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E-Mail:
tomiko@virginia.edu


Phone:
(434) 243-2166

Office: WB373

Secretary/Assistant:
Karen Spradlin

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Subjects:
Affirmative action, civil rights, education law, public interest law, race, remedies, school choice, social movements


Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Professor of Law
Professor of History
F. Palmer Weber Research Professor in Civil Liberties and Human Rights

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 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. Brown-Nagin served as an associate professor of law and history at Washington University, St. Louis, before joining Virginia’s faculty.

Prior to teaching at Washington University, Brown-Nagin was 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.

Brown-Nagin teaches courses on American social and legal history, public interest lawyering, education law and policy, constitutional law, and remedies. She has published in both law and history journals and currently is working on a book that explores African American ambivalence about liberal legalism before and after Brown v. Board of Education.




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