Wednesday, June 24, 2020
YLS '90: Tanya K. Hernandez
Tanya Hernandez came to Yale Law from Brown, where she earned her undergrad degree in sociology (which, I have learned as a teacher, is a particularly good preparation for law school, especially at a school where you have to do a lot of analytical writing). Her published note about bias crimes for the law journal was excellent-- I remember reading it when it came out, and having it make a real impression on me. You can read it here. She also served as the Note Editor for the Journal.
After law school, she clerked in the US District Court in Puerto Rico for two years, and then began three years of public interest litigation in New York. After that, she began her illustrious academic career at St. John's. She now serves as the Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham, and has established herself as a leading scholar of Comparative Race Law. Her scholarly production has been both pretty remarkable and impactful-- her field has become more important in part because she worked to have it matter (as it should). If you have a while, you can see her full CV here.
Her most recent book is Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination, which you can see here.
Among the members of our class making the world better in an active way, Prof. Hernandez is right up there with the best.
