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Michael Higginbotham is a renowned law professor, author, and international political consultant. A civil rights, human rights, and constitutional legal expert, he has appeared in media worldwide. Higginbotham is the author of the book Race Law: Cases, Commentary, and Questions (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2001). His latest book is titled Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism in Post-Racial America (New York University Press, 2013). In 2012, Higginbotham was selected one of the 100 most influential black attorneys in the United States by On Being A Black Lawyer Media Group. In 2011, he was the recipient of the Daily Record's Leadership in Law Award. He is the Co-Founder of the Fannie Angelos Program and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Higginbotham has published numerous articles in Law Review publications at Yale, Harvard, New York University, Columbia, and other American universities. Previously, Higginbotham was a Law Clerk to United States Court of Appeals Judge Cecil Poole, an Associate with Davis, Polk & Wardwell, and a Lecturer in Law at the University of Pennsylvania. Higginbotham received a B.A. magna cum laude from Brown University, a J.D. from Yale University, and a Master of Laws degree with honors from Cambridge University.