Angela Harris

Angela P. Harris is professor emerita at UC Davis School of Law and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law and Political Economy. An award-winning law teacher, she pioneered courses on critical race theory; mindfulness and the law; environmental justice; and markets, class, and culture. The organizations she has helped found include the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at Berkeley Law and the Aoki Center for Critical Race and Nation Studies at Davis. She is the author of many articles on critical legal theory and has co-authored textbooks on criminal law; gender and law; race and American law; and economic justice. She seeks to bring compassion to the work of political, economic, and social transformation.