Daria Roithmayr is the George T. and Harriet E. Pfleger Chair in Law at University of Southern California, Gould School of Law. She teaches and writes about the dynamics of racial inequality, and in particular the persistence of structural disparities in labor, housing, political participation, wealth and education at USC Gould School of Law. Her recent book, Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage (NYU 2014), explores the self-reinforcing dynamics of persistent racial inequality. Her work is heavily interdisciplinary, drawing from economics, sociology, political theory, history and complex systems theory. She joined USC Gould School of Law in fall 2006.
Before joining USC Gould, Roithmayr taught for nine years at the University of Illinois College of Law. She has been a visiting scholar at Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. She has also been a visiting law professor at the University of Michigan, Georgetown, and Yale. Among her representative publications are the forthcoming “Should Law Keep Pace With Society? An Evolutionary Game Theory Approach” (working paper); “Complexity Law and Economics" (Elgar Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (T. Ulen ed. 2014); and “Critical Race Theory Meets Social Science” __ Ann. Rev. Law and Social Science ___ (2014).
Roithmayr received her BS from UCLA, and her JD, magna cum laude, from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a member of Order of the Coif and served as senior notes editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. She clerked for The Honorable Marvin J. Garbis, judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.