Thomas E. Kleven
Professor of Law

Joined Faculty 1974

Education:
B.A., 1964 Yale University
L.L.B., 1967 Yale University

Phone: (713) 313-7355

Fax: (713) 313-1049

Email: Thomas Kleven

Biographical Information
Texas Southern University-Thurgood Mashall School of Law, Professor Since 1980
University of San Diego (1975-79)
University of Southern California (1972-74)
Boston Model Cities Program (1969-72)
Practice of law: Goulston & Storrs, Boston, Mass. (Associate 1967-69)

Recognition Awards
Faculty Member of the Year, 2002-03
TSU Outstanding Teacher of the Year, 1995-96
CLSA Professor of the Year, 1995-96
TSU Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award, 1991- 92
Third Year Class Favorite Professor, 1991-92.

Affiliations
Editorial Board Legal Studies Forum
Conference on Critical Legal Studies.

Research and Teaching Interests
Property
Local Government
Public Education

Publications

1. The Democratic Right to Full Bilingual Education,Nevada Law Journal, 7:933-946 (2007)
2. Is Capital Punishment Immoral Even If It Deters Murder?, Santa Clara Law Review, 46:599-633 (2006)
3. Brown’s Lesson: To Integrate or Separate Is Not the Question, But How to Achieve a Non-Racist Society, University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class, 5:43-70 (2005)
4. On the Freedom To Associate or not To Associate With Others, Tennessee Journal of Law & Policy, I(1):69-134 (2004)
5. Why International Law Favors Emigration Over Immigration, University of Miami Inter-American Law Review, 33:69-100 (2002)
6. Private Property and Democratic Socialism, Legal Studies Forum, XXI(1):1-51 (1997)
7. Ideology as Moral Discourse or Struggle for Power, Social Philosophy Today, 8:37 - 50 (1993)
8. Free Speech and the Struggle for Power, New York Law School Journal of Human Rights, IX:315 - 353 (1992)
9. Book Report, P. Harvey, Securing the Right to Employment: Social Welfare Policy and the Unemployed in the United States, Nature, Society, and Thought, 5:124 - 128 (1992)
10. The Public Private Distinction: Does It Promote Democracy or Serve the Ruling Class? Nature, Society, and Thought, 4:393 - 410 (1991)
11. The Bar Examination and Other Barriers to African and Hispanic American Fair Representation Among American Lawyers: A 1990 Update, Thurgood Marshall Law Review, 16:477-98 (1991) (co-author)
12. The Relative Autonomy of the United States Supreme Court, The Yale Journal of Law and Liberation, 1:43-66 (1989)
13. Coping With Contradiction: Reason, Intuition, and Praxis, Newsletter of the Conference on Critical Legal Studies, 46 - 50, Nov. 1989
14. Critical Thinking and the Absence of Foundations, Newsletter of the Conference on Critical Legal Studies, 52 - 54, July 1988. Reprinted in Macquarie Law Students' Journal, 1:13 15 (1989)
15. Cultural Bias and the Issue of Bilingual Education, Social Policy, 19:9-12 (Summer, 1988)
16. Minorities and the Legal Profession: Current Platitudes, Current Barriers, Thurgood Marshall Law Review, 12:299 - 345 (1987) (co-author)
17. Inclusionary Ordinances and the Nexus Issue, in Inclusionary Zoning Moves Downtown 109 - 129 (1985)
18. The Moral Implications of the Draft, Thurgood Marshall Law Review, 10:57-90 (1985)
19. The Constitutional Philosophy of Justice William H. Rehnquist, Vermont Law Review, 8:1-54 (1983). Reprinted in The Supreme Court of the United States, Vol. 12A (Wm. S. Hein & Co., 1989)
20. The Supreme Court, Race, and the Class Struggle, Hofstra Law Review, 9:795-858 (1981)
21. Inclusionary Ordinances-Policy and Legal Issues in Requiring Private Developers to Build Low Cost Housing, UCLA Law Review, 21:1432-1528 (1974)
    

Unpublished Papers:
The Communist Ideal
A Critique of Libertarianism

Editorials:
Cuba: Our Other Neighbor to the South, University Faculty Voice, October, 2002
Time Has Come to End Cruelty of Iraq Embargo, Houston Chronicle, March 8, 1995
Moral Justifications for Death Penalty Invalid, Houston Chronicle, March 21, 1994
De Facto Segregation Still Exists-and All of Us Suffer From It, Houston Post, August 17, 1992
Why Not a World Full of Equals? Houston Chronicle, May 24, 1992
Cynical Thomas Bid Should Be Rejected, Houston Post, September 1, 1991
The Gulf War, Vietnam, and Our Way of Life, The Solicitor, TSU Law School, March 1991
Respect, The University Faculty Voice, February 1986
Views of South Africa: People Never Cede Power Voluntarily, Houston Chronicle, July 12, 1985
Jackson Trip Tells Us About Reagan Policy, Houston Chronicle, January 17, 1984

Selected Presentations

1. The Democratic Right to Bilingual Education, LatCritXI Conference, University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Law, October 2006.
2. Is Capital Punishment Immoral Even If It Deters Murder?, Southeast/Southwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Santa Fe, N.M. (April 2006)
3. Brown’s Lesson: To Integrate or Separate Is Not the Question, But How to Achieve a Non-Racist Society, Southeast/Southwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Tulane Law School (May 2005)
4. Why International Law Favors Emigration Over Immigration, International Conference of Democratic Jurists, Havana, Cuba (October, 2000)
5. Private Property and Democratic Socialism, Contemporary Marxism Conference, University of Massachusetts (December 1996)
6. Redistricting: Just Representation, The Struggle for Justice Seminar, Thurgood Marshall School of Law (April 1992)
7. Ideology as Moral Discourse or Struggle for Power, North American Society for Social Philosophy Conference, Colorado College (August 1991)
8. Minorities and the Legal Profession, National Conference on Minority Bar Passage, Thurgood Marshall School of Law (October 1990)
9. The Public-Private Distinction, Marxism Now Conference, University of Massachusetts (December 1988)
10. Class Character of the Constitution, Marxist Scholars Conference, University of California-Berkeley (November 1987)
11. Minorities and the Legal Profession, Minority Legal Pedagogy Symposium, Thurgood Marshall School of Law (April 1987)
12. The Communist Ideal, Research Group on Socialism and Democracy, City University of New York (March 1987)
13. Judicial Process: The Role of Race and Class, National Conference of Black Political Scientists, Houston (April 1983)