andré douglas pond cummings
Associate Professor of Law (2003)
Education
J.D., Howard University School of Law (1997)
B.S., Brigham Young University (1994)
Publications
- Still “Ain’t No Glory in Pain”: How the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and Other 1990s Deregulation Facilitated the Market Crash of 2002, 12 Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law (forthcoming 2007).
- Open Water: Affirmative Action, Mismatch Theory and Swarming Predators—A Response to Richard Sander, 44 Brandeis L.J. 795 (2006).
- Grutter v. Bollinger, Clarence Thomas, Affirmative Action and the Treachery of Originalism: “The Sun Don’t Shine Here in this Part of Town” 21 Harv. BlackLetter L.J. 1 (2005).
- “Ain’t No Glory in Pain”: How the 1994 Republican Revolution and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act Collapsed the U.S. Capital Markets, 83 Nebraska L. Rev. 979 (2005).
- “The Integration Conundrum: Debilitating Failures of the Securities and Exchange Commission Must Be Addressed as U.S. Corporate Malfeasance is ‘Getting Serious, So Serious,’” 48 Wayne L. Rev. 1305 (2003).
- “Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My” or “Redskins and Braves and Indians, Oh Why”: Ruminations on McBride v. Utah State Tax Commission, Political Correctness and the Reasonable Person, 36 Cal. W. L. Rev. 11 (2000).
- “Never Let Me Slip ‘Cause If I Slip Then I’m Slippin””: California’s Paranoid Slide From Bakke to Proposition 209, 8 B.U. Pub. Int. L.J. 59 (1999).
- Comment, Just Another Gang: “When the Cops are Crooks Who Can You Trust?” 41 How. L.J. 383 (1998).
Professional Experience
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Syracuse University, College of Law, Syracuse, NY
- Associate, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, IL
- Law Clerk, Chief Judge Joseph W. Hatchett, 11th Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals
- Law Clerk, Associate Chief Justice Christine M. Durham, Utah Supreme Court
- Intern, Congresswoman Jane Harman, (CA) Washington, D.C.
