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Margalynne J. Armstrong
Associate Professor of Law

    Professor Armstrong joined the Santa Clara University School of Law faculty in 1987 and serves on the boards of several community organizations. She is well-published in the areas of housing, racial discrimination, comparative and constitutional law.

    Prior to joining the law faculty at Santa Clara, Armstrong practiced public employment law, served as a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society of Alameda County, and directed the Academic Support Program at Boalt Hall. While she attended University of California, Berkeley, she served as associate editor of the Ecology Law Quarterly.

    Education

    J.D., Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley

    B.A., Earlham College

    Areas of Specialization

    Constitutional Law, Property, Race and Racism in the Law

    Affiliations and Honors
    Founding Member, Equal Justice Society
    Member, California Bar

    Former Trustee, Society of American Law Teachers

    Publications

    Books

    Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America with contributions by Margalynne Armstrong, Adrienne Davis & Trina Grillo. 2nd edition (Reissued as part of the Classics series). New York University Press (2021)

    Chapters

    "Colorblindness Is the New Racism": Raising Awareness About Privilege Using Color Insight with Wildman in Deconstructing Privilege: Teaching and Learning as Allies in the Classroom. Case, editor. Routledge (2013)

    Working Across Racial Lines in a Not-So-Post-Racial World with Wildman in Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia. Gutierrez, Niemann, Gonzalez, and Harris, editors. Utah State University Press (2012)

    Meditations on Being Good in Critical Race Feminism: A Reader. Wing, editor. New York University Press (1997)

    Privilege in Residential Housing in Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America. By Wildman. New York University Press (1996)

    Articles

    Revisiting the Work We Know So Little About: Race, Wealth, Privilege, and Social Justice, with Wildman and Moran, 2 UC Irvine Law Review 1011-1022 (2012) | Link to Digital Commons

    Teaching Race/Teaching Whiteness: Transforming Colorblindness to Color Insight, with Wildman, 86 North Carolina Law Review 635-672 (2008) | Link to Digital Commons

    Reparations Litigation: What About Unjust Enrichment?, (Social Justice Movements and LatCrit Community), 81 Oregon Law Review 771-782 (Fall 2002) | Link to Digital Commons

    Race and Property Values in Entrenched Segregation, 52 University of Miami Law Review 1051-1065 (1998) | Link to Digital Commons

    Women of Color in the Law: The Duality of Transformation, 31 University of San Francisco Law Review 967-973 (1997) | Link to Digital Commons

    Protecting Privilege: Race, Residence and Rodney King, 12 Law and Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 351-380 (1994) | Link to Digital Commons

    African Americans and Property Ownership: Creating Our Own Meanings, Redefining Our Relationships, 1 African-American Law and Policy Report 79-88 (1994) | Link to Digital Commons

    Desegregation Through Private Litigation: Using Equitable Remedies to Achieve the Purposes of the Fair Housing Act, 64 Temple Law Review 909-935 (1991) | Link to Digital Commons

    Book Reviews

    Teaching by the Book: Constructing a New Legal Actor, (review of Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America), 89 California Law Review 1625-1632 (2001) | Link to Digital Commons

    Legal Breakdown: 40 Ways to Fix Our Legal System, 32 Santa Clara Law Review 297-309 (1992) | Link to Digital Commons

    Legal Breakdown: 40 Ways to Fix Our Legal System, 3 Legal Publishing Preview 209 (July-August 1991)

    Current Legal Developments in Real Estate Law: Annual Survey - 1990, 3 Legal Publishing Preview 140 (1991)

    AIDS and the Law: A Guide for the Public, 28 Santa Clara Law Review 463-468 (1988) | Link to Digital Commons

    Other Articles

    An Homage to Derrick Bell, with Wildman, 36 Seattle University Law Review v-viii (2013) | Link to Digital Commons

    Can Good Samaritan Laws Fit Into the United States Legal/Political Framework?: A Brief Response to Elspeth Farmer, Joshua Dressler, and Marc Franklin, 40 Santa Clara Law Review 1027-1031 (2000) | Link to Digital Commons

    CCRI's Colorblindness Theory is Dangerously Shortsighted, 1996-1997 Et Al.: The Magazine of Santa Clara University School of Law 36 (Fall/Winter 1996-97)

    Memorial Statement for Russell Galloway, (Santa Clara University School of Law Professor), 32 Santa Clara Law Review 1 (1992) | Link to Digital Commons

    Tokens and Taboos, 115 The Recorder 4 (August 2, 1991)

    Lawyers and the Second Shift, 22 The Advocate (Santa Clara, Calif.) 17 (March 1991)

    Thurgood Marshall and the Reformation of Black History, 24 The Advocate (Santa Clara, Calif.) 6 (February 1993)

    Meditations On Being Good, (Black Women Law Professors: Building Community at the Intersection of Race and Gender: A Symposium), 6 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 43-45 (1991) | Link to Digital Commons

    MBE and Multiple Choice Exam Skills, 21 The Advocate (Santa Clara, Calif.) 4 (December 1989)

    Grading the California Bar Exam, 15 The Advocate (Santa Clara, Calif.) 9,12 (May 1989)

    Bar Preparation: Questions and Answers, 15 The Advocate (Santa Clara, Calif.) 9-10 (March 1989)

    Other

    Work Paper: Using Comparative Legal Studies to Prepare Law Students for an Evolving Legal Profession. (XVI Biennial Conference on the Law of the World. Manila, The Philippines) World Jurist Association (Oct 24-29, 1993)

    SSRN Page
    http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=20056
    Digital Commons Link
    http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/do/search/?q=author_lname%3A%22Armstrong%22%20AND%20author_fname%3A%22Margalynne%22&sort=date_desc&fq=ancestor_key:1823873