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E-Mail:
tomiko@virginia.edu

Phone:
(434) 243-2166

Office: WB373

Secretary/Assistant:
Donna Green

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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.

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