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Girardeau A. Spann

James and Catherine Denny Professor of Law

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

Areas of Expertise:

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Torts

Professor Spann served as a staff attorney for the Public Citizen Litigation Group before joining the Law Center faculty in 1979. He is the author of...

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Professor Spann served as a staff attorney for the Public Citizen Litigation Group before joining the Law Center faculty in 1979. He is the author of several books and articles concerning race and the constitutional concept of equality. He is currently a member of the American Law Institute. He has served on the Board of the D.C. Neighborhood Legal Services Program, and has been a Trustee of the D.C. Bar Client Security Fund. He has also served on the Board of Governors of the D.C. Bar, the Ethics Committee of the D.C. Bar, and the Administrative Conference of the United States.

Recent Scholarship

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

  • Girardeau Spann, Advisory Adjudication, 86 Tul. L. Rev. 1289-1344 (2012).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
  • Girardeau A. Spann, Whatever, 65 Vand. L. Rev. (En Banc) 203-209 (2012).    [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law] [WWW]
  • Girardeau A. Spann, Fisher v. Grutter, 65 Vand. L. Rev. (En Banc) 45-55 (2012).    [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law] [WWW]
  • Girardeau A. Spann, Constitutional Hypocrisy, 27 Const. Comment. 557-580 (2011).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Girardeau A. Spann, Disparate Impact, 98 Geo. L.J. 1133-1163 (2010).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]

All Scholarship 2000 - Present

Books

  • Girardeau A. Spann, H. Jefferson Powell & John Weistart, The Contracts Experience (Durham, N.C.: Duke University School of Law DVD-ROM [ver. 2 & 3] 2003).   
  • Girardeau A. Spann, H. Jefferson Powell & John Weistart, The Contracts Experience (Durham, N.C.: Duke University School of Law DVD-ROM [ver. 1] 2002).   
  • Girardeau A. Spann, Michael J. Gerhardt, Thomas D. Rowe, Jr. & Rebecca L. Brown, Constitutional Theory: Arguments and Perspectives (New York: Lexis Law Publishing 2d ed. 2000).    [BOOK]
  • Girardeau A. Spann, The Law of Affirmative Action: Twenty-Five Years of Supreme Court Decisions on Race and Remedies (New York: New York University Press 2000).    [BOOK]

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

  • Girardeau Spann, Advisory Adjudication, 86 Tul. L. Rev. 1289-1344 (2012).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
  • Girardeau A. Spann, Whatever, 65 Vand. L. Rev. (En Banc) 203-209 (2012).    [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law] [WWW]
  • Girardeau A. Spann, Fisher v. Grutter, 65 Vand. L. Rev. (En Banc) 45-55 (2012).    [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law] [WWW]
  • Girardeau A. Spann, Constitutional Hypocrisy, 27 Const. Comment. 557-580 (2011).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Girardeau A. Spann, Disparate Impact, 98 Geo. L.J. 1133-1163 (2010).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
  • Girardeau A. Spann, Response, Doctrinal Dilemma, 158 U. Pa. L. Rev. (PENNumbra) 129-139 (2009) (in response to Kimberly West-Faulcon, The River Runs Dry: When Title VI Trumps State Anti-Affirmative Action Laws, 157 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1075 (2009)).    [L] [W] [WWW]
  • Girardeau A. Spann, The Conscience of a Court, 63 U. Miami L. Rev. 431-474 (2009).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Girardeau A. Spann, Postracial Discrimination, Mod. Am., Fall 2009, at 26-51.    [W] [WWW]
  • Girardeau A. Spann, Disintegration, 46 U. Louisville L. Rev. 565-630 (2008).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Girardeau A. Spann, Affirmative Inaction, 50 How. L.J. 611-684 (2007).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Girardeau A. Spann, Constitutionalization, 49 St. Louis U. L.J. 709-747 (2005).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Girardeau A. Spann, Neutralizing Grutter, 7 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 633-668 (2005).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
  • Girardeau A. Spann, Terror and Race, 45 Washburn L.J. 89-112 (2005).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Girardeau A. Spann, The Dark Side of Grutter, 21 Const. Comment. 221-250 (2004).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Girardeau A. Spann, Just Do It, 67 Law & Contemp. Probs. 11-21 (2004).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
  • Girardeau A. Spann, Writing Off Race, 63 Law & Contemp. Probs. 467-477 (2000).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]

Book Chapters and Collected Works

  • Girardeau A. Spann, Proposition 209, in A Reader on Race, Civil Rights, and American Law: A Multiracial Approach 187-325 (Timothy Davis, Kevin R. Johnson & George A. Martínez eds., Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press 2001).    [BOOK]
  • Girardeau A. Spann, Pure Politics, in Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge 21-34 (Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic eds., Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press 2d ed. 2000).    [BOOK]

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