Bio
Professor Lacy’s scholarship focuses on employment law and employment discrimination law, and critical race theory. His overall research project is to investigate and reveal the nuanced and sophisticated nature of contemporary discrimination and discuss the implications for legal doctrine. His recent scholarship has focused on race and gender discrimination against African-American males through proxy discrimination. Professor Lacy has presented his scholarship all over the world, including England, Germany and Puerto Rico.
After receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in Paralegal Studies from the University of Maryland University College in 1993, Professor Lacy obtained his Juris Doctor degree in 1996 from University of Florida School of Law. While in law school, he served as an executive editor of the University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy, as a judicial law clerk for Florida’s Fifteenth Circuit Court of Appeal, and as the President of the Law College Council. Professor Lacy received his Master of Laws degree in 2003 from American University Washington College of Law. Professor Lacy’s LL.M. was in Law and Government with a concentration in Labor and Employment Law.
Prior to joining the law school faculty, Professor Lacy taught at the George Washington University Law School and Barry University School of Law. Before coming into academia, Professor Lacy spent eight years in practice in Maryland and Washington, D.C. with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, specializing in civil rights violations, especially employment discrimination issues. He also served as an Assistant State’s Attorney for Montgomery County, Maryland.
