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Kevin Noble Maillard
Professor of Law

College of Law
Syracuse University
541A E.I. White Hall

Phone:	(315) 443- 4609
Email:	maillard@law.syr.edu

Biography:
B.A., Duke University
M.A., University of Michigan
J.D., University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., University of Michigan, Political Science

Kevin Noble Maillard is Professor of Law at Syracuse University. He is the co-editor of Loving v. Virginia in a Post-Racial World (with Rose Villazor, Cambridge 2012).

Prof. Maillard focuses on family law and popular culture. He has written about and lectured on nontraditional families, racial intermixture, and the role of marriage in America. At Syracuse, he teaches Family Law, Trusts & Estates, Adoption Law, and Popular Culture.

His work has been published in the New York Times, Cardozo Law Review, SMU Law Review, Fordham Law Review, and Law & Inequality. He is a contributor to MSNBC’s The Grio and National Public Radio. He also lectures for Kaplan Bar Review.

Professor Maillard received his B.A. in Public Policy from Duke University, his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan. Originally from Oklahoma, he is a member of the Seminole Nation, Mekesukey Band.

Courses:
LAW 715:Wills and Trusts
LAW 720:Family Law
LAW 787:Children and the Law
LAW 834:Social Deviance and Law Seminar

Publications:

Book:

Loving v. Virginia in a Post-Racial World (with Rose Villazor, Cambridge 2010)

Chapters in Books:

A View of a Will: Miscegenation, Inheritance, and Family in Civil War-Era Charleston

Family Values in the Old South, Craig Friend & Anya Jabour, Eds., University of Florida Press, 2009)

Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals:

Rethinking Children as Property: The Transitive Family
32 Cardozo L. Rev 101 (2010) SSRN

The Color of Testamentary Freedom

62 SMU L. Rev. 101 (2009) SSRN

Redwashing History: Tribal Anachronisms in the Seminole Nation Cases

1 Freedom Ctr. J. 96 (2008)

The Multiracial Epiphany

76 Fordham L. Rev. 2709 (2008) SSRN

The Anatomy of Grey: A Theory of Interracial Convergence (with Janis McDonald)

26 Law & Inequality 305 (2008) SSRN

The Pocahontas Exception: American Indians and Exceptionalism in Antimiscegenation Law

12 Mich. J. Race & L. 107 (2007) SSRN

Parental Ratification: Legal Manifestations of Cultural Authenticity in Cross-Racial Adoption

28 American Indian L. Rev. 107 (2003) SSRN

Media Appearances:

July 21, 2012: author, “Playing the Interracial Card,” New York Times
June 15, 2012: author, “Where is the Dad in Parenting?” New York Times
May 29, 2012: author, “The Mysterious Age of Consent,” New York Times
May 4, 2012: author, “Elizabeth Warren’s Birther Moment,” New York Times
April 30, 2012: author, “Do Barriers to Interracial Marriage Still Exist?” The Grio, MSNBC
March 25, 2012: author, “Black Marriage Day excludes many black families” The Grio, MSNBC
Feb 14, 2012: author, “Interracial Relationships in the Post-’Loving v. Virginia’ Age,’ The Grio, MSNBC.com
Feb 14, 2012: author, “Beyond Blood Marriage Adoption,” New York Times
October 14, 2011: Letter to the Editor, “We Are Family,” New York Times
Sept 16, 2011: author, “Define Real Indians,” New York Times
July 25, 2011: author, “It’s Not a Trade School,” New York Times
June 29, 2011: author, “Rejecting the Real Family,” New York Times
Summer 2009: author, “Miscegenation: An American Leviathan” Human Rights Magazine
May 17, 2007: author, “Black and Red,” Indian Country Today

Scholarly Presentations:

Race and Adoption
University of South Carolina Family Law Conference

The Ideology of Sovereignty
Michigan State Law School Indigenous Law Conference (10/10)

The Transitive Family
NPOC, Seton Hall Law School (9/10)

Post-Racial Adoption
NPOC, Seton Hall Law School (9/10)

Children in Crisis?
SEALS, Palm Beach, FL (8/10)

Children as Property
Law & Society, Chicago (5/10)

Children as Property
Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities
Providence, RI (3/10)

Children as Property
Junior Faculty Workshop, Hofstra Law School (3/10)

The Sovereign Family
Faculty Workshop, University of Richmond Law School (3/10)

The Politics of Skin Color
2010 Civil Rights Lecture, Hofstra University (2/10)

Historical Antecedents to Loving v. Virginia
Panel Chair, LatCrit Washington, DC (10/09)

The Paradox of Sovereignty
2009 Raven Lecture, Henderson Center for Social Justice, Berkeley Law School

Group Marriage and Sexual Freedom (?) in the Oneida Community
Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities
Berkeley, CA (3/08)

Faculty Colloquium on Law and Citizenship
Southern Methodist University, TX (1/08)

The Interracial Cathexis

Forty Years of Loving: Confronting Issues of Race, Sexuality and the Family in the Twentieth Century, Fordham University, NY (11/07)

"There Are No Black Indians": Native American Nations and the Crisis of Identity

Reconstructions: Historical Consciousness and Critical Transformation

University of Cincinnati, OH (10/07)

Marriage is Good for the Community": Utopias and Plural Relationships in the Oneida Community

LatCrit XII, Miami, FL (10/2007)

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird: Law and Collective Memory in Faulkner and Chesnutt

Rights, Ethics, Law & Literature Colloquium, School of Law, Swansea, Wales (7/2007)

The Vanderbilt Wedding: Gender, Power, and Marriage in the Gilded Age

Gender Unbound: Keele University, Staffordshire, UK (7/2007)

African Children as the New Black: The Increasing Cachet of International Adoption

Law and Society Association, Humboldt University, Berlin (7/2007)

Red-washing History: Tribal Anachronisms in the Freedmen Cases

International Indigenous Citizenship Conference

Syracuse University (4/2007)

The Freedmen Cases: Tribal Sovereignty at the Tipping Point

Federal Bar Association Indian Law Conference

Albuquerque, NM (4/2007)

Anything but the Dark Continent: The Absence of Africa in International Adoption

Syracuse University Lubin House Lecture; NY, NY (4/2007)

Junior Faculty Roundtable

The New Realism: The Next Generation of Scholarship in Federal Indian Law

University of California at Berkeley (10/2006)

Loving in Presidential Perspective

Loving by Law: 40 Years Since Loving v. Virginia

Henderson Center and the California Law Review, Berkeley (10/2006)

Tribal Citizenship Determinations: Past, Present, and Future

Tribal Law and Government Conference

University of Kansas School of Law (10/2006)

The Culture of Passing, Assimilation, Equal Treatment, and the Black/White Dichotomy in the U.S. (with Janis McDonald)

Too Pure an Air: Law and the Quest for Freedom, Justice, and Equality

University of Gloucestershire, U.K. (7/2006)

The Interracial Cathexis: Cultural Fixations on Miscegenation in a Post-Loving Era

Too Pure an Air: Law and the Quest for Freedom, Justice, and Equality

University of Gloucestershire, U.K. (7/2006)

Understanding the Indian Child Welfare Act

Syracuse University, Family Law and Social Policy Center (4/2006)

Fighting the Recognition Battle

Indian Country Law Conference

Miccosukee Tribe of Florida (2/2006)

Regardless of Africa: International Adoption and Parental Preference

Conference on Adoption and Culture, University of Tampa (10/2005)

Open Adoption

Dunbar Association, Inc., Syracuse, NY (10/2005)

To Undo What Has Been Done: Miscegenation and Inheritance in In Re Remley

American Society for Legal History; Cincinnati, OH (10/2005)

Public Purity and Private Amalgamation: How Antimiscegenation Law Facilitates Cultural Amnesia

Law and Society, Chicago, IL (2004)

Black Indian Blood: Competing Memories in the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma

Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University (2004)

In Guing Witnesse: Public Debates of Interracial Memory

Political Theory Workshop, University of Michigan (2004)

On Indian Parameters: The Academic Paradox of the Urban Mixblood Scholar

Pathways: A Graduate Conference on American Indian Studies, Yale University (2004)

American Icons and Miscegenation

Austrian Association for American Studies, Graz, Austria (2003)

Secrets of Miscegenation Amongst U.S. Presidents

Ford Foundation Fellows Conference, San Juan, PR (2003)

Wills, Women, and Wisteria: E.M. Forster and the Jurisprudence of Aesthetics

American Culture Association, New Orleans, LA (2003)

A Shocking Mesalliance: Narrative Authority and Legal Prescription in Charles Chesnutt

American Culture Association, New Orleans, LA (2003)

Assimilating the Indian Gentleman: Paradoxical Uses of Property

Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, Philadelphia, PA (2002)

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