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Lani Guinier a civil rights lawyer and scholar whose nomination by President Bill Clinton to head the Justice Departments civil rights. Before coming to Harvard in 1998 Guinier taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Civil Rights Lawyer Professor Lani Guinier Dead At 71 Wbur News

Guinier became widely known when former president Bill Clinton pulled her nomination as assistant attorney general in 1993 after controversy surrounding her views on voting rights and affirmative action.

. She was the Bennett Boskey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the first woman of color appointed to a tenured professorship there. Carol Lani Guinier ˈ l ɑː n i ɡ w ɪ ˈ n ɪər. LANI Guinier the legal scholar at the center of the 1993 Bill Clinton voting rights controversy has died at 71. April 19 1950 January 7 2022 was an American educator legal scholar and civil rights theorist.

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