Biography
Rebecca L. Brown holds the Rader Family Trustee Chair in Law at the USC Gould School of Law, where she was awarded the William A. Rutter Distinguished Teaching Award most recently in 2022. 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 has written in constitutional law and theory, including, Is the U.S. Supreme Court a Reliable Backstop for an Overreaching U.S. President? Maybe, but is an Overreaching (Partisan) Court Worse? (with Lee Epstein), Presidential Studies Quarterly (forthcoming 2023); Who Constrains Presidential Exercise of Delegated Powers? 20 Wm. & Mary Bill of Rts. J. 591 (2021); The Harm Principle and Free Speech, 89 S. Cal. L. Rev. 953 (2016), Common Good and Common Ground: The Inevitability of Fundamental Disagreement, 81 U. Chicago L. Rev. 397 (2014); How Constitutional Theory Found Its Soul: The Contributions of Ronald Dworkin, in Exploring Law’s Empire (Oxford University Press, 2006); Tradition and Insight, 103 Yale L.J. 177.
