John Valery White
Dean and Professor of Law
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Dean White joins 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.

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