American Bar Foundation names Professor Angela Harris research chair in diversity, law

Professor Emerita Angela P. Harris has been named the American Bar Foundation 2019-20 William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law.

The William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law leads empirical and interdisciplinary research at the ABF on law and legal processes related to issues of diversity and inequality experienced by women, people of color, people with disabilities, and persons from the LGBTQ community in legal practice and before the law.

As Neukom Chair, Harris will work on a book titled The Color of Farming. This project, grounded in law and political economy, will use farming as a site to explore the interactions of state power and market power expressed through law. Through historical investigation and present perspectives from new farmers of color, the book will examine the significance of race law in addition to economic regulation in shaping American farming.

Angela Harris a professor emeritus at UC Davis School of Law, where she was the Boochever and Bird Endowed Chair for the Study and Teaching of Freedom of Equality, as well as director of the Aoki Center for Critical Race and Nation Studies. One of the nation's foremost scholars in the fields of critical race theory, feminist legal theory, and civil rights, she joined the UC Davis faculty from UC Berkeley School of Law in 2011.