Bryan Keith Fair (born August 12, 1960) is an American academic; his research has focused on race and constitutional law.[1] Since 2000, he has been the Thomas E. Skinner Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law.[2] He presently serves as the chairman of the board of directors of the Southern Poverty Law Center. He is the author of Notes of a Racial Caste Baby: Colorblindness and the End of Affirmative Action.[3] He completed his undergraduate studies at Duke University, and after studying law at the UCLA School of Law, was admitted to the California Bar in 1986.[4]