Andrew Lanham
Assistant Professor of Law
Andrew Lanham is a legal historian who studies how social protest movements have reshaped civil rights and civil liberties law in the United States. He has written about the antislavery movement and the intellectual origins of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause, as well as about the history and theory of written constitutionalism. His current book project is a legal history of African American antiwar protest in the twentieth century, titled The Promise of Peace: African American Antiwar Activism and the Long Quest for Equality, from the Spanish-American War to the War on Terror. This project traces how African American activists such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Ella Baker, and Pauli Murray creatively merged civil rights and antiwar protest and thereby influenced modern civil rights law, free speech law, and the domestic and international laws governing the use of military force.
Andrew’s academic articles and book reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in the American Journal of Legal History, the Michigan Law Review, the U.C. Irvine Law Review, the Washington Law Review, the Michigan Journal of Law & Society, and Notes & Queries. He is a member of the faculty editorial board for the Michigan Journal of Law & Society, and he also writes frequently about law and legal history for public audiences at The New Republic, Boston Review, and other venues.
Andrew received a B.A. from Haverford College, then earned his M.St. and M.Litt. in English & American Studies from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School, and he holds M.A. and M.Phil. degrees in English from Yale University. After law school, he clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and he is currently completing his Ph.D. at Yale. Before joining the University of Houston Law Center, Andrew was a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School and the Robert and Jane Beach Interdisciplinary Fellow in Law at the University of Iowa College of Law.
