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Education
- University of Virginia B.A. 2003
- University of Virginia J.D. 2006
- University of Virginia Ph.D. 2012
Courses
- B 756 Race, American Society, and the Law
- Advanced Constitutional Law
Background
- Joined the Indiana Law faculty in 2012
- Was previously Assistant Director, Center for the Study of Race and the Law, University of Virginia School of Law
- Expert in legal history, civil rights, human rights, and constitutional law
- Recipient, Indiana University Trustees' Teaching Award, 2015
Biography
H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr. is a professor of law. He has published articles in journals including the Law and History Review and the Journal of American History, and his article, “William Worthy's Passport,” was selected for the 2015 Law & Humanities Interdisciplinary Junior Scholar Workshop. Lovelace’s current book project, The World is on Our Side: The U.S. and the U.N. Race Convention, examines how U.S. civil rights politics shaped the development of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Lovelace teaches American legal history, advanced constitutional law, and race and the law. In 2015, he received the Indiana University Trustees’ Teaching Award. During the 2015-2016 academic year, he served as a Law and Public Affairs Fellow at Princeton University. His scholarship has also received support from the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation, Indiana University New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities program, and John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Foundation.
Lovelace earned his J.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. During law school, he was an Oliver Hill Scholar, the Thomas Marshall Miller Prize recipient, and the Bracewell & Patterson LLP Best Oralist Award winner. As a doctoral student in history, Lovelace was a Virginia Foundation for Humanities Fellow and the inaugural Armstead L. Robinson Fellow of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies.
Before joining the Indiana Law faculty, Lovelace served as the assistant director of the Center for the Study of Race and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. The Center for the Study of Race and Law provides opportunities for students, scholars, practitioners and community members to examine and exchange ideas related to race and law through lectures, symposia and scholarship.
Selected works
- Civil Rights As Human Rights, 70 Duke Law Journal ____ (forthcoming 2020).
- King Making: Brown v. Board and the Rise of a Racial Savior, 57 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY 393 (2017).
- William Worthy's Passport: Travel Restrictions and the Cold War Struggle for Civil and Human Rights, 103 JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY 107 (2016).
- Making the World in Atlanta's Image: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Morris Abram, and the Legislative History of the United Nations Race Convention, 32 LAW & HISTORY REVIEW 385 (2014).
- INTERNATIONAL LEGAL HISTORY FROM BELOW: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND THE U.S. ORIGINS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION (ICERD), 1960-1965. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia, 2012.
Interests
- Legal History
- Civil Rights
- Human Rights
- Constitutional Law