Jamel K. Donnor

Jamel K. Donnor, Ph.D., is a socio-legal scholar with faculty affiliations in Arts & Sciences and William &Mary Law School. His areas of expertise include education policy and law, race and the law, affirmative action and higher education, intercollegiate athletics, and school de/segregation. Professor Donnor is one of the country’s leading experts on critical race theory, school segregation, and education inequality and race. His work draws on political theory, legal history, and case law to examine questions on the relationship between law and racial inequality, and to interpret how the U.S. Supreme Court interacts with conservative ideology and right-wing movements in interpreting the Constitution. Professor Donnor teaches at both the undergraduate and graduate level. His earlier works focused on the educational experiences of Black males in higher education and at the secondary level.