Lisa Crooms-Robinson, District of Columbia, is a Professor of Law at Howard University School of Law where she teaches Constitutional Law, Gender and the Law, International Human Rights Law, Supreme Court Jurisprudence, and a course, “Equality According to Pauli”. She is an internationally recognized scholar of race, gender and human rights.  She has written shadow reports for the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and on U.S. compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.