Brian K. Landsberg
Professor of Law
B.A., J.D., University of California, Berkeley
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Tel: 916.739.7103
Professor Landsberg worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, from 1964 to 1986. As a trial attorney, he was associate counsel in the Selma, Alabama civil rights cases. He later supervised the division’s Education Section for five years and then headed the Appellate Section for 12 years.
Professor Landsberg was an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University for four years. He has been a professor Pacific McGeorge School of Law since 1986. In 1993, Professor Landsberg took a six-month leave of absence to serve in the No. 2 post in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, where he was an Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General.
He has taught at the Pacific McGeorge Institute on International Legal Studies in Salzburg, Austria and the International Law Institute in Kampala, and served as Program Director, Summer Law Institute, Kenneth Wang School of Law, Suzhou, China. He is Program Director for the Pacific McGeorge Rule of Law Program in China, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development. He has also taught as a visiting professor at University of California, Berkeley. Professor Landsberg is the author of the books Alabama and the Origins of the Voting Rights Act and Enforcing Civil Rights: Race Discrimination and the Department of Justice and co-authored Global Issues in Constitutional Law with Professor Leslie Jacobs.
Courses: Constitutional Law | Federal Anti-Discrimination Legislation | State Constitutional Law | First Amendment | Critical Race Theory | Federal Courts | Comparative Constitutional Law
Recent Publications: Major Acts of Congress [Editor in Chief] (Macmillan Reference USA 2003); "Sumter County, Alabama and the Origins of the Voting Rights Act," 45 Ala. L. Rev. 877 (2003).
Curriculum Vitae:
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, 2001-02; Professor of Law, 1986-present; Visiting Professor of Law, 1984-85 (on sabbatical from Department of Justice), McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, California, teaching Federal Courts, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Appellate Advocacy, State Constitutional Law, Civil Rights Litigation, Antidiscrimination Legislation, Comparative Antidiscrimination Law, Complex Civil Litigation, Professional Responsibility, Fair Employment Law in Europe and the United States, Critical Race Theory and First Amendment. Program director, Summer Law Institute, Kenneth Wang School of Law, Suzhou, China, summer 2005. Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law [Boalt Hall], Spring 1995, Spring 1997. Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law School, 1981-84.
GOVERNMENT EXPERIENCE:
June 1993-January 1994
Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice
September 1974-June 1986
Chief Appellate Section, Civil Rights Division,
U.S. Department of Justice.
October 1969 - August 1974
Chief, Education Section, Civil Rights Division.
1964 - 1969
Trial attorney and supervisory attorney,
Civil Rights Division
EDUCATION:
University of California, 1959, BA
University of California Law School, 1962, LL.B.
University of London, 1962-63, Certificate in African Law
BAR MEMBERSHIP AND ACTIVITIES:
United States Supreme Court Bar
Bar of District of Columbia (inactive)
California State Bar (inactive)
Ethics Committee, D.C. Bar, 1981-1984
American Bar Association
Board of Trustees, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law
Member, Chief Justice George’s Working Group to commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, 2003-4.
HONORS:
Order of Coif
California Law Review
Ford Foundation International Legal Studies Fellowship, 1962-63
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar Fellow, 1979
Attorney General's John Marshall Award for Appellate Litigation, 1979
Assistant Attorney General's Special Commendation Awards, 1972 and 1978
Attorney General's Special Commendation Award, 1967
Distinguished Speaker, University of Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, 2000
Eberhardt Teacher-Scholar Award, University of the Pacific, 2007
PUBLICATIONS:
Books
Alabama and the Origins of the Voting Rights Act (University Press of Kansas, 2007).
Global Issues in Constitutional Law, co-authored with Leslie Jacobs (2007)
Global Issues in Employment Discrimination Law, co-authored with Samuel Estreicher (2007)
Major Acts of Congress [Editor in Chief] (Macmillan Reference USA 2003).
Enforcing Civil Rights -- Race Discrimination and the Department of Justice (University Press of Kansas, 1997).
Law review articles
The Role of Judicial Independence, Transnational Lawyer (submitted; forthcoming 2006).
Report Regarding the Pacific McGeorge Workshop on
Globalizing the Law School Curriculum, Transnational Lawyer (co-author; submitted; forthcoming 2006).
Sumter County, Alabama and the Origins of the Voting Rights Act, 54 Ala.L.Rev. 877 (2003).
Safeguarding Constitutional Rights: The Uses and Limits of Prophylactic Rules, 66 Tennessee L.Rev. 925(1999).
Balanced Scholarship and Racial Balance, 30 Wake Forest L.J. 819 (1995).
Symposium: The Department of Justice and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 26 Pacific L.J. 766 (April 1995)(author of Introduction; member of panel on Vindicating the Promise of Brown -- School
Desegregation and the Civil Rights Act -- Past, Present, and Future).
Equal Educational Opportunity: The Rehnquist Court Revisits Green and Swann, 42 Emory L.J. 821 (1993).
The Role of Civil Service Attorneys and Political Appointees in Making Policy in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, 9 Journal of Law and Politics 275 (1993).
Race and the Rehnquist Court, 66 Tulane L. Rev. 1267 (1992).
Review Essay, Caplan, The Tenth Justice, 6 Constitutional Commentary 165 (1989).
The Desegregated School System and the Retrogression Plan, 48
La. L. Rev. 789 (1988).
The Role of Judicial Independence, Pacific McGeorge Global Business and Devel. J. (submitted, forthcoming 2007)
Report Regarding the Pacific McGeorge Workshop on Globalizing the Law School Curriculum, 19 Pacific McGeorge Global Business and Devel. J. 267 (co-author; 2006)
How will Alito Shape the Court, Legal Affairs Debate Club, Jan. 9-13, 2006.
Brown v. Board of Education and the Role of the Lawyer, 104 Sacramento Lawyer 12 (2004).
Affirmative-Action Decision Indicates Shifts in Position, San Francisco Daily Journal, June 29, 2003, p. 4 [also in Los Angeles Daily Journal].
Stay the Civil Rights Course, Legal Times, March 19, 2001, p. 66.
Good for Civil Rights; Good for U.S.A., National Law Journal, Dec. 8, 1997.
The Federal Government and the Promise of Brown, 96 Teachers
College Record 627 (1995), reprinted in Brown v. Board of Education: The Challenge for Today's Schools (Ellen Lagemann and Lamar Miller, eds) (1996).
European and American Fair Employment Law (1996 and 1999) Comparative Antidiscrimination Law (1989 and 1992)
New Challenges to the German Basic Law, Starck (ed.), 41 Am. J. Comp. Law 145 (1993).
The 'racist' caricature of Guinier, The Sacramento Bee, June 2, 1993, B7.
European Community Sex Equality Law, 40 Am. J. Comp. Law 997 (1992).
Civil Rights Enforcement After Ed Meese, The Sacramento Bee, July 31, 1988; The National Law Journal, Sept. 12, 1988 [in slightly altered form]
Student Pieces, 49 Calif. L.Rev. 558 (copyright), 368 (employment), 50 Calif. L. Rev. 515 (1962)( Viet Nam intervention).
Book reviews
Howard Ball, Murder in Mississippi (Univ. Press of Kansas 2004)36 Journal of Interdisciplinary History 298 (2005).
James T. Patterson, Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy ( Oxford Univ. Press 2001), 107 American Historical Review 247 (2002).
David E. Bernstein, Only One Place Of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations, And The Courts From Reconstruction To The New Deal, 11 The Law and Politics Book Review 243 (2001).
Paul D. Moreno, From Direct Action to Affirmative Action: Fair Employment Law and Policy in America, 1933-1972, 18 Law and History Review 240 (2000).
David Ray Papke, Heretics in the Temple: Americans Who Reject the Nation=s Legal Faith, 8 Law and Politics Book Review 443 (1998).
Starck (ed.), New Challenges to the German Basic Law, 41 Am. J. Comp. Law 145 (1993).
Ellis, European Community Sex Equality Law, 40 Am. J. Comp. Law 997 (1992).
Ripple, Constitutional Litigation, 2 Constitutional Commentary 535 (Summer 1985).
