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Professor
John A. Powell, Esq.
Professor John A. Powell is a nationally recognized authority in
the areas of civil rights, civil liberties and issues relating
to race, poverty, and the law. He teaches civil rights law, property
law and jurisprudence and was recently appointed the Earl R. Larson
Chair of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law at the University
of Minnesota Law School. He is founder and Executive Director of
the Institute on Race & Poverty (IRP), which is located at
the University of Minnesota Law School. The Institute was created
in 1993 to focus on dynamics created by the intersections of race
and poverty. Its focus has always been on real issues that affect
real people, including metropolitan equity issues, such as concentrated
poverty, education, economic viability and urban sprawl.
Professor Powell received his B.A. Degree from Stanford University
and his J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt
Hall). After law school, he became an attorney with the Seattle
Public Defender's Office. In 1977, he received an International
Human Rights Fellowship from the University of Minnesota to work
in Southern Africa, where he served as a consultant to the government
of Mozambique. Professor Powell later served as a staff attorney
for Evergreen Legal Service and as director for Legal Services
of Greater Miami.
From 1987 to 1993, he served as national legal director of the
American Civil Liberties Union, where he was instrumental in developing
educational adequacy theory. Professor powell has taught at Columbia
University School of Law, Harvard Law School, University of Miami
School of Law, American University and the University of San Francisco
School of Law. He joined the University of Minnesota Law School
faculty in 1993.
Professor Powell is the author of many articles and books dealing
with issues of race and poverty and how to make our society more
equitable. He is a member of the National Legal Aid and Defender,
the National Housing Law Center Association, and the National Bar
Association. He is also a member of the American Bar Association's
Commission on Homelessness and Poverty and serves on the Board
of Directors of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council
(PRRAC), and the Minnesota Supreme Court's Implementation Committee
on Multicultural Diversity & Racial Fairness. He was the chair
of the City of Minneapolis Affordable Housing Task Force.
He was recently featured in an article published in the fall issue
of Colorlines Magazine entitled "What we need to do about
the 'burbs." The article is on the magazine Web site at www.colorlines.com.
Professor Powell authored an article entitled "Achieving Racial
Justice: What's Sprawl Got to Do with it?" in the September
issue of Poverty & Race published by PRRAC. Many of his articles
can be found in the News
Articles section of the IRP Web site.
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