Tiffany Williams Brewer is an Assistant Professor of Law at Howard University School of Law and a former state administrative law judge. At Howard she teaches courses in Evidence, Professional Responsibility, Legislation & Regulation and a seminar entitled Black Women & the Law. Brewer has over 20 years of experience teaching courses in law, political science, public policy and public administration at universities throughout the U.S. and internationally, where she has also trained legal professionals and judges in the Middle East, Asia, and throughout the African continent in conjunction with the African Union. Her scholarly focus spans several areas of her professional expertise including, administrative law, gender equity, global women’s leadership, gendered responses to criminal justice reform, and dismantling systemic disparities for Black women and girls. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute.
Brewer has an extensive career of public service, including having served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Deputy Chief Counsel to the NJ Governor, Chief Counsel to the Speaker of the NJ General Assembly, NJ Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Regulatory Officer at the NJ Civil Service Commission, as Chair of the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation, as a Special Assistant to U.S. Senator Bill Bradley, and has served on several presidential, gubernatorial and mayoral campaigns. After clerking for the Honorable Frederick L. Brown in the Massachusetts Appeals Court, Professor Brewer worked as a litigator at large law firms in Massachusetts and New Jersey. During law school, she served as an intern at the White House Office of Legal Counsel.
Brewer currently serves as Chair Elect of the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association, one of the largest sections of the association, and serves as a Special Advisor to the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession.
Brewer is also a pastor and co-leads a congregation with her husband. She is the founder of a nonprofit, the Esther Project, where she also leads the Esther Institute for the Advancement of Women and Girls.
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
Evidence is the study of what parties to a criminal prosecution or civil lawsuit may introduce at trial. During the course, you should develop greater understanding of litigation.
This course emphasizes the statutes and regulations that form the basis for much of legal practice.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
