Faculty Profile

Kevin D. Brown

Professor of Law

In the News

"US Supreme Court rejects school integration programs"Voice of America,  June  30,  2007

Biography

Professor Brown teaches Torts, Criminal Law, Law and Education, and Race, American Society, and the Law at Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington, where he has been a faculty member since 1987. He served as the Director of the Hudson & Holland Scholars Programs from 2004-2008. These programs recruit high achieving, underrepresented undergraduate students and account for more than 20 percent of the black and Hispanic undergraduate students on the Bloomington campus.

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Brown has been a visiting professor at the University of Texas, University of Alabama and University of San Diego. He has been affiliated with universities on four continents, including the National Law School of India University in Bangalore, India; the Indian Law Institute in New Delhi, India; the Law Faculty of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa; the Law Faculty of the University of Capetown in Capetown, South Africa; Adilet Law School in Almaty, Kazakhstan; and the University of Central America in Managua, Nicaragua.

His research interest is primarily in the area of race, law, and education. Brown has published over three dozen articles on issues such as school desegregation, African-American immersion schools, and increasing school choice. In 2005 his book, Race, Law and Education in the Post Desegregation Era was published by Carolina Academic Press. A frequent speaker at scholarly conferences, Brown has also addressed issues of race, law and education before groups at the NAACP annual convention, Congressional Black Caucus Braintrust Meetings, the National Bar Association, and the American Bar Association, as well as before the Indiana Supreme Court Justices.

Brown was the founder and director of the Indiana University Summer in Ghana Program, an initiative that gives undergraduate students exposure to Ghana's social, economic, educational, and cultural conditions.

As director of the Hudson & Holland Scholars Program, he oversaw a program that recruited high-achieving underrepresented minorities to the undergraduate student body of Indiana University Bloomington.

Selected Works

• RACE, LAW AND EDUCATION IN THE POST-DESEGREGATION ERA: Four Perspectives On Desegregation And Resegregation (2005 Carolina Academic Press)
• Demise Of The Talented Tenth: Affirmative Action And The Overrepresentation Of Black Biracials And Black Immigrants (co-authored with Jeannie Bell and forthcoming in the 2008 Ohio State Law Journal, as part of a symposium issue entitled "The School Desegregation Cases and the Uncertain Future of Racial Equality")
• Lessons Learned from Comparing the Application of Constitutional and Federal Discrimination Laws to Higher Education Opportunities of African-Americans in the U.S. with Dalits in India as part of a symposium entitled "Race Across Boundaries" 24 Harvard Blackletter Law Journal 3 (2008)(co-authored with Vinay Sitipati)
• The Supreme Court's Role in the Growing School Choice Movement 67 OHIO STATE LAW JOURNAL 37 (2006) as part of the symposium issue entitled "Meeting the Challenge of Grutter-Affirmative Action in Twenty-Five Years"
• The Hypothetical Opinion in Grutter v Bollinger From the Perspective of the Road Not Taken in Brown v Board of Education 36 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO LAW JOURNAL 83 (2004) part of the symposium issue entitled "Race In Educational Policy"
• The Road Not Taken in Brown: Recognizing the Dual Harm of Segregation 90 Virginia Law Review 1579 (2004)
• African-Americans in the Context of International Perspective of Oppression 17 Temple International & Comparative Law Journal 1 (2003)
• Do African-Americans Need Immersion Schools?: The Paradoxes Created by the Conceptualization by Law of Race and Public Education 78 Iowa Law Review 813 (1993); An edited version of this article appears in CRITICAL RACE THEORY: THE CUTTING EDGE (ed. Richard Delgado) and RACE, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND AMERICAN LAW: A MULTIRACIAL APPROACH (eds. Timothy Davis, Kevin R. Johnson, & George A. Martinez, 2001)
• The Social Construction of Rape Victims: Stories About the Story of the Rape of Desiree Washington by Mike Tyson 1992 University of Illinois Law Review 997 (1993). An edited version of this essay appears in BLACK MEN ON RACE, GENDER AND SEXUALITY: A CRITICAL READER (ed. Davon Carbado 1999)
• Has the Supreme Court Allowed the Cure for De Jure Segregation to Replicate the Disease 78 Cornell Law Review 1 (1992); An edited version of this article is to appear in READINGS IN RACE AND LAW: A GUIDE TO CRITICAL RACE THEORY (ed. Alex M. Johnson)

Related Links

• Kevin Brown's Home Page
• Curriculum Vitae
• Publications