Richard Delgado

Biography

One of the leading commentators on race in the United States, Richard Delgado has appeared on Good Morning America, the MacNeil-Lehrer Report, PBS, NPR, the Fred Friendly Show, and Canadian NPR. Author of over 150 journal articles and 27 books, his work has been praised or reviewed in The Nation, The New Republic, the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. His books have won eight national book prizes, including six Gustavus Myers Awards for outstanding book on human rights in North America, the American Library Association’s Outstanding Academic Book, and a Pulitzer Prize nomination.

Stanley Fish described his career and book, The Rodrigo Chronicles, in the following terms: “Richard Delgado is a triple pioneer. He was the first to question free speech ideology; he and a few others invented critical race theory; and he is both a theorist and an exemplar of the importance of storytelling in the workings of the law. This volume brings all of Delgado’s strengths together in a stunning performance.”

Before joining the Seattle University faculty, Delgado spent fourteen years at the University of Colorado Law School as the Charles Inglis Thompson Professor of Law and five years at the University of Pittsburgh where he was University Distinguished Professor of Law & Derrick Bell Fellow. In his spare time, Delgado co-edits two book series, serves as consultant to government agencies, and enjoys discovering the neighborhoods of Seattle.

Books

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

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

The Law Unbound! A Richard Delgado Reader (Paradigm Publishers, 2007) (edited by Wing & Stefancic).

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

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

The Politics of Fear: How Republicans Use Money, Race, and the Media to Win (Paradigm Publishers, 2006) (with M. Gonzales).

The Derrick Bell Reader (NYU Press, 2005) (with Stefancic).

How Lawyers Lose Their Way: A Profession Fails Its Creative Minds (Duke University Press, 2005) (with Stefancic).

Understanding Words That Wound, (Westview/Perseus Press, 2004) (with Stefancic).

Justice at War: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights During Times of Crisis (NYU Press, 2003).

Jurisprudence—Classical and Contemporary: From Natural Law to Postmodernism (West Group, 2d ed. 2002) (with Hayman & Levit).

Teacher’s Manual, Jurisprudence—Classical and Contemporary: From Natural Law to Postmodernism (West Group, 2d ed. 2002) (with Hayman & Levit).

Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (NYU Press, 2001) (with Stefancic).

Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America (West Group, 2000) (with Perea, Harris & Wildman).

Teacher’s Manual, Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America (West Group, 2000) (with Perea, Harris & Wildman).

Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge (Temple University Press, 2d ed. 2000) (with Stefancic).

When Equality Ends: Stories of Race and Resistance (Perseus/Westview, 1999) (Winner, Gustavus Myers Prize, outstanding book on human rights in North America, 2000).

The Latino/a Condition: A Critical Reader (NYU Press, 1998) (with Stefancic).

Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror (Temple University Press, 1997) (with Stefancic) (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) (with Stefancic) [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) (with Stefancic).

The Coming Race War? And Other Apocalyptic Tales of America After Affirmative Action and Welfare (NYU Press, 1996) (American Library Association Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award, 1997) (Winner, Gustavus Myers Prize, outstanding book on human rights in North America, 1997).

Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge (Temple University Press, 1995).

The Price We Pay: The Case Against Racist Speech, Hate Propaganda, and Pornography (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995) (with Lederer) (Winner, Gustavus Myers Prize, outstanding book on human rights in North America, 1997).

The Rodrigo Chronicles: Conversations about America and Race (NYU Press, 1995) (Nominee, Pulitzer Prize 1996; Winner, Gustavus Myers Prize, outstanding book on human rights in North America, 1996).

Failed Revolutions: Social Reform and the Limits of Legal Imagination (Westview Press, 1994) (with Stefancic).

Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment (Westview Press, 1993) (with Matsuda, Lawrence & Crenshaw) (Winner, Gustavus Myers Prize, outstanding book on human rights in North America, 1994).

Articles and Review Essays

Theories of Policing and Racial Justice (book review), 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1193 (2008).

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

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

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

Rodrigo’s Corrido: Race, Postcolonial Theory, and U.S. Civil Rights, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 1691 (2007).

Of Cops and Bumper Stickers: Notes Toward a Theory of Selective Prosecution, 57 Syr. L. Rev. 175 (2007).

The Myth of Upward Mobility (book review), 68 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 879 (2007).

Rodrigo’s Riposte: The Mismatch Theory of Law School Admissions, 57 Syr. L. Rev. 637 (2007).

You Are Living in a Gold Rush, 35 Hofstra L. Rev. 417 (2007).

Memories of Brutus Hamilton, 75 UMKC L. Rev. 1149 (2007).

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

Rodrigo’s Roundelay: Hernandez v. Texas and the Interest-Convergence Dilemma, 41 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 23 (2006).

Si Se Puede, But Who Gets the Gravy?, 11 Mich. J. Race & L. 9 (2006).

Shooting the Messenger (book review), 30 Am. Ind. L. Rev. 477 (2006).

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) (principal co-author).

Rodrigo and Revisionism: Relearning the Lessons of History, 99 Nw. U. L. Rev. 805 (2005).

Locating Latinos in the Field of Civil Rights: Assessing the Neoliberal Case for Radical Exclusion, 83 Tex. L. Rev. 489 (2004).

Nigger (book review), 1 Stan. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 1 (2005).

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) (principal co-author).

About Your Masthead: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Compatibility of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, 39 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 1 (2004).

Crossroads and Blind Alleys: A Critical Examination of Recent Writing about Race, 82 Tex. L. Rev. 121 (2003).

White Interests and Civil Rights Realism: Rodrigo’s Bittersweet Epiphany, 101 Mich. L. Rev. 1201 (2003).

Linking Arms: Recent Books on Interracial Coalition as an Avenue of Social Reform, 88 Cornell L. Rev. 855 (2003).

Explaining the Rise and Fall of African-American Fortunes—Interest Convergence and Civil Rights Gains, 37 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 369 (2002).

Where is My Body: Stanley Fish’s Long Goodbye to Law, 99 Mich. L. Rev. 1370 (2001).

Thinking About Race and Races: Reflections and Responses, 89 Calif. L. Rev. 1653 (2001) (with Perea, Harris & Wildman).

Two Ways to Think About Race: Reflections on the Id, the Ego, and Other Reformist Theories of Equal Protection, 89 Geo. L.J. 2279 (2001).

Official Elitism or Institutional Self Interest? 10 Reasons Why U.C.-Davis Should Abandon the LSAT (and Why Other Good Law Schools Should Follow Suit). (2000 Edward L. Barrett, Jr. Lecture), 34 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 593 (2001).

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

Goodbye to Hammurabi: Analyzing the Atavistic Appeal of Restorative Justice, 52 Stan. L. Rev. 751 (2000) [reprinted in Correctional Ethics (J. Kleinig ed., 2006)].

Derrick Bell’s Toolkit: Fit to Dismantle that Famous House? (1999 Derrick Bell Lecture), 75 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 283 (2000).

Toward a Legal Realist View of the First Amendment (review essay), 113 Harv. L. Rev. 778 (2000).

Rodrigo’s Remonstrance: Love and Despair in an Age of Indifference—Should Humans Have Standing? (review essay), 88 Geo. L.J. 263 (2000) (principal co-author).

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 (principal 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 (principal co-author).

Making Pets: Social Workers, “Problem Groups,” and the Role of the SPCA—Getting a Little More Precise About Racialized Narratives, 77 Tex. L. Rev. 1571 (1999).

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

Rodrigo’s Committee Assignment: A Skeptical Look at Judicial Independence, 72 S. Cal. L. Rev. 425 (1999).

Is American Law Inherently Racist? 15 T.M. Cooley L. Rev. 361 (l998) [reprinted in A Reader on Race, Civil Rights, and American Law (T. Davis, K. Johnson, G. Martinez eds., 2001)].

The Repeal of Reticence: A History of America’s Cultural and Legal Struggles over Free Speech, Obscenity, Sexual Liberation, and Modern Art, by Rochelle Gurstein (book review), 562 Annals Amer. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 226 (1999).

Ten Arguments Against Affirmative Action—How Valid? (1998 Hugo L. Black Lecture), 50 Ala. L. Rev. 135 (1998) [reprinted in A Reader on Race, Civil Rights, and American Law (T. Davis, K. Johnson, G. Martinez eds., 2001)].

Rodrigo’s Roadmap: Is the Marketplace Theory for Eradicating Discrimination a Blind Alley? 93 Nw. U. L. Rev. 215 (1998).

Rodrigo’s Bookbag: Brimelow, Bork, Murray, and D’Souza—Recent Conservative Thought and the End of Equality, 50 Stan. L. Rev. 1929 (1998).

Rodrigo’s Book of Manners: How to Conduct a Conversation on Race—Standing, Imperial Scholarship, and Beyond, 86 Geo. L.J. 1051 (1998).

Are Hate-Speech Rules Constitutional Heresy? A Reply to Stephen G. Gey, 146 U. Pa. L. Rev. 865 (1998).

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

Editor’s Introduction, Symposium on the Relation Between Scholarship and Teaching, 73 Chi-Kent L. Rev. 749 (1998).

Rodrigo’s Fifteenth Chronicle: Racial Mixture, Latino-Critical Scholarship, and the Black-White Binary, 75 Tex. L. Rev. 1181 (1997).

Why Universities are Morally Obligated to Strive for Diversity: Restoring the Remedial Rationale for Affirmative Action, 68 U. Colo. L. Rev. 1165 (1997).

Rodrigo’s Fourteenth Chronicle: American Apocalypse, 32 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 275 (1997) [reprinted in Affirmative Action and the Constitution (G. Chin ed., 1998)].

Rodrigo’s Thirteenth Chronicle: Legal Formalism and Law’s Discontents, 95 Mich. L. Rev. 1105 (1997).

Rodrigo’s Twelfth Chronicle: The Problem of the Shanty, 85 Geo. L.J. 667 (1997).

Conflict as Pathology: An Essay for Trina Grillo, 81 Minn. L. Rev. 1391 (1997) [reprinted in Women, Law and Social Change: Core Readings and Current Issues, 4th ed. (T. Dawson ed., 2003)].

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

The Colonial Scholar: Do Outsider Authors Replicate the Citation Practices of the Insiders, But in Reverse? 71 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 969 (1996).
Playing Favorites, 74 Tex. L. Rev. 1223 (1996).

Coughlin’s Complaint: How to Disparage Outsider Writing, One Year Later, 82 Va. L. Rev. 95 (1996).

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

Rodrigo’s Eleventh Chronicle: Empathy and False Empathy, 84 Cal. L. Rev. 61 (1996).

“The Speech We Hate”: First Amendment Totalism, the ACLU, and the Principle of Dialogic Politics, 27 Ariz. St. L.J. 1281 (1995) (principal co-author) [reprinted in Race Law: Cases, Commentary, and Questions (F.M. Higginbotham ed., 2d ed. 2005)].

Stark Karst: Law’s Promise, Law’s Expression (book review), 93 Mich. L. Rev. 1460 (1995).

Rodrigo’s Tenth Chronicle: Merit and Affirmative Action, 83 Geo. L.J. 1711 (1995).

Rodrigo’s Final Chronicle: Cultural Power, the Law Reviews, and the Attack on Narrative Jurisprudence, 68 S. Cal. L. Rev. 545 (1995).

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

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

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

Rodrigo’s Ninth Chronicle: Race, Legal Instrumentalism, and the Rule of Law, 143 U. Pa. L. Rev. 379 (1994).

The Neoconservative Case Against Hate-Speech Regulation—Lively, D’Souza, Gates, Carter and the Toughlove Crowd, 47 Vand. L. Rev. 1807 (1994) (principal co-author).

Foreword, Essays on Hate Speech, 82 Cal. L. Rev. 847 (1994) [reprinted in Controversies in Constitutional Law (P. Finkelman & S. Heyman eds., 1996)].

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

Pressure Valves and Bloodied Chickens: An Analysis of Paternalistic Objections to Hate-Speech Regulation, 82 Cal. L. Rev. 871 (1994) (principal co-author) [reprinted in Privacy and the Constitution (M. Plasencia ed., 1999); also in Civil Liberties: Opposing Viewpoints (T. Roleff ed., 1999)].

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

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

Rodrigo’s Eighth Chronicle: Black Crime, White Fears—On the Social Construction of Threat, 80 Va. L. Rev. 503 (1994) [reprinted in The Judicial Isolation of the “Racially” Oppressed (E.N. Gates ed., 1997)].

Rodrigo’s Seventh Chronicle: Race, Democracy, and the State, 41 UCLA L. Rev. 721 (1994).

First Amendment Formalism Is Giving Way to First Amendment Legal Realism, 29 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev.169 (1994).

Comments on Mary Becker, 64 U. Colo. L. Rev. 1051 (1993).

Rodrigo’s Sixth Chronicle: Intersections, Essences, and the Dilemma of Social Reform, 68 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 639 (1993).

Rodrigo’s Fifth Chronicle: Civitas, Civil Wrongs, and the Politics of Denial, 45 Stan. L. Rev. 1581 (1993).

Rodrigo’s Fourth Chronicle: Neutrality and Stasis in Antidiscrimination Law, 45 Stan. L. Rev. 1133 (1993).

Rodrigo’s Third Chronicle: Care, Competition, and the Redemptive Tragedy of Race, 81 Cal. L. Rev. 387 (1993).

Rodrigo’s Second Chronicle: The Economics and Politics of Race, 91 Mich. L. Rev. 1183 (1993).

Five Months Later (The Trial Court Opinion), 71 Tex. L. Rev. 1011 (1993).

On Telling Stories in School: A Reply to Farber and Sherry, 46 Vand. L. Rev. 665 (1993).

The Inward Turn in Outsider Jurisprudence, 34 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 741 (1993).

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

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

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

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

Zero-Based Racial Politics and an Infinity-Based Response: Will Endless Talking Cure America’s Racial Ills? 80 Geo. L.J. 1879 (1992).

A Comment on Aleinikoff, 63 U. Colo. L. Rev. 383 (1992).

Legal Scholarship: Insiders, Outsiders, Editors, 63 U. Colo. L. Rev. 717 (1992).

Shadowboxing: An Essay on Power, 77 Cornell L. Rev. 813 (1992).

The Imperial Scholar Revisited: How to Marginalize Outsider Writing, Ten Years Later, 140 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1349 (1992).

Rodrigo’s Chronicle, 101 Yale L.J. 1357 (1992).

Derrick Bell’s Racial Realism: A Comment on White Optimism and Black Despair, 24 Conn. L. Rev. 527 (1992).

Our Better Natures: A Revisionist View of Joseph Sax’s Public Trust Theory of Environmental Protection, and Some Dark Thoughts on the Possibility of Law Reform, 44 Vand. L. Rev. 1209 (1991) [reprinted as Trust Theory of Environmental Protection, and Some Dark Thoughts on the Possibility of Law Reform in Issues in Legal Scholarship: Joseph Sax and the Public Trust, Article 4 (2003) http://www.bepress.com/ils/iss4/art4/]

Campus Antiracism Rules: Constitutional Narratives in Collision, 85 Nw. U. L. Rev. 343 (1991) [reprinted in Striking a Balance: Hate Speech, Freedom of Expression and Non-discrimination (S. Coliver ed., 1992)].

Recasting the American Race Problem, 79 Cal. L. Rev. 1389 (1991) [reprinted in Indigenous Legal Issues, Commentary & Materials (H. McRae et al. eds., 2d ed. 1997)].

Enormous Anomaly? Left-Right Parallels in Recent Writing About Race, 91 Colum. L. Rev. 1547 (1991).

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

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

Pep Talks for the Poor: A Reply and Remonstrance on the Evils of Scapegoating, 71 B.U. L. Rev. 525 (1991).

Moves, 139 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1071 (1991).

Norms and Normal Science: Toward a Critique of Normativity in Legal Thought, 139 U. Pa. L. Rev. 933 (1991) [reprinted in Jurisprudence: Contemporary Readings, Problems, and Narratives (R. Hayman & N. Levit eds., 1995)].

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) (principal co-author).

Affirmative Action as a Majoritarian Device: Or, Do You Really Want To Be a Role Model? 89 Mich. L. Rev. 1222 (1991) [reprinted in Constitutional Law, 4th ed. (G. Stone et al. eds., 2001); also in Affirmative Action and the Constitution (G. Chin ed., 1998)].

Brewer’s Plea: Critical Thoughts on Common Cause, 44 Vand. L. Rev. 1 (1991).

Zero-Based Racial Politics: An Evaluation of Three Best-Case Arguments on Behalf of the Nonwhite Underclass, 78 Geo. L.J. 1929 (1990).

Mindset and Metaphor: A Response to Randall Kennedy’s Racial Critiques of Legal Academia, 103 Harv. L. Rev. 1872 (1990).

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

Judicial Influences and the Inside-Outside Dichotomy: A Comment on Professor Nagel, 61 U. Colo. L. Rev. 711 (1990).

Approach-Avoidance in Law School Hiring: Is the Law a WASP? 34 St. Louis L.J. 631 (1990).

When A Story Is Just A Story: Does Voice Really Matter? 76 Va. L. Rev. 95 (1990).

On Taking Back Our Civil Rights Promises: When Equality Doesn’t Compute, 1989 Wis. L. Rev. 579.

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

Storytelling for Oppositionists and Others: A Plea for Narrative, 87 Mich. L. Rev. 2411 (1989) [reprinted in Clinical Anthology: Readings for Live-Client Clinics (A. Hurder et al. eds., 1997); also in Jurisprudence: Contemporary Readings, Problems, and Narratives (R. Hayman & N. Levit eds., 1995); also in Narrative and the Legal Discourse (D. Papke ed., 1991)].

Minority Law Professors’ Lives: The Bell-Delgado Survey, 24 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 349 (1989).

Critical Legal Studies and the Realities of Race—Does the Fundamental Contradiction Have a Corollary? 23 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 407 (1988) [reprinted in Jurisprudence: Contemporary Readings, Problems, and Narratives (R. Hayman & N. Levit eds., 1995)].

ADR and the Dispossessed: Recent Books About the Deformalization Movement, 13 Law & Soc. Inquiry 145 (1988) [reprinted in Resolving Disputes: Theory and Practice for Lawyers (J. Folberg, T.J. Stipanowich & L.A. Kloppenberg eds., 2005)].

The Politics of Workplace Reforms: Recent Works on Parental Leave and a Father-Daughter Dialogue, 40 Rutgers L. Rev. 1031 (1988) (principal co-author).

Derrick Bell and the Ideology of Racial Reform: Will We Ever Be Saved? 97 Yale L.J. 923 (1988).

The Ethereal Scholar: Does Critical Legal Studies Have What Minorities Want? 22 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 301 (1987) [reprinted in Jurisprudence: Contemporary Readings, Prob1ems, and Narratives (R. Hayman & N. Levit eds., 1995); also in Anti-Discrimination Law (C. McCrudden ed., 1991)].

Protecting Autonomy and Personhood in Human Subjects Research, 11 S. Ill. U. L.J. 1147 (1987) (co-author).

Informed Consent in Human Experimentation: Bridging the Gap Between Ethical Thought and Current Practice, 34 UCLA L. Rev. 67 (1986) (principal co-author).

How to Write a Law Review Article, 20 U.S.F. L. Rev. 445 (1986).

Fairness and Formality: Minimizing the Risk of Prejudice in Alternative Dispute Resolution, 1985 Wis. L. Rev. 1359 (principal co-author) [reprinted in Civil Procedure (S. Subrin et al. eds., 2000); also in Mediation and Negotiation (E.W. Trachte-Huber & S. K. Huber eds., 1998); also in Alternative Dispute Resolution (E.W. Trachte-Huber & S.K. Huber eds., 1996)].

The Author Replies, 3 Law & Inequality 261 (1985) (reply to Robert O’Neil).

“Rotten Social Background”: Should the Criminal Law Recognize a Defense of Severe Environmental Deprivation? 3 Law & Inequality 9 (1985) [reprinted in Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (C. Lee & A. Harris eds. 2005); also in Criminal Law and Its Processes: Cases and Materials, 7th ed. (S. Kadish & S. Schulhofer eds., 2001); also in Cases and Materials on Criminal Law, 2d ed. (J. Dressler ed., 1999); also in Punishment and Rehabilitation (J. Murphy ed., 1995); also in Justification and Excuse in the Criminal Law (M.L. Corrado ed., 1994)].

Fact, Norm, and Standard of Review—The Case of Homosexuality, 10 U. Dayton L. Rev. 575 (1985).

The Language of the Arms Race: Should the People Limit Government Speech? 64 B.U. L. Rev. 961 (1984) [reprinted in Freedom at Risk (R. Curry ed., 1989) (National H.L. Mencken Prize, Free Press Ass’n 1989)].

When Religious Exercise Is Not Free: Deprogramming and the Constitutional Status of Coercively Induced Belief, 37 Vand. L. Rev. 1071 (1984) [reprinted in L. Rev. Digest 1985].

Inequality “From the Top”: Applying an Ancient Prohibition to an Emerging Problem of Distributive Justice, 32 UCLA L. Rev. 100 (1984).

The Imperial Scholar: Reflections on a Review of Civil Rights Literature, 132 U. Pa. L. Rev. 561 (1984) [reprinted in A Reader on Race, Civil Rights, and American Law (T. Davis, K. Johnson, G. Martinez eds., 2001); also in Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement (K. Crenshaw et al. eds., 1995)].

Can Science Be Inopportune? Constitutional Validity of Governmental Restrictions on Race-IQ Research, 31 UCLA L. Rev. 128 (1983).

Professor Delgado Replies, 18 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 593 (1983) (reply to Marjorie Heins).

Beyond Sindell: Relaxation of Cause-in-Fact Rules for Indeterminate Plaintiffs, 70 Cal. L. Rev. 881 (1982) [reprinted in Mass Tort Litigation (L. Mullenix ed., 1996)].

The Moralist as Expert Witness, 62 B.U. L. Rev. 869 (1982).

Words That Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name-Calling, 17 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 133 (1982) [reprinted in A Reader on Race, Civil Rights, and American Law (T. Davis, K. Johnson, G. Martinez eds., 2001); also in Hate Speech and the Constitution (S. Heyman ed., 1996)].

“Concurrence” in Quotes: A Critical Assessment of Chief Justice Burger’s Objections to a Right to Treatment for the Involuntarily Confined Mentally Ill, 15 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 527 (1982) (principal co-author).

Cults and Conversion: The Case for Informed Consent, 16 Ga. L. Rev. 533 (1982) [reprinted in Cults, Culture and the Law: Perspectives on New Religious Movements (T. Robbins, W. Shepherd & J. McBride eds., 1985)].

Death: Multiple Definitions or a Single Standard? 54 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1323 (1981) (co-author).

Law School Admissions Study, Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund (book review), 32 Hastings L.J. 1777 (1981) (co-author).
Active Rationality in Judicial Review, 64 Minn. L. Rev. 467 (1980).

To Tell the Truth: Physicians’ Obligation to Disclose Medical Mistakes, 28 UCLA L. Rev. 52 (1980) (co-author).

Religious Totalism as Slavery, 9 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 51 (1980) [reprinted in Perspectives on the Contemporary Cult Experience (J. Brock ed., 1982)].

A Response to Professor Dressler, 63 Minn. L. Rev. 361 (1979) [reprinted in Criminal Law: Case Studies and Controversies (P. H. Robinson ed., 2004)].

Ascription of Criminal States of Mind: Toward a Defense Theory for the Coercively Persuaded (“Brainwashed”) Defendant, 63 Minn. L. Rev. 1 (1978) [reprinted in Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (C. Lee & A. Harris eds., 2005); also in Persuasion, Coercion, Indoctrination and Mind Control (P. Zimbardo & R. Vallone eds., 1983)].

God, Galileo, and Government: Toward Constitutional Protection for Scientific Inquiry, 53 Wash. L. Rev. 349 (1978) (principal co-author).

Religious Totalism: Gentle and Ungentle Persuasion Under the First Amendment, 51 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1 (1977) [reprinted in Los Angeles Daily J., Dec. 1, 1978, at 1].

Organically Induced Behavioral Change in Correctional Institutions: Release Decisions and the “New Man” Phenomenon, 50 S. Cal. L. Rev. 215 (1977) [reprinted in Biological and Behavioral Technologies and the Law (M. Shapiro ed., 1982)].

Euthanasia Reconsidered—The Choice of Death as an Aspect of the Right of Privacy, 17 Ariz. L. Rev. 474 (1975).

The Legal Education of Chicano Students: A Study in Mutual Accommodation and Cultural Conflict, 5 N.M. L. Rev. 177 (1975) (co-author).

Minority Students and the Legal Curriculum: An Experiment at Berkeley, 63 Cal. L. Rev. 751 (1975).

Mexican-Americans as a Legally Cognizable Class under Rule 23 and the Equal Protection Clause, 50 Notre Dame L. Rev. 393 (1975) (principal co-author).

Parental Preferences and Selective Abortion: A Commentary on Roe v. Wade, Doe v. Bolton, and the Shape of Things to Come, 1974 Wash. U. L.Q. 203 (principal co-author).

College Searches and Seizures: Students, Privacy, and the Fourth Amendment, 26 Hastings L.J. 57 (1974).

Student Work

Note, Jury Selection: Vicinage Requirement, People v. Jones, 62 Cal. L. Rev. 536 (1974).

Comment, Underprivileged Communications: Extension of the Psychotherapist-Patient Privilege to Patients of Psychiatric Social Workers, 61 Cal. L. Rev. 1050 (1973).

Forewords to Books

Foreword: Critical Race Realism (Gregory S. Park ed., forthcoming, New Press, 2008).

Foreword: David Gillborn, Race and Education: A Critical Analysis (forthcoming, Routledge 2008).

Foreword: José Luis Morin, Latino Rights and Justice in the United States, 2d ed. (forthcoming, Carolina Academic Press, 2008).

Foreword: Mathew Fletcher, Indian Law Stories (forthcoming, Taylor & Francis, 2008).

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).

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

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

Hate Cannot be Tolerated: Opposing View: Limits on the Most Offensive Forms of Speech are Reasonable, USA Today, March 3, 2004, at 12A, in Critical Thinking, 3d ed. (G. Bassham et al. eds., 2007).

Hate Crime, in Oxford Companion to American Law (K.L. Hall et al. eds., 2002).

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

Goodbye to Hammurabi: Analyzing the Atavistic Appeal of Restorative Justice, in Correctional Ethics (J. Kleinig ed., 2006).

Is American Law Inherently Racist? 15 Thomas M. Cooley L. Rev. 361 (l998), in A Reader on Race, Civil Rights, and American Law (T. Davis, K. Johnson, G. Martinez eds., 2001).

Ten Arguments Against Affirmative Action—How Valid? (1998 Hugo L. Black Lecture), 50 Ala. L. Rev. 135 (1998), in A Reader on Race, Civil Rights, and American Law (T. Davis, K. Johnson, G. Martinez eds., 2001).

Must We Defend Nazis? (chapter 10), in Censorship (L. Egendorf ed., 2001); also in Hate Groups: Opposing Viewpoints (T. Roleff ed., 1999).

Rodrigo’s Fourteenth Chronicle: American Apocalypse, in Affirmative Action and the Constitution (G. Chin ed., 1998).

Conflict as Pathology, in Women, Law and Social Change (T. Dawson ed., 2003).

Citizenship, in Immigrants Out! (J. Perea ed., 1996) [reprinted in Race, Identity, and Citizenship (R. Torres, L. Miron, J. Inda eds., 1999)].

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

Statutory Rape Laws: Does It Make Sense to Enforce Them in an Increasingly Permissive Society? (pro and con), in Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (C. Lee & A. Harris eds., 2005).

“The Speech We Hate”: First Amendment Totalism, the ACLU, and the Principle of Dialogic Politics, in Race Law, 2d ed. (M.F. Higginbotham ed., 2005).

One Man’s Dignity: An Interview with Emmit E. Fisher, in The Price We Pay: The Case Against Racist Speech, Hate Propaganda, and Pornography (L. Lederer & R. Delgado eds., 1995).

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

Foreword, Essays on Hate Speech, in Controversies in Constitutional Law (P. Finkelman & S. Heyman eds., 1996).

Pressure Valves and Bloodied Chickens: An Analysis of Paternalistic Objections to Hate-Speech Regulation, in Privacy and the Constitution (M. Plasencia ed., 1999); also in Civil Liberties: Opposing Viewpoints (T. Roleff ed., 1999).

Rodrigo’s Eighth Chronicle: Black Crime, White Fears—On the Social Construction of Threat, in The Judicial Isolation of the “Racially” Oppressed (E.N. Gates ed., 1997).

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

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).

Our Better Natures: A Revisionist View of Joseph Sax’s Public Trust Theory of Environmental Protection, in Issues in Legal Scholarship: Joseph Sax and the Public Trust, Article 4 (2003) http://www.bepress.com/ils/iss4/art4/.

Campus Antiracism Rules: Constitutional Narratives in Collision, in Striking a Balance: Hate Speech, Freedom of Expression and Non-discrimination (S. Coliver ed., 1992).

Recasting the American Race Problem, in Indigenous Legal Issues, Commentary & Materials (H. McRae et al. eds., 2d ed. 1997).

Regulation of Hate Speech May Be Necessary to Guarantee Equal Protection to All Citizens, in Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking (G. Colombo et al. eds., 1995).

Norms and Normal Science: Toward a Critique of Normativity in Legal Thought, in Jurisprudence: Contemporary Readings, Problems, and Narratives (R. Hayman & N. Levit eds., 1995).

Affirmative Action as a Majoritarian Device: Or, Do You Really Want To Be a Role Model? in Constitutional Law, 4th ed. (G. Stone et al. eds., 2001); also in Affirmative Action and the Constitution (G. Chin ed., 1998).

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).

Storytelling for Oppositionists and Others: A Plea for Narrative, in Clinical Anthology: Readings for Live-Client Clinics (A. Hurder et al. eds., 1997); also in Jurisprudence: Contemporary Readings, Problems, and Narratives (R. Hayman & N. Levit eds., 1995); also in Narrative and the Legal Discourse (D. Papke ed., 1991).

Critical Legal Studies and the Realities of Race—Does the Fundamental Contradiction Have a Corollary? in Jurisprudence: Contemporary Readings, Problems, and Narratives (R. Hayman & N. Levit eds., 1995).

ADR and the Dispossessed: Recent Books About the Deformalization Movement, in Resolving Disputes: Theory and Practice for Lawyers (J. Folberg, T.J. Stipanowich & L.A. Kloppenberg eds., 2005).

The Ethereal Scholar: Does Critical Legal Studies Have What Minorities Want? in Jurisprudence: Contemporary Readings, Problems, and Narratives (R. Hayman & N. Levit eds., 1995); also in Anti-Discrimination Law (C. McCrudden ed., 1991).

Options for Legal Intervention, in Cults and New Religious Movements, A Report of the American Psychiatric Ass’n (M. Galanter ed., 1989).

Legal Aspects of Deprogramming, in Cults and Consequences: The Definitive Handbook (R. Andres & J. Lone eds., 1988).

Fairness and Formality: Minimizing the Risk of Prejudice in Alternative Dispute Resolution, in Civil Procedure (S. Subrin et al. eds, 2000); also in Mediation and Negotiation (E.W. Trachte-Huber & S.K. Huber eds., 1998); also in Alternative Dispute Resolution (E.W. Trachte-Huber & S.K. Huber eds., 1996).

“Rotten Social Background”: Should the Criminal Law Recognize a Defense of Severe Environmental Deprivation? in Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (C. Lee & A. Harris eds. 2005); also in Criminal Law and Its Processes: Cases and Materials, 7th ed. (S. Kadish & S. Schulhofer eds., 2001); also in Cases and Materials on Criminal Law, 2d ed. (J. Dressler ed., 1999); also in Punishment and Rehabilitation (J. Murphy ed., 1995); also in Justification and Excuse in the Criminal Law: A Collection of Essays (M.L. Corrado ed., 1994).

The Language of the Arms Race—Should the People Limit Government Speech? in Freedom at Risk (R. Curry ed., 1989) (National H.L. Mencken Prize, Free Press Ass’n, 1989).

The Imperial Scholar: Reflections on a Review of Civil Rights Literature, in A Reader on Race, Civil Rights, and American Law (T. Davis, K. Johnson, G. Martinez eds., 2001); also in Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement (K. Crenshaw et al. eds., 1995).

Beyond Sindell: Relaxation of Cause-in-Fact Rules for Indeterminate Plaintiffs, in Mass Tort Litigation (L. Mullenix ed., 1996).

Words That Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name-Calling, in A Reader on Race, Civil Rights, and American Law (T. Davis, K. Johnson, G. Martinez eds., 2001); also in Hate Speech and the Constitution (S. Heyman ed., 1996).

Cults and Conversion: The Case for Informed Consent, in Cults, Culture, and the Law: Perspectives on New Religious Movements (T. Robbins, W. Shepherd & J. McBride eds., 1985).

Religious Totalism as Slavery, in Perspectives on the Contemporary Cult Experience (J. Brock ed., 1982).

A Response to Professor Dressler, in Criminal Law: Case Studies and Controversies (P. H. Robinson ed., 2004).

Ascription of Criminal States of Mind: Toward a Defense Theory for the Coercively Persuaded (“Brainwashed”) Defendant, in Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (C. Lee & A. Harris eds., 2005); also in Persuasion, Coercion, Indoctrination and Mind Control (P. Zimbardo & R. Vallone eds., 1983).

Organically Induced Behavioral Change in Correctional Institutions: Release Decisions and the “New Man” Phenomenon, in Biological and Behavioral Technologies and the Law (M. Shapiro ed., 1982).

Limits to Proselytizing, in The Brainwashing/Deprogramming Controversy: Sociological, Psychological, Legal and Historical Perspectives (D. Bromley & J. Richardson eds., 1983).

Organic Rehabilitation and Criminal Punishment, in The Psychosurgery Debate: Scientific, Legal, and Ethical Perspectives (E. Valenstein ed., 1980).

The New Biology and Dilemmas of Role Allocation: Who Decides? in Seattle Project Task Force on the Humanities and the Public Policy (1977).

Nonlegal Articles

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

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

A Skewed View of Free Speech at Harvard Law. Review of The People v. Harvard Law: How America’s Oldest Law School Turned Its Back on Free Speech, 92 Academe, Jul./Aug. 2006, at 69.

The Case for Latino Immigration, Pittsburgh Economic Quarterly 1, (March 2006).

Race Trials (2 book reviews), 82 California History, Spring 2005, at 74.

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

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

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

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

Notions of Race and Racism (Interview), Colby Reader, Winter 2000, at 8.

Bibliographic Essay: Critical Race Theory, Sage Race Rel. Abs., May 1994, at 3.

Critique of Stephen Carter’s Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby, 1 Reconstruction, No. 4, at 121 (1992).

Moral Experts in Court? The Jury is Still Out, The Center Mag., Mar./Apr. 1984, at 48.

Moral Experts in the Courtroom, Hastings Center Rep., Feb. 1984, at 27 (co-author).

Awaiting the Verdict on Recruitment, The Center Mag., Mar./Apr. 1982, at 25.

Limits to Proselytizing, Society, Mar./Apr. 1980, at 25.

Science and the First Amendment, 35 Bull. Atom. Sci. 60 (1979).

Pro and Con: Federal Intervention in Cults? Interview with Richard Delgado, U.S. News and World Rep., Dec.11, 1978, at 29.

Op-Ed Columns, etc.

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

A Flexible Plan (Responses to How Can the Democrats Win? By Rick Perlstein), Boston Review, Summer 2004, at 20.

Hate Cannot be Tolerated: Opposing View: Limits on the Most Offensive Forms of Speech are Reasonable, USA Today, March 3, 2004, at 12A [reprinted in Critical Thinking: A Student’s Introduction, 3d ed. (G. Bassham et al. eds., 2007)].

Racism Goes Beyond Black and White, Rocky Mtn. News, November 3, 1997, at 39A (principal co-author).

The Many Shades of Racism: Discrimination Dialogue Must Include Issues Affecting All People of Color, L.A. Daily J., October 28, 1997, at 6 (principal co-author).

Affirmative Action Critics Misfired, Denver Post, November 2, 1997, at 31.

Two Perspectives on Hispanics and the U.S. System of Justice (Interview with Richard Delgado), Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, August 22, 1997, at 8.

The Lessons of Loving vs. Virginia, Rocky Mtn. News, June 27, 1997, at 57A (principal co-author).

Statutory Rape Laws: Does It Make Sense to Enforce Them in an Increasingly Permissive Society? (pro and con), A.B.A. J., Aug. 1996, at 87 [reprinted in Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (C. Lee & A. Harris eds., 2005)].

Symposium: Do Prohibitions on Hate Speech Harm Public Discourse? Insight, June 24, 1996, at 25.

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

Freedom of Speech: Was the NAACP Right to Fire One of Its Lawyers for Representing the KKK? (pro and con), A.B.A. J., Dec. 1993, at 32.

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

Regulation of Hate Speech May be Necessary to Guarantee Equal Protection to All Citizens, Chron. Higher Ed., Sept. 18, 1991, at B1 [reprinted in Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking (G. Colombo et al. eds., 1995)].

Recent Developments in Legal Theory: How to Compare Apples and Oranges, 7 Const. Commentary 209 (1990) (principal co-author).

God and Gadamer: Politics and Conflict in the Heavenly Family, 6 Const. Commentary 7 (1989) (principal co-author).

Comment, Sovetskaia Rossiia (Moscow, USSR), Aug. 7, 1983.

Op-Ed Column, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 26, 1978 (with Jolyon West, M.D.).

Op-Ed Column, New York Times, Dec. 7, 1978.

Electronic Postings

Dear Mom (monthly advice column to the lawlorn), http://www.blackprof.com/.

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

Our Better Natures: A Revisionist View of Joseph Sax’s Public Trust Theory of Environmental Protection, and Some Dark Thoughts on the Possibility of Law Reform, 44 Vand. L. Rev. 1209 (1991) [reprinted as Trust Theory of Environmental Protection, and Some Dark Thoughts on the Possibility of Law Reform in Issues in Legal Scholarship: Joseph Sax and the Public Trust, Article 4 (2003) http://www.bepress.com/ils/iss4/art4/].

Poetry

Poem, High Country Runner Spends Summer by the River, 63 U. Colo. L. Rev. 944 (1992).