Tina Fernandes Botts
Adjunct Professor of Law
Education
Ph.D., University of Memphis
J.D., Rutgers Law School
B.A., University of Maryland
Courses Taught
Academic Legal Writing
Race and the Law
Professor Botts is a legal scholar, attorney, and philosophy professor who currently teaches on the law school level at San Joaquin College of Law, Concord Law School at Purdue University Global, and St. Francis School of Law. She is a former Visiting Professor of Law at the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law and Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College. She has also been an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte and at California State University, Fresno. Dr. Botts has also held full-time teaching positions at Oberlin College, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Hendrix College. She has presented her legal scholarship at annual meetings of the Law and Society Association and at the University of Michigan Law School. Her primary areas of scholarship are Constitutional Law, Critical Race Theory, and Jurisprudence, all of which are centered in her recent book, For Equals Only: Race, Equality, and the Equal Protection Clause (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018). Dr. Botts’s current research project focuses on the role of autonomy in the right to privacy and substantive due process. Her practice experience includes a substantial amount of civil litigation, as well as fellowships at the D.C. Public Defender Service, the Reporter’s Committee for Freedom of the Press, and the D.C. law firm specializing in Native American Law (Tribal Rights), Hobbs, Strauss, Dean and Walker. Professor Botts’ teaching experience includes having taught courses in Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedural Law, and First Amendment Law on the undergraduate level, and she has either taught or is currently teaching the following courses on the law school level: Critical Race Theory, Race and the Law, Legal Analysis and Writing, Electronic Legal Research, and Constitutional Law I and II. She is licensed to practice law in Maryland and the District of Columbia.