Nancy Leong
Assistant Professor of Law
B.A., Northwestern University
Email: [[nleong]]
Office phone: (757) 221-3660
Office location: Room 207
Full resume: here (.pdf in new window)
Areas of Specialization
Civil Rights Law; Constitutional Law--14th Amendment; Constitutional Law--4th, 5th, 6th Amendments; Constitutional Law--Constitutional Tort Litigation; Criminal Procedure Law; Employment Discrimination Law; Equality and Non-Discrimination Law; Evidence; Race and American Law
Notes
Nancy Leong graduated magna cum laude from Northwestern University before attending Stanford Law School, where she graduated with distinction and served as a Notes Editor on the Stanford Law Review. After earning her law degree, Professor Leong clerked for Judge Kermit Lipez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She was a Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University Law Center and an Adjunct Professor at the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, D.C., before joining the William & Mary faculty.
Scholarly Publications
Articles
- Co-author, An Empirical Examination of Gender and Student Note Publication, 23 Yale J.L. & Feminism ____ (forthcoming 2011) (with Jennifer Mullins).
- Making Rights, 91 B.U. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2011).
- Rethinking the Order of Battle in Constitutional Torts: A Reply to John Jeffries, 105 Nw. U. L. Rev. ____ (forthcoming 2011).
- Judicial Erasure of Mixed-Race Discrimination, 59 Am. U. L. Rev. 469 (2010).
- A Noteworthy Absence, 59 J. Legal Educ. 279 (2009) (peer reviewed).
- The Saucier Qualified Immunity Experiment: An Empirical Analysis, 36 Pepp. L. Rev. 667 (2009).
- Multiracial Identity and Affirmative Action, 12 UCLA Asian Pacific American L.J. 1 (2007).
- Note, Attorney-Client Privilege in the Public Sector: A Survey of Government Attorneys, 20 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 163 (2007).
- Note, Beyond Breimhorst: Appropriate Accommodation of Students with Learning Disabilities on the SAT, 57 Stan. L. Rev. 2135 (2005).
Other
- Asking the Wrong Question, Racialicious (May 3, 2010, at 12:00 EST). Available here.
- Guest Commentary, Pearson v. Callahan, SCOTUSblog (Jan. 23, 2009, at 14:26 EST). Available here.
- Co-author, Accommodating Conscience: Promoting the Public Interest by Protecting Government Attorneys’ Personal Beliefs, Winner, Notre Dame Smith-Doheny Legal Ethics Writing Competition, 2006 (with Justin Pidot).
