John Valery White | William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV

		John Valery White
		Dean and Professor of Law


		Phone: 702 895-1876 Email: john.white@unlv.edu



	Education: B.A., Southern University J.D., Yale Law School, 1991

	Dean White joined the UNLV Boyd School of Law from Louisiana State University (LSU) Paul M. Hebert Law Center where he was the J. Dawson Gasquet Memorial Professor of Law. At LSU, he taught for 15 years and wrote and lectured extensively about civil rights law. A recent article, The Persistence of Race Politics and the Restraint of Recovery in Katrina’s Wake, was published in the 2006 anthology, After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina. Dean White was also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Insubria in Como, Italy, where he worked on the role of civil rights law and multicultural theories in responding to globalism. He helped organize and direct a summer school in comparative law in Insubria and twice directed the LSU summer program in Lyon, France. Before teaching law, he was an Orville Schell Fellow at Human Rights Watch in New York City where he worked on prison and human rights practices in Egypt. Dean White received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1991, where he was a notes and topics editor for the Yale Law Journal and participated in the Jerome N. Frank Legal Service Organization.

	Areas of Expertise: Civil Rights Employment Discrimination Race and Law

	Selected Publications: BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS AND BOOK CHAPTERS Multiculturalism and Civil Rights in the United States: Lessons for Europe?, in Multiculturalisms (Barbara Pozzo, ed., forthcoming). The Persistence of Race Politics and the Restraint of Recovery in Katrina’s Wake, in After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina (David Dante Troutt, ed., 2006). Just ‘Cause (or Just Cause): On August Wilson’s Case for a Black Theater, in August Wilson, Black Aesthetics, and the New Black Arts Movement (Sandra G. Shannon, Dana A. Williams, eds., 2004). Women or Rights: How Should Women’s Rights be Conceived and Implemented, in 2 Women and International Human Rights Law: Women’s Human Rights 51 (Kelly D. Askin, et al., eds., 1999) (with Christopher L. Blakesley). LAW REVIEW ARTICLES Globalism and the American Civil Rights Model: Toward an Assimilation Law, Proceedings of the XVII Colloquio Biennale, Associazione Italiana Di Diritto Comparato (2006). The Turner Thesis, Black Migration, and the (Misapplied) Immigrant Explanation of Black Poverty, 5 Nev. L.J. 5 (2004) (Symposium). Hein Lexis Westlaw What is Affirmative Action?, 78 Tul. L. Rev. 2117 (2004) (Symposium). Hein Lexis Westlaw Foreword: Is Civil Rights Law Dead?, 63 La. L. Rev. 609 (2003) (Symposium). Hein Lexis Westlaw ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS Essay: Federalism and the Challenge for Human and Civil Rights, E-Publication, center for State Constitutional Studies, http://Camlaw.Rutgers.Edu/Statecon/Subpapers.Html,(2004) Also Reproduced at www.Federalismi.It (2004). --> More Publications (pdf)

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