Maurice R. Dyson
Associate Professor of Law
J.D. Columbia University School of Law,
with honors distinctions
A. B. Columbia College,
Columbia University, Deans List
Telephone: 619.374.6943
Email: mdyson@tjsl.edu
Following graduation from Columbia Law School as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Professor Dyson practiced law with the firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions, securities and leverage buyouts valued at approximately $166 billion. Professor Dyson has also participated in the landmark school finance litigation and in federal civil rights enforcement as the Special Projects team attorney for the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) where he was recognized for his work in inter-district funding equity analysis. A member of the Bar of the U.S Supreme Court, Professor Dyson has also served as the national chairperson of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Education Law, the national executive board member of the AALS Section of Minority Groups, a member of the board of directors of the Mildred Quinn Foundation, and the NY program coordinator of the Merrill Lynch Philanthropic Foundation. In addition, he has served as educational policy adviser to the Texas State Legislature Joint Select Committee on Public School Finance, various elected officials and has taught law on the faculties of Columbia University, the City University of New York, and Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law. Professor Dyson received his A.B. from Columbia College, Columbia University and is the recipient of numerous awards including the prestigious King's Crown Award, the Kluge Award, the Albert Roothbert Endowment, the Lester A. and Stella Porter Russell Endowment, the Society of the Order of the Barristers and the Taft Samuel Carpenter Award for Teaching Excellence.
Scholarship
Book
Our Promise: Achieving Educational Equity for America's Children, Carolina Academic Press (Maurice R. Dyson, Daniel B. Weddle, eds.)(forthcoming 2008)
Articles, Book Chapters and Other Article-Length Works
When Government Is A Passive Participant in Private Discrimination: A Critical Look at White Privilege & The Tacit Return to Interposition In PICS v. Seattle School District , University of Toledo Law Review (forthcoming 2008);
De Facto Segregation & Group Blindness: Proposals For Narrow Tailoring Under A New Viable State Interest in PICS v. Seattle School District, Seattle University Law Review (forthcoming 2008);
Awakening An Empire of Liberty: Exploring The Roots of Socractic Inquiry & Political Nihilism In American Democracy, Washington University St. Louis Law Quarterly (2005)
Towards An Establishment Clause Theory of Race-Based Allocation: Administering Race-Conscious Financial Aid After Grutter and Zelman, University of Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal (2005)
Racial Free-Riding The Coattails of A Dream Deferred: Can I Borrow Your Social Capital? William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal (2005)
The Death of Robin Hood? Proposals To Overhaul Public School Finance, 11 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy 1 (2004)
Putting Quality Back Into Equality: The Constitutionality of Charter School Enabling Legislation In A Post-Grutter Era, Rutgers Law Journal (2004)
Playing Games With Equality: A Game-Theoretic Critique of Educational Sanctions, Remedies and Strategic Noncompliance, 77 Temple Law Review 577 (2004)
Multiracial Identity, Monoracial Authenticity & Racial Privacy: Towards An Adequate Theory of Multiracial Resistance, 9 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 387 (2004)
Safe Rules or Gay Schools: The Dilemma of Sexual Orientation Segregation in Public Education, 7 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 183 (2004)(with N. Harris)
In Search of the Talented Tenth: Diversity, Affirmative Access, and University-Driven Reform, 6 Harvard Latino Law Review 41 (2003)
Leave No Child Behind: Normative Proposals to Link Educational Adequacy Claims and High Stakes Assessment Due Process Challenges, 7 Texas Journal on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights 1 (2002)
Finance and Educational Ultimatums: A Look At School Funding Implications For Public School Accountability, Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal (2002)(symposium)
A Covenant Broken: The Crisis of Educational Remedy for New York City's Failing Schools, 44 Howard Law Journal 107 (2000)
Rethinking School-Community Collaboration: The Role of Non-Profit Mergers & Joint Ventures in Remedial Education and Social Service Delivery, 16 National Black Law Journal 35 (1998).
Other Scholarship:
Please download a list of Professor Dyson's Shorter Works (in PDF format).
Subjects Include:
Administrative Law, Constitutional Law: First Amendment, Civil Rights, Criminal Law, Critical Race Theory, Education Law, Human Rights, Torts.
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