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Professor Brown was on the faculty of Indiana University Maurer School of Law from January 1987 until he took emeritus status in June 2022. He then joined the University of South Carolina School of Law as the Mitchell Willoughby Distinguished Professor on July 1, 2022. Brown graduated from Yale Law School in 1982. He teaches Torts, Law and Education, Race & Law, and Transnational Inequality. Brown has been a visiting professor at the University of Texas School of Law, University of San Diego School of Law, University of Alabama School of Law, and the University of Illinois School of Law. He has been affiliated with universities on four different continents including the National Law School of India University in Bangalore, India; the Law Faculty of the University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa; and the School of Transnational Law of Peking University in Shenzhen, China.
An original participant of the Critical Race Theory Workshop in Madison, Wisconsin in 1989 and the first People of Color Conference held in Chicago, Illinois in 1991, for 37 years his primary research interests are in the areas of race, law and education and transnational inequality. Brown has published over 90 articles or comments on issues such as critical race theory, school desegregation, affirmative action, African-American Immersion Schools, international boarding schools for African-Americans, increasing school choice, the impact of the African-Americans on anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, and the inspiration the 250 million Dalits in India have drawn from African-Americans. Carolina Academic Press published his 2005 book entitled, Race, Law and Education in the Post Desegregation Era and his 2014 book entitled, Because of Our Success: The Changing Racial and Ethnic Ancestry of Blacks on Affirmative Action. Brown’s current book project is tentatively entitled CASTE ANALOGY REMIX: The Benefits for the Black Community from Comparing Their Liberation Struggle to that of Dalits in India.
A frequent speaker at scholarly conferences, Brown has spoken of issues of race, education, diversity or the global impact of African-Americans over 300 times including at the annual Convention of the NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus Braintrust Meetings, the American Bar Association, and the celebration of the Justices of the Indiana Supreme Court for the 50th Anniversary of Brown v Board of Education; at several leading law schools and universities including Harvard, Columbia, NYU, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Duke, Cornell, Emory, Northwestern, UCLA, and Texas; and including at Leeds University, Oxford University, University of Kasel, Al-Quds University outside Jerusalem, School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London, School of Law and Humanities of China University of Mining and Technology-Beijing and the School of Transnational Law of Peking University, School of Law.
Professor Brown has a special relationship to the Dalit struggle in India. His first trip to India was a 5-month Fulbright Lectureship from Dec 1996 to May 1997. He has also led a group of 13, mostly African-American professors, on a 17-day trip through India in October of 2012. During this trip, their group participated in three academic conferences comparing the struggles of African-Americans with those of Dalits. He led a different group of 11 professors on a similar three-week journey to India in June and July of 2015 where they participated in five academic conferences structured on the same theme. Together, he has participated in over a dozen conferences in India comparing the liberation struggles of Dalits and African-Americans at institutions including the Indian Institute for Dalit Studies, University of Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jindal Global Law School, National Law School in Bangalore, University of Mumbai and the Tata Institute. Brown has also spoken at celebrations of the work of Dr. Ambedkar in London, at Columbia University, New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Varanasi, and Bangalore.
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