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Tom Romero

University of Michigan Law School
University of Michigan (Ph. D.)

Areas of legal expertise: Legal history, race and law, property law (esp. intersection with public interest), land use, civil rights, law and society, 14th Amendment, the judiciary

Professor Romero teaches and conducts research in the areas of Legal History, Race and Law, and Property. Dr. Romero is faculty advisor for Hamline's interdisciplinary Journal of Public Law Policy, as well as the school's Latino Law Student Association. Prior to joining Hamline in 2004, Dr. Romero served as the Western Legal Studies Fellow at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Center of the American West, Law School and Department of History. There, he completed a statewide survey of resources related to the legal history of Colorado and wrote a regular legal history column for the state bar journal, The Colorado Lawyer.

At the University of Michigan, Dr. Romero acted as a contributing editor of the Michigan Journal of Race and Law, worked with the legal counsel of the student interveners in Gratz v. Bollinger, and spent time as a consultant on 19th century American property law for Hernando De Soto in his book: The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else.

Dr. Romero has researched and presented extensively before academic conferences and bar associations on the legal history of the American West, social movements, and racial formation in law and society. In addition, Dr. Romero serves on the Board of Directors of Centro Legal, Inc and on the Advisory Committee of El Fondo de Nuestra Comunidad.

Selected Publications

• "¿La Raza Latina?: Multiracial Ambivalence, Color Denial, and the Emergence of a Tri-Ethnic Jurisprudence at the End of the Twentieth Century," 37 N.M.L.Rev. 245 PDF
• "Colorado's Centennial Constitution and the Ambivalent Promise of Human Rights and Social Equality" ", 69 Albany Law Review 569 (2006)"
• Land, Culture, and Legal Exchange, in Colorado's Mountains, Plains, and Deserts, Practices and Representations: Proceedings of Exchange "(Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne Press, ed., 2005)"
• "Our Selma Is Here: The Political and Legal Struggle for Educational Equality in Denver, Colorado, and Multiracial Conundrums i ", 3 Seattle Journal of Social Justice 73 (2004)" PDF
• "The 'Tri-Ethnic' Dilemma: Race, Equality, and the Fourteenth Amendment in the American West" ", 13 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review 817 (2004) " PDF
• "Wearing the Red, White, and Blue Trunks of Aztlán: Rodolfo 'Corky' Gonzales and the Convergence of American and Chicano Nationa ", 29 Aztlán: Journal of Chicano Studies 83 (2004)"
• "Turbulence a Mile High: Equal Employment Opportunity in the Colorado Sky" ", 32 Colorado Lawyer 71 (2003)"
• "Uncertain Waters and Contested Lands: Excavating the Layers of Colorado's Legal Past" ", 73 University of Colorado Law Review 521 (2002)" PDF
• "War of a Much Different Kind: Poverty and the Possessive Investment in Color in the 1960s United States, " 26 Chicano-Latino Law Review 69 (2006)