Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Dean, Ryan Roth Gallo Professor of Law
BA, Grinnell College
JD, University of Michigan Law School
MA, Yale University
M Phil, Yale University
PhD, Yale University
Biography
Angela Onwuachi-Willig is dean and Ryan Roth Gallo Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. A renowned legal scholar and expert in critical race theory, employment discrimination, and family law, she joined the law school as dean in August 2018.
Before joining the School of Law, Dean Onwuachi-Willig served as Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. Previously, she taught at the University of Iowa College of Law, where she was the Charles and Marion Kierscht Professor and at the University of California, Davis, King Hall, where she was acting (assistant) professor of law. As a classroom teacher at her previous institutions, she taught employment discrimination, evidence, family law, critical race theory, and torts.
Dean Onwuachi-Willig is an elected member of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Law Institute (ALI), American Bar Foundation, as well as the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. She is the author of According to Our Hearts: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family (Yale 2013). Her articles have appeared in leading law journals such as the Yale Law Journal, Virginia Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, California Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Texas Law Review, UCLA Law Review, and Vanderbilt Law Review, to name a few.
Onwuachi-Willig is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Association of American Law Schools’ (AALS) Michael A. Olivas Award for Outstanding Leadership and Mentoring in the Legal Academy (2024), the Law and Society Association’s Stan Wheeler Mentorship Award (2023), the Society of American Law Teacher’s M. Shanara Gilbert Human Rights Award (2022), the Fred Zacharias Award, given by the AALS Section on Professional Responsibility to the best academic writing in the field (2022), the EXTRAordinary Woman in Boston Award (2019), the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Clyde Ferguson Award (2015), the AALS Derrick Bell Award (2006), Law and Society’s John Hope Franklin Prize (2018), the University of Iowa Collegiate Teaching Award (2016), the Gertrude Rush Award (2016) from the Iowa Organization of Women Attorneys and the Iowa Chapter of the National Bar Association, the AALS Clyde Ferguson Award (2015), and the AALS Derrick Bell Award (2006), to name a few. Along with her coauthor Mario Barnes, she is the first faculty member to win both the Ferguson and Bell Awards. In the 2017–18 academic year, Onwuachi-Willig served as the William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law at the American Bar Foundation. In 2021, she and four black women decanal colleagues were selected to be the inaugural recipients of the AALS Impact Award in recognition of the extraordinary work they performed in collating the Law Deans Antiracist Clearinghouse Project in January 2021.
Onwuachi-Willig received the 2016 Collegiate Teaching Award at the University of Iowa College of Law and the 2012 Marion Huit Award, a University of Iowa award given to a faculty member in recognition of outstanding teaching and assistance to students, exceptional research and writing, and dedicated service to the University and the surrounding community. Other honors include her selection as a finalist for the Supreme Court of Iowa in 2011; identification by the National Law Journal as one of the “Minority 40 under 40” in 2011 and by Lawyers of Color as one of the “50 Law Professors of Color Under 50” in its inaugural list in 2013; and election to the Iowa Bar Foundation.
Dean Onwuachi-Willig serves on the Grinnell College Board of Trustees, the Law School Admissions Council Board, the Purple Campaign to End Sexual Harassment Advisory Board, and the Board and Executive Committee of the Law and Society Association. She serves on Senators Warren and Markey’s Judicial Selection and U.S. Attorney Selection Committees; is a member of the AALS Law Deans Section Executive Committee, the AALS Deans Steering Committee, and the Law Deans Advisory Committee to U.S. News and World Report; serves on the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) Standing Committee on Lawyer Well-Being while chairing the Law School Subcommittee; and chairs the SJC Committee on Character and Fitness. She also served as the the chair for AALS Committee on the Recruitment and Retention of Minority Law Teachers and Students for two years, leading the committee as it drafted and developed an official Statement of Good Practices on the Recruitment and Retention of Minority Law Teachers. She also is the founder of the Lutie A. Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Workshop, which has resulted in the production of many books and hundreds of articles and essays by its participants and has assisted dozens of women on the path to tenure.
Media Inquiries: Kim Miragliuolo kmira@bu.edu
- Profile Types
- Dean's Office, Faculty, Full-Time Faculty, Professors & Clinical Instructors, and Staff
- Areas of Interest
- Civil Rights, Critical Race Theory, Employment Law, Evidence Law, Family Law, Gender Matters, Race and Law, and Torts
Publications
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Moving Beyond Statements and Good Intentions in U.S. Law Schools 75 Alabama Law Review (2024)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Roberts's Revisions: A Narratological Reading of the Affirmative Action Cases 137 Harvard Law Review (2023)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, 150th Anniversary Gala Dean Address 103 Boston University Law Review (2023)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, The CRT of Black Lives Matter 66 Saint Louis University Law Journal (2022)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig & Anthony V. Alfieri, Racial Trauma in Civil Rights Representation 120 Michigan Law Review (2022)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig & Jonathan Feingold, Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and Law (2022)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Chapter 23: The Boundaries of Whiteness: From Till to Trayvon, in Race, Rights, and Redemption: The Derrick Bell Lectures on the Law and Critical Race Theory (Janet Dewart Bell and Vincent M. Southerland,2021)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Keep Passing the Baton: Reflections on the Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg 44 Thomas Jefferson Law Review (2021)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, The Intersectional Race and Gender Effects of the Pandemic in Legal Academia 72 Hastings Law Journal (2021)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig & Anthony V. Alfieri, (Re)Framing Race in Civil Rights Lawyering 130 Yale Law Journal (2021)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, The Trauma of Awakening to Racism: Did the Tragic Killing of George Floyd Result in Cultural Trauma for Whites? 58 Houston Law Review (2021)
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Brief of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner in Larry Thompson v. Police Officer Pagiel Clark, Shield #28472; Police Officer Paul Montefusco, Shield #10580; Police Officer Phillip Romano, Shield #6295; Police Officer Gerard Bouwmans, Shield #2102, Respondents
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Harassment Because of Sex: Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson, 477 U.S. 57 (1986) Judgment, in Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Employment Discrimination Opinions (Ann C. McGinley and Nicole Buonocore Porter,2020)
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Brief of Amici Curiae Scholars of the Constitutional Rights and Interests of Children in Support of Respondents
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig & JoAnne Sweeney, Intersectional Approaches to Appearances: Jespersen v. Harrah's Operating Co., 444 F.3d 1104 (9th Cir. 2006) (en banc) Judgment, in Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Employment Discrimination Opinions (Ann C. McGinley and Nicole Buonocore Porter,2020)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Reconceptualizing the Harms of Discrimination: How Brown v. Board of Education Helped to Further White Supremacy 105 Virginia Law Review (2019)
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David Oppenheimer, Angela Onwuachi-Willig & Nancy Leong, Affirmative Action 20 Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy (2019)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin: The Persistence of White Womanhood and the Preservation of White Manhood 15 Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race (2018)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, What About #UsToo?: The Invisibility of Race in the #MeToo Movement 128 Yale Law Journal Forum (2018)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig & Ifeoma Ajunwa, Combating Discrimination Against the Formerly Incarcerated in the Labor Market 112 Northwestern University Law Review (2018)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, From Loving v. Virginia to Washington v. Davis: The Erosion of the Supreme Court's Equal Protection Intent Analysis 25 Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law (2018)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Mark Hatzenbuehler, Javier Flores & Joesph Cavanaugh, Anti-bullying Policies and Disparities in Bullying: A State-Level Analysis 53 American Journal of Preventative Medicine (2017)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, The Promise of Lutie A. Lytle: An Introduction to the Tenth Annual Commemorative Lutie A. Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Workshop Iowa Law Review Issue 102 Iowa Law Review (2017)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Extending the Normativity of the Extended Family: Reflections on Moore v. City of East Cleveland 85 Fordham Law Review (2017)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Policing the Boundaries of Whiteness: The Tragedy of Being “Out of Place” from Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin 102 Iowa Law Review (2017)
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Rebecca Bruening, Rosaura Orengo-Aguayo, Angela Onwuachi-Willig & Marizen Ramirez, Implementation of Anti-bullying Legislation in Iowa Schools: A Qualitative Examination of School Administrators’ Perceived Barriers and Facilitators 17 Journal of School Violence (2017)
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Brief of Amici Curiae Scholars of The Constitutional Rights and Interests Of Children in Support of Respondents in Masterpiece Cakeshop LTD, et al v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, The Trauma of the Routine: Lessons on Cultural Trauma from the Emmett Till Verdict 34 Sociological Theory (2016)
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Brief of Amici Curiae NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.; Legal Aid Society — Employment Law Center; Professor D. Wendy Greene; and Professor Angela Onwuachi-Willig in Support of Plaintiff/Appellant's Petition for Rehearing En Banc
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Marizen Ramirez, Corinne Peek-Asa & Joseph Cavanaugh, Evaluation of Iowa’s Anti-Bullying Law 3 Injury Epidemiology (2016)
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Kristen Konrad Tiscione & Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Rewrite of Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, 477 US 57 (1986), in Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court (Kathryn M. Stanchi, Linda L. Berger & Bridget A. Crawford,2016)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Trina Jones & Guy-Uriel Charles, Race and Reform in Twenty-First Century America: Foreword 79 Law and Contemporary Problems (2016)
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Mario Barnes, Angela Onwuachi-Willig & Erwin Chemerinsky, Judging Opportunity Lost: Race-based Affirmative Action and Equality Jurisprudence After Fisher v. University of Texas, in Controversies in Equal Protection Cases in America: Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation (2016)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Mario Barnes & Erwin Chemerinsky, Judging Opportunity Lost: Assessing the Viability of Race-Based Affirmative Action After Fisher v. University of Texas, Austin 62 UCLA Law Review (2015)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig & Alexander Nourafshan, From Outsider Status to Insider and Outsider Again: Interest Convergence Theory and Normalization of LGBT Identity 42 Florida State University Law Review (2015)
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Maritza Reyes, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Stephanie Wildman & Adrien Wing, Reflections on Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia Symposium — The Plenary Panel 29 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice (2014)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig & William Kidder, Still Hazy After All These Years: The Lack of Empirical Evidence and Logic Supporting Mismatch 92 Texas Law Review (2014) (book review)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, A Room with Many Views: A Response to Essays on According to Our Hearts: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander and the Multiracial Family 16 Journal of Gender, Race & Justice (2013)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, According to Our Hearts: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family (2013)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, More Hair-Raising Decisions, and How Professor Wendy Greene Combs Through Their Flaws JOTWELL (2013)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, On Derrick Bell as Pioneer and Teacher: Teaching Us How to Have the Nerve 36 Seattle University Law Review (2013)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig & Anthony Alfieri, Next Generation of Civil Rights Lawyers: Race and Representation in the Age of Identity Performance 122 Yale Law Journal (2013) (book review)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, What Would Be the Story of Alice and Leonard Rhinelander Today? 46 UC Davis Law Review (2013)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, An Officer and a Gentleman, in The New Black What Has Changed—and What Has Not—with Race in America (2013)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig & Mario Barnes, The Obama Effect: Specialized Meanings in Anti-discrimination Law 87 Indiana Law Journal (2012)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig & Jacob Willig-Onwuachi, Finding a Loving Home, in Loving v. Virginia in a Post-Racial World: Rethinking Race, Sex, and Marriage (Rose Cuison Villazor & Kevin Noble Maillard,2012)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig & Amber Shanahan-Fricke, Do Female “Firsts” Still Matter?: Why They Do for Women of Color 2012 Michigan State Law Review (2012)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Silence of the Lambs, in Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia (Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. Gonzalez & Angela P. Harris,2012)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Tributes to Dores McCree 16 Michigan Journal of Race & Law (2011)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Vulnerable Populations and Transformative Law Teaching: A Critical Reader (2011)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig & Amber Fricke, Class, Classes, and Classic Race Baiting: What’s in a Definition? 88 Denver University Law Review (2011)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Another Hair Piece: Exploring New Strands of Analysis Under Title VII 98 Georgetown Law Journal (2010)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Teaching Employment Discrimination 54 St. Louis Law Journal (2010)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Complimentary and Complementary Discrimination in Faculty Hiring 87 Washington University Law Review (2010)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Darren Rosenblum, Noa Ben-Asher, Mary Anne Case, Elizabeth Emens, Berta E. Hernandez-Truyol,, Vivian M. Gutierrez, Lisa C. Ikemoto, Jacob Willig-Onwuachi, Kimberly Mutcherson, Peter Siegelman & Beth Jones, Pregnant Man: A Conversation 22 Yale Journal of Law and Feminism (2010)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig & Jacob Willig-Onwuachi, All in the Family 22 Yale Journal of Law and Feminism (2010)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig & Osamudia James, The Declining Significance of Presidential Races? 72 Law & Contemporary Problems (2009)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Celebrating Critical Race Theory at 20 94 Iowa Law Review (2009)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, The Black Divide in Affirmative Action, in Our Promise: Achieving Educational Equality for America’s Children (Daniel Weddle & Maurice Dyson,2009)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig & Jacob Willig-Onwuachi, A House Divided: The Invisibility of the Multiracial Family 44 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (2009)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Emily Houh & Mary Campbell, Cracking the Egg: Which Came First—Stigma or Affirmative Action? 96 California Law Review (2008)
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Brief Amici Curiae of Iowa Professors of Law and History
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Proof Brief of Professors of Family Law and Jurisprudence as Amici Curiae in Support of Plaintiff-Appellee
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, The Story of Hudgins v. Wrights: Multiracialism and the Social Construction of Race, in Race Law Stories (Rachel F. Moran & Devon W. Carbado,2008)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, A Beautiful Lie: Exploring Rhinelander v. Rhinelander as a Formative Lesson on Race, Identity, Marriage, and Family 95 California Law Review (2007)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Volunteer Discrimination 40 UC Davis Law Review (2007)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Girl, Fight! 22 Berkeley Journal of Gender Law and Justice (2007) (book review)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, The Admission of Legacy Blacks 60 Vanderbilt Law Review (2007)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, There’s Just One Hitch, Will Smith: Examining Title VII, Race, Casting, and Discrimination on the Fortieth Anniversary of Loving v. Virginia 2007 Wisconsin Law Review (2007)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Undercover Other 94 California Law Review (2006)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Representative Government, Representative Court? The Supreme Court as a Representative Body 90 Minnesota Law Review (2006)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, This Bridge Called Our Backs: An Introduction to “The Future of Critical Race Feminism” 39 UC Davis Law Review (2006)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, The Return of the Ring: Welfare Reform’s Marriage Cure as the Revival of Post-Bellum Control 93 California Law Review (2005)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, For Whom Does the Bell Toll: The Bell Tolls for Brown? 103 Michigan Law Review (2005) (book review)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Just Another Brother on the SCT?: What Justice Clarence Thomas Teaches Us About the Influence of Racial Identity 90 Iowa Law Review (2005)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig & Kevin Johnson, Cry Me A River: The Limits of 'A Systemic Analysis of Affirmative Action in American Law Schools' 7 Berkeley Journal of African American Law and Policy (2005)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Using the Master’s “Tool” to Dismantle His House: Why Justice Clarence Thomas Makes the Case for Affirmative Action 47 Arizona Law Review (2005)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig & Mario Barnes, By Any Other Name?: On Being “Regarded As” Black, and Why Title VII Should Apply Even If Lakisha and Jamal Are White 2005 Wisconsin Law Review (2005)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, When Different Means the Same: Applying a Different Standard of Proof to White Plaintiffs Under the McDonnell Douglas Prima Facie Case Test 50 Case Western Reserve Law Review (1999)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, The Verdict on Roberts v. Texaco 15 Harvard BlackLetter Journal (1999) (book review)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Note, Moving Ground, Breaking Traditions: Tasha’s Chronicle 3 Michigan Journal of Race and Law (1997)
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In the Media
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TaxProf Blog December 2, 2024
The American Law School Faculty Study
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The Columns November 22, 2024
Professor Suzette Malveaux Receives Clyde Ferguson, Jr. Award from Aals
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BU Today November 21, 2024
The Long and Winding Road from Shirley Chisholm to Kamala Harris To. . .
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Want to teach law? It’s nice work if you can get it.
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Leiter Law School October 3, 2024
10 Most Cited Family Law Faculty in the U.S., 2019–2023 (Corrected Again)
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The Association of American Law Schools September 30, 2024
Law Deans Antiracist Clearinghouse
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Vineyard Gazette July 28, 2024
Della Day Speaker Recounts Life with Dr. King
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Vineyard Gazette July 25, 2024
Remembering to Savor the Moment
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Fox 5 Atlanta May 18, 2024
Angela Bassett Gives Spelman 2024 Commencement Address: ‘Embody the Queen You Were Meant to Be’
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Bringing CROWN Act Back: A Renewed Push for a Federal Law Banning Hair-Based Discrimination
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Law.com February 26, 2024
National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) Field Tests NextGen Bar Exam, Creates Family Law Content Scope Panel
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BU Today January 22, 2024
Office Artifacts: Angela Onwuachi-Willig
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BU Today January 12, 2024
Angela Onwuachi-Willig among Five Black Women Law Deans Honored for Efforts to Bring Antiracist Reform to Legal Education
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Reckon Report January 8, 2024
Inside Claudine Gay’s Resignation and the Hyper Scrutiny Haunting Black Women in Higher Ed
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Law.com December 28, 2023
The US News Ranking Debacle, the End of Affirmative Action and More: The Legal Education 2023 Year in Review
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CRITICAL RACE THEORY: LAW JD 731
In the mid-1980s, a scholarly movement to become known as "Critical Race Theory" (CRT) developed in legal academia. Early critical race theorists--including Derrick Bell, Mari Matsuda, Charles Lawrence, Richard Delgado, Kimberle Crenshaw, and Patricia Williams--challenged the substance and style of conventional legal scholarship. Substantively, race crits rejected formal equality, individual rights, and colorblind approaches to solving legal problems. Stylistically, critical race scholars often employed new methodologies for legal scholarship, including storytelling and narrative. The Critical Race Theory Colloquium is designed to expose students to core CRT principles and interrogate CRT's possibilities and limitations. This endeavor will require students to think critically about race and racism in conjunction with other intersecting structures of oppression and hierarchy. The Critical Race Theory Colloquium employs a workshop-format that enables students to engage leading scholars in the field of Critical Race Theory. The first part of the semester will involve a general overview of Critical Race Theory. During the remaining meetings, invited scholars will present works-in-progress for discussion. To prepare, students will write short reaction papers that include three questions for further discussion. Final grades depend on the reaction papers, class participation, and attendance. UPPER-CLASS WRITING REQUIREMENT: This class may not be used to satisfy the requirement. GRADING NOTICE: This class will not offer the CR/NC/H option. **A student who fails to attend the initial meeting of a seminar (designated by an (S) in the title), or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar, may be administratively dropped from the seminar. Students who are on a wait list for a seminar are required to attend the first seminar meeting to be considered for enrollment.
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