Education Rights Center
at Howard University School of Law
Staff
Director dblack@law.howard.edu Research Fellow Partner Institutions
Derek W. Black
Associate Professor of Law
202-806-8163
Houston Hall, Room 302
Assoc. Prof., J.D., with High Honors, U. North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Derek Black is an Associate Professor of Law at Howard University School of Law, where he teaches Education Law, Social Justice Lawyering, Evidence and Torts. Prior to teaching at Howard, Professor Black was a staff attorney for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, where he practiced racial diversity, educational adequacy, higher education and desegregation law. He continues to participate with the Lawyers' Committee as pro bono counsel.
He is the author of various law review articles focusing on racial and gender equity in education, the right to education under state law, and the intentional discrimination standard in equal protection. Most recently, he authored two law review articles on the Supreme Court's voluntary desegregation case, Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District. His first article addresses the lingering legal uncertainties from the case and his second addresses Justice Kennedy’s flawed premise that the voluntary desegregation plans stigmatize students. He also co-authored the Howard Civil Rights Clinic’s amicus brief before the Supreme Court in Parents Involved.
Publications
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Eric Post
J.D., cum laude, Howard University
Eric Post began working with the Education Rights Center in December of 2009. His primary responsibilities are drafting policy briefs and parental empowerment materials, analyzing empirical data on education disparities, and coordinating the work of student volunteers and interns. Mr. Post first began his education rights activism while working for the ACLU Racial Justice Project. Later, he was a Student Attorney at the Howard University School of Law Civil Rights Clinic. In addition to education advocacy, Mr. Post has worked extensively in the LGBT rights movement, interning for Equality Advocates Pennsylvania, serving as President of Howard University School of Law’s Outlaw student organization, and contributing to coalition efforts to respond to California’s Proposition 8.
In addition to his work with the Education Rights Center, Mr. Post currently does eviction, foreclosure, and homelessness work through various non-profits in the San Francisco area, including the East Bay Community Law Center, the San Francisco Bar Association and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Research Associates
Summer 2009
In order of appearance: Taylor Nicole Lewis, Howard University School of Law; Lauren Marsh,
American University Washington College of Law; Gena Mason, Columbia Law School; Jenna Gerry,
Georgetown University Law Center; Amy Nable, New York University School of Law; Peter D'Angelo,
Columbia Law School
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Howard Civil Rights Clinic
Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard Law School
Contact Information
Education Rights Center
Howard University School of Law
2900 Van Ness St., NW
Washington, DC 20008
202-806-8163
dblack@law.howard.edu