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Tel: 215.898.5185
Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: raustin@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Feminism
- Insurance Law
- Law and Social Stratification
- Race Relations
Bio
Regina Austin, the William A. Schnader Professor of Law, is a leading authority on economic discrimination and minority legal feminism.
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Regina Austin, the William A. Schnader Professor of Law, is a leading authority on economic discrimination and minority legal feminism. Her work on the overlapping burdens of race, gender, and class oppression, widely recognized for its insight and creativity, has been widely reprinted. She is also Director of the Documentaries & the Law Project at Penn Law. Before joining the Penn faculty, Austin was a law clerk to a state Superior Court judge and an associate with the Philadelphia law firm of Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis. She has also been a visiting professor at Harvard, Stanford, Brooklyn, Columbia, and Fordham Law Schools.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - William A. Schnader Professor (1996 -); Professor (1990-96); Associate Professor (1983-90); Assistant Professor (1977-83)
Visiting Professor - Columbia; Brooklyn; Stanford; Harvard; Fordham
Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis - Associate (1974-77)
Law Clerk to Judge Edmund B. Spaeth, Superior Court of Pennsylvania (1973-74)
Representative Publications
Women’s Unequal Citizenship at the Border: Lessons from Three Nonfiction Films about the Women of Juarez, in GENDER EQUALITY: DIMENSIONS OF WOMEN’S EQUAL CITIZENSHIP (Linda McClain & Joanna L. Grossman, eds.)(forthcoming 2009).
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Sapphire Bound!, in THE REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS READER: LAW, MEDICINE, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MOTHERHOOD (New York University Press: 2008).
Super Size Me and the Conundrum of Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Class for the Contemporary Law-Genre Documentary Filmmaker, 40 LOYOLA L.A. L. REV. 687 (2007).
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The Next “New Wave”: Law-Genre Documentaries, Lawyering in Support of the Creative Process, and Visual Legal Advocacy, 16 FORDHAM INTELL. PROP. MEDIA & ENT. L.J. 809 (2006).
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Of Predatory Lending and the Democratization of Credit: Preserving the
Social Safety Net of Informality in Small-Loan Transactions, 53 AM.
U.L. REV. 1217 (2004).
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"The Shame of It All": Stigma and the Political Disenfranchisement of Formerly Convicted and Incarcerated Persons, 36 COLUM. HUMAN RIGHTS L. REV. 173 (2004).
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Kwanzaa and the Commodification of Black Culture, BLACK RENAISSANCE/RENAISSANCE NOIRE (2004).
Back to Basics: Returning to the Matter of Black Inferiority and White
Supremacy in the Post-Brown Era, 6 J. APP. PRAC. & PROCESS 79 (2004).
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Speaking Volumes: Musings on the Issues of the Day, Inspired by the Memory of Mary Joe Frug, 12 COLUM. J. GENDER & L. 660 (2003).
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Step on a Crack, Break Your Mother's Back: Poor Moms, Myths of Authority, and Drug-Related Evictions from Public Housing, 14 YALE J.L. & FEMINISM 273 (2002).
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Mary Jo Frug's Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto 10 Years Later: Reflections on the State of Feminism Today, 36 NEW ENG. L. REV 1 (2001) (with Elizabeth M. Schneider).
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Race Statistics, Disparate Impact Analysis and the Economic Disenfranchisement of Minority Ex-Offenders, 4 RACE & SOC'Y 177 (2001).
“Not Just for the Fun of It”: Governmental Restraints on Black Leisure, Social Inequality, and the Privatization of Public Space, 71 S. CAL. L. REV. 667 (1998).
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