Daniel Sharfstein

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Daniel J. Sharfstein is a professor of law and history at Vanderbilt University and a legal scholar who has written books and articles about the legal history of the United States and African Americans as well as Oliver Otis Howard and the war against Nez Perce. He was a 2013 Guggenheim Fellow. [1]

He graduated from Harvard College and then worked for 3 years as a journalist. [2] He received his Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School, clerked for judge Dorothy W. Nelson at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for judge Rya W. Zobel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He was an associate at Strumwasser & Woocher, a public interest law firm in Santa Monica, California. [3]

He has written for the Yale Law Journal, [4] Virginia Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, New York Times, Slate, [5] and Legal Affairs. [3]

He co-directs a social justice program at Yale. [3] He gave the Edward L. Prichard lecture at the University of Kentucky in 2019. [6]

In 2021 he was researching a book on New York's garment workers. [7]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lucullus Virgil McWhorter</span>

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