Professor Margaret A. Burnham is an internationally recognized expert on civil and human rights, comparative constitutional rights, and international criminal law. She is the faculty co-director of the law school’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) and founded and directs the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), which investigates racial violence in the Jim Crow era and other historical failures of the criminal justice system.
Burnham's recent book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners, is a finalist for the Kirkus Prize in nonfiction and has been longlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.
Sponsored by: Saint Michael's College Donald J. Sutherland Lecture Series, Saint Michael's College Office of the President, and the Society of Saint Edmund.
