Skip Navigation
Site Search

SEARCH  |  ADVANCED  |  A-Z

ABOUT PENN LAW   |   PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS   |   ACADEMICS   |   FACULTY   |   CROSS-DISCIPLINARY FOCUS   |   INTERNATIONAL   |   DEPARTMENTS & SERVICES   |   NEWS & EVENTS

Regina Austin
William A. Schnader Professor of Law

Regina Austin
William A. Schnader Professor of Law

Tel: 215.898.5185
Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: raustin@law.upenn.edu

Expertise

  • Insurance Law
  • Feminism
  • 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. [More]
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.

[Hide]

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

Super Size Me and the Conundrum of Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Class for the Contemporary Law-Genre Documentary Filmmaker, 40 LOYOLA L. REV. (forthcoming 2007).

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). - 07/11/06
[View Document]

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)

"The Shame of It All": Stigma and the Political Disenfranchisement of Formerly Convicted and Incarcerated Persons, 36 COLUM. HUMAN RIGHTS L. REV. 173 (2004).

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).
[View Document]

Speaking Volumes: Musings on the Issues of the Day, Inspired by the Memory of Mary Joe Frug, 12 COLUM. J. GENDER & L. 660 (2003).
[View Document]

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).
[View Document]

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).
[View Document]

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).

For additional publications, please consult
Current & Recent Research

 
Regina Austin

Curriculum Vitae

Related Links

Education

  • J.D. - University of Pennsylvania - '73
  • B.A - University of Rochester - '70

Courses Taught

  • Torts I
  • Insurance
  • Cultural Conflict and the Intentional Torts
  • Insurance Law, Culture, & the Maintenance of the Social Order
  • Documentaries & the Law
  • Visual Legal Advocacy

Research Areas

  • Torts
  • Insurance
  • Law & Cultural Studies
  • Minority Legal Feminism
  • Environmental Justice
  • Economic Discrimination
  • Law-related Documentary Film Studies

View News Items