Biography
Angela P. Harris is Distinguished Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law, professor emerita at the University of California, Davis School of Law, and co-editor-in-chief and founder of the Journal of Law and Political Economy. She directs SU’s Critical Justice Initiative for the Center for Civil Rights and Critical Justice with Professor Steven Bender.
Harris’s scholarship has been influential within critical race theory, feminist legal theory, and most recently law and political economy. in her role as educator, she is the co-author of multiple casebooks, including Criminal Law: Cases and Materials for a Diverse America (with Cynthia Lee), Race and Races: Cases and Materials for a Diverse America, first and second editions (with Richard Delgado, Juan Perea, Jean Stefancic, and Stephanie Wildman), and Economic Justice (with Emma Coleman Jordan). Among other awards for her mentorship of students and junior faculty, she received the 2008 Clyde Ferguson Award from the Minority Section of the Association of American Law Schools.
As a community builder, she played an active role in founding LatCrit, Inc., ClassCrits, Inc., and the Law and Political Economy Collective, organizations that regularly host conferences and publish symposia for legal academics and others writing from a critical perspective on issues of race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and class. She was a founder of the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at Berkeley Law, the Aoki Center for Critical Race and Nation Studies at UC Davis School of Law, and the Water Justice Clinic at UC Davis, the only clinic in the United States that focuses on providing clean water to disadvantaged communities.
In addition to her work with the Center for Civil Rights and Critical Justice, she is active in the Critical (Legal) Collective, helping defend academic freedom and the right to teach and learn.
