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.

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Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

Girardeau A. Spann, Random Justice, 100 N.C. L. Rev. 739-784 (2022).
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Girardeau A. Spann, Good Trouble, U. Chi. L. Rev. Online, Oct. 30, 2020.
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Girardeau Spann, Gerrymandering Justiciability, 108 Geo. L.J. 981-1025 (2020).
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Girardeau A. Spann, Race Ipsa Loquitur, 2018 Mich. St. L. Rev. 1025-1093.
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Girardeau A. Spann, Good Faith Discrimination, 23 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 585-636 (2015).
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In The News
June 30, 2015

"SCOTUS to rehear college affirmative action case," coverage in Fusion, June 29, 2015, featuring Professor Girardeau Spann.

April 28, 2014

"The increasing significance of race," an opinion piece in Reuters, April 28, 2014, quoting Professor Girardeau Spann.

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