Photocredit: Memphis LawDaniel Kiel, Contributing Editor
University of Memphis, College of Law, Assistant Professor
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Teaching interests: Civil Rights, Education, Property, and Remedies. Education: J.D., Harvard Law School, 2004; B.A. with High Honors and Special Honors in History, University of Texas at Austin, 2001. Experience: 2008-present, Assistant Professor of Law, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law; 2006-2008, Adjunct Professor of Legal Methods, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law; 2005-2008, Associate, Burch, Porter & Johnson; 2004-2005, Associate, Bingham McCutchen; 2002-2004, Student Fellow, the Harvard Civil Rights Project; 2000-2001, Constituent Caseworker, Office of Congressman Lloyd Doggett (Austin, TX). Admitted: Massachusetts, Tennessee, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, Western District of Tennessee, District of Massachusetts In addition to his academic research, Prof. Kiel has worked with the Civil Rights Project in preparing amicus curiae briefs for Supreme Court cases considering both affirmative action in higher education (Grutter v. Bollinger) and voluntary integration in secondary education (Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District). He has also served on multiple panels regarding issues of race and education. Prior to entering teaching, Prof. Kiel worked in private practice doing civil litigation at firms in Boston and Memphis. While in practice, Prof. Kiel also represented criminal defendants in front of both the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals. As a member of the community, Prof. Kiel has facilitated programs for high school students on Brown v. Board of Education in conjunction with the National Civil Rights Museum. On campus, he serves on the faculty advisory board of the Benjamin Hooks Institute of Social Change where he is helping coordinate an education reform symposium for spring 2010. In addition, he serves on the advisory board of Facing History and Ourselves and is a founding steering committee member and current vice-chair of Common Ground Memphis. Prof. Kiel also served a term as a citizen member of the Commercial Appeal editorial board.
Achievements/Publications: Prof. Kiel’s research focuses on the intersection of race and education, and his writing has appeared in law reviews, bar journals, and local and national newspapers. Most recently, his article Accepting Justice Kennedy’s Dare: The Future of Integration in a Post-PICS World was accepted for publication in theFordham Law Review. Shorter articles and columns have appeared in the Washington Post, USA Today, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, the Memphis Business Journal, and the Tennessee Young Lawyer. In addition, Prof. Kiel’s in depth study of the school desegregation in Memphis appeared in the University of Minnesota’s Journal of Law and Inequality.
