Steven L. Nelson

Publications

• State Takeover Laws (Re)visited: School Board Leadership as White Property
  28 CUNY L. REV. 215 (2025) · City University of New York Law Review · 2025
• Towards a Transnational Critical Race Theory in Education: Proposing Critical Race Third World Approaches to Education Policy
  26 WM. & MARY J. RACE GENDER & SOC. JUST. 303 (2020) · William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice · 2020

• Education Law and Policy at the Margins: Critical Analyses of the Intersection of Race, Religion, Gender & Class in Education (An Introduction)
  19 U. MD. L.J. RACE RELIG. GENDER & CLASS 1 (2019) · University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class · 2019
• REFRAMING THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION DEBATE TO MOVE BEYOND ARGUMENTS FOR DIVERSITY AND INTEREST CONVERGENCE
  24 BARRY L. REV. (2019) · Barry Law Review · 2019
• Examining Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission v. School District of Philadelphia: Considering How the Supreme Court’s Waning Support of School Desegregation Affected Desegregation Efforts Based on State Law
  40 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 1049 (2017) · Seattle University Law Review · 2017
• Are Black Parents Locked Out of Challenging Disproportionately Low Charter School Board Representation? Assessing the Role of the Federal Courts in Building a House of Cards
  12 DUKE J. CONST. L. & PUB. POL'Y 153 (2016) · Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy · 2016
• Killing Two Achievements with One Stone: The Intersectional Impact of Shelby County on the Rights to Vote and Access High Performing Schools
  13 UC L.J. RACE & ECON. JUST. 225 (2016) · UC Law Journal of Race and Economic Justice · 2016
• Different Script, Same Caste in the Use of Passive and Active Racism: A Critical Race Theory Analysis of the (Ab)use of “House Rules” in Race-Related Education Cases
  22 WASH. & LEE. J. C. R. & SOC. JUST. 297 (2016) · Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice · 2016
• Charter Schools, Students of Color and the State Action Doctrine: Are the Rights of Students of Color Sufficiently Protected?
  18 WASH. & LEE. J. C. R. & SOC. JUST. 253 (2012) · Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice · 2012