Civil rights lawyer Lani Guinier, a prominent voice on voting rights who became the first woman of color to be a tenured professor at Harvard Law School, died Friday. She was 71.
She died peacefully from complications related to Alzheimer’s disease, the school said.
Guinier’s academic work, which included dozens of articles and six books, focused on issues such as race, gender, and voting. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty in 1998, she was a tenured professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
“Lani Guinier was a giant — a historic figure in American law and in the life …
