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CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

University of Pennsylvania

Ph.D., Philosophy

Dissertation: "Repairing Reparative Justice"

Advisors: Anita L. Allen & Samuel Freeman

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University of Michigan Law School

J.D., with Honors

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University College London

M.A., with Distinction, Philosophy

Thesis: "On Being Tolerant"

Advisor: Michael Otsuka

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John Jay College (CUNY)

B.S., with Honors, Criminal Justice

LEGAL EXPERIENCE

2019 -  2020  Judicial Law Clerk, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Richmond, VA

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2018 - 2019   Assistant District Attorney, Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, Philadelphia, PA

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2017 - 2018   Law Clerk, Goodman & Hurtwitz, PC, Detroit, MI

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2016              Summer Law Clerk, Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), Montgomery, AL

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2015 - 2016   Pro Bono Volunteer, Civil Rights Litigation Clearing House, Ann Arbor, MI

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2013 - 2015   Analyst & Researcher, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Philadelphia, PA

FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS

 

2023 - 2024 Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow, Princeton University  

 

2020 - 2021 Research Scholar, University of Michigan Law School

 

2016 - 2017  Race, Law, and History Fellowship, University of Michigan

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2016             Haywood Burns Memorial Fellowship for Social and Economic Justice, National Lawyers Guild

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2016             Public Interest Fellowship, University of Michigan Law School

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2015 - 2018  Dean’s Scholarship, University of Michigan Law School

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2014 - 2015  Geo L. Harrison Fellow, University of Pennsylvania

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2012 - 2015  William Fontaine Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania

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2012 - 2015  Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania                                        

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2012 - 2013  Mack Family Foundation Fellow, University of Pennsylvania

SCHOLARSHIP

Publications

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Papers

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Fryer, Daniel “Reforming Abolition” 124 Michigan Law Review __ (forthcoming, 2025).  

 

Fryer, Daniel “Inter-American Philosophy: Born of Struggle?” In Philosophizing the Americas: An Inter-American Discourse, edited by Jacoby A. Carter and Hernando Arturo Estevez. Fordham University Press (2024).

 

Fryer, Daniel Idealizing Abolition 17 Criminal Law and Philosophy 553-572 (2023).

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Fryer, Daniel “Which America?: Judge Roger L. Gregory and the Tradition of African-American Political Thought” 78 Washington & Lee Law Review 1087-1101 (2021). 

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Fryer, Daniel Race, Reform, & Progressive Prosecution 110 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 769-802 (2020).

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Reviews

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Review of Brandon Hogan, Michael Cholbi, Alex Madva, and Benjamin S. Yost's The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical Perspectives, 134 Ethics 290-295 (2024). 

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Review of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Andrew S. Curran's Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter From the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race, in The Washington Post (April 2022).   

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Review of Michael Eric Dyson's Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America, in The Washington Post (Dec. 2021).

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Review of Randall Kennedy's Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture, in The Washington Post (Sept. 2021).

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Selected Presentations

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Comments on Neil Roberts's Policing's Unfreedom. American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (NOMOS). Cambridge, MA: September 30, 2022. 

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“Law, Ethics, and Black Political Thought.” Dartmouth Ethics Institute. Hanover, NH: April 22, 2022. 

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What's the Point of Reparation?” Harvard's Law and Philosophy Workshop. Cambridge, MA: April 6, 2022.

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“The Problems with Prosecutorial Leniency.” William & Mary's Symposium on Mass Incarceration. Williamsburg, VA: March 4, 2022 (zoom). 

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“The Idea(l) of Abolition.” IHS's Workshop on Policing and Political Philosophy. Washington, DC: October 17, 2021 (zoom).

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“Race, Reform, and Progressive Prosecution.” Northwestern Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology Symposium. Chicago, IL: February 27, 2020.

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“Poverty and Criminal Prosecutions.” UPenn’s Integrated Studies Program. Philadelphia, PA: March 14, 2019. 

 

Roundtable Discussion: “In the Archives: Black Radical Thought.” Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Ann Arbor, MI: February 9, 2018. 

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“Phantom Trials.” Michigan’s Race, Law, and History Proseminar. Ann Arbor, MI: April 5, 2017.

 

“On William Fontaine’s Political Philosophy” Department of Philosophy, Morgan State University. Baltimore,

MD: November 8, 2016.

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“William Fontaine and the American Race Problem.” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy.

Grand Rapids, MI: March 5-7, 2015.

 

"Margaret Cavendish on Religious Toleration." Women in the History of Philosophy Workshop. University of

Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA: September 13, 2014.

 

"A (Grad Student's) Perspective on the Importance of Role Models and Faculty Diversity." Minorities and

Philosophy (MAP) Workshop. Philadelphia, PA: March 7, 2014.

 

“Supermax, Punishment, and the African-American Community.” Society for the Study of Africana

 Philosophy. New York, NY: November 17, 2013.

 

“Was Alain Locke a ‘wishy-washy’ Cosmopolitan?” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy.

Galloway Township, NJ: March 9, 2013.

 

OTHER SERVICE & LEADERSHIP

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2024 -            Washtenaw County Advisory Council on Reparations, Councilor

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2022 -            Michigan's Program in Race, Law, and History, Faculty Affiliate; Co-Director (2022-23)

 

2021 -            Women Also Know Law, Advisory Board Member

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2021 -            Michigan Journal of Law & Society, Faculty Editorial Board Member

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2020 -            Color of Change Hollywood, Consultant

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2020 - 2021   High School Ethics Bowl Judge (New York Regional)

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2020 - 2021   High School Ethics Bowl Coach, Carver H.S. (Philadelphia)

 

2014 - 2019   Head Graduate Fellow, Upenn Center for Africana Studies Summer Institute 

BAR ADMISSION

Pennsylvania

US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit

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