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Professor Fair's Curriculum Vita onlineProfessor Bryan K. Fair joined the School of Law in 1991. He was named the Thomas E. Skinner Professor of Law in 2000. After earning his law degree from UCLA, Professor Fair worked as an associate with Bryan, Cave, McPheeters & McRoberts in Los Angeles. In 1987 he joined the UCLA faculty as a lecturer and co-directed UCLA's academic support program. He served as a commissioner of the California State Bar Commission on Minority Access to the Legal Profession and as a Public Counsel legal services volunteer. Professor Fair has twice been named a Dean's Scholar at UA law school, and is a frequent commentator in local, national, and international press on the constitutional issues pending before the Supreme Court. He is a contributor to the NPR and Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania's Talking Justice Blog. He is a nine-time member of the law school commencement hooding team (selected by students), and has twice been named the law school=s outstanding faculty member (selected by students). Professor Fair has served as the faculty advisor to the Jessup International Moot Court Team, Black Law Students Association, Outlaw, Law Democrats, and other student groups. He directs the University of Fribourg/UA cooperative educational program and serves as a summer academic support administrator and teacher. Professor Fair has also taught at Seattle University Law School, the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and The Australian National University. Professor Fair served as an assistant vice president for academic affairs at the University from 1994 to 1997. He is the author of Notes of a Racial Caste Baby: Colorblindness and the End of Affirmative Action (NYU Press 1997). He is a member of the American Law Institute and has frequently served on LSAC and ABA committees. He serves on the Board of Directors of Equal Justice Initiative, Inc., Alabama Appleseed, and the Alabama Credit Union. Professor Fair's research agenda remains focused on equality theory, with the central theme that equal protection jurisprudence has lost its anticaste moorings, rendering it largely obsolete to address all forms of American caste. |
