andré douglas pond cummings
Professor of Law (2003)
Education
J.D., Howard University School of Law (1997)
B.S., Brigham Young University (1994)
Books
- Reversing Field: Examining Commercialization, Labor, Gender and Race in 21st Century Sports Law, Editor (West Virginia University Press) (forthcoming 2010) (with Anne Marie Lofaso)
- The Evolution of Street Knowledge: Hip Hop’s Influence on Law and Culture, Editor (forthcoming 2010)
Book Chapters
- “A Shifting Wind?: Media Stereotyping of American Indians and the Law,” in “Lost and Found: American Indians and the Mass Media” (University of Oklahoma Press) (forthcoming 2009)
- “Thug Life: Hip Hop’s Curious Impact on Criminal Justice,” in “The Arts of Imprisonment: Control, Resistance and Empowerment” (Ashgate Publishing) (forthcoming 2009)
- “The Temptation of Performance Enhancing Drugs,” in “Reversing Field: Examining Commercialization, Labor, Gender and Race in 21st Century Sports Law” (West Virginia University Press) (forthcoming 2010)
Publications
- The Associated Dangers of “Brilliant Disguises,” Colorblind Constitutionalism and Post-Racial Rhetoric, 85 INDIANA L.J. (forthcoming 2010).
- A Furious Kinship: Critical Race Theory and the Hip Hop Nation, 48 BRANDEIS L. REV. (forthcoming 2010).
- Thug Life: Hip Hop’s Curious Relationship With Criminal Justice, 50 SANTA CLARA L. REV. (forthcoming 2010).
- Wide Right: Why the NCAA’s Policy on the American Indian Mascot Issue Misses the Mark, 9 MARYLAND J. OF RACE, RELIGION, GENDER AND CLASS (forthcoming 2009).
- Pushing Weight, 33 THURGOOD MARSHALL L. REV. 95 (2008).
- Progress Realized?: The Continuing American Indian Mascot Quandary, 18 Marquette Sports L. Rev. 309 (2008)
- Pushing Weight, 33 Thurgood Marshall L. Rev (forthcoming 2008).
- 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 467 (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
Teaching Experience
- Visiting Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law (Spring 2010)
- Visiting Professor of Law, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law (Fall 2009)
- Professor of Law, West Virginia University College of Law (2008 to Present)
- Associate Professor of Law, West Virginia University College of Law (2003 to 2008)
- Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law, Tokyo Japan Campus (Summer 2007, 2008)
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Syracuse University College of Law (2002 to 2003)
- Visiting Lecturer, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Direito Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Summer 2006, 2007, 2008)
- Visiting Lecturer, Centro Universitário Vila Velha, Vila Velha, Brazil (Summer 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
- Visiting Lecturer, Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico (May 2008)
Professional Background
- Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP Chicago, IL (Complex business transactions and public securities offerings)
- Law Clerk, Chief Judge Joseph W. Hatchett, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- Law Clerk, Associate Chief Justice Christine M. Durham, Utah Supreme Court
- Summer Associate, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP, Cleveland, OH
- Summer Associate, Callister & Reynolds, Las Vegas, NV
- Intern, Congresswoman Jane Harman, (CA) Washington, D.C.
Honors
- West Virginia Law Review Outstanding Faculty Contribution Award (2008-09)
- Professor of the Year, College of Law (2007-08)
- West Virginia Law Review Outstanding Faculty Contribution Award (2007-08)
- Professor of the Year, West Virginia University Foundation (2006)
- Professor of the Year, College of Law (2004-05)
- West Virginia Law Review Outstanding Faculty Contribution Award (2004-05)
- West Virginia Law Review Outstanding Faculty Contribution Award (2003-04)
