The Duke Center on Law, Race and Politics (CLRP) is a multidisciplinary initiative created to support research, public engagement, teaching, and activities at the intersection of CLRP's core focus. The center was created in the fall of 2009 and is co-directed by Professors Guy-Uriel E. Charles and G. Mitu Gulati. An affiliate of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the Social Sciences at Duke University, CLRP’s activities include symposia, conferences, academic workshops, public lectures, and scholarship roundtables.

CLRP is particularly committed to supporting law and social science students whose academic work and activities are consistent with the center’s mission. Forms of support include grants to encourage independent academic research by students, research assistantships, supervision of academic work, mentorship, and opportunities for close collaboration with CLRP's faculty.

Co-directors

Guy-Uriel Charles
Charles S. Rhyne Professor of Law, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty & Research

Charles is an expert in and frequent public commentator on constitutional law, election law, campaign finance, redistricting, politics, and race. He joined Duke Law's faculty in 2009; he previously was the Russell M. and Elizabeth M. Bennett Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School.
 

Mitu Gulati
Professor of Law

Gulati's research interests are in the historic evolution of concepts of sovereign immunity and racial inequality. He has written about the Civil Rights Act, racial diversity in the United States, and posed solutions to sovereign debt. Read Gulati's collection of works.

Affiliated Faculty

• Katharine T. Bartlett
  A. Kenneth Pye Professor of Law
• Trina Jones
  Professor of Law
• Jack Knight
  Frederic Cleaveland Professor of Law and Political Science
• Darrell A. H. Miller
  

  Melvin G. Shimm Professor of Law