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Professor
Derek Black
Derek Black is an Assistant Professor of Law at Howard University
School of Law, where he teaches Education Law, Social Justice Lawyering,
and Torts. He has also taught Civil Procedure at Howard and Legal
Rhetoric as an adjunct Professor at American University Washington
College of Law. He is the author of numerous law review articles.
Professor Black is also involved with several public interests efforts
and groups at the law school. He is currently assisting the Student
Hurricane Network, organizing and supervising students in providing
assistance to victims of Hurricane Katrina. Similarly, he has assisted
in the public interest auction to raise funds for students’ summer
internships. Recently, he also co-authored the Howard Civil Rights
Clinic’s amicus brief before the Supreme Court in the voluntary
desegregation cases,
Prior to teaching law school, Professor Black was a staff attorney
for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. While
there, he litigated, NAACP v. Thomasville School District, a case
on behalf of African Americans who alleged that the school district
had been racially segregating students into separate schools and
classrooms and providing them unequal education ever since Brown
v. Board of Education. The case is currently on its second appeal
to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, where he continues to participate
as pro bono counsel. Similarly, while at the Lawyers’ Committee,
Professor Black was involved litigation to encourage school districts’ voluntary
desegregation and diversity efforts. In addition, he represented
students in disciplinary hearings, worked in coalitions to change
statewide disciplinary procedures, analyzed state educational systems
under state constitutions to determine whether they are delivering
an adequate education to minority students, and delivered numerous
presentations on minority students’ access to quality education.
Prior to working for the Lawyers’ Committee, Professor Black
was an honors attorney at Professor Black is a graduate of the University
of Tennessee at Knoxville, where he majored in African American Studies,
Political Science and Philosophy. Afterward he attended law school
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was
a member of the law review for two years, was awarded the Dan Pollitt
ACLU fellowship in his third year, and graduated with highest honors. |
