Major G. Coleman
Assistant Professor of Law
Email: mcoleman2@stu.edu
Mail:
St. Thomas University College of Law
Faculty Suite (209)
16401 NW 37th Ave
Miami Gardens, FL 33054
Education:
B.A., University of Maryland
J.D., University of Maryland School of Law
A.M., University of Chicago
Ph.D., University of Chicago
LL.M., Emory University School Law
S.J.D., Emory University School of Law
Major G. Coleman
Dr. Dr. Major Coleman began his legal career clerking for the boutique law firm of McClellan and Spevack in Laurel, Maryland. He learned much from the personal touch McClellan and Spevack gave to the legal needs of their working class clients. Often times clients would walk in with an immediate legal need. Sometimes criminal, sometimes civil. Ed McClellan would make a call to the States Attorney’s office with instructions on the arrangements for his client. There was no charge for such a service. Be it DWI, tenant evictions, or an employment issue, the clients always got the best guidance, direction and counsel. Professor Coleman learned that the best lawyers really care about people.
Professor Coleman was attorney-advisor for the Department of the Army, Tank and Automotive Command, Contracts division in Detroit, Michigan. And yes, having a first name of “Major,” created no end to confusion at a military installation. He practiced government contracts and bidding before taking a new assignment with the Department of Defense General Counsel’s office in Washington, D.C. as Assistant Counsel with the Fuel Supply Center. Professor Coleman began his teaching career as an instructor for the University of Maryland Law School bar tutorial program.
Professor Coleman was awarded a fully funded Ph.D. fellowship as a trustee fellow at the University of Chicago’s Political Science Department. He was an instructor at DePaul University in the department of Political Science. He did his post-doctoral training as a fellow in Politics, Race and Law at Stanford University. He has taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and Syracuse University. He was a visiting scholar in the Department of Economics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Professor Coleman has taught at Pennsylvania State University (State College), and the State University of New York at New Paltz, where he was tenured and a department chair. He has taught at Campbell Law School, and North Carolina Central University School of law.
Professor Coleman received his Bachelor degree (B.A.) in Law Enforcement from the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Maryland Law School, a Master of Arts (A.M.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from the University of Chicago, and Master of Laws (LL.M.) and Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D) from the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory Law School. In 2024, Professor Coleman was awarded the much coveted Gertie and John Witte Prize in Law and Religion for outstanding work in Law and Christianity by the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory Law School.
Books:
“The Cost of Racial Equality,” Cascade Books, Forthcoming.
“Legal and Natural Atonement Theory,” Work in Progress.
Articles:
“Reading and Leading: Interviews with R.B.P.E Editors About the Past and the Future of the Review.” Review of Black Political Economy June, no. 47 (2020): 125-33.
“At a Loss for Words: Measuring Racial Inequality in America.” Review of Black Political Economy June, no. 43.2 (2016): 177-92.
“Holier Than Thou: The Impact of Politico-Economic Equality on Black Spirituality.” National Political Science Review 2, no. 17 (2016): 57-94.
“Strategic Equality and the Failure of Affirmative Action Law,”(2012) International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, Vol. 12, Iss. 1, (March 2012): 27-51.
“Anti-Discrimination Versus Anti-poverty: Does Affirmative Action Hurt the Poor?” (2009) Poverty and Public Policy. July 2009.
“Are Claims of Discrimination Valid? Considering the Moral Hazard Effect.” (2008) The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. April (2008) 1-19 (w/William A. Darity, Jr., and Rhonda V. Sharpe).
“Racism in Academia: The White Superiority Supposition in the ‘Unbiased’ Search for Knowledge.” European Journal of Political Economy. September (2005) 762-774.
“Racial Discrimination in the Workplace: Does Market Structure Make a Difference?” Industrial Relations. Vol 43, July (2004) 660-689.
“Job Skill and Black Male Wage Discrimination.” Social Science Quarterly. December (2003) 892-906.
“African American Popular Wisdom Versus the Qualification Question : Is Affirmative Action Merit-based.” Western Journal of Black Studies. spring (2003) 35-44. (This was a special affirmative action issue featuring some of the best scholars from different fields including Haynes Walton, Lani Guinier, Glenn Loury, Thomas Boston and others).
“Contesting the Magic of the Marketplace: Black Employment and Business Concentration in the Urban Context.” Urban Studies 39 September 1793-1818 (2002).
“Merit, Cost and the Affirmative Action Policy Debate,” The Review of Black Political Economy. summer (1999) 99-127.
“You Can’t Fix Racial Inequality if You Can’t See It: Why Data Collection Is Vital to Successful Anti-discrimination Initiatives.” (2007) Advancing Equity in Latin America: Putting Policy Into Practice, 31-48. C. Nelson and S. Richards-Kennedy Eds. Washington D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank.
“The Black Political Economy Paradigm and the Dynamics of Racial Economic Inequality.” (2005) w/James B. Stewart) African Americans in the U.S. Economy, 118-129. J. Whitehead, C. Conrad, P. Mason and J. B. Stewart, Eds. Lanhan, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
“Review of The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston’s Public Schools, 1950-1985, ” by Adam R. Nelson. (2006) Journal of Politics. 68: 221-222.
“The Nature of the American Political System and Black Voters,” (1996) The Pride of Syracuse, October 3- November 6: 6, 32.