'The New Jim Crow: Racialized Social Control in the United States"

Michelle Alexander, Associate Professor of Law, Stanford Law School,will give the last lecture in the AAAS "Trajectories and Geographies of 'Jim Crow'" Series. Michelle Alexander has her BA from Vanderbilt U., and JD, from Stanford U. She served as Clerk to Chief Judge Abner Mikva, U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, 1992-93; and Justice Harry A. Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court, 1993-94. She returned to the academy after working as an Associate for Hogan & Hartson, from 1994-95 and for Saperstein, Goldstein, Demchak & Baller in 1995-97. After serving as Adjunct Professor, UC Berkeley (Boalt Hall) from 1996-99, Alexander spent a year as Senior Spaeth Fellow at Stanford Law School from 1997-98. She was Director of the Racial Justice Project sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California from 1998-2002 and Associate Director of the ACLU of Northern California from 2001-02. Alexander is a Member of the Stanford faculty since 2002 and Director of the Civil Rights Clinic since 2002.