Roy L. Brooks
Warren Distinguished Professor of Law
Professor Roy L. Brooks served as a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal, clerked for the Honorable Clifford Scott Green of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia and practiced corporate law with Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City before joining the USD Law faculty in 1979.
He teaches and writes in the areas of civil procedure, civil rights, employment discrimination and legal & critical theory. He is the author of more than 20 books, including Rethinking the American Race Problem (University of California Press) and Integration or Separation? A Strategy for Racial Equality (Harvard University Press), both of which received national book awards, and most recently, Racial Justice in the Age of Obama (Princeton University Press), Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black Reparations (University of California Press), and Structures of Judicial Decision Making from Legal Formalism to Critical Theory (Carolina Academic Press). Brooks has also written more than 100 articles and book chapters and has presented more than 100 papers. He is a member of the American Law Institute.
