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Aiyetoro began her legal career as a staff attorney with the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section where she litigated cases involving the rights of the institutionalized and developed an expertise in prisoner rights.
Supporting Committees of Correspondence
In 1995 Adjoa Aiyetoro was listed[4] as one of the "CoC members and friends" donating to Committees of Correspondence.
In March 2014, Professor Aiyetoro received the Washington University George Warren Brown School of Social Work’s Distinguished Alumni Award and in April 2014 she received the Arkansas ACLU’s Civil Libertarian of the Year Award.
PUBLICATIONS
Black Women and Reparations Movements in Black women and International Law: Deliberate Interactions, Movements and Actions, ed.
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Legal career
Adjoa Aiyetoro joined the ACLU National Prison Project in 1981[3]where she remained until 1992.
The Development of the Movement for Reparations for African Descendants, 3 J.L. Soc’y 133(2002).
Formulating Reparations Litigation Through the Eyes of the Movement, 58 NYU Annual Survey of American Law 437 (2003).
She began her legal career as a staff attorney with the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section where she litigated cases involving the rights of the institutionalized and developed an expertise in prisoner rights. Jeremy I. Levitt (Cambridge University Press 2015)
Racial Disparities in Punishments and Alienation: Rebelling for Justice.
Why Reparations to African Descendants in the United States Are Essential to Democracy, J.
Gender Race & Justice (Spring 2011).
Historic and Modern Social Movements for Reparations: The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA) and its Antecedents, 16 Tex. Wesleyan L. Rev.687 (2010) (co-author Prof.
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Legal background
Adjoa Aiyetoro joined the UALR law school faculty[2]in 2004. She has also worked on recognizing and commemorating civil rights history as well as raising awareness on issues of race in Arkansas. The project released a comprehensive report of its research findings in August 2015.
As a social worker, she served as the supervisor for the Malcolm Bliss Community Mental Health Center’s Model Cities’ outpatient program.
In 2011, she served as the inaugural director of UA Little Rock’s Institute on Race and Ethnicity, which has a mission to seek racial and ethnic justice in Arkansas by remembering and understanding the past, informing and engaging the present, and shaping and defining the future.
In March 2012, she organized a one-day conference in Pulaski County titled “Arkansas Media, Race and Ethnicity: Accountability, Responsibility and Opportunity.” During summer 2012, she organized a forum honoring the 55th anniversary of the Little Rock Nine.
Police Misconduct and Accountability, Rights for All, Amnesty International, USA, 1998.
She was a Visiting Scholar with the University of California at Santa Barbara, Center for Black Studies, Spring 2003 and a Visiting Professor at West Virginia University College of Law, Fall 2004. In January 2012, she returned to Bowen as a full-time faculty member, where she has continued to work on projects that raise awareness of racial justice issues.
Aiyetoro served as the inaugural director of UA Little Rock’s Institute on Race and Ethnicity from July 2011 to December 2012.
Before joining the law faculty, Professor Aiyetoro had a career as a human rights attorney and social worker.
Professor Aiyetoro has extensive experience[1]working domestically and internationally to obtain remedies for historical and present day wrongs to people of color, women and other oppressed groups.
She represented the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom, (2000-2001) at the World Conference Against Racism, including attending all the preparatory meetings and serving as a leader of the African and African Descendant Caucus.
Her work on this project resulted in a conference in August 2015 sponsored by the Racial Disparities Project’s Steering Committee and has contributed to legislation to obtain support for racial impact.
She has also worked as a board member of the Arkansas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. Sibyl Schwarzenback and Patricia Smith, New York: Columbia University Press (2003).