2021 BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Bernadette Atuahene

Professor of Law

Bernadette Atuahene is a law professor at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law and a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. She earned her BA from UCLA (magna cum laude), JD from Yale, and her MPA from Harvard. After graduating, she served as a judicial clerk at the Constitutional Court of South Africa and then practiced as an associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York. Atuahene has written extensively about land dispossession and she has worked as a consultant for the World Bank and the South African Land Claims Commission. She has been honored with the Fulbright Fellowship, Council on Foreign Relation’s International Affairs Fellowship, and Princeton’s Law and Public Affairs Fellowship. Her first book, We Want What’s Ours: Learning from South Africa’s Land Restitution Program (Oxford University Press, 2014), is based on 150 interviews she conducted with South Africans dispossessed of their land by the colonial and apartheid governments and who received some form of compensation post-apartheid. In addition to her book, she directed and produced an award winning short documentary film about one South African family’s struggle to regain their land. In 2015, she won a National Science Foundation Grant for her new book project about land and housing in Detroit. Atuahene has previously served as a Trustee of the Law and Society Association (2010-2013). She has also chaired the John Hope Franklin Award and has been a committee member for the Kalven Prize, the Article Prize, and twice for the Jacob Book Prize.

 

Twitter: @ProfAtuahene

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