Angela P. Harris

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Angela P. Harris (born 1961) is an American legal scholar at UC Davis School of Law, in the fields of critical race theory, feminist legal scholarship, and criminal law. She held the position of professor of law at UC Berkeley School of Law, joining the faculty in 1988. In 2009, Harris joined the faculty of the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School as a visiting professor. In 2010, she also assumed the role of acting vice dean for research and faculty development.

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}} In 2011, she accepted an offer to join the faculty at the UC Davis School of Law, and began teaching as a professor of law in the 2011–12 academic year.

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Biography

Harris earned a BA from the University of Michigan in 1981, and her MA (1983) and JD (1986) from the University of Chicago. She clerked for Judge Joel Flaum of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and worked as an attorney for the law firm of Morrison and Foerster. She was tenured at Berkeley in 1992.{{cite book | last = Guerrero | first = Andrea | title = Silence at Boalt Hall the dismantling of affirmative action | url = https://archive.org/details/silenceatboaltha00guer_0 | url-access = registration | page = [https://archive.org/details/silenceatboaltha00guer_0/page/177 177] | publisher = University of California Press | location = Berkeley | year = 2002 | isbn = 9780520936348 }}

Recognition

Harris has won the Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction (2003; established 1995),

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}} and the 2003 Matthew O. Tobriner Public Service Award, a San Francisco Bay Area award, for commitment to academic diversity and legal mentoring. In 2008, Harris won the Clyde Ferguson Award from the Association of American Law Schools Minority Section. Alongside Kimberlé Crenshaw, Harris has been recognized as one of the leading scholars of critical race theory.{{cite book |author-last=Ruparelia |author-first=Rakhi |year=2019 |origyear=2016 |chapter=The Invisibility of Whiteness in the White Feminist Imagination |editor-last=Kirkland |editor-first=Ewan |title=Shades of Whiteness |location=Leiden and Boston |publisher=Brill Publishers |pages=77–89 |doi=10.1163/9781848883833_008 |isbn=978-1-84888-383-3 |s2cid=201575540}}

Selected bibliography

= Books =

{{cite book | last1 = Harris | first1 = Angela P. | last2 = Bartlett | first2 = Katharine | title = Gender and law: theory, doctrine, commentary | publisher = Aspen Law & Business | location = New York | year = 1998 | isbn = 9781567067408 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Harris | first1 = Angela P. | last2 = Delgado | first2 = Richard | last3 = Stefancic | first3 = Jean | last4 = Perea | first4 = Juan F.| last5 = Wildman | first5 = Stephanie M. | author-link2 = Richard Delgado | title = Race and races: cases and resources for a diverse America | publisher = West Group | location = St. Paul, Minnesota | year = 2000 | edition = 2nd | isbn = 9780314227096 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Harris | first1 = Angela P. | last2 = Valdes | first2 = Francisco | last3 = McCristal Culp | first3 = Jerome | title = Crossroads, directions, and a new critical race theory | publisher = Temple University Press | location = Philadelphia | year = 2002 | isbn = 9781566399302 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Harris | first1 = Angela P. | last2 = Jordan | first2 = Emma Coleman | title = When markets fail: race and economics: cases and materials | publisher = Foundation Press | location = New York | year = 2006 | isbn = 9781587789557 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Harris | first1 = Angela P. | last2 = Jordan | first2 = Emma Coleman | title = A woman's place is in the marketplace: gender and economics: cases and materials | publisher = Foundation Press | location = New York | year = 2006 | isbn = 9781587789564 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Harris | first1 = Angela P. | last2 = Jordan | first2 = Emma Coleman | title = Cultural economics: markets and culture: cases and materials | publisher = Foundation Press Thomson/West | location = New York, New York St. Paul, Minnesota | year = 2006 | isbn = 9781587789571 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/cultura_jor_2006_00_9012 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Harris | first1 = Angela P. | last2 = Jordan | first2 = Emma Coleman | title = Economic justice: race, gender, identity and economics: cases and materials | publisher = Foundation Press Thomson/West | location = New York, New York St. Paul, Minnesota | year = 2011 | edition = 2nd | isbn = 9781599419589 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Harris | first1 = Angela P. | last2 = Muhs | first2 = Gabriella Gutiérrez y | last3 = Flores Niemann | first3 = Yolanda | last4 = González | first4 = Carmen G. | author-link2 = Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs | title = Presumed incompetent: the intersections of race and class for women in academia | publisher = University Press of Colorado | location = Boulder, Colorado | year = 2012 | isbn = 9780874219227 }}
{{cite book | last = Harris | first = Angela P. | title = Race and equality law | publisher = Ashgate | location = Farnham, Surrey, England Burlington, Vermont | year = 2013 | isbn = 9781409437185 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Harris | first1 = Angela P. | last2 = Lee | first2 = Cynthia | title = Criminal law: cases and materials | publisher = West Academic Publishing | location = St. Paul, Minnesota | year = 2014 | isbn = 9780314282866 }}

= Chapters in books =

{{cite book | last = Harris | first = Angela P. | contribution = Forcible rape, date rape, and communicative sexuality: a legal perspective | editor-last = Francis | editor-first = Leslie | title = Date rape: feminism, philosophy, and the law | url = https://archive.org/details/daterape00lesl | url-access = registration | publisher = Pennsylvania State University Press | location = University Park | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780271014296 }}
{{cite book | last = Harris | first = Angela P. | contribution = Women of color and the law | editor-last1 = Taylor | editor-first1 = Betty W. | editor-last2 = Munro | editor-first2 = Robert John | editor-last3 = Rush | editor-first3 = Sharon | title = Feminist jurisprudence, women and the law: critical essays, research agenda, and bibliography | publisher = F.B. Rothman | location = Littleton, Colorado | year = 1999 | isbn = 9780837712246 }}
{{cite book | last = Harris | first = Angela P. | contribution = Foreword | editor-last = Weyrauch | editor-first = Walter O. | title = Gypsy law Romani legal traditions and culture | pages = ix–xiv | publisher = University of California Press | location = Berkeley Los Angeles London | year = 2001 | isbn = 9780520221864 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Harris | first1 = Angela P. | last2 = Maeda | first2 = Donna | contribution = Power and resistance in contemporary legal education | editor-last = Kennedy | editor-first = Duncan | editor-link = Duncan Kennedy (legal philosopher) | title = Legal education and the reproduction of hierarchy: a polemic against the system: a critical edition | publisher = New York University Press | year = 2004 | isbn = 9780814747780 | title-link = Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy }}
{{cite encyclopedia | last = Harris | first = Angela P. | contribution = Critical race theory | encyclopedia = International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences |contribution-url=http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1030&context=angela_harris | publisher = Elsevier | year = 2012 }}

= Journal articles =

{{Cite journal |last=Harris |first=Angela P. |title=Race and essentialism in feminist legal theory |journal=Stanford Law Review |volume=42 |issue=3 |pages=581–616 |doi=10.2307/1228886 |jstor=1228886 |date=February 1990}}
{{Cite journal |last1=Espinoza |first1=Leslie |last2=Harris |first2=Angela P. |title=Afterword: Embracing the tar-baby. LatCrit theory and the sticky mess of race |journal=California Law Review |volume=85 |issue=5 |pages=1585–1645 |doi=10.2307/3481066 |jstor=3481066|date=October 1997}}