TJSL Professors Marjorie Cohn and Kaimipono Wenger will be panelists on Friday, August 9, at a special event, “The Intersection of Race and...

Professor Wenger’s research focuses on a variety of civil rights topics. His scholarship has appeared in or is forthcoming in the Wisconsin Law Review, American University Law Review, University of San Francisco Law Review, Loyola L.A. Law Review, Connecticut Law Review CONNtemplations, Thomas Jefferson Law Review and the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. His current work examines issues in critical race theory, reparations and apology for slavery and Jim Crow, theories of justice in mass restitution, LGBT rights, law and religion, and Native Hawaiian rights.
Professor Wenger has presented his work at a variety of events, including as an invited panelist at the Annual Legislative Conference of the Congressional Black Caucus in both 2008 and 2010. He was the Lead Faculty Organizer of the 2010 Women and Law Conference at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, which focused on “Women of Color and Intersectionality” and was held in conjunction with UCLA School of Law’s Fourth Annual Critical Race Studies Symposium. He also organized a 2006 conference at Thomas Jefferson on Taking Reparations Seriously. He writes for the legal blog Concurring Opinions.
Prior to joining Thomas Jefferson in 2005, Professor Wenger clerked for Judge Jack B. Weinstein of the Eastern District of New York (he was the “tobacco clerk” that year), and practiced law with Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP, in New York City.
Courses include:
Business Associations, Wills and Trusts and Critical Race Theory