Cedric Powell is currently a law professor at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law. Cedric Powell received his Doctorate of Jurisprudence in 1987 from New York University School of Law, where he served as Managing Editor of The N.Y.U. Review of Law and Social Change. Prior work experiences include a judicial clerkship a one-year term l office of the American Civil Liberties Union of with a New York Law firm from 1989-93.Cedric Powell is a member of the Ohio and New York state bars, and is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, and the federal courts Professor Powell has written over a broad range of topics including affirmative action and Critical Race Theory, the First Amendment and hate speech, and the Fourteenth Amendment and structural inequality. Professor Powell was awarded the Ferreri & Fogle Fellowship for teaching in 1998, 2000-2001 and again in 2007. He was the recipient of the Ann Oldfather fellowship in 2006, and he won the University Multicultural Teaching Award in 2000.