BRIAN K. LANDSBERG

BRIAN K. LANDSBERG
University of the Pacific
McGeorge School of Law
3200 Fifth Avenue
Sacramento, CA 95817
(916) 739-7103
[email protected]
LEGAL EXPERIENCE:
Academic
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of
Law, 2001-02
Professor of Law, Pacific McGeorge, 1986-present; Distinguished Professor and
Scholar, 2008Visiting Professor of Law, Pacific McGeorge (on sabbatical from Department of
Justice), 1984-85
Courses Taught: Seminar in Experiential Legal Education, Federal Courts, Civil
Procedure, Constitutional Law, Appellate Advocacy, State Constitutional Law,
Civil
Rights
Litigation,
Antidiscrimination
Legislation,
Comparative
Antidiscrimination Law, Complex Civil Litigation, Professional Responsibility, Fair
Employment Law in Europe and the United States, Critical Race Theory and First
Amendment
Program Director, Summer Law Institute, Kenneth Wang School of Law, Suzhou,
China, summer 2005
Visiting Professor, Zhejiang Gongshang University Law School, Hangzhou, China, Fall
2009
Visiting Professor, International Law Institute, Kampala, Uganda, The Role of National
and Judicial Institutions in Peace Building and Security, winter 2006
Program Director, USAID Grant for Enhancing the Rule of Law by Building
Professional Legal Skills, 2006-2012
Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law [Boalt Hall], spring
1995 and spring 1997
Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law School, 1981-84
Government
Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of
Justice, June 1993-January 1994
Chief, Appellate Section, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, September
1974-June 1986
Chief, Education Section, Civil Rights Division, October 1969-August 1974
Trial Attorney and Supervisory Attorney, Civil Rights Division, 1964-1969
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EDUCATION:
B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1959
LL.B., University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, 1962
Certificate in African Law, University of London, 1962-63
BAR MEMBERSHIP AND ACTIVITIES:
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United States Supreme Court Bar
Bar of District of Columbia (inactive)
California State Bar (inactive)
Ethics Committee, D.C. Bar, 1981-1984
American Bar Association
Board of Trustees, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights under Law
Member, Chief Justice George’s Working Group to commemorate the Fiftieth
Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, 2003-04
HONORS:
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Order of Coif
California Law Review
Ford Foundation International Legal Studies Fellowship, 1962-63
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar Fellow, 1979
Attorney General's John Marshall Award for Appellate Litigation, 1979
Assistant Attorney General's Special Commendation Awards, 1972 and 1978
Attorney General's Special Commendation Award, 1967
Distinguished Speaker, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, 2000
Eberhardt Teacher-Scholar Award, University of the Pacific, May 2007
◃ Honorary Professor of Law, Zhejiang Gongshang University School of Law, July
2007
PUBLICATIONS:
Books
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Representing Clients: Simulation Case Files for Legal Education [in Chinese]
(Zhejiang Gongshang University Press 2008)(co-editor with Luo Wenyan)
Global Issues in Employment Discrimination Law (Thomson West 2007)(with
Samuel Estreicher)
Global Issues in Constitutional Law (Thomson West 2007)(with Leslie Gielow
Jacobs)
FREE AT LAST TO VOTE: ALABAMA AND THE ORIGINS OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT
(University Press of Kansas 2007)
MAJOR ACTS OF CONGRESS [Editor in Chief] (Macmillan Reference USA, 2003)
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ENFORCING CIVIL RIGHTS — RACE DISCRIMINATION AND THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
(University Press of Kansas, 1997)
.Law Review Articles
Does Prison Reform Bring Sentencing Reform? The Congress, the
Courts, and the Structural Injunction, 46 McGeorge L.Rev. 747 (2015)
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Public Accommodations and the Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Surprising
Success?, 36 Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy 1. (2015)
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Enforcing Desegregation: A Case Study of Federal District Court Power
and Social Change in Macon County, Alabama, 48 Law & Society Rev. 867
(2014)
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Walking on two legs in Chinese law schools: A Chinese / U.S. Program in
Experiential Legal Education, Summer 2011 International Journal of Clinical
Legal Education 38
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Strategies to Increase the Availability of Skills Education in China, 22 Pac.
McGeorge Global Bus. & Dev. L. J. 45 (2009)
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The Role of Judicial Independence, 19 PAC. MCGEORGE GLOBAL BUS. & DEVEL. J.
331 (2007)
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Report Regarding the Pacific McGeorge Workshop on Globalizing the Law
School Curriculum, 19 PACIFIC MCGEORGE GLOBAL BUSINESS & DEVEL. J. 267(coauthor; 2006)
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Sumter County, Alabama and the Origins of the Voting Rights Act, 54 ALA.L.REV.
877 (2003)
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Safeguarding Constitutional Rights: The Uses and Limits of Prophylactic Rules,
66 TENNESSEE L.REV. 925 (1999)
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Balanced Scholarship and Racial Balance, 30 WAKE FOREST L.J. 819 (1995)
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Symposium: The Department of Justice and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 26
PACIFIC L.J. 766 (April 1995)
-author of Introduction
-member of panel on Vindicating the Promise of Brown -- School Desegregation
and the Civil Rights Act — Past, Present, and Future
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Equal Educational Opportunity: The Rehnquist Court Revisits Green and Swann,
42 EMORY L.J. 821 (1993)
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The Role of Civil Service Attorneys and Political Appointees in Making Policy in
the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, 9 JOURNAL OF LAW AND
POLITICS 275 (1993)
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Race and the Rehnquist Court, 66 TULANE L. REV. 1267 (1992)
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Review Essay, Caplan, The Tenth Justice, 6 CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY 165
(1989)
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The Desegregated School System and the Retrogression Plan, 48 LA. L. REV.
789 (1988)
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Other articles
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Introduction, Voices of the Civil Rights Division: Then and Now, 44 McGeorge L.Rev.
269 (2013)
Prefaces to Liu Ying, Skills Training Handbook for Experiential Teaching in Doctrinal
Law Courses [with Jarrod Wong]; Xu Shenjian, Handbook for Teaching Experiential
Legal Education; and Wang Shirong, Effective Practices of Experiential Legal
Education (2012).
California’s Affirmative Action Ban in the Ninth Circuit, JURIST – Forum, Feb. 23,
2012, http://jurist.org/forum/2012/02/brian-landsberg-affirmative-action.php
Promoting Social Justice Values and Reflective Legal Practice in Chinese Law
Schools, 24 Pac. McGeorge Global Bus. & Devel. J. 107 (2011).
Integrated Legal Education, Journal of Experiential Learning Legal Education
(China University of Political Science and Law), December 2010, p. 166
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A Train the Trainers Program for Building Legal Infrastructure in China, 8 The CIP
Report, Number 12, p. 6 (June 2010).
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Preface to Teng Hongqing and Changxing Liu, Access to the Justice: Clinical Legal
Education.
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The Kennedy Justice Department's Enforcement of Civil Rights: A View from the
Trenches, chapters 17 (at 194) and 18 (at 209) of the on-line book, John F. Kennedy
History, Memory, Legacy: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry, Edited by John Delane
Williams, Robert G. Waite and Gregory S. Gordon (2010),
http://www.und.edu/org/JFKConference/ .
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Screws v. United States, Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States
[McMillan Reference, USA 2008].
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Did We Always Care About Voting Rights?, published in History News Network,
<http://hnn.us/articles/39158.html>, June 11, 2007.
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How Will Alito Shape the Court, Legal Affairs Debate Club,
http://www.legalaffairs.org/webexclusive/debateclub_sg0106.msp, Jan. 9-13, 2006
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Brown v. Board of Education and the Role of the Lawyer, 104 SACRAMENTO LAWYER
12 (2004)
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Affirmative-Action Decision Indicates Shifts in Position, SAN FRANCISCO DAILY
JOURNAL, June 29, 2003, p. 4 [also in LOS ANGELES DAILY JOURNAL]
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Stay the Civil Rights Course, LEGAL TIMES, March 19, 2001, p. 66
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Good for Civil Rights; Good for U.S.A., NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL, Dec. 8, 1997
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The Federal Government and the Promise of Brown, 96 TEACHERS COLLEGE RECORD
627 (1995), reprinted in BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION: THE CHALLENGE FOR TODAY'S
SCHOOLS (Ellen Lagemann and Lamar Miller, eds.) (1996)
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The 'racist' caricature of Guinier, THE SACRAMENTO BEE, June 2, 1993, B7
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Civil Rights Enforcement After Ed Meese, THE SACRAMENTO BEE, July 31, 1988; THE
NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL, Sept. 12, 1988 [in slightly altered form]
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Student Pieces, 49 CALIF. L.REV. 558 (copyright), 368 (employment), 50 CALIF. L.
REV. 515 (1962)(Viet Nam intervention)
Book reviews
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Brian J. Daugherty and Charles C. Bolton (eds.), With All Deliberate Speed:
Implementing Brown v. Board of Education; Alexander Tsesis, We Shall
Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law, 44 Journal of American Studies
e21 (2010).
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Book review, David E. Kyvig, The Age of Impeachment: American Constitutional
Culture Since 1960, 76 Journal of Southern History 215 (2010).
Risa L. Goluboff, The Lost Promise of Civil Rights (Harvard Univ. Press 2007),
113 AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 1582 (Dec. 2008).
Howard Ball, Murder in Mississippi (UNIV. PRESS OF KANSAS, 2004), 36 JOURNAL
OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY 298 (2005)
James T. Patterson, Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and
Its Troubled Legacy (OXFORD UNIV. PRESS 2001), 107 AMERICAN HISTORICAL
REVIEW 247 (2002)
David E. Bernstein, Only One Place Of Redress: African Americans, Labor
Regulations, and The Courts From Reconstruction To The New Deal, 11 THE
LAW AND POLITICS BOOK REVIEW 243 (2001)
Paul D. Moreno, From Direct Action to Affirmative Action: Fair Employment Law
and Policy in America, 1933-1972, 18 LAW AND HISTORY REVIEW 240 (2000)
David Ray Papke, Heretics in the Temple: Americans Who Reject the Nation’s
Legal Faith, 8 LAW AND POLITICS BOOK REVIEW 443 (1998)
Starck (ed.), New Challenges to the German Basic Law, 41 AM. J. COMP. LAW
145 (1993)
Ellis, European Community Sex Equality Law, 40 AM. J. COMP. LAW 997 (1992)
Ripple, Constitutional Litigation, 2 CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY 535 (summer
1985)
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