Professor of Law
Professor Harold A. McDougall specializes in civic rights, civic culture and civic infrastructure, focusing particularly on how these support sustainable social and economic development and human rights. Prof. McDougall has written numerous articles and Huffington Post blogs, as well as two books pursuing these themes.
His most recent publications include Reconstructing African American Cultural DNA: An Action Research Agenda for Howard University, 55 HOWARD LAW JOURNAL 63 (2011), and Social Change Requires Civic Infrastructure, 56 HOWARD LAW JOURNAL 801 (2013). The former considers culture as an element of problem-solving. The latter looks at how “base communities,” linked together, might empower citizens to keep business and government accountable. His two dozen earlier articles are being uploaded to the SSRN database.
McDougall, Professor of Law at Howard University in Washington, D.C., is a graduate of Harvard College (magna cum laude, 1967) and Yale Law School (Yale Law Journal editor, 1971). He has a background in civil rights and community organizing, and has served the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as Washington Bureau Director. He has served on the National Governing Board of Common Cause, the Board of Directors of the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright Scholars Program), and the Board of Trustees of the Paul J. Aicher Foundation (Study Circles Resource Center/Everyday Democracy). He has consulted for the Kellogg, Kettering, and Village Foundations, and the Montgomery County, MD, County Executive’s Office.
Publicstions include two books:
BLACK BALTIMORE: A NEW THEORY OF COMMUNITY (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993) proposed a new approach to the renovation and revitalization of community civic culture.
AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE AGE OF OBAMA: A HISTORY AND A HANDBOOK (Lulu.com, 2009) highlighted remaining US human rights “trouble spots” such as racial profiling, hate crimes, discrimination against consumers, employment discrimination, voting rights, housing discrimination and discrimination in public education. It also looks at citizen action and access to local government. A second edition was published in 2011.
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His most recent publications include Reconstructing African American Cultural DNA: An Action Research Agenda for Howard University, 55 HOWARD LAW JOURNAL 63 (2011), and Social Change Requires Civic Infrastructure, 56 HOWARD LAW JOURNAL 801 (2013). The former considers culture as an element of problem-solving. The latter looks at how “base communities,” linked together, might empower citizens to keep business and government accountable. His two dozen earlier articles are being uploaded to the SSRN database.
McDougall, Professor of Law at Howard University in Washington, D.C., is a graduate of Harvard College (magna cum laude, 1967) and Yale Law School (Yale Law Journal editor, 1971). He has a background in civil rights and community organizing, and has served the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as Washington Bureau Director. He has served on the National Governing Board of Common Cause, the Board of Directors of the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright Scholars Program), and the Board of Trustees of the Paul J. Aicher Foundation (Study Circles Resource Center/Everyday Democracy). He has consulted for the Kellogg, Kettering, and Village Foundations, and the Montgomery County, MD, County Executive’s Office.
Publicstions include two books:
BLACK BALTIMORE: A NEW THEORY OF COMMUNITY (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993) proposed a new approach to the renovation and revitalization of community civic culture.
AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE AGE OF OBAMA: A HISTORY AND A HANDBOOK (Lulu.com, 2009) highlighted remaining US human rights “trouble spots” such as racial profiling, hate crimes, discrimination against consumers, employment discrimination, voting rights, housing discrimination and discrimination in public education. It also looks at citizen action and access to local government. A second edition was published in 2011.
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About Harold A. McDougall III
Professor Harold A. McDougall specializes in civic rights, civic culture and civic infrastructure, focusing particularly on how these support sustainable social and economic development and human rights. Prof. McDougall has written numerous articles and Huffington Post blogs, as well as two books pursuing these themes.
His most recent publications include Reconstructing African American Cultural DNA: An Action Research Agenda for Howard University, 55 HOWARD LAW JOURNAL 63 (2011), and Social Change Requires Civic Infrastructure, 56 HOWARD LAW JOURNAL 801 (2013). The former considers culture as an element of problem-solving. The latter looks at how “base communities,” linked together, might empower citizens to keep business and government accountable. His two dozen earlier articles are being uploaded to the SSRN database.
McDougall, Professor of Law at Howard University in Washington, D.C., is a graduate of Harvard College (magna cum laude, 1967) and Yale Law School (Yale Law Journal editor, 1971). He has a background in civil rights and community organizing, and has served the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as Washington Bureau Director. He has served on the National Governing Board of Common Cause, the Board of Directors of the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright Scholars Program), and the Board of Trustees of the Paul J. Aicher Foundation (Study Circles Resource Center/Everyday Democracy). He has consulted for the Kellogg, Kettering, and Village Foundations, and the Montgomery County, MD, County Executive’s Office.
Publicstions include two books:
BLACK BALTIMORE: A NEW THEORY OF COMMUNITY (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993) proposed a new approach to the renovation and revitalization of community civic culture.
AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE AGE OF OBAMA: A HISTORY AND A HANDBOOK (Lulu.com, 2009) highlighted remaining US human rights “trouble spots” such as racial profiling, hate crimes, discrimination against consumers, employment discrimination, voting rights, housing discrimination and discrimination in public education. It also looks at citizen action and access to local government. A second edition was published in 2011.
His most recent publications include Reconstructing African American Cultural DNA: An Action Research Agenda for Howard University, 55 HOWARD LAW JOURNAL 63 (2011), and Social Change Requires Civic Infrastructure, 56 HOWARD LAW JOURNAL 801 (2013). The former considers culture as an element of problem-solving. The latter looks at how “base communities,” linked together, might empower citizens to keep business and government accountable. His two dozen earlier articles are being uploaded to the SSRN database.
McDougall, Professor of Law at Howard University in Washington, D.C., is a graduate of Harvard College (magna cum laude, 1967) and Yale Law School (Yale Law Journal editor, 1971). He has a background in civil rights and community organizing, and has served the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as Washington Bureau Director. He has served on the National Governing Board of Common Cause, the Board of Directors of the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright Scholars Program), and the Board of Trustees of the Paul J. Aicher Foundation (Study Circles Resource Center/Everyday Democracy). He has consulted for the Kellogg, Kettering, and Village Foundations, and the Montgomery County, MD, County Executive’s Office.
Publicstions include two books:
BLACK BALTIMORE: A NEW THEORY OF COMMUNITY (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993) proposed a new approach to the renovation and revitalization of community civic culture.
AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE AGE OF OBAMA: A HISTORY AND A HANDBOOK (Lulu.com, 2009) highlighted remaining US human rights “trouble spots” such as racial profiling, hate crimes, discrimination against consumers, employment discrimination, voting rights, housing discrimination and discrimination in public education. It also looks at citizen action and access to local government. A second edition was published in 2011.
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Honors and Awards
- Fulbright Fellow, Jamaica, 199
- Honorary Visiting Professor, Jamaica, 2014
Courses
- Civil Rights Planning
- Sustainable Development
- Properyt 1