Cheryl Harris, “Ricci Redux: Students for Fair Admissions and the Challenge to Race Conscious Remediation”

Event time: 
Wednesday, February 6, 2019 - 4:30pm

Cheryl I. Harris is the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at UCLA School of Law, where she teaches courses in Constitutional Law and Civil Rights. Harris is one of the founding faculty of the Critical Race Studies Program at the Law School, an internationally renowned project that focuses on how race and law are intertwined.  As a past recipient of the ACLU Foundation of Southern California’s Distinguished Professor Award for Civil Rights Education, she has been recognized as a leader in the area of civil rights education.  

Professor Harris is the author of groundbreaking scholarship in the field of Critical Race Theory, including Whiteness as Property (Harvard Law Review). Harris’ work considers how race shapes and is shaped by material and conceptual systems.  She has lectured widely on race, inequality and anti-discrimination law, in the US and internationally.  Harriswas also part of a multi-year collaborative project between progressive US lawyers and South African lawyers that played a critical role in the development of South Africa’s first democratic constitution. She was awarded UCLA Law School’s Rutter Prize for excellence in teaching in 2018. Current projects include a major revision Derrick Bell’s seminal text, Race, Racism and American Law, [with co-author Justin Hansford], as well as investigation of historic and current