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LaTisha Gotell Faulks - Associate Professor of Law
J.D., 1999 Rutgers University School of Law - Newark
B.A. in Poli Sci, 1996 Columbia College.
LaTisha Gotell Faulks was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina, but traveled the world as a result of her father's thirty years of service in the United States Air Force. She attended Columbia College in Columbia, South Carolina where she graduated cum laude and cum honorea with a B.A. in Political Science with an emphasis in African Diaspora political evolution. While a student at Columbia College, Professor Faulks was a vibrant activist and leader of that institution's Honor's Program. She was invited to and became a member of the Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Fraternity and the Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Fraternity. She was also the first Columbia College student selected to attend the National Collegiate Honors Council Honors Semester. During that semester, Professor Faulks studied the impact of immigration on urban settings at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus. Professor Faulks also served as a Columbia College Presidential Aid, received Columbia College's highest academic honor -- Order of the Purple Seal -- and was named in Who's Who Among American Colleges and Universities.
Professor Faulks received her juris doctor from Rutgers University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey. Continuing her strong history of service to her academic community, Professor Faulks served on that law school's Academic Standing and Minority Student Program Committees. She began to develop her teaching skills as a Minority Student Program Study Group Tutor and Teaching Assistant for an Appellate Advocacy class taught by Alfred L Cohn, lead Partner with Cohn, Lifland, Pearlman, Herrmann & Knopf LLP in Saddle Brook, New Jersey. Professor Faulks was an executive board member of the Association of Black Law Students as well as the Managing Editor of the Rutgers Race & the Law Review, first place winner of the Nathan Baker Mock Trial Competition, and was named in Who's Who Among American Law Students.
Prior to joining the faculty at North Carolina Central University School of Law, Professor Faulks served as a Visiting Associate Professor at Texas Wesleyan University School of Law in Fort Worth, Texas. Before joining academia, Professor Faulks was a staff attorney with the Center for Capital Litigation in Columbia, South Carolina and associate with Howrey LLP, a global law firm, that represents FORTUNE 500 corporations in high-stakes complex litigation, antitrust and intellectual property disputes. She has also served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr., U.S.D.J., District of New Jersey.
Professor Faulks’ teaching interests include Constitutional Law, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties litigation, Wrongful Convictions, and Death Penalty Jurisprudence. She is the co-advisor to the North Carolina Central University School of Law Innocence Project.
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