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April 25, 2006

NAACP to Honor Prof. Deborah Post at Luncheon

Auburn, NY – The Auburn-Cayuga branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will pay tribute to Touro Law Prof. Deborah W. Post at its annual Freedom Fund Banquet on May 5. Prof. Post attended schools in the region growing up.

During her law career, Prof. Post has focused her work on business associations and contract law, legal education and critical race theory. Anthropology has been a major influence on her scholarly work.

Trained originally as a social scientist, Prof. Post was an executive assistant to anthropologist Margaret Mead. Admitted to the bar of Texas, Professor Post was an Associate with Bracewell & Patterson in Houston, Texas, before assuming teaching positions at the University of Houston Law Center and then Touro Law Center. She has published in the areas of both commercial law and critical legal studies. She is the co-author of two recent books, "Cultivating Intelligence: Power, Law, and the Politics of Teaching" (New York University Press, 1996), with Touro Law Center colleague Louise Harmon, and "Contracting Law" (Carolina Academic Press, 1996), with Amy Kastely and Sharon Hom.

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