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Teachers College, Columbia University
Teachers College
Columbia University

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11/12/2007 ~ 11/13/2007 at  Cowin Center, Teachers College

Susan Sturm

George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility
Columbia Law School

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Susan Sturm is the George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility at Columbia Law School, where her principal areas of teaching and research include institutional change, structural inequality in employment and higher education, employment discrimination, public law remedies, conflict resolution, and civil procedure. Her current work focuses on developing an “architecture of inclusion” in the domains of employment and higher education, developing new roles and institutions that can sustain ongoing institutional change, rethinking employment discrimination regulation, linking conflict resolution and systemic change, and reforming legal education.

Sturm is a founding member of Columbia University’s Presidential Advisory Committee on Diversity Initiatives and a founding co-director of a new Center for Institutional and Social Change at Columbia. Her recent publications include: The Architecture of Inclusion: Interdisciplinary Insights on Pursuing Institutional Citizenship (2007); Conflict Resolution and Systemic Change (with Howard Gadlin, 2007); The Law School Matrix: Reforming Legal Education in a Culture of Competition and Conformity (with Lani Guinier, 2007); Courts as Catalysts: Rethinking the Role of the Judiciary in New Governance (with Joanne Scott, 2007); The Architecture of Inclusion: Advancing Workplace Equity in Higher Education (2006); Law’s Role in Addressing Complex Discrimination (2005); Equality and the Forms of Justice (2004); Lawyers and the Practice of Workplace Equity (2002); Second Generation Employment Discrimination: A Structural Approach, (2001); and Whose Qualified? The Future of Affirmative Action (with Lani Guinier)(Beacon Press, 2001). “The Architecture of Inclusion” is the subject of the June 2007 issue of the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender. Susan also has developed a website with Lani Guinier, www.racetalks.org, on building multiracial learning communities. In 2007, she received the Presidential Teaching Award for Outstanding Teaching at Columbia.

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