Racial Subordination in Latin America: The Role of the State, Customary Law, and the New Civil Rights Response

Tanya Kateri Hernandez is a Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law, where she teaches comparative employment discrimination, critical race theory, inter-group conflict and the law, and trusts and wills. The Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality awarded Hernandez a Non-Resident Faculty Fellowship for 2011-2013. She has previously served as a Law and Public Policy Affairs Fellow at Princeton University, a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University, and as an Independent Scholar in Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. In 2011, Hernandez was named a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and in 2009 she was elected to the American Law Institute. Hispanic Business Magazine selected her as one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics of 2007. Professor Hernandez serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Legal Education and the Latino Studies Journal. Hernandez's scholarly interest is in the study of comparative race relations and anti-discrimination law and her work in that area has been published in the California Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Harvard Civil Rights Civil Liberties Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal among other publications.