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==Academic career== ===Teaching=== Guinier began her career in academics in 1989 as a Professor of Law at the [[University of Pennsylvania Law School]]. It was there that she took her experience with the Voting Rights Project of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and began theorizing on reforming the voting system.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Risen|first=Clay|date=8 January 2022|title=Lani Guinier, Legal Scholar at the Center of Controversy, Dies at 71|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/07/us/politics/lani-guinier-dead.html|access-date=12 January 2022}}</ref> She spent 10 years at University of Pennsylvania Law School before joining [[Harvard Law School]] in 1998 as the school's first woman of color to be granted tenure.<ref>{{cite web |title=HLS Professor Lani Guinier |url=http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/guinier/ |website=www.law.harvard.edu |accessdate=June 10, 2020 |archive-date=June 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200608204209/http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/guinier/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She regularly lectured at various other law schools and universities including [[Yale]], [[Stanford]], [[New York University]] (NYU), [[UT Austin]], [[University of California, Berkeley|Berkeley]], [[UCLA]], [[Rice University|Rice]], and [[University of Chicago]]. In 2007 she was a visiting professor at [[Columbia Law School]], and in 2009 she was a fellow at the [[Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences]] at [[Stanford University]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lani Guinier {{!}} Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences|url=https://casbs.stanford.edu/people/lani-guinier|access-date=January 8, 2022|website=casbs.stanford.edu|archive-date=December 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181212143249/https://casbs.stanford.edu/people/lani-guinier|url-status=live}}</ref> Guinier took emerita status at Harvard in 2017.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Milano|first=Brett|date=January 7, 2022|title=In Memoriam: Lani Guinier 1950 - 2022|url=https://today.law.harvard.edu/in-memoriam-lani-guinier-1950-2022/|access-date=January 8, 2022|website=Harvard Law Today|language=en-US}}</ref> ===Publications=== {{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?58251-1/the-tyranny-majority ''Booknotes'' interview with Guinier on ''The Tyranny of the Majority'', June 26, 1994], [[C-SPAN]]| video2 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?169591-1/the-miners-canary Presentation by Guinier on ''The Miner's Canary'', April 12, 2002], [[C-SPAN]]}} Guinier authored over two dozen law review articles,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10344/Guinier/publications |title=Harvard Law School - Lani Guinier publications |access-date=March 17, 2014 |archive-date=March 18, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318014504/http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10344/Guinier/publications |url-status=live }}</ref> as well as five books: * {{cite book |last1=Guinier |first1=Lani |title=The Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy |date=1994 |publisher=Free Press |isbn=978-0-02-913172-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0OQPAQAAMAAJ |language=en}}<ref>1994 review: {{cite magazine |magazine=[[The New Republic]] |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/62574/voting-rites |title=Voting Rites |first=Cass R.|last= Sunstein |author-link=Cass Sunstein |pages=34β38 |access-date=January 8, 2022 |archive-date=May 17, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517113638/https://newrepublic.com/article/62574/voting-rites |url-status=live }}</ref> *{{cite book |last1=Guinier |first1=Lani |last2=Fine |first2=Michelle |author2-link=Michelle Fine |last3=Balin |first3=Jane |title=Becoming Gentlemen: Women, Law School, and Institutional Change |date=1997 |publisher=Beacon Press |isbn=978-0-8070-4405-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AlgDUtBcAvoC |language=en}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Raymond|first=Diane|year=1998|title=Review of Becoming Gentlemen; Critical Race Feminism|journal=NWSA Journal|volume=10|issue=3|pages=216β220|doi=10.2979/NWS.1998.10.3.216 |doi-broken-date=November 1, 2024 |issn=1040-0656|jstor=4316616}}</ref> *{{cite book |last1=Guinier |first1=Lani |title=Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback Into a New Vision of Social Justice |date=1998 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=978-0-684-81145-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8pR2AAAAMAAJ |language=en}} *{{Cite book|last1=Guinier|first1=Lani|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UWkMAAAAYAAJ|title=The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy|last2=Torres|first2=Gerald|date=2002|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-00469-6|language=en}} *{{Cite book|last=Guinier|first=Lani|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ykMJAwAAQBAJ&q=The+Tyranny+of+the+Meritocracy:+Democratizing+Higher+Education+in+a+Democracy|title=The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America|date=January 13, 2015|publisher=Beacon Press|isbn=978-0-8070-0628-3|language=en}}
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