Tiffany Jeffers is an Associate Professor of Law, Legal Practice at Georgetown University Law Center. She was previously on the faculty at Penn State Dickinson Law and taught legal writing, and bar preparation courses focused on contracts, evidence and torts. Tiffany has taught criminal procedure as an adjunct professor at American University, Washington College of Law. Her areas of scholarly interests include racial inequities in the criminal justice system with particular focus on Black youth in the juvenile justice system. An additional focal point of Tiffany’s scholarship and teaching lies at the intersection of legal education reform and providing equitable access to the legal profession for underrepresented communities.

Before transitioning to academia, Tiffany served as an Assistant State’s Attorney in Baltimore County, Maryland. She tried misdemeanor and felony cases before the district and circuit courts of Baltimore County. She spent time in the sex offense and child abuse unit, the juvenile division, and the felony trial team. Prior to her work as a prosecutor, Tiffany was a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Zinora Mitchell-Rankin of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. She earned a B.A. in Political Science from Spelman College and a J.D. from Penn State University, Dickinson Law.

Scholarship

Forthcoming Works - Journal Articles & Working Papers

Eun Hee Han, Tiffany Jeffers & Susan McMahon, The Unending Conversation: Gut Renovations and No-Demo Renos, 6 Stetson L. Rev. F. (forthcoming).
Tiffany Jeffers, It’s All Write: Teaching Legal Writing as Resistance, National People of Color Panel Transcript (March 23, 2019), J. Legal Educ. (forthcoming).

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

Tiffany Jeffers, The Choice to Stay in the “Pink Ghetto”, 23 Legal Writing 41-43 (2019).
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