Juandalynn Taylor, Ph.D., J.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor Fellow, Center for Civil & Human Rights

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...

Juandalynn Taylor profile photo

Contact Information

Education & Curriculum Vitae

J.D., Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
M.S., Texas Christian University
B.A., University of Texas at Arlington

Courses Taught

Constitutional Law II
Death Penalty Seminar

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

  • Co-Author, Sexual Harassment at the Intersection of Race and Gender: A Theoretical Model of the Sexual Harassment Experiences of Women of Color, 73 W.J. Comm. 248-272 (2009).
  • Obama’s Place in History: Developing a Case for an Understanding of Black Political Rhetoric, Newsl. for the Pol. Comm. Division of Int’l & Am. Pol. Sci. Ass’n, Spring 2009, 2.
  • Co-Author, Spanish-language daily newspapers and presidential elections Federico a. Subervi Vélez (1984, 1988 campaign) in collaboration with Marc Brindel (1992 campaign) Juandalynn Taylor and Renée Espinoza (1996 campaign). In The Mass Media and Latino Politics (pp. 113-156). Routledge (2009).
  • Co-Author, Powerlessness, Resistance, and the Understood ‘They’: Sexual Harassment at the Intersection of Race and Gender, 73 Intercultural & Int’l Comm. Ann. 248-271 (2005).
    Co-Author, Spanish-Language Daily Newspapers and Presidential Elections, The Mass Media and Latino Politics: Studies of US Media Content, Campaign Strategies and Survey Research, 87-130 (2004).
  • Understanding Sexual Harassment: An Exploratory Model for Understanding the Relationship Between a Raced Organization and Sexual Harassment Experiences of Women of Color. Western Association of Communication, 2005. Co-authored with Dr. Brian Richardson, University of North Texas. Awarded Top Paper Organizational Communication.
  • Invited respondent, panel discussion: Haitian Immigration and the Rhetoric of President George Bush and Bill Clinton. Texas A&M University: “12th Annual Conference on Presidential Studies.” March 1-3, 2001.
  • Identity Politics in Miami: How the Golden Image Got Tarnished. Competitively selected for presentation at the annual National Communication Association convention: New York, 1998. Awarded Top Three Papers in Latina/Latino Communication Studies Division.