B.A., cum laude, English, Xavier University of Louisiana
J.D., Tulane University Law School
LL.M., The George Washington University Law School
Professor Wendy Greene is an Associate Professor and Director of Faculty Development. Since joining the Cumberland faculty in 2007, Professor Greene has fast become recognized for her cutting edge research and writing on issues related to race, gender, and law. A prolific speaker, Professor Greene has presented her scholarship on comparative slavery and race relations law, critical race theory, employment discrimination, and law and literature at over 40 academic conferences domestically and abroad. Notably, Professor Greene provided the Logan Lecture on the African Diaspora and/or Black History at Howard University in Washington, DC in April 2010. Professor Greene is also frequently invited to address student, professional, and community organizations on topics related to: academic success in law school; diversity in the legal profession and legal education; and careers and professional development in legal academia.
Professor Greene teaches or has taught Constitutional Law II, Employment Law, Employment Discrimination, Equitable Remedies, Real Property and seminars on Race and American Law, Critical Race Theory. While at Cumberland, law faculty and students have acknowledged Professor Greene’s excellence in teaching and scholarship as the recipient of the 2011 Harvey S. Jackson Excellence in Teaching Award for Upper Level Courses and the 2009 Lightfoot, Franklin & White Award for Best Junior Faculty Scholarship for her article, “Title VII: What’s Hair (and Other Race-Based Characteristics) Got to Do With It?”, 79 Col. L. Rev. 1356 (2008). Cited broadly in leading texts and scholarly articles, Professor Greene’s scholarship has appeared or will appear in reputed general and specialty law journals, such as the Colorado Law Review, Missouri Law Review, the Iowa Journal of Gender, Race, and Justice, the Michigan Journal of Race and Law, and the Michigan Journal of Law Reform, and has also been influential and positively cited in civil rights cases.
Professor Greene is also actively engaged in myriad communities; she is the Secretary of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Women in Legal Education and an Executive Committee member of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Employment Discrimination. Since entering the academy, she has continuously served on the Executive Committee of the National Bar Association Law Professors Division, Executive Planning Committee of the Southeast/Southwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference among a number of national, regional, and local academic and bar committees. For her commitment to civil rights history and advocacy, Professor Greene was also designated a member of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Freedom Sisters Exhibit Local Committee of Honor.
A native of Columbia, South Carolina, Professor Greene graduated cum laude from Xavier University of Louisiana with an Honors Distinction in English and a double minor in African American Studies and Spanish. Professor Greene graduated from Tulane University Law School. Following graduation from Tulane, she was employed with the Capitol Hill Consulting Group, a Washington D.C. lobbying firm, and Neel and Hooper, P.C. in Houston, Texas, a boutique labor and employment law firm specializing in the representation of management. Professor Greene also earned a Masters of Law degree from the George Washington University Law School where her areas of scholarly focus were comparative slavery and race relations law in the Americas and the Caribbean and employment discrimination law.
