Professor Juan Perea, one of the country’s leading scholars on race and the law, will join the faculty of The John Marshall Law School for the fall 2012 and spring 2013 semesters. He will serve as the Distinguished Lee Chair in Constitutional Law.
During the fall 2012 semester, he will teach a seminar on “Race, Constitution & Equal Protection,” which will “explore the crucial roles that slavery had in the drafting of the Constitution in the decisions of the Supreme Court.”
Perea is a professor at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Prior to 2011, he was the Cone, Wagner, Nugent, Johnson, Hazouri & Roth Professor of Law at the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida. During spring semester 2011, he was the Distinguished Visiting Reuschlein Professor of Law at Villanova School of Law. He teaches and writes in the areas of race and race relations, constitutional law, employment law, and professional responsibility.
Perea received his JD, magna cum laude, from Boston College Law School. After law school he clerked for Judge Bruce M. Selya of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He practiced law with Ropes & Gray and with the National Labor Relations Board, Region One, both in Boston.
His articles have been published in Harvard Law Review, California Law Review, NYU Law Review, UCLA Law Review, and Minnesota Law Review, among others. He is the lead author of Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America (with Delgado, Harris, Wildman, and Stefancic) and co-author of Latinos and the Law. Perea is the editor of and a contributor to Immigrants Out! The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the United States (NYU Press). He is an elected member of the American Law Institute.
Edward T. Lee and his son, Noble W. Lee, collectively served The John Marshall Law School for 90 years, leading the school as deans for 65 of those years. The Lee Chair in Constitutional Law was established in 2010 to honor their contributions to the law school and the legal profession, and their shared interest in constitutional law.
Perea, as the Lee Chair recipient, will teach a constitutional law seminar each semester on a topic of his choice, serve as a resource to faculty and students, generate scholarly research on relevant constitutional issues, and publish scholarly articles.
