Professor of Law

Telephone: 212-636-7433
Email: cpowell@law.fordham.edu
Office: Room 7-127
SSRN (academic papers)

Faculty Assistant: Larry Bridgett
Email: lbridgett@law.fordham.edu

Research and Teaching Areas

Constitutional Law; Human Rights; Equality Theory; Digital Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

Bio

• Professor of Law, Fordham Law School (2017-present)
• Social Innovation Award Fellow (2019-2020) for Digital Civil Rights and Civil Liberties project
• Elected to the Board of Editors in 2015 for the American Journal of International Law
• American Society of International (ASIL), Executive Council
• Co-Chair, Blacks in ASIL (BASIL) (ASIL presidential appointment)
• Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, Women and Foreign Policy (January 2014- present)
• Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center (2012-2013) and Columbia Law (Spring 2007)
• Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Policy Planning Staff Member (2009-2011, 2012)
• White House National Security Staff, Director for Human Rights (May-November 2011 detail from State Department)
• Associate Clinical Professor and Founding Director, Human Rights Institute and Clinic, Columbia Law School (1998-02)
• Assistant Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense Fund
• Law Clerk, Judge Leonard Sand, SDNY
• Ford Fellow in Public International Law, Harvard Law School
• Senior Editor,Yale Law Journal
• Principal Subjects: Constitutional Law, Human Rights, Comparative Constitutional Law, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in the Digital Age, International Law
• Affiliated Faculty, Center on Race, Justice and Law
• Affiliated Faculty, Leitner Center for International Law & Justice

Recent Media Appearances

• Two Anniversaries Trump is Dishonoring (CNN)
• Color of Covid: The racial justice paradox of our new stat-at-home economy (CNN)
• Gender and Color of Covid (Think Global Health)
• Viral Justice (Just Security)
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Recent Selected Publications

• The “Welfare Queen” Goes to the Polls: Race-Based Fractures in Gender Politics and Opportunities for Intersectional Coalitions, Geo. L.J. 19th Amend. Special Edition 105 (2020) (with Camille Gear Rich)
• Race, Gender, and Nation in an Age of Shifting Borders, UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs (2020)
• We the People: These United Divided States, 40 Cardozo Law Review (2019)
• Race and Rights in the Digital Age, 112 Am. J. Int'l L. Unbound 339 (2018)
• How Women Could Save the World, If Only We Would Let Them: From Gender Essentialism to Inclusive Security,28 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 271 (2017)
• Gender Indicators as Global Governance: Not Your Father's World Bank, 17 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 777 (2016), reprinting chapter in Big Data, Big Challenges in Evidenced-Based Policy Making (Kumar Jayasuriya ed., 2015) (West Academic Press, Publisher)
• Up from Marriage: Freedom, Solitude, and Individual Autonomy in the Shadow of Marriage Equality, 84 Fordham L. Rev. 69 (2015)
• Agora: Reflections on Zivotofksy v. Kerry: Presidential Signing Statements and Dialogic Constitutionalism, 109 Am. J. Intl L. Unbound 51 (2015)
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Education

• J.D. Yale Law School
• M.P.A. Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School Of Public And International Affairs
• B.A. Yale College