Rebecca L. Brown

Rebecca L. Brown holds the Rader Family Trustee Chair in Law at the USC Gould School of Law, where she has been awarded the William A. Rutter Distinguished Teaching Award. She joined the USC faculty in 2008 after teaching at Vanderbilt Law School for 20 years. She served as a law clerk to Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall, as an Attorney-Advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel of the Department of Justice, and as an associate at the law firm of Onek, Klein and Farr. Professor Brown’s scholarship focuses on constitutional interpretation and theory, examining the Supreme Court’s role in the protection of democracy and rights.