Professor Juandalynn Taylor, Ph.D., J.D is a Visiting Assistant Professor and Fellow with the Center for Civil & Human Rights. She is teaching Constitutional Law and Death Penalty Law. Prof. Taylor holds a Ph.D. from University of Texas at Austin in communication studies and a JD from Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law. Dr. Taylor is the founder of Taylor Advocacy Group, a sentencing advocacy and consulting firm. She is regularly tapped to speak at CLE’s as specializing in mitigation strategies for the defense in criminal matters. Drawing on her interdisciplinary experience, her scholarship examines how powerful domestic and international actors attempt to deny basic human rights, including communication rights, to others through the enactment, selective enforcement, or support of policies and how those affected resist those efforts or attempt to reclaim those rights.
Core Teaching Areas
Constitutional Law
Criminal Law
Race and the Law
Research Interests
Race and the Law
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Death Penalty
Legal Pedagogy