Kimberly Robinson

Kimberly Jenkins Robinson is a professor at the School of Law as well as a professor at both the School of Education and Human Development, and the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. In 2023, Robinson launched the Education Rights Institute. The Institute’s three-part mission includes elevating scholarship about a federal right to a high-quality education and other law and policy reforms that support a high-quality education, amplifying data and research about educational opportunity gaps and how federal resources could address those shortcomings, and helping school districts use federal law, policy and assistance to deliver a high-quality education, including understanding their obligations to protect students’ civil rights under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. Robinson also serves as director of the Law School’s Center for the Study of Race and Law.

Editor of A Federal Right to Education: Fundamental Questions for Our Democracy (NYU Press 2019)
Co-editor with Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. of The Enduring Legacy of Rodriguez: Creating New Pathways to Equal Educational Opportunity (Harvard Education Press 2015)
Scholarship available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=4090227