

Office:	Hauser 516
Assistant:	Darrick Northington 617/496-2054
Phone:	(617) 495-5097
Fax:	(617) 496-3936
Email:	ogletree@law.harvard.edu

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Bibliography

Books

Life Without Parole: America's New Death Penalty? (Charles J. Ogletree ed., New York University Press 2012).
(Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race and Justice)

Ogletree, Charles J. The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America (Palgrave Macmillan 2010).

When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice (Charles J. Ogletree & Austin Sarat eds., New York University Press 2009).

The Road to Abolition?: The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States (Charles J. Ogletree & Austin Sarat eds., New York University Press 2009).

From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America (Charles J. Ogletree & Austin Sarat eds., New York University Press 2006).
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Ogletree, Charles J. All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education (W.W. Norton & Company 2004).
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Brown at 50: The Unfinished Legacy (Deborah L. Rhode & Charles J. Ogletree eds., American Bar Association 2004).
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Ogletree, Charles J., Mary Prosser, Abbe Smith & William, Jr. Talley. Beyond the Rodney King Story: An Investigation of Police Conduct in Minority Communities (Northeastern University Press 1994).
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Shorter Works in Collection

Ogletree, Charles J., Robert J. Smith & Johanna Wald. "Criminal Law: Coloring Punishment: Implicit Social Cognition and Criminal Justice" in Implicit Racial Bias Across the Law (Justin D. Levinson & Roger J. Smith eds., Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Ogletree, Charles J. "The Rehnquist Revolution in Criminal Procedure" in The Rehnquist Court (Herman Schwartz ed., Hill and Wang Publishing, 2002).

Ogletree, Charles J. "The Challenge of Race and Education" in How to Make Black America Better (Smiley ed., 2001).

Ogletree, Charles J. "Privileges and Immunities for Basketball Stars and Other Sport Heroes?" in Basketball Jones (Boyd & Shropshire eds., 2000).

Ogletree, Charles J. "The Tireless Warrior for Racial Justice" in Reason (Rosenkranz & Schwartz eds., 1998).

Ogletree, Charles J. "Public Defender, Public Friend: Searching for the Best Interests of Juvenile Offenders" in Law Stories (Bellow & Minow eds., 1996).

Ogletree, Charles J. "Johnnie Cochran and Marcia Clark: Role Models?" in Postmortem: The O.J.Simpson Case (Jeffrey Abramson ed., 1996).

Ogletree, Charles J. "If You Buy the Hat, He Will Come" in Faith of Our Fathers: African American Men Reflect on Fatherhood (Willis ed., 1996).

Ogletree, Charles J. "The People v. Anita Hill: The Case for Client-Centered Advocacy" in Race, Gender, and Power in America (Hill & Coleman Jordan eds., 1995).

Ogletree, Charles J. "Blind Justice?: Race, The Constitution, and The Justice System" in African Americans and The Living Constitution (Franklin & McNeil eds., Smithsonian Institute Press, 1995).

Ogletree, Charles J. "Supreme Court Jury Discrimination Cases and State Court Compliance, Resistance and Innovation" in Toward a Usable Past (Gottlieb & Finkelman eds., 1991).

Articles in a Periodical

Ogletree, Charles J. "From Dred Scott to Barack Obama: The Ebb and Flow of Race Jurisprudence," 25 Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal 1 (2009).

Ogletree, Charles J. "Commentary: All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown vs. Board of Education," 66 Montana Law Review 283 (2005).

Ogletree, Charles J. "All Deliberate Speed?: Brown's Past and Brown's Future," 107 West Virginia Law Review 625 (2005).

Ogletree, Charles J. "The Current Reparations Debate," 5 University of California Davis Law Review 36 (2003).
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Ogletree, Charles J. "Does America Owe Us? (Point-Counterpoint with E.R. Shipp, on the Topic of Reparations)," Essence Magazine, February 2003.
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Ogletree, Charles J. "The Case for Reparations," USA Weekend Magazine, February 2003.
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Ogletree, Charles J. "Repairing the Past: New Efforts in the Reparations Debate in America," 2 Harvard Civil Rights- Civil Liberties Law Review 38 (2003).
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Ogletree, Charles J. "Reparations for the Children of Slaves: Litigating the Issues," 2 University of Menphis Law Review 33 (2003).
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Ogletree, Charles J. "The Right's and Wrongs of e-Privacy," Optimize Magazine, March 2002.

Ogletree, Charles J. "From Pretoria to Philadelphia: Judge Higginbotham's Racial Justice Jurisprudence on South Africa and the United States," 20 Yale Law and Policy Review 383 (2002).
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Ogletree, Charles J. "The Challenge of Providing Legal Representation in the United States, South Africa and China," 7 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 47 (2002).
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Ogletree, Charles J. "Judicial Activism or Judicial Necessity: D.C. Court's Criminal Justice Legacy," 90 Georgetown Law Journal 685 (2002).
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Ogletree, Charles J. "Black Man's Burden: Race and the Death Penalty in America," 81 Oregon Law Review 15 (2002).
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Ogletree, Charles J. "A Diverse Workforce in the 21st Century: Harvard's Challenge," Harvard Community Resource, Spring 2002.

Ogletree, Charles J. "Fighting a Just War Without an Unjust Loss of Freedom," Africana.com, October 11, 2001.
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Ogletree, Charles J. "Unequal Justice for Al Sharpton," Africana.com, August 21, 2001.
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Ogletree, Charles J. "A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.: A Reciprocal Legacy of Scholarship and Advocacy," 53 Rutgers Law Review 665 (2001).
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Ogletree, Charles J. "An Ode to St. Peter: Professor Peter M. Cicchino," 50 American University Law Review 591 (2001).
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Ogletree, Charles J. "America's Schizophrenic Immigration Policy: Race, Class, and Reason," 41 Boston College Law Review 755 (2000).
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Ogletree, Charles J. "A Tribute to Gary Bellow: The Visionary Clinical Scholar," 114 Harvard Law Review 420 (2000).
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Ogletree, Charles J. "A. Leon Higginbotham�s Civil Rights Legacy," 34 Harvard Civil-Rights Civil Liberties Law Review 1 (1999).
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Ogletree, Charles J. "Personal and Professional Integrity in the Legal Profession: Lessons from President Clinton and Kenneth Starr," 56 Washington & Lee Law Review 851 (1999).
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Ogletree, Charles J. "Matthew O. Tobriner Memorial Lecture: The Burdens and Benefits of Race in America," 25 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 219 (1998).
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Ogletree, Charles J. "The President�s Role in Bridging America�s Racial Divide," 15 Thomas M. Cooley Law Review 11 (1998).
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Ogletree, Charles J. "The Conference on Critical Race Theory: When the Rainbow Is Not Enough," 31 New England Law Review 705 (1997).
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Ogletree, Charles J. "Race Relations and Conflicts in the United States The Limits of Hate Speech: Does Race Matter?" 32 Gonzaga Law Review 491 (1997).
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Ogletree, Charles J. "A Tribute to W. Haywood Burns and M. Shanara Gilbert: Revolutionaries in The Struggle for Justice," 2 Clinical Law Review (1996).
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Ogletree, Charles J. "An Essay on the New Public Defender for the 21st Century," 58 Duke University Journal of Law and Contemporary Problems 81 (1995).
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Ogletree, Charles J. "From Mandela to MTHWANA: Providing Counsel to the Unrepresented Accused in South Africa," 75 Boston University Law Review 1 (1995).
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Ogletree, Charles J. "The Quiet Storm: The Rebellious Influence of Cesar Chavez," 7 Harvard Latino Law Review 1 (1995).
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Ogletree, Charles J. "The Significance of Race in Federal Sentencing," 229 Federal Sentencing Reporter (1994).

Ogletree, Charles J. "Just Say No!: A Proposal to Eliminate Racially Discriminatory Uses of Peremptory Challenges," 31 American Criminal Law Review 1099 (1994).

Ogletree, Charles J. "Beyond Justifications: Seeking Motivations to Sustain Public Defenders," 106 Harvard Law Review 1239 (1993).

Ogletree, Charles J. "Does Race Matter in Criminal Prosecutions?" 7 The Champion (1991).

Ogletree, Charles J. "Arizona v. Fulminante: The Harm of Applying Harmless Error to Coerced Confessions," 105 Harvard Law Review 152 (1991).

Ogletree, Charles J. "Symposium on "Implications of Electronic Data Processing for Tax Administration and Tax Policy," 14 National Tax Journal 3 (1961).
(organized by Oliver Oldman and Stanley Surrey)

Articles in a Newspaper

Ogletree, Charles J. "Derrick Bell: Losing a Champion for Equality," The Root, October 8, 2011.
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Ogletree, Charles J. "Washington walks a Ugandan tightrope," Politico, April 27, 2011, Opinion.
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Ogletree, Charles J. "Court Should Stand By Bake Ruling," Boston Globe, April 1, 2003, Op-Ed.

Ogletree, Charles J. "The Future of Admissions and Race," Boston Globe, May 20, 2002, Op-Ed.

Ogletree, Charles J. "Litigating the Legacy of Slavery," New York Times, March 31, 2002, Op-Ed.

Ogletree, Charles J. "The U.S. Needn't Shrink from Durban," Los Angeles Times, August 29, 2001, Op-Ed.

Ogletree, Charles J. "The Real David Brock," Boston Globe, June 30, 2001, Op-Ed.

Ogletree, Charles J. "The Court's Tarnished Reputation," Boston Globe, December 12, 2000, Op-Ed.

Ogletree, Charles J. "Why Has the G.O.P. Kept Blacks Off Federal Courts?" New York Times, August 18, 2000, Op-Ed.

Reports or Studies

Ogletree, Charles J. "Judicial Excellence, Judicial Diversity: The African American Federal Judges Report" (2003).

Presentations

Ogletree, Charles J. A Call to Arms: Responding to W.E.B. DuBois's Challenge to Wilberforce, Wilberforce University Founder's Day Luncheon (February 11, 2003).

Ogletree, Charles J. Grinnell College Special Convocation Address (January 22, 2003).

Ogletree, Charles J. Remembering Dr. King's Legacy: Promoting Diversity and Promoting Patriotism, King County Bar Association MLK Luncheon (January 17, 2003).

Ogletree, Charles J. Baum Lecture, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne (November 2002).

Ogletree, Charles J. University of California-Davis Barrett Lecture: The Current Reparations Debate, University of California-Davis Law School (October 22, 2002).

Ogletree, Charles J. Why Reparations? Why Now?, Buck Franklin Memorial Lecture and Conference on Reparations, University of Tulsa College of Law, Oklahoma (September 25, 2002).

Ogletree, Charles J. Northeastern University Valerie Gordon Human Rights Lecture, Northeastern University School of Law (April 2002).

Ogletree, Charles J. Sobota Lecture, Albany School of Law (Spring 2002).

Ogletree, Charles J. Mangels Lecturship, University of Washington Graduate School (Spring 2002).

Ogletree, Charles J. Visiting Fellow and David Mills Public Interest Mentor at Stanford School of Law (Spring 2002).