Tanya Kateri Hernandez

Fordham University School of Law
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Tanya Katerí Hernández is the Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law, where she is an Associate Director of the Center on Race, Law, & Justice and its Head of Global and Comparative Law Programs & Initiatives. Hernández is a Fulbright Scholar who holds an A.B. from Brown University and a law degree from Yale University. Professor Hernández is a fellow of the Academia Puertorriqueña de Jurisprudencia y Legislación and previously served as a Scholar in Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She is the author of Racial Subordination in Latin America: The Role of the State, Customary Law and the New Civil Rights Response (w/Spanish & Portuguese translations), Brill Research Perspectives in Comparative Law: Racial Discrimination; Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination; and Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality.