Professor Lani Guinier
Publications
Representative Publications
Books
- Guinier, Lani. Tyranny of the Meritocracy. How Wealth Became Merit, Class Became Race and Higher Education Became a Gift From the Poor to the Rich (forthcoming Harvard University Press)
- Guinier, Lani. Introduction: from Racial Profiling to Racial Literacy: Lessons of 12 Angry Men (New Press 2011)
- Guinier, Lani & Gerald Torres. The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race,
Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy (Harvard University Press 2002)
(paperback edition 2003)
- Guinier, Lani & Susan Sturm. Who's Qualified?: A New Democracy Forum
on Creating Equal Opportunity in School and Jobs (Beacon Press 2001)
- Guinier, Lani, Jane Balin & Michelle Fine Becoming Gentlemen: Women,
Law Schools and Institutional Change (Beacon Press 1997)
- Guinier, Lani. The Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative
Democracy (The Free Press 1994)
- Guinier, Lani. Lift Every Voice:Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice (Simon and Schuster 1998)
Articles
- "Courting the People: Demosprudence and the Law/Politics Divide", 89 BU L. Rev. 539 (April 2009)
- "Foreword: Demosprudence Through Dissent", and Appendix 122 Harvard Law Review 1 (November 2008)
- " Beyond Electocracy: Rethinking the Political Representative as Powerful Stranger" , 71 The Modern Law Review 1 (January 2008)
- " The Law School Matrix: Reforming Legal Education in a Culture of Competition and Conformity, 60 Vanderbilt Law Review 515 (March 2007)
- "From Racial Liberalism to Racial Literacy: Brown
v Board of Education and the Interest-Divergence/Dilemma, 91
Journal of American History 92 (June 2004)
- "Admissions Rituals as Political Acts: Guardians
at the Gates of Our Democratic Ideals," 117 Harvard Law Review
113 (2003)
- "Confirmative Action," 25 Law
and Social Inquiry 565 (2000)
- "Lessons and Challenges of Becoming Gentlemen,"24
Review of Law & Social Change 1 (1998)
- "Reframing the Affirmative Action Debate,
"86 Kentucky Law Journal 3 (Fall 1997/Spring 1998)
- "The Future of Affirmative Action: Reclaiming
the Innovative Ideal", 84 California Law Review 953 (July 1996)
(co-authored with Susan Sturm)
- "Becoming Gentlemen: The Experience
of Women at One Ivy League Law School ",143 Pennsylvania Law
Review 1 (Nov. 1994) (co-authored with Michelle Fine, et al.
- "The Supreme Court, 1993 Term: Comment: [E]racing
Democracy: The Voting Rights Cases," 108 Harv. L. Rev. 109
(Nov. 1994)
- "Groups, Representation, and Race-Conscious Districting: A Case of the Emperor's Clothes," 71 Texas L. Rev. 1589 (June 1993)
Opinion and Editorial Pieces
- Speaking on in Dissent, New York Times, Op-ed, May 10, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/11/us/politics/11nominees.html
- "Trail by Firefighters, " New York Times July 11, 2009, (with Susan Strum)
- The citation by the Israeli Supreme Court: Trial by Firefighters, New York Times, July 11, 2009 (with Susan Sturm)
- "Tricks of Virtual Redistricting" Boston
Globe, March 13, 2006 (with Gerald Torres)
- "Our Preference for the Privileged,"
Boston Globe, July 9, 2004
- "Saving Affirmative Action and a Process for Elities
to Choose Elites," Village Voice, July 2-8, 2003
- "The "Quota" Smokescreen," The
Nation, February 10, 2003
- "What We Must Still Overcome," American
Prospect, March 12-26, 2001
- "The Future of Affirmative Action," Boston
Review, December 2000/January 2001 (with Susan Sturm)
- "An Equal Chance," New York Times,
April 23, 1998
- "The Real Bias in Higher Education," New
York Times, June 24, 1997
- "Can't We Talk? Beyond Winner Take All in Democratic
Process," The Nation, January 23, 1995
- "Don't Blame the Gerymander," New
York Times Magazine, January 8, 1995
- "Lani Guinier's Day in Court: Who's Afraid of Lani Guinier?," The New York Times Magazine, February 27, 1994
Interviews
- "The Meritocracy Myth," Dollars
& Sense Magazine, issue # 263, January/February 2006
- "Voting Rights and Voting Wrongs," Mass Humanities, Spring 2006