Jean Stefancic

Biography

Jean Stefancic writes about law reform, social change, and legal scholarship. Her recent book, How Lawyers Lose Their Way: A Profession Fails Its Creative Minds, examines the causes of lawyers’ unhappiness. Her 1996 book, No Mercy: How Conservative Think Tanks and Foundations Changed America’s Social Agenda, is “a superb guide to the right wing counter-revolution which has changed the face of America” according to one reviewer, and won praise by Herbert Gans as a “careful and comprehensive accounting of who did what in trying to kill liberal programs and policies.”

Stefancic has written and co-authored over 40 articles and 15 books, many with her husband Richard Delgado, with whom she has shared writing residencies at Bellagio, Bogliasco, and Centrum. Their book Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror, won a Gustavus Myers award for outstanding book on human rights in North America. Stefancic and Delgado also serve as co-editors for two book series.

Before joining the Seattle University faculty, Stefancic spent ten years at the University of Colorado Law School, where she was affiliated with the Latino/a Research & Policy Center and on the advisory committee of the Center of the American West. During her five years at the University of Pittsburgh she was Research Professor of Law & Derrick Bell Scholar.

Books

Latinos and the Law: Cases and Materials (West Group, 2008) (with Delgado & Perea).

Teacher’s Manual, Latinos and the Law: Cases and Materials (West Group, 2008) with Delgado & Perea).

The Law Unbound! A Richard Delgado Reader (Paradigm Publishers, 2007) (co-editor with Adrien Wing).

Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America (West Group, 2d ed, 2007) (with Perea, Delgado, Harris & Wildman).

Teacher’s Manual, Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America (West Group, 2d ed., 2007) (with Perea, Delgado, Harris & Wildman).

The Derrick Bell Reader (NYU Press, 2005) (co-editor).

How Lawyers Lose Their Way: A Profession Fails Its Creative Minds (Duke University Press, 2005) (principal co-author).

Understanding Words That Wound (Westview/Perseus Press, 2004) (co-author).

Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (NYU Press, 2001) (co-author).

Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge (Temple University Press, 2d ed. 2000) (co-editor).

The Latino/a Condition: A Critical Reader (NYU Press, 1998) (co-editor).

Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror (Temple University Press, 1997) (co-editor) (Winner, Gustavus Myers Prize, outstanding book on human rights in North America, 1998).

Must We Defend Nazis? Hate Speech, Pornography, and the New First Amendment (NYU Press, 1997) (co-author) [reprinted in part in Censorship (L. Egendorf ed., 2001); also in Hate Groups: Opposing Viewpoints (T. Roleff ed., 1999)].

No Mercy: How Conservative Think Tanks and Foundations Changed America’s Social Agenda (Temple University Press, 1996) (principal co-author).

Failed Revolutions: Social Reform and the Limits of Legal Imagination (Westview Press, 1994) (co-author).

Articles and Review Essays

What If John Calmore Had a Latino/a Sibling?, 86 N.C. L. Rev. 769 (2008) (co-author).

Can Lawyers Find Happiness?, 241 Syr. L. Rev. (2008) (co-author).

Foreword, Symposium: Latinos/as and the Law, Ind. L.J. (forthcoming 2008) (co-author).

Critical Race Theory and Criminal Justice, 31 Humanity & Society 133, nos. 2&3 (May/August 2007) (co-author).

Why Do We Ask the Same Questions?: The Triple Helix Dilemma Revisited, 99 L. Libr. J. 307 (2007) (co-author) [reprinted in Legal Information and the Development of American Law (R.A. Danner & F.G. Houdek eds., 2008)].

The Racial Double Helix: Watson, Crick, and Brown v. Board of Education (Our No-Bell Prize Award Speech) (Charles Hamilton Houston Inaugural Lecture), 47 How. L.J. 473 (2004) (co-author).

Mexicanos: A History of Mexicans in the United States, by Manuel G. Gonzales (book review), 79 California History, Fall 2000, at 126 (co-author).

California’s Racial History and Constitutional Rationales for Race-Conscious Decision Making in Higher Education, 47 UCLA L. Rev. 1521 (2000) (co-author).

Home-Grown Racism: Colorado’s Historic Embrace—and Denial—of Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, 70 U. Colo. L. Rev. 703 (1999) (co-author).

Canadian Critical Race Theory: Racism and the Law, by Carol A. Aylward (book review), http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/cjscopy/reviews/critrace.html Canadian Journal of Sociology Online, 1999 (co-author).

Needles in the Haystack: Finding New Legal Movements in Casebooks, 73 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 755 (1998).

Critical Race Theory: Past, Present, and Future, 51 Current Legal Probs. 467 (1998) (co-author).

Latino and Latina Critical Theory: An Annotated Bibliography, 85 Calif. L. Rev. 1509 (1997); published concurrently in 10 La Raza L.J. 423 (1998) [reproduced on University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Women’s Human Rights Resources website (http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/whrr/cfsearch.cfm?sister=utl)].

Affirmative Action: Diversity of Opinions—An Overview of the Colorado Law Review Symposium, 68 U. Colo. L. Rev. 833 (1997).

Multiracialism: A Bibliographic Essay and Critique in Memory of Trina Grillo, 81 Minn. L. Rev. 1521 (1997).

Introduction: Symposium on Trends in Legal Citations and Scholarship, 71 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 743 (1996).

The Law Review Symposium: A Hard Party to Crash for Crits, Feminists, and Other Outsiders, 71 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 989 (1996).

Outsider Scholars: The Early Stories, 71 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 1001 (1996) (principal co-author).

Apologize and Move On? Finding a Remedy for Pornography, Insult, and Hate Speech (book review), 67 U. Colo. L. Rev. 93 (1996) (co-author).

Cosmopolitanism Inside Out: International Norms and the Struggle for Civil Rights and Local Justice, 27 Conn. L. Rev. 773 (1995) (co-author).

Critical Race Theory, An Annotated Bibliography 1993: A Year of Transition, 66 U. Colo. L. Rev. 159 (1995) (co-author).

The Social Construction of Brown v. Board of Education: Law Reform and the Reconstructive Paradox, 36 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 547 (1995) (co-author) [reprinted in Redefining Equality (N. Devins & D. Douglas eds., 1998)].

Hateful Speech, Loving Communities: Why Our Notion of “A Just Balance” Changes So Slowly, 82 Cal. L. Rev. 851 (1994) (co-author).

Scorn, 35 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1061 (1994) (co-author).

Imposition, 35 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1025 (1994) (co-author).

A Shifting Balance: Freedom of Expression and Hate-Speech Restriction (book review), 78 Iowa L. Rev. 737 (1993) (principal co-author).

Critical Race Theory: An Annotated Bibliography, 79 Va. L. Rev. 461 (1993) (co-author).

Pornography and Harm to Women: “No Empirical Evidence?” 53 Ohio St. L.J. 1037 (1992) (co-author).

Images of the Outsider in American Law and Culture: Can Free Expression Remedy Systemic Social Ills? 77 Cornell L. Rev. 1258 (1992) (co-author) [reprinted in Power, Privilege and Law: A Civil Rights Reader (L. Bender & D. Braveman eds., 1995)].

The Law Review Symposium Issue: Community of Meaning or Re-inscription of Hierarchy? 63 U. Colo. L. Rev. 651 (1992).

Listen to the Voices: An Essay on Legal Scholarship, Women, and Minorities, 11 Leg. Ref. Serv. Q., nos. 3/4 at 141 (1991) [reprinted in Symposium of Law Publishers (Thomas Woxland ed., 1991)].

Outsider Jurisprudence and the Electronic Revolution: Will Technology Help or Hinder the Cause of Law Reform? 52 Ohio St. L.J. 847 (1991) (principal co-author).

Norms and Narratives: Can Judges Avoid Serious Moral Error? 69 Tex. L. Rev. 1929 (1991) (co-author).

Derrick Bell’s Chronicle of the Space Traders: Would the U.S. Sacrifice People of Color if the Price Were Right? 62 U. Colo. L. Rev. 321 (1991) (co-author).

Panthers and Pinstripes: The Case of Ezra Pound and Archibald MacLeish, 63 S. Cal. L. Rev. 907 (1990) (principal co-author).

Why Do We Tell the Same Stories? Law Reform, Critical Librarianship, and the Triple Helix Dilemma, 42 Stan. L. Rev. 207 (1989) (co-author) [reprinted in Alternative Library Literature (S. Berman & J. Danky eds., 1992)].

Essays, Op-eds, Interviews, Poetry

The Lawyer Speaks of Rivers (poem), 37 Environmental Law xxi (2007).

America Beyond Borders: On Latin-American Immigration (Interview), 1 Experience [Centrum Institute for the Arts], (Fall 2006), at 23.

Let’s Welcome Latinos to Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 18, 2005, at K3 (co-author).

Critical Race Theory and LatCrit Theory, in Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States (S. Oboler & D.J. Gonzalez eds., Oxford UP, 2005) (co-author).

Critical Race Theory, 5,000 word entry in New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (M.C. Horowitz ed., Scribner’s, 2004) (co-author).

Critical Race Theory, in Oxford Companion to American Law (K.L. Hall et al. eds., 2002).

Latino-Critical Legal Studies, 25 Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Fall 2000, at 161 (co-author).

Hate Speech on Campus: The Law’s Response, 67 Cong. Mo., July/Aug. 2000, at 5 (co-author).

Toward a Country of Which We Could All be Proud (Interview), Dulwich Centre J. No. 3 (2000), at 40.

Race-Sensitive Admissions in Higher Education: Commentary on How the Supreme Court is Likely to Rule, 26 J. Blacks Higher Ed., Winter 1999/2000, at 100 (co-author).

Controls on Hate Speech Are Not Censorship, Wash. Post, Nov. 13, 1993, at A23 (co-author).

Overcoming Legal Barriers to Regulating Hate Speech on Campuses, Chron. Higher Ed., Aug. 11, 1993, at B1 (co-author) [reprinted in Morality Matters: Race, Class, and Gender in Applied Ethics (J.R. DiLeo ed., 2002); also in Contemporary Moral Issues in a Diverse Society (J. McDonald ed., 1998)].

Birmingham Jail (poem) in Richard Delgado, Rodrigo’s Sixth Chronicle, 68 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 639 (1993).

Sidewalk Sister (poem) in Pornography and Harm to Women: “No Empirical Evidence?” 53 Ohio St. L.J. 1037 (1992).

Chapters in Books

Why Do We Ask the Same Questions?: The Triple Helix Dilemma Revisited, in Legal Information and the Development of American Law (R.A. Danner & F.G.. Houdek eds., 2008).

Must We Defend Nazis? in Censorship (L. Egendorf ed., 2001); also in Hate Groups: Opposing Viewpoints (T. Roleff ed., 1999).

The Social Construction of Brown v. Board of Education: Law Reform and the Reconstructive Paradox, in Redefining Equality (N. Devins & D. Douglas eds., 1998).

Overcoming Legal Barriers to Regulating Hate Speech on Campuses, in Morality Matters: Race, Class, and Gender in Applied Ethics (J. R. DiLeo ed., 2002); also in Contemporary Moral Issues in a Diverse Society (J. McDonald ed., 1998).

Funding the Nativist Agenda, in Immigrants Out! (J. Perea ed., 1996).

Minority Men, Misery, and the Marketplace of Ideas, in Constructing Masculinity (M. Berger ed., 1996).

Images of the Outsider in American Law and Culture: Can Free Expression Remedy Systemic Social Ills? in Power, Privilege and Law: A Civil Rights Reader (L. Bender & D. Braveman eds., 1995).

Why Do We Tell the Same Stories? Law Reform, Critical Librarianship, and the Triple Helix Dilemma, in Alternative Library Literature (S. Berman & J. Danky eds., 1992).

Listen to the Voices: An Essay on Legal Scholarship, Women, and Minorities, in Symposium of Law Publishers (Thomas Woxland ed., 1991).

Electronic Postings

Video Tribute to John Calmore, University of North Carolina School of Law, 2007.

The Lawyer Speaks of Rivers (poem), http://www.lclark.edu/org/envtl/objects/37-3_Stefancic.pdf Environmental Law, Lewis and Clark Law School, 2007.

Race and Crime Bibliography, http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/centersinstitutes/
racecrimejustice/Race_Crime_Bibliography.pdf Center on Race, Crime, and Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, 2007.

Why Do We Ask the Same Questions?: The Triple Helix Dilemma Revisited, http://www.aallnet.org/products/pub_llj_v99n02.asp American Association of Law Libraries, 2007.

The Role of Critical Race Theory in Understanding Race, Crime, and Justice Issues, http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/centersinstitutes/
racecrimejustice/publishedpaper.pdf Center on Race, Crime, and Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, 2005.

How Lawyers Lose Their Way: A Profession Fails Its Creative Minds, Chapter 8, http://www.bepress.com/.