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Brooks, Roy L.
Books
- Diversity Judgments: Democratizing Judicial Legitimacy (Cambridge University Press 2022)
- The Racial Glass Ceiling: Subordination in American Law and Culture (Yale University Press 2017)
- Jeju 4.3 Grand Tragedy During “Peacetime” Korea: The Asia Pacific Context, 1947-2016 (C&P Press 2016) (with Chang Hoon Ko)
- Civil Procedure (West Academic Press 2014)
- Civil Procedure: A Guide Through A Complex Course (West Academic Press 2014)
- Structures of Judicial Decision Making from Legal Formalism to Critical Theory (2nd rev. ed., Carolina Academic Press 2012)
- The Law of Discrimination: Cases and Perspectives (Lexis Nexis 2011) (with Carrassco & Selmi)
- Racial Justice in the Age of Obama (Princeton University Press 2009)
- Civil Procedure Basic Concepts (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 2005)
- Civil Rights Litigation: Cases and Perspectives (3rd ed., Carolina Academic Press 2005) (with Carrasco & Selmi)
- Civil Rights Litigation: Constitutional and Statutory Law (Carolina Academic Press 2005) (with Carrasco & Selmi)
- Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black Reparations (University of California Press 2004)
- Civil Rights Litigation: Cases and Perspectives (2nd ed., Carolina Academic Press 2000) (with Carrasco & Selmi)
- When Sorry Isn't Enough: The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice (Roy Brooks ed., New York University Press 1999)
- Critical Procedure (Carolina Academic Press 1998)
- Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials for an Advanced Course (West Academic Press 1996)
- Civil Rights Litigation (Carolina Academic Press 1996) (with Carrasco)
- Integration or Separation? A Strategy for Racial Equality (Harvard University Press 1996)
- Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials for Policy Analysis (West Academic Press 1995)
- Review of Civil Procedure (Spectra Publishing 1991)
- Rethinking the American Race Problem (University of California Press 1990)
- Questions and Answers: Civil Procedure (Spectra Publishing 1988)
Journal Articles
- Black Boarding Academies as a Prudential Reparation: Finis Origine Pendet, 13 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 790 (2023)
- Walking with Destiny, 60 San Diego Law Review 455 (2023)
- 2021 Special Issue: Racism without Racists—Systemic Racism: Patterns of Black Disadvantage and White Advantage Linked to Slavery, 58 San Diego Law Review 767 (2021)
- Racial Reconciliation Through Black Reparations, 63 Howard Law Journal 349 (2020)
- The Anatomy of an Apology, 87 Social Research: An International Quarterly 813 (2020)
- Subordination Discourse: A Critique of Trump’s Diversity Model, 4 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Public Affairs 203 (2019)
- Helping Minorities by Ending Affirmative Action? A Review of Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It, 6 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 69 (2014)
- Post-Conflict Justice in the Aftermath of Modern Slavery, 46 George Washington International Law Review 243 (2014)
- Cultural Diversity: It's All About the Mainstream, 95 The Monist 17 (2012)
- Making the Case for Atonement in 'Post-Racial America', 14 Journal of Gender, Race & Justice 665 (2011)
- In Defense of the Black/White Binary: Reclaiming a Tradition of Civil Rights Scholarship, 12 Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy 107 (2010) (with Widner)
- The Crisis of the Black Politician in the Age of Obama, 53 Howard Law Journal 699 (2010)
- Toward a Post-Atonement America: The Supreme Court's Atonement for Slavery and Jim Crow, 57 Kansas Law Review 739 (2009)
- Conley and Twombly: A Critical Race Theory Perspective, 52 Howard Law Journal 31 (2008)
- Affirmative Action in Higher Education: What Canada Can Take from American Experience, 23 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 193 (2005)
- American Democracy and Higher Education for Black Americans: The Lingering-Effects Theory, 7 Journal of Law & Social Challenges 1 (2005)
- The Slave Redress Cases, 27 North Carolina Central Law Journal 130 (2005)
- Brown v. Board of Education Fifty Years Later: A Critical Race Theory Perspective, 47 Howard Law Journal 581 (2004)
- Getting Reparations for Slavery Right - A Response to Posner and Vermeule, 80 Notre Dame Law Review 251 (2004)
- Toward a Perpetrator-Focused Model of Slave Redress, 6 Afro-American Law & Policy Report 49 (2004)
- Ancient Slavery versus American Slavery: A Distinction with a Difference, 33 University of Memphis Law Review 265 (2003)
- Rehabilitative Reparations for the Judicial Process, 58 New York University Annual Survey of American Law 475 (2003)
- Slave-Redress Litigation in the United States, 22 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 119 (2003)
- The Use of Policy in Judicial Reasoning: A Reconceptualization Before and After Bush v. Gore, 13 Stanford Law and Policy Review 33 (2002)
- Critical Theory Applied to Title VII, California Labor and Employment Law Quarterly 9 (2000) (with Kim)
- Public Interest Affirmative Action, 31 University of San Francisco Law Review 807 (1997)
- A Roadmap Through Title VII's Procedural and Remedial Labyrinth, 24 Southwestern Law Review 511 (1995)
- Analyzing Black Self-Esteem in the Post-Brown Era, 4 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review 201 (1995)
- Feminist Jurisdiction: Toward an Understanding of Feminist Procedure, 43 Kansas Law Review 317 (1995)
- Critical Race Theory and Classic-Liberal Scholarship: A Distinction Without A Difference?, 82 California Law Review 787 (1994) (with Newborn)
- Critical Race Theory: A Proposed Structure and Application to Federal Pleadings, 11 Harvard Blackletter Law Journal 85 (1994)
- Race as an Under-Inclusive and Over-Inclusive Concept, 1 Afro-American Law & Policy Report 9 (1994)
- A Critical Race Theory Critique of the Right to a Jury Trial Under Title VII, 5 University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy 159 (1993)
- The Essential Purpose and Analytical Structure of Personal Jurisdiction Law, 27 Indiana Law Review 361 (1993)
- Aristotle and Western Liberalism: The Fundamental Tenets of Judge A. Leon Higginbotham's Scholarship, 9 Law & Justice 419 (1991)
- The Ecology of Inequality: The Rise of the African American Underclass, 8 Harvard Blackletter Law Journal 1 (1991)
- Beyond Civil Rights Restoration Legislation: Restructuring Title VII, 34 St. Louis University Law Journal 551 (1990)
- The Affirmative Action Issue: Law, Policy, and Morality, 22 Connecticut Law Review 323 (1990)
- The Structure of Individual Disparate Treatment Litigation After Hopkins, 6 The Labor Lawyer 215 (1990)
- The New Law of Affirmative Action, 40 ABA Labor Law Journal 611 (1989)
- A Preface to Theories or Levels of Judicial Analysis, 1 Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 131 (1988)
- Racial Subordination Through Formal Equal Opportunity, 25 San Diego Law Review 879 (1988)
- Anti-Minority Mindset in the Law School Personnel Process: Toward An Understanding of Racial Mindsets, 5 Law & Inequality Journal 1 (1987)
- Civil Rights Scholarship: A Proposed Agenda for the Twenty-First Century, 20 University of San Francisco Law Review 397 (1986)
- Life After Tenure: Can Minority Law Professors Avoid The Clyde Ferguson Syndrome?, 20 University of San Francisco Law Review 419 (1986)
- The Federal Loan Guarantee Program: A Unified Approach, 10 Journal of Corporation Law 185 (1984) (with Cheever)
- Affirmative Action in Law Teaching, 14 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 15 (1982)
- In Defense of Court-Ordered Busing, 28 Yale Law Reporter 26 (1981)
- Currency Translations in the Registration Statements of Foreign Issuers, 35 ABA Business Lawyer 435 (1980)
- Rule 10b-5 in the Balance: An Analysis of the Supreme Court's Policy Perspective, 32 Hastings Law Journal 403 (1980)
- Small Business Financing Alternatives Under the Securities Act of 1933, 13 UC Davis Law Review 543 (1980)
- Use of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and 1871 to Redress Employment Discrimination, 62 Cornell Law Review 258 (1977)
- Skyjacking and Refugees: The Effect of the Hague Convention Upon Asylum, 16 Harvard International Law Journal 93 (1975)
Chapters of Books or Articles within Books
- Holocaust Redress: Its Effect on Slave Redress and Post-Conflict Justice, in Redefining Reparations: Wassenaar 1952 and the Global Politics of Repair (Lorena De Vita & Constantin Goschler eds., Routledge 2025) (with Joseph Bankman, Jacob Goldin & Ana Vasilj)
- Framing Redress Discourse, in NOMOS LXV: Reconciliation and Repair (Melissa Schwartzberg & Eric Beerbohm eds., New York University Press 2023)
- A Critical Perspective on Personal Jurisdiction: Kulko v. Superior Court, in A Guide to Civil Procedure: Integrating Critical Legal Perspectives (New York University Press 2022)
- Reparative Justice and the Post-Conflict Phase of Modern Slavery, in Contemporary Slavery: Popular Rhetoric and Political Practice (Annie Bunting & Joel Quirk eds., Yale University Press 2017)
- Systemic Racism: Sociolegal and Sociocultural Implications, in Systemic Racism: Making Liberty, Justice, and Democracy Real (Ruth Thompson-Miller & Kimberley Ducey eds., Palgrave Macmillan 2017)
- In Defense of the Black/White Binary, in Critical Race Theory: Cutting Edge (Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic eds., Temple University Press 2013)
- Japanese American Internment and Relocation, in Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (John Moore ed., 2nd ed., Thomson/Gale 2012)
- Reparations, in Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (John Moore ed., 2nd ed., Thomson/Gale 2012) (with Moore)
- Japanese American Redress Movement, in Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (John Moore ed., Macmillan Reference USA 2008)
- Reparations for Racial Atrocities, in Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (John Moore ed., Macmillan Reference USA 2008)
- Reparations for Slavery - The African American Struggle, in Repairing the Past? International Perspectives on Reparations for Gross Human Rights Abuses (Max du Plessis & Stephen Peté eds., Intersentia Press 2008)
- Litigating Mass Claims Involving Slavery and Jim Crow Under United States Law, in Redressing Injustices Through Mass Claims Processes: Innovative Responses to Unique Challenges (Oxford University Press 2006)
- The New Patriotism and Apology for Slavery, in Taking Wrongs Seriously: Apologies and Reconciliation (Elazar Barkan & Alexander Karn eds., Stanford University Press 2006)
- Clarence Thomas, in Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Studies (Ellis Cashmore ed., Routledge 2004)
- Drugs and Racism, in Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Studies (Ellis Cashmore ed., Routledge 2004)
- Critical Race Theory: A Proposed Structure and Application to Federal Pleadings, in Critical Race Theory: Cases, Material and Problems (Dorothy Brown ed., West Academic Publishing 2003)
- Reflections on Reparations, in Politics and the Past: Repairing Historical Injustices (John Torpey ed., Rowman & Littlefield 2003)
- The Nation of Islam and Racial Separation, in People Who Made History: Malcolm X (Jason Hunter ed., Greenhaven Press 2003)
- A Reparations Success Story, in When Sorry Isn't Enough: The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice (Roy Brooks ed., New York University Press 1999)
- Japanese American Narratives, in When Sorry Isn't Enough: The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice (Roy Brooks ed., New York University Press 1999)
- Japanese American Reparations and the American Political Process: A Unique Achievement, in When Sorry Isn't Enough: The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice (Roy Brooks ed., New York University Press 1999)
- Not Even an Apology?, in When Sorry Isn't Enough: The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice (Roy Brooks ed., New York University Press 1999)
- Redress for Racism?, in When Sorry Isn't Enough: The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice (Roy Brooks ed., New York University Press 1999)
- Slave Narratives, in When Sorry Isn't Enough: The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice (Roy Brooks ed., New York University Press 1999)
- The Age of Apology, in When Sorry Isn't Enough: The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice (Roy Brooks ed., New York University Press 1999)
- The Constitutionality of Black Reparations, in When Sorry Isn't Enough: The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice (Roy Brooks ed., New York University Press 1999) (with Bittker)
- What Form Redress?, in When Sorry Isn't Enough: The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice (Roy Brooks ed., New York University Press 1999)
- What Price Reconciliation?, in When Sorry Isn't Enough: The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice (Roy Brooks ed., New York University Press 1999)
- Wild Reparations?, in When Sorry Isn't Enough: The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice (Roy Brooks ed., New York University Press 1999)
- Affirmative Action, in Strategies for Argument: A Reader and Sourcebook (Sally Spurgin ed., Pearson Press 1991)
Other Print and Electronic Media
- The Need, and the Difficulty, of Collective Apologies & Forgiveness, Public Seminar (2020)
- Reparations Are an Opportunity to Turn a Corner on Race Relations, Los Angeles Times (2019)
- Judging Justice Alito, San Diego Union-Tribune (2005)
- Despite Promise, Many Blacks Still Lag Behind, San Diego Union-Tribune (2004)
- A Compromise on Affirmative Action, San Diego Union-Tribune (1996)
- Reforming the Judiciary, San Diego Union-Tribune (1995)
- Challenging Affirmative Action Misinformation, San Diego Union-Tribune (1995)
- Post-Mortem: What Went Wrong With Guinier Nomination: Oversimplified Discussion of Quotas is Still a Problem, San Diego Union-Tribune (1993)
- The Painful Realities of Integrated Schools, The Hartford Courant (1993)
- Making King a Federal Case Could Produce the Same Result, San Diego Union-Tribune (1992)
- Will Hearings Stifle Harassment Claims?, San Diego Union-Tribune (1991)
- What About Souter's Human Resume?, The New York Times (1990)