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Civil rights, constitutional law, legal history, education law, legal profession, achievement gap

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Tomiko Brown-Nagin

T. Munford Boyd Professor of Law
Justice Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor of Law
Professor of History
Ph.D., Duke University, 2002
J.D., Yale Law School, 1997
M.A., Duke University, 1993
B.A., Furman University, 1992

Tomiko Brown-Nagin holds a doctorate in history from Duke and a law degree from Yale, where she was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. She received her B.A. summa cum laude from Furman University.

Brown-Nagin teaches courses on American social and legal history, constitutional law, education law and policy and public interest law. She has written widely on civil rights history and law and published in both law and history journals. Oxford University Press recently published Brown-Nagin's book, Courage to Dissent, a work about lawyers, courts and community-based activism during the Civil Rights Era. Brown-Nagin was the Charles Warren Visiting Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School in fall, 2008.

Prior to entering teaching, Brown-Nagin clerked for Judge Robert L. Carter of the U. S. District Court, Southern District of New York and Judge Jane Roth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She also worked as a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York. Before entering private practice, Brown-Nagin held the Charles Hamilton Houston Fellowship at Harvard Law School and the Samuel I. Golieb Fellowship in Legal History at New York University School of Law.

Scholarship Profile: Reconstructing Civil Rights Legal History from the Bottom Up (Virginia Journal 2010)

Journal of American History review of Courage to Dissent

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