Science Fair Project Encyclopedia Lani Guinier (born 1950) has
been a professor at Harvard Law School since 1998. In 1974, she
graduated from Yale Law School. She served seven years as a
litigator for the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People. Guinier is an advocate of cumulative voting.
Guinier's father was Jamaican, her mother was Jewish. President
Clinton nominated Guinier to be Assistant Attorney General for
Civil Rights , but later withdrew her nomination in the face of
intense criticism of the views set forth in scholarly
publications. Clinton said that he had not been acquainted with
Guinier's views before nominating her. What was most
controversial was Guinier's solution to the problems minorities
have in being elected to legislative bodies. Guinier said the
solution to underrepresentation as lay not in gerrymandering
"majority minority" districts, but in creating multi-member
"superdistricts", usually resulting in multi-party systems,
representatives are chosen by a form of propo