Shelaswau Bushnell Crier

B.A., 1999, Rice University (cum laude);
J.D., 2005, Yale Law School

Professor Crier joined the Loyola faculty as a Westerfield Fellow in Fall 2006. While at Yale, Professor Crier served as Student Director of the Nonprofit Organizations Clinic and was an editor for the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics and the Yale Journal on Regulation.  Professor Crier’s legal work experiences include the Connecticut State’s Attorney’s Office, the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Legal Advisor, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office.  Professor Crier’s teaching and scholarly interests include criminal law, property, nonprofit law, education law, and community development.  Her current writing focuses on charter schools, public boarding schools, and minimizing discrimination in the justice system.  Professor Crier teaches Legal Writing and Research and Moot Court and will teach an education law
seminar surveying Louisiana and Orleans Parish charter school laws during Fall 2007.  Professor Crier is also a member of the State Bar of Texas.

Curriculum Vitae 

E-mail: scrier@loyno.edu
Office Phone: 504-861-5446

Publications

Works in Progress

• “Public Urban Boarding Schools: Providing Disadvantaged Youths the Opportunities of the Privileged” (work in progress proposing that states provide public boarding schools and legislative and economic support for public boarding schools for that class of students whose community and home environments have a negative effect on their ability to receive a quality education) {link to excerpt}
• “The New Orleans Charter School Experiment: An Assessment of Louisiana and Orleans Parish Charter School Legislation” (work in progress analyzing the efficacy of charter school legislation regulating the various charter schools in Orleans Parish under the direction of the Orleans Parish School Board, the Recovery School District, and the State of Louisiana)
• “The Court Shall Deliver Even Justice: Strategies for Minimizing Discrimination in the Justice System” (work in progress analyzing various methods, including automation and double blind jury selection and witness testimony, for minimizing discrimination in the legal process)