Brooke Girley is an Assistant Professor of Law at Delaware Law School. She is also a seasoned civil rights attorney and media executive who, prior to teaching, served both as an associate and of counsel at the Girley Law Firm, securing significant victories in civil rights, church law, and employment discrimination. Girley’s media career includes roles such as Interim Media Director for the Christian Cultural Center and VP of Media and Content for ARB Media.

She holds a J.D. from Duke Law School, an M.A.R.S. from Yale Divinity School in Religious Studies, with a concentration in Black Religion in the African Diaspora and a B.A. from New York University in Religious Studies and Africana Studies. While at Yale she earned the prestigious honor of being named a Yale University President’s Public Service Fellow. Professor Girley was a Teaching Fellow at Widener Delaware Law in 2023-24 and has also taught undergraduates at Bethune Cookman University.

At Delaware Law she teaches in the areas of Criminal Law, Civil Rights, Employment Discrimination, Evidence and Legal Methods. Her scholarship explores the intersection of civil rights and religion. She is particularly interested in the constitutional restraints on how courts resolve intrareligious disputes, as well as examining the history of civil rights in America and how that history impacts and informs the present.