 | Kenji Yoshino |
Kenji Yoshino, who has been named the inaugural Guido Calabresi Professor of Law, is a specialist in constitutional law, anti-discrimination law, law and literature, and Japanese law and society.
Yoshino's book, "Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Human Rights," published this spring, explores the pressure society exerts on individuals to "cover" -- i.e., to downplay a disfavored trait in order to blend into the mainstream -- and the potential discriminatory impacts. In its starred review, Publisher Weekly described the book as "an eloquent, poetic protest against the hidden prejudices embedded in American civil rights legislation." The book won a 2006 Critics' Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association.
The Yale scholar has also published work in a wide variety of academic journals, including the Columbia Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Stanford Law Review and Yale Law Journal. His writing has been featured in The Boston Globe, The Nation, The New York Times and The Village Voice, and he has appeared on "The Charlie Rose Show," Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor," C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" and the "Tavis Smiley Show."
Yoshino graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in English literature summa cum laude in 1991. During the summers of his undergraduate years, he worked as an aide for various members of the Japanese Parliament. Yoshino attended Magdalen College at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, earning a M.Sc. in management studies (industrial relations) in 1993. He then came to the Yale Law School, where he received a J.D. in 1996 and was an articles editor for the Yale Law Journal.
After graduation, he served for a year as a law clerk to Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. The endowed chair that Yoshino now holds is named in honor of Calabresi, a former dean of the Yale Law School.
Yoshino joined the Yale faculty in 1997 as associate professor and was promoted to a full professorship in 2002. He served as deputy dean for intellectual life at the Law School in 2005-2006, and is currently on leave.
T H I S
Kenji Yoshino is designated as the
first Guido Calabresi Professor of Law
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