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Deana Pollard Sacks
Roberson King Professor of Law
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Phone:(713) 313-7159
Email: dpollard@tmslaw.tsu.edu
Alt. Email:  professorpollard@comcast.net
Joined the faculty in 2000.
Education: LL.M., University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 1999 J.D., University of Southern California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 1989 B.A., University of Washington-Seattle, Seattle, WA, 1986
Biographical Information Professor of Law, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2007-Present) Associate Professor of Law, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2004-2007) Assistant Professor of Law, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2000-2004) Board Member, PTAVE (2007-Present) Board Member, EPOCH-USA (2005-Present) Additional Biographical Information
Courses Taught Law Practice Management
Select Publications Constitutionalized Negligence, 89 WASH. U. L. REV. 1065 (2012). Implicit Bias-Motivated Torts, in IMPLICIT RACIAL BIAS ACROSS THE LAW (Justin Levinson & Rob Smith, eds., 2012). Do Violent Video Games Harm Children? Comparing Scientific Amicus Curiae "Experts" in Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association, 106 NW. U. L. REV. COLLOQUY 1 (2011) (co-authored by Brad J. Bushman and Craig A. Anderson). Snyder v. Phelps, The Supreme Court's Speech-Tort Jurisprudence, and Normative Considerations, 120 YALE L. J. ONLINE 193 (2010) (Feature Essay). State Actors Beating Children:  A Call for Judicial Relief, 42 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 1165 (2009), cited in Nolan v. Memphis City Schools, 598 F.3d 257, 268, n. 1 (6th Cir. 2009). Intentional Sex Torts, 77 FORDHAM L. REV. 1051 (2008). Elements of Liberty, 61 S.M.U. L. REV. 1557 (2008). Sex Torts, 91 MINN. L. REV. 769 (2007). View Additional Publications