Professor Gary Peller, Of Counsel |
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Professor Gary Peller of Georgetown University Law Center serves as Of Counsel to the Firm. Professor Peller is a nationally renowned expert in the fields of constitutional law, torts, contract law and consumer law.
Professor Peller has worked with firm Partners on important litigation in the past. Along with Mr. Marshall, Professor Peller served as lead class counsel in a nationwide class-action lawsuit against the "payday" lending industry that resulted in a $50 million dollar settlement for low-income borrowers. Professor Peller also served on the class counsel executive committee in the multi-district litigation that secured a $42 million settlement of multiple class-action lawsuits against the magazine sweepstakes industry in 2000. He has served as litigation counsel, appellate counsel, and the author of amicus curae briefs in a number of civil rights, civil liberties and consumer cases. Mr. Peller also served as co-counsel with Ms. Katz in a First Amendment challenge to National Public Radio's censorship of Mumia Abu Jumal, a Pennsylvania death row prisoner.
Professor Peller earned a B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Emory University in 1977. After graduating magna cum laude in 1980 from Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review and won the Sears Prize for earning the highest grades in his class, Professor Peller clerked for two years for the Honorable Morris Lasker of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He taught at the University of Virginia Law School from 1982 to 1988 before joining the Georgetown law faculty. An internationally recognized legal scholar, Professor Peller is widely published in the areas of constitutional law, torts and legal theory.
Professor Peller is a member of the Bar of the State of Maryland, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. The Firm intends to involve Professor Peller in consumer class actions and cases that implicate important questions of constitutional law.
Professor Peller is an internationally recognized legal scholar, and is widely published in the areas of constitutional law, torts and legal theory. His publications and presentations are too numerous to list, but include the following:
"A Subversive Strand of the Warren Court," in in Symposium: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in the Warren Court, 59 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. — (2002).
"The Rhetoric of the Predatory Lending Debate," 2002 AARP Elder Law Conference, Washington, D.C., November, 2002.
"The De Jure/De Facto Distinction in Warren Court Opinions," Summer Faculty Colloqiua, Georgetown University Law Center, June, 2002.
"Moral Argumentation in Usury Litigation," Symposium: Rethinking Urban Markets, Cleveland Marshall College of Law, November 29, 2001.
"The Ideology of the Substantive Criminal Law," Summer Faculty Colloquia, Georgetown University Law Center," July, 2001.
"Civil Rights," in Karst et al eds., The Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, Supplement (1999).
"The Limits of Cultural Imperialism as a Progressive Analytic," European Law Colloquium, Harvard Law School, April 2, 2000.
"Voting Rights, Land Reform, and Urban Insurrection," in Symposium: "Is There a Constitutional Right to be Represented" 48 Am.U. L. Rev. 589 (1999).
"The Contradictions of Mainstream Constitutional Theory," 45 U.C.L.A. L. Rev. 1683 (1998) (with Kimberle Crenshaw).
"Voting Rights, Land Reform, and Urban Insurrection," Symposium: "Is There a Constitutional Right to Vote and be Represented?" American University Law School, October 30, 1998. "Radical Lawyering," 12 Tikkun 38 (1997)(reviewing Paul Harris, The Black Rage Defense).
"Public Imperialism and Private Resistance: Progressive Possibilities of the New Private Law," 73 Denver L. Rev. 1001 (1996).
"Cultural Imperialism and Race," in A. Sarat, ed., Forty Years After Brown, Oxford University Press (1996).
Editor (with K. Crenshaw, N. Gotanda, & K. Thomas), Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Shaped the Movement New Press (1996).
"Criminal Law, Race, and the Idea of Bias: Transcending the Critical Tools of the Sixties," 67 Tulane L. Rev. 2231 (1993).
"Proof, Myth and Law: The Social Meaning of the Rodney King Verdict," 70 Denver L. Rev. 548 (1993) (co-authored with Kimberle Crenshaw).
"Reel Justice," in Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Unrest Routledge (1993) (co-authored with Kimberle Crenshaw).
"Race at the Convention," 7 Tikkun 34 (1992) (co-authored with Kimberle Crenshaw).
"The Discourse of Constitutional Degradation," 81 Georgetown L. J. 313 (1992).
"Notes Toward a Postmodern Nationalism," 72 Illin. L. Rev. 664 (1992).
"The Case for Affirmative Action," Chronicle of Higher Education B1 (Dec.16, 1991).
"The New Public Law Movement: Moderation as a Postmodern Cultural Form," 89 Michigan L. Rev. 231 (1991)
"Race Against Integration: The Politics of Racial Identity," 6 Tikkun 54 (1991).
"Race Consciousness," 1990 Duke L.J. 758. Reprinted in After Identity, D. Danielson & K. Engle, eds., Routledge (1994) and in Critical Race Theory: A Reader (K. Crenshaw, N. Gotanda, G. Peller, & K. Thomas, eds. New Press (1996).
"Liberalism and Transcendence," 4 Tikkun 68 (1989).
"'Neutral Principles' in the 1950's," 21 Mich. J.L. Ref. 561 (1988).
"The Classical Theory of Law," 73 Cornell L. Rev. 300 (1988).
"Creation, Evolution and the New South," in Creationism vs. Evolution: Radical Perspectives on the Confrontation of Spirit and Science, 2 Tikkun 72 (Nov./Dec. 1987).
"Reason and the Mob: The Politics of Representation," 2 Tikkun 28 (July/Aug. 1987). Reprinted in A Tikkun Anthology (M. Lerner, ed. 1991).
"The University Caste System," University Journal P.2 (November 21, 1986) (guest editorial).
"The Politics of Reconstruction," 98 Harv. L. Rev. 863 (1985); reprinted in Critical Legal Studies, a collection of essays published by the Harvard Law Review (1986).
"The Metaphysics of American Law," 73 Calif. L. Rev. 1151 (1985), reprinted in Critical Legal Studies, J. Boyle ed. (1991).
"The Jurisprudence of Detention: An Analysis of the Politics of Federal Habeas Corpus Relitigation," III Prisoners' Rights Sourcebook (1985).
"Academic Qualifications and Affirmative Action," Cavalier Daily p. 2 (October 5, 1984) (guest editorial).
"In Defense of Federal Habeas Corpus Relitigation," 16 Harv. Civ. Rts. - Civ. Lib. Rev. 579 (1982).
Federal Habeas Corpus Review of Grand Jury Discrimination Claims," 93 Harv. L. Rev. 199 (1979) (student comment).
