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
  

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