Professor Frampton Speaks at Symposium on Tulsa Race Massacre

Professor Mary Louise Frampton on May 21 presented a paper during a special Tulsa Law Review symposium commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre.  She spoke on “The Law’s Failures: Common Threads of White Supremacy From The Tulsa Massacre to the Greensboro Massacre to Today.” 

Papers presented during the symposium, which was a live/hybrid event at the University of Tulsa College of Law, will be published in September.

Professor Frampton joined UC Davis as director of the Aoki Center in 2017. Under her leadership, the center established the Water Justice Clinic, the Tribal Justice Project, and a partnership with North Carolina A&T University, the largest HBCU.  Earlier this year, she received a UC Davis Chancellor’s Achievement Award for Diversity and Community. Frampton has taught in the areas of restorative justice, structural inequality, law and social justice, legislative advocacy, and professional responsibility and her research focuses on restorative justice as a racial justice tool in schools, justice systems, and deeply divided communities. For more than a decade, she led the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at Berkeley Law.