Hon. Tiffany Williams Brewer is an Associate Professor of Law at Howard University School of Law, where she teaches Evidence, Professional Responsibility, Legislation & Regulation, and Black Women, Leadership & the Law. She also teaches Judicial Process and State & Local Government in the Political Science Department at Howard University’s College of Arts and Sciences. In addition to her academic work, she serves as a commercial and employment arbitrator and is a former New Jersey Administrative Law Judge.
With more than 25 years of experience in legal education and public service, Professor Brewer has taught law, political science, and public administration at universities across the country. Her work extends globally, where she lectures, presents scholarly research, and conducts legal training for students, lawyers, and judges in Saudi Arabia, India, and across the African continent, including in collaboration with the African Union. Her scholarship and teaching focus on global women’s leadership, administrative law, and issues of gender and racial equity within the legal profession and the juvenile and criminal justice systems.
Professor Brewer has a distinguished record of leadership across government, nonprofit, and legal sectors. She has served as a federal prosecutor, a U.S. Senate staff member, a civil litigator in major law firms, as well as a senior executive in state government advising legislative leaders, governors, cabinet officials, and presidential campaigns.
A nationally recognized leader in the legal profession, Professor Brewer is an elected member of the American Law Institute. She currently serves as the 53rd Chair of the American Bar Association Litigation Section—one of the ABA’s largest sections, with more than 30,000 members—and as the Section’s representative to the Union of International Advocates. Her prior leadership includes service as a Special Advisor to the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession and as the ABA’s Deputy Representative to the United Nations.
In addition to her legal and academic work, Professor Brewer is an ordained pastor and co-leads a church with her husband, Rev. Dr. Eric Brewer. She is also the Founder and International President of The Esther Institute for the Advancement of Women & Girls, a global initiative dedicated to advancing women’s leadership, purpose, and empowerment.
Women's Leadership
Yale School of Management
2021
Law
Northeastern University School of Law
1999
Public Administration
Rutgers University - Camden
1996
Political Science
Rutgers University
1994
This seminar examines both the historical and contemporary experiences of Black women within the U.S. legal system and examines how emerging lawyers can develop the leadership capacity necessary to identify and dismantle systemic barriers. Through intersectional analysis
and professional identity formation, students will study how legal structures shape outcomes for Black women and girls and how lawyers can lead reform with integrity, cultural competence, and a commitment to justice.
Evidence is a required upper-level course focused on the study of what may be introduced in a trial. During the course, students should develop understanding and application of rules of evidence; recognition of potential evidentiary issues, proper objections, and nuances of rule application, witness examination and advocacy skills in arguing evidentiary issues; and develop a command of evidentiary foundations to demonstrate proficiency on the Bar Exam.
This course emphasizes the statutes and regulations that form the basis for much of legal practice. Students learn to master interpretation of statutes and the function of the administrative state.
This is a required upper level course that teaches the traditions of the legal profession. It provides an understanding of the essential elements in the business aspects of law practice as well as the lawyers ethical obligations in conducting a practice.
This course is provides an overview of the legal and court systems, including an examination of the powers and functions of the courts. The course will examine the source of judicial power, judicial actors and constraints on
judicial power.
The right to counsel for parents in administrative abuse and neglect cases, as well as for the children that are the subject of these matters, is a necessity that may not be obvious. This Article seeks to elucidate the fundamental interests that are at stake and justify why the sacrosanct protections of the landmark Gideon v. Wainwright right to counsel case should be extended to an administrative proceeding involving parents who are facing inclusion on a state child abuse and neglect registry. The Article also reveals an inconvenient truth–that communities of color are disproportionately impacted by the consequence of adverse child welfare actions.
This Article implores the legal profession to intervene in promoting accountability in remediating implicit bias and discrimination in school discipline decisions disproportionately impacting Black girls’ educational outcomes, given their significant impact in disrupting the pipeline to the legal profession
The Sword and the Scale: Model Rule 8.4(g) as a Tool of Racial Justice in the Legal Profession
This Article highlights the importance of setting uniform professional ethical standards that: (1) hold lawyers accountable for discrimination and bias; (2) deter discriminatory conduct that undermines confidence in the profession; and (3) remediate the lack of progress of attorneys of color, particularly Black female lawyers.
No Girl Left Behind: Girls Courts as a Restorative Justice Approach to Healing
This Article examines the need for a gendered restorative justice approach to healing girls from the trauma, abuse, abandonment, addiction, violence, and misdirection that many of them have encountered because of the juvenile justice system’s abandonment of its restorative justice roots and its failure to adequately account for gender distinctions between boys and girls.
This conversation will explore the role of the 14th Amendment in enhancing the power and reach of corporations, tech companies, media, and law, and the concomitant responsibilities of those institutions to uphold and advance the values and principles of the 14th Amendment.
