Download hi-res photo E-Mail: tomiko@virginia.edu Phone: (434) 243-2166 Office: WB373 Secretary/Assistant: Donna Green CV Subjects: Affirmative action, civil rights, education law, race, school choice

Tomiko Brown-Nagin Professor of Law Professor of History J.D., Yale Law School, 1997 Ph.D., Duke University, 2002 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. Currently, Brown-Nagin is working on a book, Courage to Dissent, about lawyers, courts, and community-based activism during the civil rights era; it will be published by Oxford University Press. 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 the Hon. Robert L. Carter of the U. S. District Court, Southern District of New York and the Hon. Jane Roth of the United States Court of Appeals, 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.

“One of These Things Does Not Belong”: Intellectual Property and Collective Action Across Boundaries," 117 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 280 (2008).

"Missouri v. Jenkins: Why District Courts and Local Politics Matter," in Civil Rights Stories 243 (Myriam E. Gilles & Risa L. Goluboff eds., 2008).

"Missouri v. Jenkins: Why District Courts and Local Politics Matter," in Civil Rights Stories (Foundation Press, 2007)

"Courage to Dissent: Communities, Lawyers, and Courts in the Civil Rights Movements" (forthcoming book manuscript).

"Elites, Social Movements, and the Law: The Case of Affirmative Action," 105 Colum. L. Rev. 1436 (June 2005).

"The Transformative Racial Politics of Justice Clarence Thomas?: The Grutter v. Bollinger Opinion," 7 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 787 (Feb. 2005).

"Race as Identity Caricature: A Local Legal History Lesson in the Salience of Intra-racial Conflict," 151 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1913 (June 2003).

"An Historical Note on the Significance of the Stigma Rationale for a Civil Rights Landmark," 48 St. Louis U. L.J. 991 (2004).

"The Impact of Lawyer-Client Disengagement on the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's Campaign to Implement Brown v. Board of Education," in From the

Grassroots to the Supreme Court (Duke University Press, 2004).

"Toward a Pragmatic Understanding of Status Consciousness: The Case of Deregulated Education," 50 Duke L. J. 753 (2000).
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