Meera E. Deo
Meera E. Deo
Assistant Professor of Law
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles;
J.D., University of Michigan Law School;
B.A., University of California, Berkeley, with high honors
J.D., University of Michigan Law School;
B.A., University of California, Berkeley, with high honors
Phone: (619) 961-4227
E-mail: mdeo@tjsl.edu
Professor Deo graduated from Long Beach Polytechnic High School and then attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she majored in Interdisciplinary Studies (Comparative Cultures). As a law student and young attorney, she was an intervening defendant and member of the legal team supporting affirmative action in Grutter v. Bollinger. She also spent one semester of law school as an extern with the South African Human Rights Commission in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.
After graduation, Professor Deo practiced civil rights law with the ACLU National Legal Department in New York City and the California Women's Law Center in Los Angeles. She later enrolled in graduate school to develop skills in empirical research methods, earning a Ph.D. in Sociology. Her dissertation examined how organizational membership provides law students with various forms of social capital that can contribute to academic and professional success. Professor Deo's research continues to focus on issues of diversity, affirmative action, race, inequality and higher education.
Courses include:
Civil Procedure I & II, Law & Society.
Scholarships
ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND ARTICLE-LENGTH WORKS
Separate, Unequal, and Seeking Support, 28 Harv. J. on Racial & Ethnic Just. (forthcoming 2012)
The Social Capital Benefits of Peer Mentoring Relationships in Law School, 38 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 305 (with Kimberly A. Griffin) (2011)
The Promise of Grutter: Diverse Interactions at the University of Michigan Law School, 17 Mich. J. Race & L. 63 (2011)
Paint by Number? How the Race & Gender of Law School Faculty Affect the First Year Curriculum, 29 Chicano-Latino L. Rev. 1 (2010) (first author, with Maria Woodruff and Rican Vue)
Struggles & Support: Diversity in U.S. Law Schools, 23 Nat’l. Black L.J. 71 (2010) (first author, with Walter R. Allen, A.T. Panter, Charles Daye, and Linda Wightman)
It Matters How and When You Ask: Self-Reported Race/Ethnicity of Incoming Law Students. 15 Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology 51 (2009) (with A.T. Panter, Charles Daye, Walter R. Allen, and Linda Wightman)
Missing In Action: "Framing" Race on Prime Time Television, 35 Soc. Just. 145 (2008) (first author, with Christina Chin, Jenny J. Lee, Noriko Milman, and Nancy Wang Yuen)
Identifying Predictors of Law Student Life Satisfaction, 58 J. Legal Educ. 520 (2008) (with Nisha C. Gottfredson, A.T. Panter, Charles E. Daye, Walter T. Allen, and Linda F. Wightman)
India, Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society (2008) (edited by Richard T. Schaefer)
Without a Trace: Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders in Prime Time Television, in Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader (with Christina Chin, Jenny Lee, Noriko Milman, and Nancy Wang Yuen) (Min Zhou and J.V. Gatewood eds., New York University Press, 2nd ed. 2007)
Ebbs & Flows: The Courts in Racial Context, 8 Rutgers Race & L. Rev. 167 (2007)
Asian Pacific Americans in Prime Time: Still No Action (with Christina Chin, Jenny J. Lee, Noriko Milman, and Nancy Wang Yuen) (Asian American Justice Center 2006)
Asian Pacific Americans in Prime Time: Lights, Camera, and Little Action (with Christina Chin, Jenny J. Lee, Noriko Milman, and Nancy Yuen)( National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium 2005)
News
Expertise
Civil Rights
- Affirmative Action
- Race & Law / Race & Higher Education
