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FULL-TIME FACULTY
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Frank Rudy Cooper |
Professor of Law
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| S H O R T B I O G R A P H Y |
Frank Rudy Cooper was previously an Assistant Professor at Villanova University School of Law. During law school, he was a staff editor of the Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy. Following graduation from law school, Cooper clerked for US District Court Judge Solomon Oliver, Jr., in Cleveland, Ohio. After his clerkship, he worked in the Boston office of Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP and with the law office of Charles Trevillion. Prior to becoming a law professor, he served as a teaching assistant for undergraduate and graduate courses in African American Studies and Feminism at Harvard University. He was a three time winner of Harvard's Derek Bok Center award for excellence in teaching based on student evaluations. Professor Cooper writes in the areas of Critical Race Theory, Law and Cultural Studies, Masculinities Studies, and Constitutional Criminal Procedure.
Degrees:
BA, Amherst College; JD, Duke University
Subjects:
Constitutional Criminal Procedure; Criminal Law; Identity, Law, and Culture; Constitutional Criminal Procedure Theories.
Professional Activities:
Professor Cooper was elected the 2008 Chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Law & Humanities Section. Professor Cooper is a former Board Member of Latina/o Critical Legal Theory, Inc. (LatCrit). He co-chaired the 2004 LatCrit conference. He is a former Board Member of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT). He was local co-chair for the 2006 SALT teaching conference, which Suffolk hosted. He is Co-facilitator of the Boston Area Critical Race Theory Reading Group.
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MASCULINITIES AND LAW: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL READER (2011) (with Professor Ann C. McGinley (UNLV Law) - work in progress)
The Seesaw Effect: From Racial Profiling to Depolicing: Toward a Critical Cultural Theory, in NEW CIVIL RIGHTS RESEARCH: A CONSTITUTIVE APPROACH (Benjamin Fleury-Steiner and Laura Beth Nielsen eds., 2006)
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: The CRA’s Impact on Distressed Communities, in PUBLIC POLICIES FOR DISTRESSED COMMUNITIES (F. Stevens Redburn and Terry Buss eds., 2002) (with Clarence A. Cooper)
When Machismo Meets Post-Racialism: The Gates Controversy, forthcoming 2010 (work in progress)
Race and Essentialism in Gloria Steinem, 11 BERKELEY J. AFR.-AM. L. & POL'Y (forthcoming 2009)
"Who's the Man?": Masculinities Studies, Terry Stops, and Police Training, 18 COLUM. J. GENDER & L. 671 (2009)
Our First Unisex President?: Black Masculinity and Obama's Feminine Side, 86 DENV. U. L. REV. 633 (2009)
Surveillance and Identity Performance: Some Thoughts Inspired by Martin Luther King, 32 N.Y.U. REV. L. & SOC. CHANGE 517 (2008)
The Spirit of 1968: Toward Abolishing Terry Doctrine, 31 N.Y.U. REV. L. & SOC. CHANGE 539 (2007)
Against Bipolar Black Masculinity: Intersectionality, Assimilation, Identity Performance, and Hierarchy, 39 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 853 (2006)
Cultural Context Matters: Terry’s "Seesaw Effect", 56 OKLA. L. REV. 833 (2003)
Understanding “Depolicing”: Symbiosis Theory and Critical Cultural Theory, 71 : UMKC L. REV. 355 (2002)
The Un-Balanced Fourth Amendment: A Cultural Study of the Drug War, Racial Profiling and Arvizu, 47 VILL. L. REV. 851 (2002)
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Prof. Frank Rudy Cooper
Suffolk University Law School
120 Tremont Street
, Suite 320-C
Boston, MA 02108-4977
t. 617.573-8530
f. 617.305.3087
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