Francisco Valdes

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Francisco Valdes
Professor of Law and Dean's Distinguished Scholar
J.S.D. 1994, Stanford Law School
J.S.M. 1991, Stanford Law School
J.D. 1984, University of Florida College of Law

Telephone: 305-284-1780   |   Office: G369
E-mail: fvaldes@law.miami.edu
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Current Works-in-Progress

Rebellious Knowledge Production, Academic Activism and Outsider Democracy: From Principles to Practices in LatCrit Theory, Praxis and Community, 1995-2008 (this article, based on the Annual Lecture during the LatCrit/SALT Junior Faculty Development Workshop held in Fall 2008, sets forth the key hallmarks of the LatCrit jurisprudential experiment since its inception in 1995)

No Coincidence: Mapping the Construction of a Race-Based "Class" System—A Case Study from the North American Heartland (this article examines the social and legal history of Denver, Colorado to trace the legal and structural linkage of race and class as a matter of policy in a concrete sociopolitical setting)

Passion and Prejudice, Democracy and Policy: A Constitutional Primer for the Conscientious Citizen-Lawmaker (this essay examines the roles and dangers of direct democracy under the Federal Constitution and its core commitment to representative/deliberative democracy in the policy context of marriage equality and recent anti-equality state referenda)

Theory as Location: The Oral Histories Project (www.latcrit.org) (this project aims to establish a substantive set of materials for the historical, intellectual and programmatic development of Critical Outsider Jurisprudence during the past twenty years as a research resource for future scholars interested in the emergence of this literature since the 1980s)

Beyond the Casebook: The Syllabi Bank Project (www.latcrit.org) (this project compiles course syllabi for both mainstream and "boutique" courses/seminars to showcase different pedagogies and support teaching innovations by law faculty across the country)

Progresismo Jurídico y Teoría Crítica (a translated selection of my published works)

Completed Book Projects

Crossroads, Directions and a New Critical Race Theory (Francisco Valdes, Jerome McCristal Culp, Jr., & Angela P. Harris eds. 2002)

Law Review and Book/Chapter Publications

Queering Sexual Orientation: A Call to Theory as Praxis, in Strange Bedfellows: Queer and Feminist Legal Theories (Martha Fineman et al eds. forthcoming 2009)

Foreword—Interruptions and Intersections: Journeys to the Center of the Americas, 4 Tenn. J.L. & Pol'y 167 (2008)

Afterword—"Latinas/os" and Latina/o Legal Studies: A Critical Review of Legal Knowledge-Production Models, 4 Fla. Int'l U.L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2008) [with Margaret Montoya]

Procedure, Policy and Power: Class Actions and Social Justice in Historical and Comparative Perspective, 24 Ga. St. L. Rev. 627 (2008)

"Latinas/os" and the Politics of Knowledge Production: LatCrit Theory and Academic Activism as Social Justice Action, 83 Ind. L.J. 1197 (2008) [with Margaret Montoya]

What's The Fuss?: Originalism, Internationalism and Constitutional Law, 3 Fla. Int'l U.L. Rev. 1 (2007)

The Constitution of Terror: Big Lies, Backlash Jurisprudence and the Rule of Law, 7 Nev. L.J. 973 (2007)

Afterword—Beyond the First Decade: A Forward-Looking History of LatCrit Theory, Community and Praxis, 17 Berkeley La Raza L. Rev. 169 (2006) (in Symposium, LatCrit at Ten: Critical Approaches to Economic In/justice) [with Angel Harris & Berta Hernandez]

Spain Gazing: One LatCrit's Queer View of Hispanic Essentialisms and Neocolonial Legacies, 17 Fl. J. Int'l L. 495 (2006)

Legal Reform and Social Justice: An Introduction to LatCrit Theory, Praxis and Community, 14 Griffith L. Rev. 148 (2005)

Afterword—Culture by Law: Backlash as Jurisprudence, 50 Villanova L. Rev. 1135 (2005) (in Symposium, Countering Kulturkampf Politics Through Critique and Justice Pedagogy, Part A)

Afterword—"We Are Now of the View": Backlash, Jurisprudence and the Kulturkampf to Resurrect Old Deals, 35Seton Hall L. Rev. 1401 (2005) (in Symposium, Countering Kulturkampf Politics Through Critique and Justice Pedagogy, Part B)

Foreword—City and Citizen: Community-Making as Legal Theory and Social Struggle, 52 Cleveland-Marshall L. Rev. 1 (2005) (in Symposium, City and Citizen: Operations of Power, Strategies of Resistance)

Law and Consequence: Cuban Hopes, Human Rights, Dueling Elites, in Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States (Deena J. Gonzalez & Suzanne Oboler eds. 2005)

Anomalies, Warts and All: Four Score of Liberty, Privacy and Equality, 65 Ohio St. L.J. 1341 (2004)

Recalling Race, Gender and Sexuality: OutCrit Reflections on Legal Education, Social Identities and the "Rule of Law" – A Call Toward Collective Insurrections, 5 Geo. J. Gender & L. 881 (2004)

Life as Praxis, Praxis as Life, 7Legal Ethics117 (2004)

Subject Unrest, 55 Stan. L. Rev. 2435 (2003) [with Jerome Culp & Angela Harris]

Outsider Jurisprudence, Critical Pedagogy and Social Justice Activism: Marking the Stirrings of Critical Legal Education 10 Asian L.J. 65 (2003)

Culture, "Kulturkampf" and Beyond: The Antidiscrimination Principle Under the Jurisprudence of Backlash, in The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society (Austin Sarat ed. 2003)

Diaspora and Deadlock, Miami and Havana: Coming to Terms with Dreams and Dogmas, 55 Fla. L. Rev. 283 (2003)

Identity Maneuvers in Law and Society: Vignettes of a Euro-American Heteropatriarchy, 71 UMKC L. Rev. 377 (2002)

Mapping the Patterns of Particularities: Queering the Geographies of Identity, 34 Antipode 974 (2002)

Barely at the Margins: Race and Ethnicity in Legal Education – A Curricular Study with LatCritical Commentary, 13 La Raza L.J. 119 (2002)

Sexualidad y Limite: Democracia o Dictadura?, in Debate Pais 2001 (Government of Chile, Ministry of Education, Division of Culture ed. 2002) (in Spanish)

Afterword—LatCrit at Five: Institutionalizing a Postsubordination Future, 78 Denver U. L. Rev. 1249 (2001) (in Symposium, Class in LatCrit: Theory and Praxis in a World of Economic Inequality) [with Elizabeth M. Iglesias]

Insisting on Critical Theory in Legal Education: Making Do While Making Waves, 12 La Raza L. J. 137 (2001)

NeoColonial Encounters in the PostPinochet Era: Spain, Latinas/os and LatCrit Theory in the Development of International Human Rights Norms, 9 U. Miami Int'l. & Comp. L. Rev. 189 (2000-2001)

Race, Ethnicity and Hispanismo in Triangular Perspective: The "Essential Latina/o" and LatCrit Theory, 48 UCLA L. Rev. 305 (2000)

Introduction—Expanding Directions, Exploding Parameters: Culture and Nation in LatCrit Coalitional Imagination, 33 U. Mich. J. L. Reform 203, 5 Mich. J. Race & L. 787 (2000) (in Symposium, Culture, Language, Sexuality and Law: LatCrit Theory and the Construction of the Nation) [with Elizabeth M. Iglesias]

Introduction—Piercing Webs of Power: Identity, Resistance and Hope in LatCrit Theory, Praxis and Community, 33 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 897 (2000) (in Symposium, Rotating Centers, Expanding Frontiers: LatCrit Theory and Marginal Intersections)

Outsider Scholars, Legal Theory and OutCrit Perspectivity: Postsubordination Vision as Jurisprudential Method, 49 DePaul L. Rev. 101 (2000) (reprinted in Race and Races: Cases and Materials, Richard Delgado, Angela P. Harris, Juan Perea & Stephanie Wildman eds. 2000; reprinted in Crossroads, Directions and a New Critical Race Theory, Francisco Valdes, Jerome McCristal Culp, Jr. & Angela P. Harris eds. 2002)

Afterword—Theorizing "OutCrit" Theories: Coalitional Method and Comparative Jurisprudential Experience – RaceCrits, QueerCrits, LatCrits, 53 U. Miami L. Rev. 1265 (1999) (in Symposium, Comparative Latinas/os: Beyond Hispanic and Anglo Normativities in LatCrit Theory)

The LatCrit Experiment in Critical Outsider Jurisprudence: A Conceptual Overview (1999)

Solomon's Shames: Law as Might and Inequality, 23 Thurgood Marshall L. Rev. 352 (1998)

Afterword—Beyond Sexual Orientation in Queer Legal Theory: Majoritarianism, Multidimensionality and Responsibility in Social Justice Scholarship – Or, Legal Scholars as Cultural Warriors, 75 Denver U. L. Rev. 1409 (1998) (in Symposium, InterSEXionality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Queering Legal Theory)

Afterword—Religion, Gender, Sexuality, Race and Class in Coalitional Theory: A Critical and Self-Critical Analysis of LatCrit Social Justice Agendas, 19 UCLA Chicano-Latino L. Rev. 503 (1998) (in Symposium, Difference, Solidarity and Law: Building Latina/o Communities Through LatCrit Theory) [with Elizabeth M. Iglesias]

Notes on the Conflation of Sex,Gender and Sexual Orientation: A QueerCrit and LatCrit Perspective, in The Latino/a Condition 539 (Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic eds. 1998)

Queer Margins, Queer Ethics: A Call to Account for Race and Ethnicity in the Law, Theory and Politics of "Sexual Orientation", 48 Hastings L.J. 1193 (1997)

Foreword—Under Construction: LatCrit Consciousness, Community and Theory, 85 Cal. L. Rev. 1089 (1997) (in Symposium, Latinas/os, LatCrit Theory and the Law)

Acts of Power, Crimes of Knowledge: Desire, Law and Justice in the Politics of Social Expression at the End of the Twentieth Century, 1 Iowa J. Gender, Race & Justice 213 (1997)

Foreword—Poised at the Cusp: LatCrit Theory, Outsider Jurisprudence and Latina/o Self-Empowerment, 2 Harv. Latino L. Rev. 1 (1997) (in Symposium, LatCrit Theory: Naming and Launching a New Discourse of Critical Legal Scholarship)

Foreword—Latina/o Ethnicities, Critical Race Theory and Post-Identity Politics in Postmodern Legal Discourses: From Practices to Possibilities, 9 La Raza L.J. 1 (1996) (in Symposium, Representing Latina/o Communities: Critical Race Theory and Practice)

Unpacking Hetero-Patriarchy: Tracing the Conflation of Sex, Gender and Sexual Orientation to Its Origins, 8 Yale J.L. & Hum. 161 (1996)

Sex and Race in Queer Legal Culture: Ruminations on Identities and Inter-Connectivities, 5 S. Cal. Rev. L. & Women's Stud. 25 (1995) (reprinted in Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge (2d ed), Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic eds. 2000)

Tracking and Assessing the (Non)Inclusion of Courses on Sexuality and/or Sexual Orientation in the American Law School Curriculum: Reports from the Field After a Decade of Effort, 1 Nat. J. Sex. Orient. L. 149 (1995)

Queers, Sissies, Dykes and Tomboys: Deconstructing the Conflation of "Sex," "Gender" and "Sexual Orientation" in Euro-American Law and Society, 83 Cal. L. Rev. 1 (1995)

Coming Out and Stepping Up: Queer Legal Theory & Connectivity, 1 Nat. J. Sex. Orient. L. 1 (1994)

Sexual Minorities in the Military: Charting the Constitutional Frontiers of Status and Conduct, 27 Creighton L. Rev. 381 (1994) (reprinted in Social Justice: Professionals, Communities and Law, Martha Mahoney, John O. Calmore & Stephanie Wildman eds. 2003)

Diversity and Discrimination in Our Midst: Musings on Constitutional Schizophrenia, Cultural Conflict, and "Interculturalism" at the Threshold of a Century, 5 St. Thomas L. Rev. 293 (1993)

The Status/Conduct Distinction and Sexual Orientation: Exploring a Constitutional Conundrum, 50 The Guild Practitioner 65 (1993) (lead article in Special Issue, Homophobia: A Practitioner's Arsenal for Combatting Fear of Sexual Minorities)

Chapter, Recovery of Damages in Contract, including forms of jury instructions, Florida Litigation Manual (Matthew Bender & Co. 1990)

Accountability By Contract: A Proposal to Remedy the Harm of Substandard Schooling and to Promote Equal Educational Opportunity, Fl. Bar J., May 1984

Comment, Constitutional Law: The Eighth Amendment Requires a Determination of Personal Intent for the Death Penalty to be Imposed on Non-Triggermen Felony Murderers, 35 U. Fl. L. Rev. 521 (1983)