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E-Mail:
kimfm@virginia.edu

Phone:
(434) 924-3299

Office: WB390

Secretary/Assistant:
Delores Clatterbuck

Center for the Study
of Race and Law

Subjects:
Criminal law, criminal procedure, constitutional law, affirmative action, integration, diversity and cultural preservation, race and the law, slavery reparations, jury representation

Kim Forde-Mazrui

Professor of Law;
Justice Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor in Law;
Director, Center for the Study of Race and Law
J.D., The University of Michigan Law School, 1993
A.B., University of Michigan, 1990

Kim Forde-Mazrui became a member of the faculty in 1996. He teaches courses in criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, and race and law. His research interests include race and criminal procedure, race in the child placement process, affirmative action, and reparations.

Forde-Mazrui is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, where he received the Carl Gussin Memorial Prize for excellence in trial advocacy and the Henry M. Bates Memorial Scholarship, the highest award given to outstanding seniors. He was note editor of the Michigan Law Review and a member of Order of the Coif, Phi Beta Kappa, and the Golden Key National Honor Society.

During law school, Forde-Mazrui was a summer associate with Dykema Gossett in Detroit, Michigan, and was program director for the University of Michigan Office of Minority Affairs. After graduation, Forde-Mazrui clerked for Judge Cornelia G. Kennedy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and worked as an associate with Sidley & Austin in Washington, D.C.

Scholarship Profile: Examining Race and Law (Virginia Journal 2005)

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