Lino A. Graglia is the A. Dalton Cross Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law.  A native of Brooklyn, New York, he received his B.S. from the City College of New York in 1952 and his LL.B. from Columbia University Law School in 1954, where he was an editor of the law review.  He was an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice and practiced law in Washington, D.C. and New York City before joining the Texas law faculty in 1966.  He has also taught at the Universities of Virginia, Utah, and Puget Sound.

Professor Graglia teaches courses in Constitutional law and Antitrust.  He is the author of "Disaster by Decree: The Supreme Court Decisions on Race and the Schools" (Cornell University Press, 1976), a critical analysis of the school busing decisions.  He has written widely in both scholarly and popular journals on current issues of constitutional law and the role of the Supreme Court in the American system of government, and is a frequent speaker at scholarly symposia and on radio and television.