ABBREVIATED VITA
LINDA SHERYL GREENE DEAN AND MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION PROFESSOR MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW
EDUCATION: A.B. California State University Long Beach J.D. University of California Berkeley
BAR: Member, California Bar
HONORS: Life Member, American Law Institute American Bar Association, Honorary Fellow
RECENT EMPLOYMENT
August 1989-2021 Full Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School 1999-2021 Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law 2021 Professor Emerita
January 2013-January 2014 (On Leave from UW-Madison) Inaugural Vice Chancellor, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, University of California at San Diego
August 2011-2012(On Leave from UW-Madison) Inaugural Lee Visiting Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Illinois Chicago Law School (formerly John Marshall), Chicago, Illinois
SELECTED FORMER EMPLOYMENT June 1986-August 1989 Counsel, United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (Judicial Appointments, Constitutional Law and Constitutional Amendments, Civil Rights Legislation, Federal Court Jurisdiction)
January 1985-June 1986 Visiting Professor, Georgetown University Law Center (Constitutional Law, Race Conscious Remedies)
January 1984-December 1984 Visiting Professor, Harvard University Law School, (Constitutional Law, Employment Discrimination Law, Federalism)
May 1977-July 1978 Deputy City Attorney, City Attorney's Office, Los Angeles, California (Civil and Constitutional Rights Policy)
July 1974-May 1977 Civil Rights Attorney, NAACP Legal Defense Fund (Litigation, Housing Discrimination Class Actions, Employment Discrimination Class Actions, Death Penalty Cases)
HONORS American Bar Foundation Honorary Fellow (Invited November 2019) American Law Institute, Elected 1991, Life Member 2016
WORKS IN PROGRESS TOWARD AN INCLUSIVE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY: THE DISSENTING OPINIONS OF THURGOOD MARSHALL (with Wendy Scott), (Carolina Press 2022).
RECENT PUBLICATIONS Critical Race Theory: Origins, Permutations, and Current Queries, 2021 WIS. L. REV. 259-268 (2021), on the origins of Critical Race Theory and its contemporary iterations.
Up Against the Wall: Congressional Retention of the Spending Power in Times of ‘Emergency’, 51 LOYOLA UNIV. L. J 431-483 (2020), on the scope of presidential emergency powers.
Talking About Black Lives Matter and #MeToo (with Lolita Buckner Innis and Bridget J. Crawford), Symposium, 34 WIS. J. OF GENDER, L., & SOC’Y Winter 1-68 (2019), on the origins, intersectionality dimensions, evolution, trajectory, pedagogical, and transformative potential of these movements.
A Tale of Two Justices: Brandeis, Marshall, and Federal Court Judicial Diversity, 2017 WIS. L. REV. 401-427 (2017), on judicial diversity and its importance.
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Gender, Olympic Competition, and the Persistence of the Feminine Ideal, 31 WIS. J. OF GENDER, L., & SOC’Y 57-102 (2016), on the role of women in Olympic Sport.
Before and After Michael Brown: Towards an End to Structural and Actual Violence, 47 WASH J. L. & POL’Y 1-62 (2015), on race and policing in the aftermath of Michael Brown death in Ferguson Missouri.
African American Women on the World Stage: The Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing China, 1995, Black Women and International Law: Deliberate Interactions, Movements and Actions 147- 167 (ed. Jeremy I. Levitt, Cambridge University Press 2015), on the role of delegation of American Black women lawyers at that meeting.
The Battle for Brown, 67 ARK. L. REV. 131-157 (2015), on the contemporary importance of Brown v. Board.
SELECTED RECENT SERVICE
Member, Leadership Advisory Committee, Art Institute of Chicago, 2019-present.
Member, Fall 2019 ABA Site Inspection Team, Seattle University School of Law (Finances, Facilities, Governance), November 2-6, 2019
Planning Committee and Speaker, CLE Seminar “Policing Under the Federal Consent Decree”, Chicago Bar Association and the Public Affairs Committee of the Union League Club of Chicago, April 24, 2019
Member, Criminal Justice Subcommittee, Public Affairs Committee, Union League Club of Chicago, 2019- present
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Member, National Institutes of Health National Advisory Council on Minority Health Disparities, 2014 to February 2019
American Association of Law Schools Representative to the American Council of Learned Societies, 2011- 2018
Co-Chair, American Law Institute 1991 Life Member Class Gift Development Committee, 2015-2016
RECENT TEACHING Civil Procedure and Constitutional Law, University of Wisconsin Law School
“The Enforcement of Foreign Judgments and International Arbitral Awards”. Thammasat Faculty of Law, Bangkok Thailand, July 2019
“The Enforcement of Foreign Judgments and International Arbitral Awards,” Doshisha University Faculty of Law, Kyoto, Japan, August 2015
“The Enforcement of Foreign Judgments and International Arbitral Awards,” Doshisha University Faculty of Law, August 2011, Kyoto, Japan
“Art, International and Comparative Law, and Cultural Heritage,” Toulouse University-Whittier College of Law, July 2010, Toulouse, France
“The Enforcement of Foreign Judgments and International Arbitral Awards,” Cite Universite de Paris- Tulane University Law School, July 2009, Paris, France.
SELECTED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS SINCE 2015
Speaker, Antiracism, Education and Action: From Kenosha to UW-Madison, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) (November 18, 2020).
Panel Chair, Wisconsin Law Review 100th Anniversary Symposium, “Critical Race Theory: Origins, Permutations, and Current Queries” Panel (with Kendall Thomas—Columbia University, Mario Barnes— University of Washington, Tanya Hernandez—Fordham University, Angela Onwuachi Willig—Boston University, Angelica Guevara—Wisconsin Law Hastie Fellow, and Gloria Ladson-Billings—University of Wisconsin (October 23, 2020).
Speaker, Elections 2020: Insights from UW-Madison Experts, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) (September 24, 2020).
Speaker, BLSA University of Wisconsin Law School Black History Month Speaker, “The Desegregation of the Legal Profession”, February 26, 2020.
The Kavanaugh Roundtable, Law and Society Annual Meeting, June 1, 2019, Washington D.C.
Planning Committee and Speaker, CLE Seminar “Policing Under the Consent Decree”, Chicago Bar Association and the Public Affairs Committee of the Union League Club of Chicago, April 24, 2019, Chicago, Illinois.
Co-Convener, Co-Moderator, and Speaker, Symposium, “Talking About Black Lives Matter and #MeToo”, Wisconsin Journal of Gender, Law, and Society, April 10, 2019, Madison, Wisconsin.
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Speaker, “Presidential Claims of Emergency Power”, Symposium-Democracy: The Promise and the Perils”, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, April 5, 2019, Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker, Roundtable- “Hope and Disenchantment-Reparations and Reconciliation in a Comparative Context, SYMPOSIUM-RECOGNITION, REPARATION, RECONCILIATION: THE LIGHT AND SHADOW OF HISTORICAL TRAUMA; Stellenbosch University, December 7, 2018, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Speaker, Racialized Police Violence in America: Beyond Symbolic Gestures to Transitional Justice”, Fifteenth Annual International Conference on Law Athens Institute for Education and Research, July 16- 19, 2018, Athens, Greece.
Speaker “Racialized Police Violence and Transitional Justice”, Symposium: Is It Time for Truth and Reconciliation in Post-Ferguson America? Michigan State University College of Law, March 15-16, 2018, Lansing, Michigan.
Panelist, “The Role of the Branches of Government”, University of Wisconsin Law Journal Symposium on Modern Federal Judicial Selection, October 14, 2016, Madison, Wisconsin.
Moderator, “Panel on Entertainment Law in Music”, UW Madison Law School Sports and Entertainment Law Symposium, October 7, 2016, Madison, Wisconsin.
Roundtable Participant, United States Constitutional Roundtable, Oriel and Christ Church Colleges, Oxford University, June 10, 2016, Oxford, England.
Convener, Panel Moderator, and Speaker, “Justice Scalia’s Jurisprudential Legacy,” University of Wisconsin Law School, April 7, 2016, Madison, Wisconsin.
Speaker, “Diversifying the Supreme Court: Brandeis, Marshall, Sotomayor,” The Brandeis Centennial Celebration, Brandeis University, April 4, 2016, Boston, Massachusetts.
“Majoritarian Hegemony: The Future of Racial Minority Voting Rights in America?” University of Wisconsin Law School Symposium-Counting Votes for Election 2016: Democracy and Law in Action, University of Wisconsin Law School, April 2, 2016, Madison, Wisconsin.
“Fisher Redux: The Constitutionality of Higher-Education Race Conscious Admissions Programs After Fisher I and II,” University General Counsel Conference, March 24, 2016, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Convener, Panel Moderator, and Speaker, “Beyond Justice Scalia: Pending Cases, Potential Nominees, and the Confirmation Process,” University of Wisconsin Madison School of Law, March 17, 2016, Madison, Wisconsin.
Symposium Advisor and Keynote Speaker “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Olympic Sport and the Feminine Ideal,” The Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society 2016 Symposium—FASTER, HIGHER, STRONGER, FAIRER, BETTER? A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF GENDER & THE OLYMPICS, University of Wisconsin Law School, February 5, 2016, Madison, Wisconsin.
“The NFL Commissioner and Player Discipline-Arbitration Recent Developments”, Japan Sports Arbitration Association, June 4, 2015, Tokyo, Japan.
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“Intercollegiate Athletics in the USA: Beyond Amateurism and Towards Athletes’ Rights”, Chuo Faculty of Law, Ishigawa Campus, June 3, 2015, Tokyo, Japan.
“Race and the Roberts Court-The Voting Rights Decisions”, Waseda University Faculty of Law, May 27, 2015, Tokyo, Japan.
“Race and the Roberts Court-The Voting Rights Decisions”, Chuo University Faculty of Law, Tama Campus, May 25, 2015, Tokyo, Japan.
Conference Plenary Speaker, “The Empowerment of Women Faculty in the University: Strategic, Cultural, and Structural Approaches to Institutional Transformation,” Femmes, De L’objet au Sujet: Pouvoir Politique, Discours Juridique et Egalite Professional, University of Toulouse Department of Languages and Civilisations, January 17, 2015, Toulouse, France.
Convener and Moderator, Beyond Michael Brown and Ferguson: Effective Remedies for Police Deadly Force, American Association of Law School Annual Meeting, January 3, 2015, Washington D.C.
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