Critical Race Theory:
The Next Frontier
Friday, March 19, 2004
Moot Court Room
PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS
SYMPOSIUM CHAIR
Dorothy A. Brown
Professor, Washington and Lee University School of Law
Professor Brown is a graduate of Fordham University, with a law degree from
Georgetown University Law Center and a masters of law in Taxation from
New York University. She clerked with Judge Swift at the United States Tax
Court in Washington, D.C. and then practiced tax and securities law before
working on Wall Street as an investment banker. In 1991 she began her
career in law teaching at George Mason University School of Law. Her
scholarly interests focus on applying critical race theory to federal tax policy.
Professor Brown is the author of CRITICAL RACE THEORY: CASES,
MATERIALS AND PROBLEMS (West 2003). Her recent articles include Social
Security and Marriage in Black and White, OHIO ST. L. J. (Forthcoming
2004); Social Security Reform: Risks, Returns, and Race, CORNELL J. LAW &
PUB. POL'Y (2000); and Race, Class, and Gender Essentialism in Tax
Literature: The Joint Return, WASH. & LEE L. REV. (1997). Her work has
been mentioned in the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Times.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
David B. Wilkins
Kirkland & Ellis Professor, and Director, Program on the Legal Profession
Harvard University Law School Professor Wilkins is a graduate of Harvard
College (1977) and Harvard Law School (1980), and was law clerk to Judge
Wilfred Feinberg of the United States Court of Appeals (1981) and Justice
Thurgood Marshall of the Supreme Court (1982). From 1982 to 1986, he was
an associate in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Nussbaum Owen & Webster.
Since joining the Harvard faculty in 1986, Professor Wilkins has written
extensively on the legal profession, with a particular emphasis on the
experiences of black lawyers in corporate law firms. His scholarship on this
issue includes: The Black Bar: The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education
and the Future of Race and the American Legal Profession (Oxford University
Press, forthcoming 2004); Why Global Law Firms Should Care about
Diversity: Five Lessons from the American Experience, EUR. J. LAW REFORM
(2000); Beyond 'Bleached out' Professionalism: Defining Professional
Responsibility for Real Professionals, in Ethics in Practice: Lawyers' Roles,
Responsibilities, and Regulation (2000); Rollin' on the River: Race, Elite
Schools, and the Equality Paradox, LAW & SOCIAL INQUIRY (2000); Partners
Without Power? A Preliminary Look at Black Partners in Corporate Law Firms,
J. OF THE INST. FOR THE STUDY OF LEGAL ETHICS (1999); and Why Are
There So Few Black Lawyers in Corporate Law Firms? An Institutional
Analysis, CAL. L. REV. (1966).
Karen B. Brown
Donald Phillip Rothschild Research Professor, George Washington University
Law School Professor Brown teaches courses in federal income taxation,
corporate taxation, and international taxation. Prior to joining the George
Washington faculty, she was Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and
Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota and Professor of Law at
Brooklyn Law School. Professor Brown is a member of the International Fiscal
Association and the American Law Institute and serves on a number of ABA
and AALS committees. She co-authored an international tax transactions
treatise, served as coeditor of a collection of essays on income tax reform,
and authored two BNA federal income taxation portfolios on attribution rules
and innocent spouse provisions. In addition, Professor Brown has written
numerous law review articles on federal income, corporate and international
taxation issues.
Devon W. Carbado
Professor, University of California at Los Angeles School of Law Professor
Carbado teaches constitutional criminal procedure, constitutional law, critical
race theory, and criminal adjudication. He was elected Professor of the Year
by the UCLA School of Law Class of 2000, and is the 2003 recipient of the
Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching. Professor Carbado writes in the
areas of critical race theory, employment discrimination, criminal procedure,
constitutional law, and identity, and is currently studying African-American
responses to the internment of Japanese Americans. He is the Director of the
Critical Race Studies Concentration at the Law School and a faculty associate
of the Center for African-American Studies.
Maureen B. Cavanaugh
Associate Professor, Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor
Cavanaugh received her B.A. with distinction in Latin from Swarthmore
College, M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Classics from Cornell University, and her
J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota. She is a member of
Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the Coif. Her scholarship uses classical
studies to aid statutory interpretation and help understand issues of tax
policy. Among her recent articles combining the ancient and modern world
are Democracy, Equality, and Taxes, 54 ALA. L. REV. 415 (2003), and Order
in Multiplicity: Aristotle on Text, Context, and the Rule of Law, 79 N.C. L.
REV. 577 (2001). Articles considering the economic consequence of tax
policy include On the Road to Incoherence: Congress, Economics, and Taxes,
49 UCLA L. REV. 685 (2002) that also appears in TAX DIGEST (May, 2003)
and Tax as Gatekeeper: Why Company Stock is Not Worth the Money, VA.
TAX REV. (Fall 2003).
A. Mechele Dickerson
Professor, College of William and Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law A
graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe and Harvard Law School, Professor Dickerson
teaches creditors’ rights and consumer bankruptcy, business bankruptcy,
federal civil procedure, and critical race theory. She has taught seminars on
transnational insolvencies and bankruptcy fraud and writes primarily in the
consumer bankruptcy area. Professor Dickerson is on the editorial board of
the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review and is a member of the
American Law Institute.
Mary Louise Fellows
Everett Fraser Professor, University of Minnesota Law School Professor
Fellows is a nationally recognized scholar in the areas of trusts and estates,
federal tax law, and feminist jurisprudence. After graduating from the
University of Michigan Law School in 1975, she joined the law faculty at the
University of Illinois. In 1982 she became a law professor at the University of
Iowa until 1990 when she moved to Minnesota. Her publications on federal
taxation consist of a co-edited anthology TAXING AMERICA (New York
University Press), along with a number of articles, including A Comprehensive
Attack on Tax Deferral, 88 MICH. L. REV. 722 and Valuing Close Corporations
for Federal Wealth Transfer Taxes: A Statutory Solution to the Disappearing
Wealth Syndrome, 30 STAN. L. REV. 895. As well as teaching courses on
wills and trusts and estate planning at the University of Minnesota, Professor
Fellows is pursuing a Ph.D. in Anglo- Saxon and Medieval literature at the
University of Minnesota.
Mitu Gulati
Professor, Georgetown University Law Center Prior to teaching at
Georgetown, Professor Gulati was a member of the faculty at the UCLA
School of Law. He teaches Business Associations and Securities Regulation.
His current research project focuses on the relationship between racial
politics and corporate interests and how that relationship may have shaped
both racial and corporate identity. Professor Gulati has published numerous
articles which have appeared in the California Law Review, the Cornell Law
Review, the George Washington Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, the UCLA
Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal.
Donald C. Langevoort
Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Professor Langevoort joined the Georgetown faculty in 1999 after eighteen
years at Vanderbilt University School of Law, where he had been the Lee S. &
Charles A. Speir Professor of Law. He has also been a visiting professor at
the University of Michigan and Harvard Law School. Professor Langevoort
graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1976, and immediately went into
private practice with the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in
Washington. In 1978, he joined the staff of the U.S. Securities & Exchange
Commission as Special Counsel in the Office of the General Counsel. Since
entering academia in 1981, Professor Langevoort has written a treatise on
insider trading, coauthored a casebook on securities regulation, and
produced numerous law review articles on topics such as insider trading, the
impact of technology on securities regulation, investor behavior and the
intersection between cognitive psychology and lawyers’ professional
responsibilities. He has also served on the Legal Advisory Committee of the
New York Stock Exchange and the Legal Advisory Board of the National
Association of Securities Dealers, and has testified several times before
Congressional committees on matters relating to securities regulation and
litigation. More recently, he was a member of the SEC’s Advisory Committee
on Market Information, chairing its subcommittee on alternative models for
data consolidation. Professor Langevoort is a member of the American Law
Institute.
Rachel F. Moran
Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor, University of California at Berkeley
School of Law Professor Moran received her A.B. in Psychology with Honors
and with Distinction from Stanford University where she was elected to Phi
Beta Kappa her junior year. She obtained her J.D. from Yale Law School
where she was an Editor of the Yale Law Journal, Runner-up in the Harlan
Fiske Stone Moot Court Prize Competition, and Teaching Assistant to the
Associate Dean. Professor Moran currently teaches torts, education and the
law, and a seminar on cities, stratification, and separation. From 1993-96,
she served as Chair of the Chicano/Latino Policy Project at the Institute for
the Study of Social Change. In 1995, she received a Distinguished Teaching
Award from the Berkeley campus. She has published and lectured
extensively in the areas of affirmative action, desegregation, and bilingual
education. Professor Moran is the author of INTERRACIAL INTIMACY
(University of Chicago Press 2001) and co-author of the fourth edition of
EDUCATIONAL POLICY AND THE LAW (2002)(with Mark G. Yudof, David L.
Kirp, and Betsy Levin). Her recent articles include Race, Representation, and
Remembering, 49 UCLA L. REV. 1513 (2002); Law and Emotion, Love and
Hate, 11 J. CONTEMP. LEGAL ISSUES 747 (2001); Diversity and Its
Discontents: The End of Affirmative Action at Boalt Hall, 88 CAL. L. REV.
2241 (2000); Sorting and Reforming: High Stakes Testing in the Public
Schools, 34 AKRON L. REV.107 (2000); and Bilingual Education,
Immigration, and the Culture of Disinvestment, 2 IOWA J. GENDER, RACE, &
JUST. 163 (1999). She has been a Visiting Professor at UCLA School of Law,
Stanford Law School, New York University School of Law, the University of
Miami School of Law, and the University of Texas Law School.
Steven A. Ramirez
Professor, Washburn University School of Law, and Director, Washburn
Business and Transactional Law Center Since entering legal academia in
1995, Professor Ramirez has written widely on business and financial
regulation from a macroeconomic perspective. He has focused particularly on
the use of cultural diversity to enhance the functioning of Corporate America,
while at the same time achieving a greater social justice. Most recently, he
has studied and written about the macroeconomic effects of America’s
continuing racial hierarchy and what legal educators can do about it; the
business benefits of enhanced diversity on corporate boards; and lessons to
be gleaned from the recent string of corporate scandals, from the perspective
of race, diversity and macroeconomics. Prior to entering academia, Professor
Ramirez specialized in corporate, securities and banking litigation in Chicago,
where he worked as an Enforcement Attorney with the SEC and as a Senior
Attorney with the FDIC.
David A. Skeel, Jr.
Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Skeel is an expert
on corporate and bankruptcy law. He is the author of DEBT’S DOMINION: A
HISTORY OF BANKRUPTCY LAW IN AMERICA (Princeton University Press,
2001). His recent articles include Creditors’ Ball: The ‘New’ New Corporate
Governance in Chapter 11, U. PA L. REV. (forthcoming, 2003); Inside the
Black Box: How Should a Sovereign Bankruptcy Framework be Structured
(unpublished manuscript, 2003) (with Patrick Bolton); Shaming in Corporate
Law, 149 U. PA. L. REV. 1811(2001); and Vern Countryman and the Path of
Progressive (and Populist) Bankruptcy Scholarship, 113 HARV. L. REV. 1075
(2000). Professor Skeel has also written commentaries on bankruptcy, the
recent corporate scandals and related issues for the New York Times,
Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and other
publications; he has appeared on Nightline, Chris Matthews’ Hardball, CNBC,
CNN Book TV, Marketplace, NPR and elsewhere; and he has been quoted in
the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, U.S. News &
World Report, Forbes, The Village Voice, The American Prospect, The Weekly
Standard and many other newspapers and magazines.
Cheryl L. Wade
Dean Harold F. McNiece Professor, St. John’s University School of Law
Professor Wade was awarded a Juris Doctorate with distinction from the
Hofstra University School of Law where she was a member of the Law
Review. She was a Visiting Professor at Washington and Lee University
School of Law in the fall of 2003. Prior to joining the faculty at St. John’s Law
School, Professor Wade served on the faculty at Hofstra Law School. While at
Hofstra, Professor Wade was chosen to serve as an associate for The Merrill
Lynch Center for the Study of International Financial Services and Markets.
She teaches law and race, business organizations, corporate governance and
accountability, torts, and close business arrangements. Professor Wade has
written law review articles and a book chapter on securities, corporate, and
education law. Professor Wade is a frequent speaker and panelist at various
university conferences and workshops on issues of corporate and civil rights
law. She was chosen among several applicants to participate in the Corporate
Citizens in Corporate Cultures: Restructuring and Reform workshop
sponsored by the Feminism and Legal Theory Project at Cornell Law School.
Professor Wade delivered the keynote address at the University of British
Columbia Faculty of Law Symposium on Shareholders in January, 2003.
Before joining the Hofstra faculty, she was an associate in the corporate
department of the New York City law firm, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &
Garrison.
Elizabeth Warren
Leo E. Gottlieb Professor, Harvard University Law School Professor Warren
specializes in bankruptcy and commercial law. She received her B.S. from
the University of Houston and her J.D. from Rutgers Law School. She was the
Senior Adviser to the National Bankruptcy Review Commission, and she is
currently Vice- President of the American Law Institute and on the Executive
Committee of the National Bankruptcy Conference. The National Law Journal
named her one of the Fifty Most Influential Women Attorneys in America. She
has published several books on bankruptcy and commercial law. Her latest
book, THE TWO-INCOME TRAP: WHY MIDDLE CLASS MOTHERS AND
FATHERS ARE GOING BROKE, is based in part on a study of nearly 2,000
bankrupt families.