John White joined the Boyd School of Law as Dean in August 2007 after fifteen years of teaching law. As the J. Dawson Gasquet Professor of Law at Louisiana State University, his scholarly work focused on the history and development of civil rights law and litigation.

He was a distinguished visiting professor at the University of Insubria in Como, Italy, where his work has focused on the role of civil rights law and multicultural theories in responding to globalism.

Dean White has written extensively about civil rights law, with numerous articles, book chapters, and scholarly presentations to his name. A recent article, “The Persistence of Race Politics and the Restraint of Recovery in Katrina’s Wake,” was published in the 2006 anthology, “After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina.”

Prior to teaching law, he was an Orville Schell Fellow at Human Rights Watch in New York City where he worked on prison and human rights practices in Egypt.

Dean White received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1991, where he was a notes and topics editor for the Yale Law Journal and participated in the Jerome N. Frank Legal Service Organization.