Professor Tiffany Jeffers teaches legal practice and advanced legal theory at Georgetown University Law Center. Before joining the legal academy, she served as an Assistant State’s Attorney in Baltimore County, Maryland, trying misdemeanor and felony cases before the district and circuit courts. Her prosecutorial assignments included the sex offense and child abuse unit, the juvenile division, and the felony trial division. She began her legal career as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Zinora Mitchell-Rankin of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Professor Jeffers has also served on the faculty at Penn State Dickinson Law as an Assistant Professor of Legal Writing and Director of Bar Excellence, and taught criminal procedure as an adjunct professor at American University, Washington College of Law.

Professor Jeffers’ scholarship draws on her expertise in the criminal legal system and her pedagogical background in legal reasoning and analysis. Her research focuses on racial inequities in the criminal legal system, with particular attention to Black youth in the juvenile legal system, and on legal education reform and equitable access to the legal profession for historically excluded and marginalized communities. Her work has appeared in the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, the Journal of Legal Education, Bloomberg Law, and USA Today.

A recognized expert in criminal trial work, Professor Jeffers has appeared on network radio, web, and television news programs to discuss high-profile criminal cases and their broader societal impact. She is actively engaged in the national legal writing community, having served on committees for the Legal Writing Institute and the Association of Legal Writing Directors, and holds membership in several national and international legal organizations, including the American Association of Law Schools, Law and Society, and the Society of Law Teachers. Professor Jeffers earned a B.A. in Political Science from Spelman College and a J.D. from The Pennsylvania State University, where she served as a Comments Editor for the Penn State Environmental Law Review.