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Lolita Buckner Inniss serves as Dean and Provost's Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School, with affiliations at the Center for African & African American Studies. Her scholarly work bridges legal history, feminist theory, and racial justice, focusing on slavery's legacy, gendered legal structures, and social movement impact on law.
- Princeton University '79 (A.B. in Romance Languages/Literature, certificates in African American and Latin American Studies)
- UCLA School of Law J.D.
- Osgoode Hall Law School (York University) LL.M. and Ph.D.
Her research explores:
- Slavery's historical and contemporary legal legacies
- Racialized spatial dynamics in legal systems
- Gender and property law intersections
- Legal narratives in social movements
Key scholarly contributions include:
- The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson (Fordham, 2020) - analyzed Princeton's slavery ties through an individual's life
- Social Movements and the Law (UC Press, 2024) - examines law-movement interplay
Awards include:
- New Jersey Academic Alliance Book Award (2022)
- Invited nominee for Yale Gilder Lehrman Frederick Douglass Book Prize
- Mary Jane Mossman Award for Feminist Legal Studies
- Peter Hogg Scholar designation
As academic leader:
- Recruited record faculty cohort at Colorado Law
- Secured major clinical education gift
- Former SMU Distinguished Professor
- Joseph C. Hostetler–Baker Chair holder
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