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Gary Peller

Professor of Law

B.A., Emory; J.D., Harvard

Areas of Expertise:

Civil Rights and Discrimination, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Education Law, Jurisprudence and Philosophy, Torts

After graduating from law school, where he served on the Harvard Law Review and won the Sears Prize, Professor Peller clerked for the Honorable Morris...

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After graduating from law school, where he served on the Harvard Law Review and won the Sears Prize, Professor Peller clerked for the Honorable Morris Lasker of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He was a member of the University of Virginia Law faculty from 1982-1988 prior to joining the Georgetown faculty. He has taught Constitutional Law, Contracts, Torts, Civil Rights, Bargain, Exchange & Liability, Criminal Procedure, Radical Legal Thought, and Jurisprudence at Georgetown. His writings are primarily in the field of legal theory and legal history. His most recent book is Critical Race Consciousness: Reconsidering American Ideologies of Racial Justice (Paradigm 2012).

Recent Scholarship

Books

  • Gary Peller, Critical Race Consciousness: Reconsidering American Ideologies of Racial Justice (Boulder, Colo.: Paradigm Publishers 2011).    [BOOK]

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

  • Gary Peller, History, Identity, and Alienation, 43 Conn. L. Rev. 1479-1502 (2011).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Gary Peller & Mark V. Tushnet, State Action and a New Birth of Freedom, 92 Geo. L.J. 779-817 (2004).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Gary Peller, A Subversive Strand of the Warren Court, 59 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1141-1165 (2002).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]

Book Chapters and Collected Works

  • Gary Peller, Civil Rights (Update 2), Entry, in 1 Encyclopedia of the American Constitution 399 (Leonard W. Levy, Kenneth L. Karst & Adam Winkler eds., New York: MacMillan Reference USA 2d ed. 2000).    [BOOK]

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Books

  • Gary Peller, Critical Race Consciousness: Reconsidering American Ideologies of Racial Justice (Boulder, Colo.: Paradigm Publishers 2011).    [BOOK]

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

  • Gary Peller, History, Identity, and Alienation, 43 Conn. L. Rev. 1479-1502 (2011).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Gary Peller & Mark V. Tushnet, State Action and a New Birth of Freedom, 92 Geo. L.J. 779-817 (2004).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Gary Peller, A Subversive Strand of the Warren Court, 59 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1141-1165 (2002).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]

Book Chapters and Collected Works

  • Gary Peller, Civil Rights (Update 2), Entry, in 1 Encyclopedia of the American Constitution 399 (Leonard W. Levy, Kenneth L. Karst & Adam Winkler eds., New York: MacMillan Reference USA 2d ed. 2000).    [BOOK]
  • Gary Peller, Critical Race Theory, Entry, in 2 Encyclopedia of the American Constitution 726 (Leonard W. Levy, Kenneth L. Karst & Adam Winkler eds., New York: MacMillan Reference USA 2d ed. 2000).    [BOOK]

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Gary Peller Profile
  • Email:

    peller@law.georgetown.edu

  • Address:

    600 New Jersey Avenue N.W.
    Washington, DC 20001

  • Office Location:

    McDonough 489

  • Assistant:

    Betsy Kuhn

  • Phone:

    202-662-9122

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  • Constitutional Law II: Individual Rights and Liberties
  • Bargain, Exchange, and Liability

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