Biography Statement of Qualifications

							Tucker Bolt Culbertson
I am a queer white male from Gray Court, South Carolina, committed to innovative, non-
ideological antidiscrimination work in an era hailed as post-racial, post-gendered, et cetera, but
where disparities in health, wealth, and education persistently and predictably track the
intersecting lines of race, gender, sexuality, nationality, color, language, and ability.

I have recently accepted a position as Assistant Professor at Syracuse University College of Law
where I will be teaching Constitutional law I, Constitutional Law II, and Foreign Relations. I
received my A.B., magna cum laude, from Princeton University, where I studied the politics of
race and gender in English literature and theater. I received my J.D. from Berkeley Law School
(formerly known as Boalt Hall,) where my studies focused on race, sex, and nationality in the
fields of equal protection, employment discrimination, fundamental rights, and secondary
education.

I am presently finishing my Ph.D. in the Jurisprudence & Social Policy Program at UC-
Berkeley. My dissertation addresses connections among 18th century judicial opinions on
indigenous tribes, 19th century opinions on enslaved and freed African-Americans, and 21st
century opinions on non-citizens. I contend that these bodies of law are underwritten by a logic
of perpetual war, inherited from the colonial project out of which our constitution emerges. That
is to say, the fate of the Cherokee Nation in the hands of Justice Marshall’s Court, that of Dred
Scott and his family under Justice Taney’s, and that of inadmissible aliens and unlawful enemy
combatants at GITMO and elsewhere have a great deal in common. Other works in progress
address standards of intent and proofs of causation in doctrines involving workplace harassment,
secondary school assignment, and hate speech.

In my academic and community work I have often served as scribe, secretary, and conference
reporter. Most recently I served as scribe and reporter for an interdisciplinary conference on
―Law and the Emotions‖ sponsored by the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research,
Berkeley Law School, UC-Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Law and Society, Vanderbilt
University Law School, and DePaul University College of Law. This report was subsequently
published in Women’s Studies Quarterly.

My objectives in this and similar reports are these:

(1) To summarize the contributions of participants;

(2) To characterize the overarching methodological and substantive themes, convergences, and
conflicts revealed by the conference;

(3) To suggest possible directions for continued engagement; and

(4) To offer brief personal commentary on the proceedings as a whole.

It would be a great privilege to offer similar support to the ABA’s important projects addressing
diversity within the legal profession. Thank you in advance for considering my application, and
– more importantly – for the work which you are doing.
Marc-Tizoc González is a staff attorney at the Oakland office of the Alameda County
Homeless Action Center and lectures for UC Berkeley's Chicano Studies Program and San
Francisco State University (―SFSU‖)’s Raza Studies Department.

In his lawyering, Marc-Tizoc represents poor people disabled by severe mental and physical
conditions in their claims for Social Security benefits, provides citation defense for so-called
―quality of life‖ infractions and engages local policy advocacy against the criminalization of
homelessness and for poor people’s right to welfare. His previous legal work involved support of
high impact affordable housing litigation, plaintiffs’ asbestos litigation, workers’ compensation
claims, small business litigation and trust accounting.

His scholarship analyzes student activism and Chicana/o legal advocacy, in terms of civic
engagement, public education, the social and intergenerational / transnational social movements.
He is particularly interested in historically and nationally contingent notions of law and
democracy, liberation and self-determination.

Marc-Tizoc is active in several professional organizations, including:

·   Berkeley Law Foundation (director and yearlong grants co-chair)

·   East Bay La Raza Lawyers Association (president and past treasurer)

·   Latina & Latino Critical Legal Theory (―LatCrit‖), Inc. (director and secretary)

·   National Lawyers Guild – SF Bay Area Chapter (director)

· National Latina/o Law Student Association (―NLLSA‖) (founding chapter delegate,
inaugural attorney general, and co-founder of the NLLSA Alumni Association).

He graduated from Berkeley Law in 2005 and earned a M.A. in Interdisciplinary Social Science
from SFSU in 2002. Before law school, he worked in mental health with youth in Los Angeles,
San Mateo, San Francisco and Alameda counties—after earning his B.A. in Psychology from
U.C. Davis in 1996. Marc-Tizoc was born and raised in Sacramento, California to Chicana/o
activists who raised him to engage the intergenerational struggle for social justice and in an
extended family of Mexican Americans who immigrated to the US following the dislocations
caused by the Mexican Revolution.




Colin Crawford is Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law, where he
founded serves as Co-Director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth.
Professor Crawford teaches environmental law and related subjects, focusing on questions of
distributive justice as they affect land use and environmental issues. He is a member of the
Board of Latina and Latino Critical Legal theory, Inc., and runs that group's Study Space Project,
which brings scholars together from across the Americas and the Caribbean to study the effects
of urban growth on the built and physical environment.