Angela P. Harris (born 1961) is an American

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, in the fields of critical race theory, feminist legal scholarship, and criminal law. She held the position of professor of law at

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, joining the faculty in 1988. In 2009, Harris joined the faculty of the

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Law School as a visiting professor. In 2010, she also assumed the role of acting vice dean for research and faculty development. In 2011, she accepted an offer to join the faculty at the

, and began teaching as a professor of law in the 2011–12 academic year.

Biography

Harris earned a BA from the

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in 1981, and her MA (1983) and JD (1986) from the

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. She clerked for Judge Joel Flaum of the

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, and worked as an attorney for the law firm of

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. She was tenured at Berkeley in 1992.

Recognition

Harris has won the Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction (2003; established 1995), and the 2003 Matthew O. Tobriner Public Service Award, a

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award, for commitment to academic diversity and legal mentoring. In 2008, Harris won the Clyde Ferguson Award from the

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Minority Section. Alongside

Kimberlé Crenshaw Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (born May 5, 1959) is an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory. She is a professor at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, where she specializes in race and gender iss ...

, Harris has been recognized as one of the leading scholars of critical race theory.

Selected bibliography

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