Joined the faculty in 1974.
Education
B.A., 1964 Yale University
L.L.B., 1967 Yale University
Courses Taught
Property I
Property II
Local Government
Public Education
Environmental Law
Biographical Information
- Professor, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (1980 - Present)
- University of San Diego (1978-1979)
- University of Southern California (1972-1974)
- Boston Model Cities Program (1969-1972)
- Associate, Goulston & Storrs, Boston, MA (1967-1969)
Select Publications
A Critique of Adrian Vermeule’s Common Good Constitutionalism, XXX Southwestern J. Int’l Law 632 (2024).
Separate and Unequal: The Institutional Racism of the Supreme Court,12 ALA. CIV. RTS. & CIV. LIBS. L. REV. 276 (2021).
Toward a More Democratic America, SEATTLE J. SOC. JUST., Vol. 19, Iss. 1, Article 9 (2020)
Education Law, Strategic Policy and Sustainable Development in Africa, T.E. Kleven et al eds., Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
Equitable Sharing: Distributing the Benefits and Detriments of Democratic Society, Lexington Books, 2014.
Federalizing Public Education, 55 VILL. L. REV. 369 (2010).
Systemic Classism, Systemic Racism: Are Social and Racial Justice Achievable in the
United States?, 8 CONN. PUB. INT. L. J.
37 (2009).
Mandating Public School Attendance: A Proposal for Achieving Racial and Class Integration, 34 T. MARSHALL L. REV. 109
(2008).
The Democratic Right to Full Bilingual Education, 7 NEV. L. J. 933 (2007).
Is Capital Punishment Immoral Even If It Deters Murder?, 46 SANTA CLARA L. REV. 599 (2006). Reprinted in Death
Penalty: New Dimensions 24-60 (Ifcai Univ. Press, 2007).
Brown's Lesson: To Integrate or Separate Is Not the Question, But How to Achieve a Non-Racist Society, 5 U. MD. L. J.
RACE, RELIGION, GENDER & CLASS 43 (2005).
On the Freedom To Associate or Not To Associate With Others, 1 TENN. J. L. & POL'Y 69 (2004).
Why International Law Favors Emigration Over Immigration, 33 U. MIAMI INTER-AM L. REV. 69 (2002).
Private Property and Democratic Socialism, 21 LEGAL STUD. F. 1 (1997).
Ideology as Moral Discourse or Struggle for Power, SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY TODAY, 8:37-50 (1993).
Free Speech and the Struggle for Power, 9 N.Y.L. SCH. J. HUM. RTS. 315 (1992).
Book Report, P. Harvey, Securing the Right to Employment: Social Welfare Policy and the Unemployed in the
United
States, Nature, Society, and Thought, 5:124-128 (1992).
The Public Private Distinction: Does It Promote Democracy or Serve the Ruling Class?,
Nature, Society, and Thought,
4:393-410 (1991).
The Bar Examination and Other Barriers to African and Hispanic American Fair Representation Among American Lawyers:
A 1990 Update, 16 T. MARSHALL L. REV. 477 (1991) (co-author).
The Relative Autonomy of the United States Supreme Court, 1 YALE J. L. & LIB. 43 (1989).
Coping With Contradiction: Reason, Intuition, and Praxis, NEWSLETTER OF THE CONFERENCE ON CRITICAL LEGAL
STUDIES, 46-50, (Nov, 1989).
Critical Thinking and the Absence of Foundations, NEWSLETTER OF THE CONFERENCE ON CRITICAL LEGAL STUDIES,
52-54, (July 1988). Reprinted in Macquarie Law Students' Journal, 1:13-15 (1989).
Cultural Bias and the Issue of Bilingual Educations, SOCIAL POLICY, 19:9-12 (Summer, 1988).
Minorities and the Legal Profession: Current Platitudes, Current Barriers, 12 T. MARSHALL L. REV. 299 (1987)
(co-author).
Inclusionary Ordinances and the Nexus Issue, in Inclusionary Zoning Moves Downtown, 109-129 (1985)
The Moral Implications of the Draft, 10 T. MARSHALL L. REV. 57 (1985).
The Constitutional Philosophy of Justice William H. Rehnquist, 8 VT. L. REV. 1 (1983). Reprinted in The Supreme
Court of the United States, Vol. 12A, 1695-1748 (Wm. S. Hein & Co., (1989).
The Supreme Court, Race, and the Class Struggle, 9 HOFSTRA L. REV. 795 (1981).
Inclusionary Ordinances-Policy and Legal Issues in Requiring Private Developers to
Build Low Cost Housing,
21 UCLA L. REV. 1432 (1974).
Recognition and Awards
- Graduation Speaker, 2008-09
- Faculty Member of the Year, 2002-03
- TSU Outstanding Teacher of the Year, 1995-96
- CLSA Professor of the Year, 1995-96
- TSU Outstanding Teacher of the Year, 1991-92
- Third Year Class Favorite Professor, 1991-92
Affiliations
- ClassCrits Conference
- People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference
- Radical Philosophers Association
Unpublished Papers
-
The Role of the Judiciary in Environmental Law, Environmental Justice CLE, Thurgood Marshall School of
Law, October 6, 2023, available at www.researchgate.net/publication/376203158_The_Role_of_the_Judiciary_
in_Environmental_Law -
Exploring the Recent Jurisprudential and Ideological Direction of the Judiciary in the United States, Nigerian
Judges Conference, Houston, Texas, August 9, 2023, available at www.researchgate.net/publication/373013293_Exploring_the_Recent_Jurisprudential_and_Ideological_
Direction_of_the_Judiciary_in_the_United_States -
A Critique of Libertarianism, available at www.researchgate.net/publication/389008606_A_Critique_of_Libertarianism
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Both-And, Toward Democratic Socialism, and The Communist Ideal, available at www.researchgate.net/publication/315075703_Both-And_Toward_Democratic_Socialism_and_the_Communist_Ideal
Editorials
- Cuba: Our Other Neighbor to the South, University Faculty Voice, October, 2002
- Time Has Come to End Cruelty of Iraq Embargo, Houston Chronicle, March 8, 1995
- Moral Justifications for Death Penalty Invalid, Houston Chronicle, March 21, 1994
- De Facto Segregation Still Exists-and All of Us Suffer From It, Houston Post, August 17, 1992
- Why Not a World Full of Equals? Houston Chronicle, May 24, 1992
- Cynical Thomas Bid Should Be Rejected, Houston Post, September 1, 1991
- The Gulf War, Vietnam, and Our Way of Life, The Solicitor, TSU Law School, March 1991
- Respect, The University Faculty Voice, February 1986
- Views of South Africa: People Never Cede Power Voluntarily, Houston Chronicle, July 12, 1985
- Jackson Trip Tells Us About Reagan Policy, Houston Chronicle, January 17, 1984