Keeping Up with Atiba: February Edition

Spring Semester: Sabbatical!

For this post, I want to announce my latest endeavor—sabbatical!

I am on leave from the West Virginia University College of Law this semester, and though I’ve been traveling last month, I am now living Durham, NC for the rest of the semester.

Specifically, I am spending this semester as a visiting scholar at the Duke University School of Law. I will use this time to work on a number of projects, including

• starting a long-term project on the theory (-ies) regarding race conscious remedies in modern civil rights law and their interrelationship with American democracy;

• starting a project to amplify public engagement by law professors in this important time for issues of constitutional and civil rights law; and

• ramping up posts to this blog and my co-edited blog, Race Law Prof Blog.

I am appreciative to Duke Law, and in particular, Dean David Levi, Associate Dean for Faculty and Research Guy-Uriel Charles, Academic Affairs Assistant Elizabeth Brooks, and the staff of the Law School and the J. Michael Goodson Law Library for accommodating me.

My office is cozy but useful. And in case you’re worried that I’m off and about without supervision, know that I’ll be under the watchful eye of President Richard Nixon (or at least his portrait).

Summer & Fall: Conferences and A Visiting Professorship

As you can see, I’ll be busy in Durham this spring (when not watching basketball!). As publishable products from these projects emerge, I will share them here. And to the extent I have additional engagements on voting rights issues, race and the law issues, and other matters of general interest, I’ll share them here too. So, stay tuned.

One last note: planning for my summer and fall has already started. I’m looking ahead to several conferences this summer and fall (including the Law & Society International Meeting; the Southeastern Association of Law Schools 2017 annual meeting, and LatCrit 2017).

Most important—this fall of 2017 I will be the Boden Visiting Professor of Law at the Marquette University School of Law. This will offer further opportunities for public engagement and teaching that you may find interesting. More on this later.

Author: Atiba Ellis

Law professor who writes on democracy, voting, and race. Expect blogs on voting and civil rights, racial justice, and the wholly random. Views are my own. View all posts by Atiba Ellis