# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lani-guinier
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:39:02.695Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lani-guinier"
name: "Lani Guinier"
slug: "lani-guinier"
description: "Carol Lani Guinier was an American educator, legal scholar, and civil rights theorist. She was the Bennett Boskey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and the first woman of color appointed to a tenured professorship there. Before coming to Harvard in 1998, Guinier taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law School for ten years. Her scholarship covered the professional responsibilities of public lawyers, the relationship between democracy and the law, the role of race and gender in the political process, college admissions, and affirmative action. In 1993, President Bill Clinton nominated Guinier to be United States Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, but withdrew the nomination."
tagline: "American activist, lawyer and academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lani_Guinier.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1950-04-19"
deathDate: "2022-01-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.49
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.995109333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1560326/"
    handle:    "nm1560326"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lani_Guinier"
    title: "Lani Guinier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A_%D8%BA%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "لاني غوينير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%89_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "لانى جوينير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lani_Guinier"
    title: "Lani Guinier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lani_Guinier"
    title: "Lani Guinier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%B0"
    title: "लानी गिनीयर"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6487034"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3397695"
    title: "Lani Guinier"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump