Kevin Woodson
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Profile
Before coming to Richmond Law, Kevin Woodson was an associate professor at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law at Drexel University in Philadelphia, where his scholarship focused on employment discrimination, racial diversity in higher education and the professions, and education reform. His works have appeared in Fordham Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, and Georgia Law Review, amongst other venues, and his book, The Black Ceiling: How Race Still Matters in the Elite Workplace, is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press in 2023. Woodson was an associate at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr in Washington, D.C. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy from Princeton University, his J.D. from Yale Law School, and his B.A. from Columbia University.
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Professional Experience
Professor of Law (2018 - present)
University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, VAAssociate Professor of Law (2011 - 2017)
Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PAAssociate (2003 - 2006)
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP, Washington, DC
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Professional Experience
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Publications
Books
The Black Ceiling: How Race Still Matters in the Elite Workplace (University of Chicago Press) (2023).
Journal ArticlesEntrenched Racial Hierarchy: Educational Inequality from the Cradle to the LSAT, 105 Minnesota Law Review 481 (2021).
Why Kindergarten Is Too Late: The Need for Early Childhood Remedies in School Finance Litigation, 70 Arkansas Law Review 87 (2017).
Derivative Racial Discrimination, 12 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 335 (2016).
Diversity without Integration, 120 Penn State Law Review 807 (2016).
Human Capital Discrimination, Law Firm Inequality, and the Limits of Title VII, 38 Cardozo Law Review 183 (2016).
Race and Rapport: Homophily and Racial Disadvantage in Large Law Firms, 83 Fordham Law Review 2557 (2015).
On the Need for Public Boarding Schools, 47 Georgia Law Review 113 (with Bret Asbury) (2012).
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In the News
In Their Own Words: Being Black In BigLaw (Law360 - Premium)
Mon., Aug. 31, 2020