Law Prof Wins Top Honor at Philadelphia Conference
Assistant Professor Adjoa Aiyetoro of UALR’s William H. Bowen School of Law received the Queen Mother Moor Leadership Award, the highest honor presented by the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America at the group’s annual convention in Philadelphia this summer.
Aiyetoro presented the apology section of her upcoming article, “Truth Matters: A Call for the American Bar Association to Acknowledge its Past and Make Reparation to African Descendants.”
Before joining the Bowen School’s faculty, Aiyetoro was a human rights attorney, working as a Justice Department staff attorney in the Civil Rights Division where she litigated cases involving the rights of the institutionalized and developed an expertise in prisoner rights. She spent nearly 10 years on the ACLU National Prison Project and is a former director of the national Conference of Black Lawyers and the director of administration for the Congressional Black Caucus.
A graduate of the St. Louis University School of Law, she joined the faculty of UALR’s Bowen School in 2004.