Regina Austin L'73

Articles and Book Chapters

“Second Looks, Second Chances”: Collaborating with Lifers Inc. on a Video about Commutation of LWOP Sentences, 22 U. PA. J. L. & SOC. CHANGE 71 (2019).

The Loving Story: Using a Documentary to Reconsider the Status of an Iconic Interracial Married Couple, 86 FORDHAM L. REV. 2635 (2018).

"This, Too, Takes a Village": The Social Basis of Sustained Black Homeownership as Illustrated in Three Documentary Films, in RACE & REAL ESTATE (Adrienne Brown and Valerie Smith eds., Oxford 2015) (© Oxford University Press 2015).

Ed Baker, Colleague, 12 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 939 (2010).

Documentation, Documentary, and the Law: What Should Be Made of Victim Impact Videos? 31 CARDOZO L. REV. 979 (2010).

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., 2009).

Sapphire Bound!, 1989 WIS. L. REV. 539 (1989); reprinted in THE REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS READER: LAW, MEDICINE, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MOTHERHOOD (Nancy Ehrenreich ed., 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).

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).

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).

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

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).

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).

“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).

More publications can be found here.

Working Papers

"Not Just a Common Criminal": The Case for Sentencing Mitigation Videos, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-19. (forthcoming)
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Race and Law-Genre Amateur Documentaries: Lessons Learned When the Subaltern Shoots

Documenting Injustice: Katrina, Class, and Visual Legal Advocacy

'Black People's Money': The Impact of Law, Economics, and Culture in the Context of Race on Damage Recoveries (July 26, 2003), U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 16-24.
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Research Areas

• Torts
• Insurance
• Law & Cultural Studies
• Minority Feminism
• Law-Genre Documentary Film Studies (Criticism and Production)

Positions

Penn Law - William A. Schnader Professor (1996- ); Professor (1990-96); Associate Professor (1983-90); Assistant Professor (1977-83)

Law Clerk to the Hon. Edmund B. Spaeth, Superior Court of Pennsylvania (1973-74)

Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis - Associate (1974-77)

Visiting Professor - Columbia, Brooklyn, Stanford, Harvard, Fordham

Courses

• Torts I
• Cultural Conflict and the Intentional Torts
• Visual Legal Advocacy
• Documentaries & the Law