with Lani Guinier on Aug 27, 1998
with Lani Guinier on Apr 20, 1998
Lani Guinier is one of the foremost American civil rights scholars in the United States.
Guinier was Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School for 10 years, before being hired by Harvard Law School in 1998. She was the first black woman professor to receive tenure at Harvard Law School.
Her work spans a range of topics, including professional responsibilities of public lawyers, the relationship between democracy and the law, the role of race and gender in the political process, equity in college admissions, and affirmative action.
Guinier’s publications include many law review articles and op-ed pieces, as well as her books “The Miner’s Canary: Rethinking Race and Power” (2002), “Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice” (1998), “The Tyranny of the Majority” (1994), and “Becoming Gentlemen: Women, Law Schools and Institutional Change”, 1995).
Source -Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lani_Guinier
