BACKGROUND
Associate Professor of Law at Boston College Law School.  Anthony Paul Farley is an expert on Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedure, and Legal Theory.  Farley is also an affiliated professor with the Graduate Department of Sociology and African & African Diaspora Studies at Boston College.

EDUCATION
JD Harvard Law School
BA University of Virginia

RECENT ACTIVITIES

Honors:
In 2006-2007 Farley was honored as the 11th holder of the Haywood Burns Chair in Civil Rights at CUNY School of Law.  In 2005, the Boston College Black Law Students Association honored him as the first recipient of The Anthony P. Farley Excellence in Teaching Award, an annual teaching award bearing his name.  In 2003, he was the recipient of a residential fellowship with the Humanities Research Institute of the University of California. 

Writings:
Farley’s work in legal theory and constitutional law has appeared in chapter form in After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina (Troutt ed., The New Press: 2006); Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies & the Law (Sarat & Simon eds., Duke University Press: 2003); Crossroads, Directions & a New Critical Race Theory (Valdes et. al. eds., Temple University Press: 2002); Black Men on Race, Gender & Sexuality (Carbado ed., NYU Press: 1999); and Urgent Times: Policing and Rights in Inner-City Communities (Meares & Kahan eds., Beacon: 1999).  His work has also appeared in numerous academic journals, including the Yale Journal of Law & Humanities, the NYU Review of Law & Social Change, the Cardozo Law Review, Law & Literature, and the Michigan Journal of Race & Law. 

Public Interest:
Farley has conducted the reading group – Changing Lives Through Literature – composed of people convicted in the Dorchester District Court.  The ten-week course culminates with an in-court graduation ceremony and a reception for participants, friends, relatives, and alumni.  Participants have included judges, probation officers and other court personnel, alumni, and even prosecutors.  The syllabus includes authors from Frederick Douglass to Primo Levi to Dorothy Day.  His efforts have been profiled in David Holmstrom, Staying Out of Jail with Books’ Help: Massachusetts Lowers Recidivism by Helping Repeat Offenders Discover the Power of Literature, The Christian Science Monitor, May 30, 1995, at 13.  See also:  http://cltl.umassd.edu/profilesfarley.cfm

Farley is a member of the Society of American Law Teachers and previously served as a member of its Board of Governors.  He is a member of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and a previously served as a member of its Board of Directors.  He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Public Representation.   He is also a member of the American Philosophical Association.

Visits and Appointments:
In addition to holding the Haywood Burns Chair in Civil Rights at CUNY School of Law in 2006-2007, Farley has been Visiting Professor at the Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis in Berkeley, and the Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco. 

Talks:
Prof. Farley will be presenting a paper at Harvard Law School at the Miscarriages of Justice Conference on 17-18 November 2006.  He will also be presenting a paper on Hurricane Katrina at the Association of American Law Schools Conference in Washington, DC, as part of a panel on Katrina and Race on 5 January 2007.  Prof. Farley’s recent presentations have included: the Annual Haywood Burns Lecture at CUNY School of Law on 26 September 2006; a Public Lecture at Grinnell College in 2006; and "Teaching from the Left: a conference at Harvard Law School" on 11-12 March 2006. 

Other Recent Presentations:

Accumulation
Going Back to Class?: The Reemergence of Class in Critical Race Theory
University of Michigan Law School. 
4-5 February 2005.

Emancipation
Keynote Address
7th Annual Ronald H. Brown Dinner
St. John’s University. 
15 April 2005

Commodities
University of Colorado
2005

Constitutional Law & Psychoanalysis
Law and Society Speaker Series
Suffolk University Law School
2005

McCarthyism Now
Keynote Address
Constitution Day
Bunker Hill Community College
13 September 2005

Enclosure
Keynote Speaker
Conference on Race and Violence and the Colour Line
Fourth Annual Canadian Critical Race Theory Conference
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 
1-2 April 2005.

Perfecting Slavery
Opening Plenary Address
Annual Critical Legal Conference a
University of Westminster in London
3 September 2004

The Civil Rights Movement Did Not Take Place
Conference on Race in Educational Policy: A Constitutional Examination
Loyola University Chicago School of Law 
12-13 March 2004.

The Commodity Theory of Law
Panel on Law, Economics, Race, and Progressive Scholarship
University of Chicago
13 May 2004.

Commodities
10th Anniversary Lecture
Birkbeck College, University of London on
9 May 2003.

Redress
Humanities Research Institute
University of California
May of 2003

Reparations
DePaul University o
8 March 2003.

Method
Gothenburg University
Sweden
7-9 July 2003.

A Psychoanalytic Reading of Martin Luther King’s Dream
Public Lecture
Golden Gate University in San Francisco
2002

The Dream of Interpretation
Opening panel (the public panel) with Pierre Schlag, Joanne Conaghan, and Peter Goodrich
Conference on Pierre Schlag’s Critique of Normativity
University of Miami School of Law
2002.

Psychoanalysis & Civil Rights
University of San Francisco School of Law
2002

A Psychoanalytic Reading of Martin Luther King’s Dream
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
2002

Architecture & the Social Unconscious
Annual Paul Robeson Conference
Columbia University School of Law
12 April 2002

Dreams of Reason in Modern Jurisprudence
Gothenburg University
15 May 2002.

Selected Presentations & Activities 2001:

"Dark City" Presentation as part of the Sixth Annual Symposium of the Journal of Gender, Race & Justice: "The Law's Treatment of the Disadvantaged: The Politics of the American Drug War." University of Iowa School of Law. October 5-7, 2001.

"Law & Culture in the Seventies" Presented by Golden Gate University School of Law in Celebration of Its CentenniaI Presentation as featured speaker of CLE program, "A Century in the City: A Film Perspective of the Legal Issues that Shaped San Francisco," and in celebration of the Golden Gate University Centennial. Delancy Street Screening Room, San Francisco. September 20, 2001.

"Gender, Culture & the Political Unconscious" Presentation as part of "Black Masculinities: Toward Progressive Conceptions of Black Manhood," a conference sponsored by the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy. State University of New York at Buffalo Law School. May 17-18, 2001.

"Certificate of Appreciation" Presented by the Boston College Black Law Students' Association in recognition of dedication and support. Watertown, Massachusetts. April 22, 2001.

"Psychoanalysis & Constitutional Law: Brown v. Board of Education Today" Public lecture funded by a grant from the Helzel Family Foundation. Golden Gate University School of Law, San Francisco. April 9, 2001.

"And When I Awoke My Coffee Was Full of Parasites" Presentation as part of "Postmodern Feminism: Law's Bodies" panel of "Transgressing Borders: Women's Bodies, Identities and Families: A Conference in Memory of Postmodern Feminist Legal Theorist Mary Joe Frug." New England School of Law. March 31, 2001.

"Comments on Land Claims in Relation to Other Kinds of Social Justice Claims" Comments on "Land Claims" panel of the European Law Research Center Conference on "Land Regimes and Domination." Harvard Law School. March 3 & 4, 2001.

"Introduction to the Study of Law: The Heroic Career of Robert Morris" Presentation to Brighton High School students as part of "Introduction to the Study of Law." Sponsored by the Law School Admission Council and the Massachusetts Coalition for Teacher Quality and Student Achievement. Newton, Massachusetts. February 14, 2001.

Presentations and Activities 2000:

"Presidents & Justices" Presentation on the election as the Black Solidarity Day Speaker at Tufts University. November 6, 2000.

"Subalternation & Autobiography: Assata Shakur" Presentation to the faculty of the Department of Law, School of Economics and Law, Gothenburg University, Sweden, May 30, 2000.

"Lacan & Voting Rights" Presentation at a special symposium of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, "Cultural Studies and the Law: Beyond Legal Realism in Interdisciplinary Legal Scholarship?" Yale Law School. April 15-16, 2000.

"Specters of Fanon: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International" Presentation as part of the "International Law in Ferment: A New Vision for Theory and Practice?" panel of the 94th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law. Washington, DC, April 5-8, 2000.

"The A-Effect & Constitutional Law" Presentation as part of the "Knowledge Production in the Legal Academy" panel of "Constitutional Lawyering in the 21st Century: Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review at Thirty-Five." Harvard Law School, March 3-4, 2000.

"The Critical Legal Studies Movement Did Not Take Place" Presentation as part of symposium on "Duncan Kennedy: A Critique of Adjudication." University of Miami School of Law, February 25-26, 2000.

"Nineteen Sixty-Three" Presentation as the African American Heritage Series 2000 Speaker at the Chase Community Center. Vermont Law School. February 24, 2000.

"Two Lectures" Presentations as the Legal Theory Workshop Series Speaker? Faculty of Law. Falconer Hall Solarium, University of Toronto, January 20-21, 2000.

COURSES

Fall '07: No courses taught
Spring '08: No courses taught

• “The Station.” In After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina, edited by David Dante Troutt, 147-159. New York: New Press, 2006.
  
• "Accumulation." Michigan Journal of Race & Law 11: no.1 (Fall 2005): 51-73.
  
• "Perfecting Slavery." Loyola University Chicago Law Journal 36 (2004): 221-251.
  
• "The Apogee of the Commodity." DePaul Law Review 53: no. 3 (Spring 2004): 1229-1246.
  
• "The Dream of Interpretation." (Symposium: Beyond Right and Reason: Pierre Schlag, the Critique of Normativity, and the Enchantment of Reason) University of Miami Law Review 57 (April 2003): 685-725.
  
• "Behind the Wall of Sleep." Law & Literature 15: no.3 (Fall 2003): 421-434.
  
• "Cassiopeia." Cardozo Women's Law Journal 9: no.2 (2003) (To Do Feminist Legal Theory: Symposium): 423-429.
  
• "Amusing Monsters." Cardozo Law Review 23 (March 2002): 1493-1528.
  
• "The Poetics of Colorlined Space." In Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory, edited by Francisco Valdes, Jerome McCristal Culp and Angela P. Harris, 97-158. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.
  
• "No Exit?" SALT Equalizer 2001:no.3 (October 2001): 4, 12.
  
• "Lacan & Voting Rights." Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 13: no.1 (Winter 2001) (Symposium: Cultural Studies & the Law: Beyond Legal Realism?): 283-304. (Also appears in Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law: Moving Beyond Legal Realism, edited by Austin Sarat and Jonathan Simon, 304-326. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.)
  
• "Lilies of the Field: A Critique of Adjudication." Cardozo Law Review 22: no.3-4 (March 2001) (Critical Legal Studies {Début de Siècle}: A Symposium on Duncan Kennedy's A Critique of Adjudication): 1013-1060.
  
• "No Exit?" Faculty Column, Boston College Law School Magazine 9: no.1 (Fall 2000): 4.
  
• Remarks during "The Third World and International Law: Voices From the Margins." Proceedings of the 94th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, April 5-8, 2000: 51-52.
  
• "Sadomasochism and the Colorline: Reflections on the Million Man March." In Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader, edited by Devon Carbado, 68-84. New York: New York University Press, 1999.
  
• "Faith, Hope, and Charity." (New Democracy Forum.) Boston Review 24: no.2 (April/May 1999): 20. [Also appears in Urgent Times: Policing and Rights in Inner-City Communities, edited by Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers, 89-92. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1999.]
  
• Remarks during Symposium: Is There a Constitutional Right to Vote and Be Represented? The Case of the District of Columbia, hosted by the American University Law Review and the Program on Law and Government of the Washington College of Law. American University Law Review 48 (February 1999): 674-679, 700-704.
  
• "Thirteen Stories." Touro Law Review 15 (Winter 1999) (Symposium: The Salience of Race: Race in America): 543-656.
  
• "All Flesh Shall See It Together." Chicano-Latino Law Review 19 (Spring 1998) (Symposium: Difference, Solidarity and Law: Building Latina/o Communities Through LatCrit Theory): 163-175.
  
• "The Black Body as Fetish Object." Oregon Law Review 76 (Fall 1997) (Symposium: Citizenship and its Discontents: Centering the Immigrant in the Inter/National Imagination): 457-535.