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FULL-TIME FACULTY

Frank Rudy Cooper
Professor of Law

 S H O R T   B I O G R A P H Y

Frank Rudy Cooper is a tenured Professor. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Duke University Law School, where he was a staff editor on the Duke Journal of Gender Law Policy. Prior to entering law teaching, he served as a federal district court judicial clerk, practiced law, and was a teaching assistant at Harvard University, where he won three teaching awards. He was previously an Assistant Professor at Villanova University School of Law. At Suffolk, he has taught Constitutional Law Constitutional Law/Criminal Procedure Criminal Law and Race, Gender Law. A leader in national Law Professor organizations, Cooper has served on the Boards of the Society of American Law Teachers, Latina/o Critical Legal Theory, and the John Mercer Langston Writing Workshop. His scholarly interests lie at the intersection of Criminal Procedure and Critical Race Feminism, especially as applied to policing and men of color. He has just published the co-edited volume, MASCULINITIES AND THE LAW A MULTIDIMENSIONAL APPROACH with Ann C. McGinley New York University Press, 2012, ISBN 978 0814769690.

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.



  S E L E C T E D   P U B L I C A T I O N S
 

B O O K S

 
Toward Multidimensional Masculinities Theory: The Gates Controversy, in MASCULINITIES AND LAW ( Ashgate Press, Martha A. Fineman and Michael Thomson eds., forthcoming 2011 ) (arguing analysis of the controversial arrest of Henry Louis Gates suggests masculinities theorists should incorporate critical race theory’s multidimensionality theory)

The King Stay the King: Masculinities and Capitalism in "The Wire", in MASCULINITIES AND LAW: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL APPROACH ( New York: New York University Press, Frank Rudy Cooper and Ann C. McGinley eds., forthcoming 2011 ) (arguing analysis of HBO police drama The Wire shows need for critiquing capitalism in multidimensional masculinities approach)

MASCULINITIES AND LAW: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL APPROACH ( New York: New York University Press, Frank Rudy Cooper and Ann C. McGinley eds., 2012 ) (collecting essays promoting synthesizing critical race theory’s multidimensionality theory with masculinities studies as applied to law)

Our First Unisex President?: Obama, Critical Race Theory, and Masculinities Studies, in THE OBAMA EFFECT: MULTIDISCIPLINARY RENDERINGS OF THE 2008 CAMPAIGN ( Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, Heather E. Harris, Kimberly R. Moffitt and Catherine R. Squires eds., 2010 )

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)

 

A R T I C L E S

 
We Are Always Already Imprisoned: Hyper-Incarceration and Black Male Identity Performance, B.U. L. Rev. ( forthcoming 2013 )

Identities Cubed: Perspectives on Multidimensional Masculinities Theory, NEV. L.J. ( forthcoming 2013 ) (with Ann C. McGinley)

Post-Racialism and Searches Incident to Arrest, 44 ARIZ. ST. L.J. 113 ( 2012 )

Hyper-incarceration as a Multidimensional Attack: Replying to Angela Harris Through "The Wire", 37 WASH. U.J.L. & POL'Y 67 ( 2011 )

Masculinities, Post-racialism, and the Gates Controversy: The False Equivalence Between Officer and Civilian, 11 NEVADA L.J. 1 ( 2010 ) (Lead article) (applying masculinities studies and critique of post-racialism to controversial arrest of scholar Henry Louis Gates).

"Who's the Man?": Masculinities Studies, Terry Stops, and Police Training, 18 COLUM. J. GENDER & L. 671 ( 2009 )

Race and Essentialism in Gloria Steinem, 11 BERKELEY J. AFR. AM. L. & POL'Y 36 ( 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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