Richard Delgado (born October 6, 1939)
is an
American legal scholar considered to be one the founders of
critical race theory, along with
Derrick Bell
Derrick Albert Bell Jr. (November 6, 1930 – October 5, 2011) was an American lawyer, professor, and civil rights activist. Bell worked for first the U.S. Justice Department, then the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, where he supervised over 300 scho ...
. Delgado is currently a
Distinguished Professor
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In the United States
Often specific to one institution, titles such ...
of Law at
Seattle University School of Law
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The School is accredit ...
. Previously, he was the John J. Sparkman Chair of Law at the
University of Alabama School of Law
The University of Alabama School of Law, (formerly known as the Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr. School of Law at The University of Alabama) located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama is a nationally ranked top-tier law school and the only public law school in the st ...
. He has written and co-authored numerous articles and books, many with his wife, Jean Stefancic. He is also notable for his scholarship on
hate speech and for introducing storytelling into legal scholarship.
Biography
The son of a Mexican-American father who immigrated to the
United States
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by himself at the age of 15, Delgado grew up in a migratory household and attended public schools as a child. He earned an A.B. in philosophy and mathematics at the
University of Washington
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Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattl ...
, and then attended the
UC-Berkeley School of Law, where he earned a J.D. and served as an editor of the ''
California Law Review
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''.
Delgado previously taught at the
University of Alabama School of Law
The University of Alabama School of Law, (formerly known as the Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr. School of Law at The University of Alabama) located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama is a nationally ranked top-tier law school and the only public law school in the st ...
, where he held the John J. Sparkman Chair of Law and taught courses in race and civil rights. Earlier, he also taught at
UCLA Law School
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for eight years and the
University of Colorado
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for fourteen.
He currently teachers at
Seattle University School of Law
Seattle University School of Law, or Seattle Law School, or SU Law (formerly University of Puget Sound School of Law) is the law school affiliated with Seattle University, the Northwest's largest independent university.
The School is accredit ...
, where he is a
distinguished professor of law.
A prolific scholar whose works have appeared in top law reviews and presses and received numerous national awards, Delgado is an amateur cloud-watcher, retired track athlete, and fiction writer.
Selected bibliography
Books
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Journal articles
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Active Rationality in Judicial Review. Minnesota Law Review'
University of Minnesota Law School vi
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References
External links
University of Alabama School of Law profile
1939 births
Living people
American academics of Mexican descent
20th-century American lawyers
American legal scholars
Legal educators
Legal writers
Seattle University faculty
UC Berkeley School of Law alumni
University of Colorado faculty
University of Pittsburgh faculty
University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences alumni
21st-century American lawyers
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