CURRICULUM VITAE
Lucie E. White
NAME:
Lucie E. White
ADDRESS:
27 Everett St., Apt. 7
Cambridge, MA 02138
EDUCATION:
J.D., Harvard Law School, Magna Cum Laude, June 1981
Graduate Study in Comparative Literature, Yale University, 1972-75
B.A., Radcliffe College, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, June 1972
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:
Louis A. Horwitz Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, July 1998 - present
Faculty Appointment, Harvard School of Education, 1995 - present
Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, July 1995 - June 1998
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School, July 1993 - June 1995
Professor of Law, UCLA Law School, July 1991 - June 1995 (on leave 1993-1995)
Acting Professor of Law, UCLA Law School, January 1987-June 1991
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT:
Attorney and Clinical Supervisor, Civil Legal Assistance Clinic,
University of North Carolina, 1984-86
Staff Attorney, Legal Services of Southern Piedmont, Monroe, North Carolina,
1982-84
Law Clerk for Judge James McMillan, United States District Court,
Western District of North Carolina, 1981-82
Staff Member, Concerned Boston Citizens for Elder Affairs, 1977-78
Adjunct Professor in English Language Program for
Academically Disadvantaged Students,
University of New Haven, CT, 1976-77
ESL and Adult Literacy Instructor, Adult Basic Education Program,
New Haven, CT, Public Schools, 1975
SAMPLE LAW SCHOOL COURSES TAUGHT:
Civil Procedure
Economic and Social Rights Advocacy
Community-Based Advocacy
Workshop on Sub-Saharan Development
Care, Work, and Global Inequality
“Pathways to Sustainable Work”
(exploring accommodations for poverty-related work challenges)
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Social Welfare Law
Research Seminar on Extreme Poverty
INTERDISCIPLINARY TEACHING AND RELATED ACTIVITY
Designed and Teach an Interdisciplinary Field Based Course in Ghana in Partnership
with Ghana Legal Resources Centre on Social and Economic Rights Advocacy
(involving 20+ students from the Harvard Law School, Public Health School,
Public Policy School, MIT Urban Planning School, and Stanford Law School)
(2001-present)
Interdisciplinary Law School - Education School Seminar on Oral History as a Method
of Social Welfare Program Evaluation
Interdisciplinary Seminar on Nation Building among Native Americans
“Across the Divide” Undergraduate Field-Based Poverty Action Project,
Radcliffe Public Policy Institute
Interdisciplinary Seminar on Inclusionary Education and At-Risk Children, jointly
offered with Graduate School of Education and Kennedy School of Government
Interdisciplinary Seminar on Advocacy for Homeless Families, for UCLA Faculty and
Students and Community-based Professionals
Organized Harvard Law School Program on Empirical Research on Poverty Issues
Organized Harvard Law School Clinical Offering on Child Care Issues
Co-coordinator (with Professor Joel Handler) of UCLA Law School’s Participation in US
Inter-University Consortium on Poverty Law
ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC AND OTHER APPOINTMENTS:
Convener, Interuniversity Collaboration on using human rights advocacy to design
Equitable social welfare programs in sub-Saharan Africa funded by Rockefeller
Foundation (2006 – present)
Co-Chair of Harvard University Africa Initiative and Chair of Working Group on Power,
Authority, and Governance (2004-present)
Advisory Board, Harvard Program on After-School Education and Research (2004Present)
Visiting Professor, University of Puerto Rico (2008)
Convener, Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study Seminar on Land Conflict in
Sub-Saharan Africa (2006)
Fulbright Senior Africa Scholar and Recipient of Alumni Initiative Award (2002-05)
Academic Affiliate, Boston Pyschoanalytic Society and Institute (2002-03)
Fellow, Carnegie Foundation Project on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
(2000-01)
Fellow, Center for the Study of Values in Public Life
Harvard Divinity School (1999-2000)
Fellow, Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College (1995-96)
Member, Harvard University Advisory Committee on Native American Studies (1995)
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Visiting Professor, Southwest Institute for Law and Politics, Chongqing, People's
Republic of China (1992)
MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
Admitted to State Bars of District of Columbia (1981), North Carolina (1982), and
California (1987)
Law and Society Association
Association of American Law Schools
Society of American Law Teachers
SERVICE TO PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND ORGANIZATIONS:
Board of Directors, Judge Baker Children’s Center
Board of Directors, Child Care Careers Institute, Boston
Professional Development Committee, Association of American Law Schools
Chair, Conference on New Strategies for Inner Cities
Board of Trustees, Law and Society Association
Chair, Section on the Law and Humanities, Association of American Law Schools
Board of Directors, Los Angeles Homeless Resource Center
Board of Directors, National Center for Social Welfare Policy and Law
Consultant on Funding Priorities, Poverty Advocates' Research Council
Steering Committee, Inter-university Consortium on Poverty Law
SERVICE ON EDITORIAL BOARDS:
Reviewer, Journal of Law and the Humanities
Editorial Board, Journal of Legal Education
Editorial Advisory Board, Law and Society Review
Editorial Advisory Board, Clinical Law Journal
Reviewer, Law and Society Review
Harvard Law Review student member
SERVICE TO EDUCATIONAL AND GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES:
Legal Adviser and Health Rights Program coordinator, Ghana Legal Resources Centre
(2001-present)
Co-designer and Faculty Adviser, Reaching Out Against Depression Project, communitybased mental health initiative for welfare recipients, sponsored by of City of
Cambridge, Massachusetts Public Health Department (2002-present)
Convener of City of Cambridge Kitchen Table Conversations Project, welfare-to-work
support and action program for low-income women, Cambridge, Massachusetts
(1999-2003)
Member of City of Cambridge Welfare Reform Task Force (1998-99)
Consultant to Administration for Children, Youth, and Families, US Department
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of Health and Human Services, on Project Head Start, government structured
educational program for low-income pre-school children (1996)
Co-chair of Radcliffe Public Policy Institute’s Low Income Working Circle
Co-convener of Radcliffe Public Policy Institute’s “Across the Divide” Project, linking
students and low income women
Trainer, National Head Start Staff and Parent Association, Monroe, North Carolina Head
Start Program, Inglewood, California, Head Start Program
Plaintiff's attorney, Bowen v. Gilliard, prominent social welfare precedent case decided
by U.S. Supreme Court
FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH GRANTS:
Fulbright Alumni Initiative Award For Teaching Innovations In Human Rights And
Development In Ghana And Nigeria
Fulbright Senior Scholar Award For Research And Teaching In Ghana
Radcliffe Institute For Advanced Study Exploratory Seminar Grant For Seminar On
Conflicts Around Land In Sub-Saharan Africa
Harvard Africa Initiative Grant To Convene Working Group On Power
Authority And Governance In Sub-Saharan Africa
Advisor To Principal Investigator For Anna Casey Grant To Develop A Model
For Community Based Intervention for Low-Income Women’s Depression
Sabbatical Grant From Harvard Divinity School’s Center For The Study Of Religion
And Social Values
Co-Recipient Of A Grant From The Merck Company Foundation To
Study Adult Development In Early Care And Education Programs
Co-Recipient Of A Grant From Harvard To Develop A Course And
University-Community Partnership On Work Opportunity For At-Risk Adults
Co-Recipient Of A Grant From Harvard Children’s Studies To Research
Best Practices For Substance-Abusing Mothers
Co-Recipient Of A Grant From Harvard Children’s Studies To Conduct
Life History Interviews Of Parents Involved In a government structured PreSchool Program
Grant From Harvard University Children’s Studies To Develop A Seminar On
Child Care Law
Fellow, Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College: Fabrics Of Care In Project Head Start
National Science Foundation Grant fbor Ethnographic Study Of Parent
Involvement Law and Practice In government-structured pre-school enrichment
program
Harvard And UCLA Law School Summer Research Grants
UCLA Sabbatical Award
National Council of Churches Grant To Study Law And Social Change In South
Africa
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
For full bibliography, follow link to Lucie White’s Bibliography at:
http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/bibliography.php.
Selected Items:
Articles in a Periodical
1. White, Lucie E. "African Lawyers Harness Human Rights to Face Down
Global Poverty," 60 Rev. 165 Maine Law Review (2008).
2. White, Lucie E. "Mourning Becomes Resistance," Unbound, Spring 2007
(forthcoming 2007) (article review).
3. White, Lucie E. "Economic and Social Rights Advocacy: A New Paradigm?"
Maine Law Review, (forthcoming 2007).
4. White, Lucie E. "In the Interests of Justice," 70 Fordham Law Review 1921
(2002).
Full text: HEIN (Harvard Users) || HEIN || LEXIS || WESTLAW
5. White, Lucie E. "Closing the Care Gap That Welfare Reform Left Behind,"
577 Annals Am. Acad. Pol & Soc. Sci. 131 (2001).
Full text: LEXIS
6. White, Lucie E. "Raced Histories, Mother Friendships, and the Power of Care:
Conversations with Women in Project Head Start," 76 Chicago-Kent Law
Review 1569 (2001).
Full text: HEIN (Harvard Users) || HEIN || LEXIS || WESTLAW || WWW
7. White, Lucie E. "The Power Beyond Borders," 70 Mississippi Law Journal 865
(2001).
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8. White, Lucie E. "Progressive Lawyering in the 21st Century," 9 Journal of Law
& Policy 303 (2001).
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9. White, Lucie E. "On Abolitionist Critiques, 'Homeless Service' Programs, and
Pragmatic Change," 19 St. Louis University Public Law Review 431 (2000).
Full text: HEIN (Harvard Users) || HEIN || LEXIS || WESTLAW || WWW
10. White, Lucie E. "Pro Bono or Partnership? Rethinking Lawyers' Public Service
Obligations for a New Millennium," 50 Journal of Legal Education 134
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(2000).
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11. White, Lucie E. "Specially Tailored Legal Service for Low-Income Persons:
Pragmatism or Capitulation," 67 Fordham Law Review 2573 (1999).
Full text: HEIN (Harvard Users) || HEIN || LEXIS || WESTLAW
12. White, Lucie E. "Contemporary Challenges to Gender Equality in Conference
Proceedings: Reason, Passion, and the Progress of Law: Remembering and
Advancing the Constitutional Vision of Justice William J. Brennan, Jr," 43
New York New Law School Law Review 159 (1999).
Full text: HEIN (Harvard Users) || HEIN || LEXIS || WESTLAW
13. White, Lucie E. "Facing South: Lawyering for Poor Communities in the
Twenty-First Century," 25 Fordham Urban Law Journal 813 (1998).
Full text: HEIN (Harvard Users) || HEIN || LEXIS || WESTLAW
14. White, Lucie E. "Feminist Microenterprise: Vindicating the Rights of Women
in the New Global Order," 50 Maine Law Review 327 (1998).
Full text: HEIN (Harvard Users) || HEIN || LEXIS || WESTLAW
15. White, Lucie E. "On Guarding the Borders," 33 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil
Liberites Law Review 183 (1998).
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16. White, Lucie E. "The Transformative Potential of Clinical Legal Education,"
1997 Osgoode Hall Law journal 603 (1997).
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17. White, Lucie E. "Calling the State to Answer for Child Poverty: ‘What Then?"
46 University of New Brunswick Law Journal 99 (1997).
Full text: HEIN (Harvard Users) || HEIN || WESTLAW
18. White, Lucie E. "Democracy in Development Practice: Essays on a Fugitive
Theme," 64 Tennessee Law Review 1073 (1997).
Full text: HEIN (Harvard Users) || HEIN || LEXIS || WESTLAW
19. White, Lucie E. "Searching for the Logic Behind Welfare Reform 6 Searching
for the Logic Behind Welfare Reform," 6 UCLA Women’s Law 427 (1996).
Full text: HEIN (Harvard Users) || HEIN || LEXIS || WESTLAW
20. White, Lucie E. "Introduction: Thirty Years in America’s Cities: Lots of
Movement, Not much Justice," 30 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law
Review 293 (1995).
Full text: HEIN (Harvard Users) || HEIN || LEXIS || WESTLAW
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21. White, Lucie E. "Making Welfare Work for Women: Notes from the Field," 1
Loyola Poverty Law Journal 5 (1995).
22. White, Lucie E. "Why Do You Treat Us So Badly?’ On Loss, Remembrance,
and Responsibility," 26 Cumberland Law Review 809 (1995).
Full text: HEIN (Harvard Users) || HEIN || LEXIS || WESTLAW
23. White, Lucie E. "On the Consensus" to End Welfare: Where are the Women's
Voices?" 26 Connecticut Law Review 843 (1994).
24. White, Lucie E. "Collaborative Lawyering in the Field: On Mapping the Paths
from Rhetoric to Practice," 1 Clinical Law Journal 157 (1994).
25. White, Lucie E. "No Exit: Rethinking Welfare Dependency from a Different
Ground," 81 Georgetown Law Journal 1961 (1993).
26. White, Lucie E. "From a Distance: Responding to the Needs of Others Through
Law," 54 Montana Law Review 1-18 (1993).
27. White, Lucie E. "Seeking... The Faces of Otherness.... A response to Professor
Sarat, Felstiner, and Cahn," 77 Cornell Law Review 1499 (1992).
28. White, Lucie E. "Paradox, Piece-Work, and Patience," 43 Hastings Law
Journal 853-859 (1992).
29. White, Lucie E. "Commentary, Revaluing Politics: A Reply to Professor
Strauss," 39 UCLA Law Review 1331-1340 (1992).
30. White, Lucie E. "Subordination, Rhetorical Survival Skills and Sunday Shoes:
Notes on the Hearing of Mrs. G," 38 Buffalo Law Review 1-58 (1990).
31. White, Lucie E. "Goldberg v. Kelly on the Paradox of Lawyering for the Poor,"
56 Brooklyn Law Review 861-887 (1990).
32. White, Lucie E. "Representing the Real Deal," 45 University of Miami Law
Review 271-313 (1990).
33. White, Lucie E. "To Learn and Teach: Lessons from Driefontein on Lawyering
and Power," 1988 Wisconsin Law Review 699 (1988).
34. White, Lucie E. "Mobilization on the Margins of Litigation: Making Space for
Clients to Speak," 16 New York University Review of Law & Social Change
535-564 (1987).
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Books
35. White, Lucie E. "If you Don't Pay, You Die" - chapter in Exploring Social
Rights: Between Theory and Practice (Daphne Barak-Erez & Aeyal Gross eds.,
Hart Publishing Co 2007).
36. Hard Labor: Poor Women And Work in the Post- Wellfare Era (Lucie E. White
& Joel Handler eds., Sharpe 1998).
Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
37. White, Lucie E. Planning and Developing a Shared Living Project, Action For
Boston Community Development (1997).
Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
Presentations
38. White, Lucie E. Panel Presentation, "The Risk and Potential of Multinational
Law Firms Participating in Pro-Bono Projects Challenging 'Radical' Global
Poverty" (April 25, 2008).
(Baldy Center, University of Buffalo Law School)
39. White, Lucie E. "Critiquing the 'Ground': The New Legal Realism Confronts
Critical Ethnography in Bongo, Ghana" (March 14, 2008).
(University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, WI)
40. White, Lucie E. Presentation of Introduction to White and Perelman, eds.,
Stones of Hope, collected volume of case studies on African Innovations in
Economic and Social Rights Advocacy (February 15, 2008).
(Georgetown Law School Human Rights Colloquium. Projected publication
date fall/winter 2009-2010, in negotiation with potential publishers)
41. White, Lucie E. Presentation, "Promoting the Economic and Social Rights of
ex-Child Combatants on the Ground" (December 10, 2007).
(Ecumenical Conference on Peace in Sri Lanka, Sponsored by MuslimAid,
Colombo, Sri Lanka)
42. White, Lucie E. Presentation, "ROAD: An Interdisciplinary Intervention
Against Poverty-Linked Maternal Depression" (November 16, 2007).
(Department of Social Medicine Friday Morning Seminar, Harvard University)
43. White, Lucie E. Presentation, "Building Peace in Aech: Linking Economic,
Mental Health, and Interventions" (October 26, 2007).
(Conference on Building Peace in Aech, Department of Social Medicine Friday
Morning Seminar, Harvard University)
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44. White, Lucie E. After Public Interest Law: Transmission of Lawyering Models
(July 6, 2007).
45. White, Lucie E. African Poverty: Can Human Rights Make A Difference?
(April 2007).
(Annual Libra Public Lecture)
46. White, Lucie E. Shifting the Frame from "Poverty Law" to North/South
Inequality (March 5, 2007).
(Presentation at Fordham Urban Law Journal Symposium, "What is the Place
of Poverty Law in the Law School Curriculum?")
47. White, Lucie E. The Right to Development: Bringing it All Back Home
(October 19).
(Public Lecture Presented as part of Professor White's appointment as the
Marlee Klein Visiting Lecturer on Social Justice)
48. White, Lucie E. Grassroots Dimensions of Advocacy Around Racial
Disparities in Access to Health Care (November 6, 2006).
(Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health
Association)
49. White, Lucie E. Militant Ethnography (October 31, 2006).
(Presentation to Boston College Graduate Seminar on Ethnographic Research
of Domestic Poverty Issues)
50. White, Lucie E. African Lawyers Reclaim Human Rights to Challenge Global
Poverty (October 19, 2006).
(University of British Columbia Marlee Kline Lecture in Social Justice)
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