Richard Delgado (born October 6, 1939) is an American legal scholar considered to be one the founders of critical race theory, along with

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. Delgado is currently a

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of Law at

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. Previously, he was the John J. Sparkman Chair of Law at the

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. 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

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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

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, and then attended the UC-Berkeley School of Law, where he earned a J.D. and served as an editor of the ''

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''. Delgado previously taught at the

, where he held the John J. Sparkman Chair of Law and taught courses in race and civil rights. Earlier, he also taught at

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for eight years and the

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for fourteen. He currently teachers at

, 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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References

External links

University of Alabama School of Law profile
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