Angela Onwuachi-Willig

Boston University School of Law

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Boston, MA 02215

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1.

Just Another Brother on the Sct?: What Justice Clarence Thomas Teaches Us About the Influence of Racial Identity

Number of pages: 98 Posted: 04 Jan 2005
Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Boston University School of Law
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Pregnant Man?: A Conversation

Yale Journal of Law & Feminism, Vol. 22, No. 2, p. 207, 2010, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 10-259
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 17 Dec 2010
Darren Rosenblum, Noa Ben-Asher, Mary Anne Case, Elizabeth F. Emens, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol, Vivian M. Gutierrez, Lisa Chiyemi Ikemoto, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Jacob Willig-Onwuachi, Kimberly M. Mutcherson, Peter Siegelman and Beth Jones
McGill University Faculty of law, St. John's University - School of Law, University of Chicago Law School, Columbia Law School, University of Florida Levin College of Law, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of California, Davis - School of Law, Boston University School of Law, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Rutgers Law School, University of Connecticut - School of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Surrogacy, Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Family Law, Parenting, Gay, Discrimination, Race, Sex, Sexuality, Gender, Gender Identity, Class, Subordination, Exploitation

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Another Hair Piece: Exploring New Strands of Analysis Under Title VII

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 98, 2010, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-10
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 24 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 21 Jan 2021
Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Boston University School of Law
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Title VII, Discrimination, Employment, Race, Gender, Intersectionality, Hair, Grooming code, Dress code, Appearance, Undue burdens, Unequal burdens, Disparate Treatment, Disparate Impact, Bias, Stereotyping, Immutable, Mutable, Jespersen, Rogers v. American Airlines, Racism, Sexism, BFOQ

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By Any Other Name?: On Being 'Regarded as' Black, and Why Title Vii Should Apply Even If Lakisha and Jamal are White

Wisconsin Law Review, 2005, UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 67
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 14 Dec 2005
Angela Onwuachi-Willig and Mario L. Barnes
Boston University School of Law and University of California, Irvine School of Law
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Judging Opportunity Lost: Assessing the Viability of Race-Based Affirmative Action after Fisher v. University of Texas

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 62, No. 2, 2015, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-10, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2015-29
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 26 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2015
Mario L. Barnes, Erwin Chemerinsky and Angela Onwuachi-Willig
University of California, Irvine School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Boston University School of Law
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Brief of Amici Curiae Scholars of The Constitutional Rights and Interests Of Children in Support of Respondents in Masterpiece Cakeshop LTD, et al v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission

U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper, Working Paper No. 17-39, Georgia State University College of Law, Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-01
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 06 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2018
Catherine E. Smith, Lauren Fontana, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Tanya Washington and Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
University of Denver Sturm College of Law, University of Colorado at Denver - School of Public Affairs, Boston University School of Law, Georgia State University - College of Law and Emory University School of Law
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A Beautiful Lie: Exploring Rhinelander v. Rhinelander as a Formative Lesson on Race, Identity, Marriage, and Family

California Law Review, Vol. 95, 2007, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-27
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 27 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 19 Apr 2009
Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Boston University School of Law
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Family Law, Discrimination, Anti-miscegenation, Interracial, Annulment, Marriage, Race, Eugenics

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A House Divided: The Invisibility of the Multiracial Family

Harvard Civil Rights- Civil Liberties Law Review (CR-CL), Vol. 44, No. 1, 2009, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-26
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 16 Apr 2009
Angela Onwuachi-Willig and Jacob Willig-Onwuachi
Boston University School of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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housing, discrimination, title VII, interracial, marriage, Loving, race, racism, privilege, whiteness

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Cracking the Egg: Which Came First - Stigma or Affirmative Action?

California Law Review, Vol. 96, p. 1299, 2008, U of Cincinnati Public Law Research Paper No. 08-24, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-49
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 04 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 20 May 2009
Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Emily Houh and Mary Campbell
Boston University School of Law, University of Cincinnati - College of Law and University of Iowa - Department of Sociology
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race, affirmative action, education, law school

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Combating Discrimination Against the Formerly Incarcerated in the Labor Market

Ifeoma Ajunwa and Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Combatting Discrimination Against the Formerly Incarcerated in the Labor Market, 112 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1385 (2018).
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 24 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2019
Ifeoma Ajunwa and Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Emory University School of Law and Boston University School of Law
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Labor, Employment, Anti-Discrimination, Contracts, Incarceration, Reentry

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There's Just One Hitch, Will Smith: Examining Title VII, Race, and Casting Discrimination on the Fortieth Anniversary of Loving v. Virginia

Wisconsin Law Review, Vol. 2007, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-29
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 16 Apr 2009
Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Boston University School of Law
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marriage, realtionship, interracial, Title VII, discrimination, casting, First Amendment, film, casting, culture, race, racism, Loving

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Cry Me a River: The Limits of 'a Systemic Analysis of Affirmative Action in American Law Schools'

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 25 May 2005
Kevin R. Johnson and Angela Onwuachi-Willig
University of California, Davis - School of Law and Boston University School of Law
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The Admission of Legacy Blacks

Vanderbilt Law Review, 2007, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-02
Number of pages: 91 Posted: 07 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2012
Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Boston University School of Law
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affirmative action, native Blacks, immigrants, first generation, second generation, mixed race, stereotype threat, disadvantage, standardized tests

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The Return of the Ring

California Law Review, Vol. 93, 2005, UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 45
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 27 May 2005 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2009
Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Boston University School of Law
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Still Hazy after All These Years: The Data and Theory Behind 'Mismatch'

Texas Law Review, Vol. 92 pages 895-941 (2014), U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-14
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 30 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2014
William Kidder and Angela Onwuachi-Willig
UCLA Civil Rights Project and Boston University School of Law
Downloads 220 (238,801)
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Schuette, affirmative action, mismatch, graduation rates, African American, Latino, Fisher, earnings, labor market, Sander, Taylor, Clarence Thomas, stigma, cascade effect, racial gap, Proposition 209, California, warming effect, chilling effect, campus climate, racial isolation, Sweatt, Bowen

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Using the Master's 'Tool' to Dismantle His House: Why Justice Clarence Thomas Makes the Case for Affirmative Action

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 03 Feb 2005
Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Boston University School of Law
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Complimentary Discrimination and Complementary Discrimination in Faculty Hiring

Washington University Law Review, Vol. 87, 2010, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-11
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 24 Feb 2010
Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Boston University School of Law
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Title VII, Discrimination, Employment, Race, Overqualified, Disparate Treatment, Bias, Stereotyping, Faculty, Hiring, Racism, Labor

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Reflections on Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia Symposium — The Plenary Panel

Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, Vol. 29, 2014, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-26, Mississippi College School of Law Research Paper No. 2016-06
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 31 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2016
Maritza I. Reyes, Angela Mae Kupenda, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Stephanie M. Wildman and Adrien K. Wing
Florida A&M University College of Law, Mississippi College - School of Law, Boston University School of Law, Santa Clara University - School of Law and University of Iowa - College of Law
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For Whom Does the Bell Toll: The Bell Tolls for Brown?

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 01 Feb 2005
Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Boston University School of Law
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Undercover Other

California Law Review, Vol. 94, 2006, UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 66
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 13 Dec 2005 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2009
Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Boston University School of Law
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Critical Race Theory at 20

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 94, No. 1497, 2009, Boston Univ. School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 19-40
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 05 Mar 2020
Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Boston University School of Law
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(Re)Framing Race in Civil Rights Lawyering

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 130, 2020
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 13 Nov 2020
Angela Onwuachi-Willig and Anthony Victor Alfieri
Boston University School of Law and University of Miami School of Law
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civil rights, Jim Crow, poverty law, race, white supremacy, lawyering

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Next-Generation Civil Rights Lawyers: Race and Representation in the Age of Identity Performance

122 Yale Law Journal, 100 (2013), U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-15, University of Miami Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 14 Mar 2013
Anthony Victor Alfieri and Angela Onwuachi-Willig
University of Miami School of Law and Boston University School of Law
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civil rights, identity performance, working identity, double consciousness, double bind, professional responsibility, ethics, discrimination, objections, post-racial, segregation, racial identity, NAACP, representation, criminal defense, racial profiling, intersectionality, racial exceptionalism

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Representative Government, Representative Court? The Supreme Court as a Representative Body

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 90, p. 1252, 2006, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-28
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 16 Apr 2009
Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Boston University School of Law
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courts, judges, representation, diversity, civil rights, voting, Supreme Court

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The Declining Significance of Presidential Races?

Law & Contemporary Problems, Vol. 72, 2010, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-12
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 24 Feb 2010
Angela Onwuachi-Willig and Osamudia R. James
Boston University School of Law and University of North Carolina School of Law
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Obama, Racism, Class, Race, Classism, Stereotype, Black, Whiteness, Political, Election, President

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Brief of Amici Curiae Scholars of the Constitutional Rights and Interests of Children in Support of Respondents

U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-21, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 506
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 01 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2021
Catherine E. Smith, Tanya Washington, Lauren Fontana, Jessica Dixon Weaver, Cary Martin Shelby and Angela Onwuachi-Willig
University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Georgia State University - College of Law, University of Colorado at Denver - School of Public Affairs, Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law - Illinois Institute of Technology and Boston University School of Law
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Volunteer Discrimination

UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 40, 2007, U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-27
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 16 Apr 2009
Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Boston University School of Law
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employment, discrimination, Title VII, NBA, dress code, evidence, testimony, race, racism, anti-subordination, working identity

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Do Female 'Firsts' Still Matter? Why They Do for Female Judges of Color

Michigan State Law Review, Vol. 2012, No. 5, 2012
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 27 Jun 2016
Amber Shanahan-Fricke and Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Independent and Boston University School of Law
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Gender, Race, Judiciary, Diversity

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Racial Trauma in Civil Rights Representation

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 120, pp. 1701-1753, 2022, University of Miami Legal Studies Research Paper No. 4213647
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 12 Sep 2022
Anthony Victor Alfieri and Angela Onwuachi-Willig
University of Miami School of Law and Boston University School of Law
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civil rights, trauma, legal profession, legal education, lawyers

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Class, Classes, and Classic Race-Baiting: What's in a Definition

Angela Onwuachi-Willig & Amber Fricke, Class, Classes, and Classic Race-Baiting: What's in a Definition, 88 Denv. U. L. Rev. 807 (2011)
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 08 Mar 2020
Angela Onwuachi-Willig and Amber Shanahan-Fricke
Boston University School of Law and Independent
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A Room with Many Views: A Response to Essays on According to Our Hearts: Rhinelander v. Rhindlander and the Multiracial Family

Journal of Gender, Race and Justice, Vol. 16, No. 793, 2013, Boston Univ. School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 19-33
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 05 Mar 2020
Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Boston University School of Law
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