Assistant Professor of Law
A. B., 1967, Clark University
M.S.W., 1969, Washington University
J.D., 1978, St. Louis University
Adjoa A. Aiyetoro joined the law school faculty in 2004. She graduated, cum laude, from St. Louis University School of Law where she was inducted into the Jesuit Honor Society, Alpha Sigma Nu. Before joining the faculty she had a career as a human rights attorney. She began her legal career as a staff attorney with the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section where she litigated cases involving the rights of the institutionalized and developed an expertise in prisoner rights. She joined the ACLU National Prison Project in 1981 where she remained until 1992. Since 1992 she has served as the Executive Director of the National Conference of Black Lawyers, the Director of Administration for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc., a consultant to the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the Chief Legal Consultant for the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA). Ms. Aiyetoro was an Adjunct Professor with the American University, Washington College of Law from 1997 through 2003. She was a Visiting Scholar with the University of California at Santa Barbara, Center for Black Studies, Spring 2003 and a Visiting Professor at West Virginia University College of Law, Fall 2004.
Professor Aiyetoro has extensive experience working domestically and internationally to obtain remedies for historical and present day wrongs to people of color, women and other oppressed groups. She represented the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) (2000-2001) at the World Conference Against Racism, including attending all the preparatory meetings and serving as a leader of the African and African Descendant Caucus. In 1995 she coordinated the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law’s delegation to the United Nations’ Conference on Women in Beijing and also represented the organization at the 2000 Beijing Plus 5.
Professor Aiyetoro’s publications include:
The Unkept Promise of the 13th Amendment: A Call for Reparations, Women and the U.S. Constitution: History, Interpretation and Practice, eds. Sibyl Schwarzenback and Patricia Smith, New York: Columbia University Press (2003).
Formulating Reparations Litigation Through the Eyes of the Movement, 58 NYU Annual Survey of American Law 437 (2003).
The Development of the Movement for Reparations for African Descendants, 3 J.L. Soc’y 133(2002).
Police Misconduct and Accountability, Rights for All, Amnesty International, USA, 1998.
E-mail: aaaiyetoro@ualr.edu
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Phone: 501.324.9950
Revised: 8/23/07