Prof. Brobst teaches courses in Domestic Violence Law, Children and the Law, Evidence, and Scientific Evidence.  Her scholarly research and publications have focused on law reform related to children’s rights and family violence, including national and international comparative studies of fetal homicide and corporal punishment.  She has served as a national and international presenter at conferences and workshops on the topics of crime victim rights, family violence, expert witness testimony, and ethics.  She has been the faculty advisor to the NCCU Women’s Law Caucus since 2004.    In 2006, she served as the Law School Faculty Representative to the NCCU Women’s Center Advisory Task Force, which developed the first Women’s Center in the nation housed at a public historically black college or university (HBCU).

At NCCU School of Law from 2004-2006, Ms. Brobst served as the Clinical Supervising Attorney for the first Domestic Violence Clinic/Advocacy Project.  Prior to her work at NCCU, she implemented the first statewide Training Institute at the non-profit North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault in Raleigh from 2001-2004.  In 2001 she taught Legal Research and Writing as an adjunct lecturer at Victoria University at Wellington School of Law in New Zealand.  In St. Joseph County, Indiana, she served as a deputy prosecuting attorney from 1999-2000, with a felony caseload focusing on child abuse, domestic violence, animal abuse, juvenile law and post-conviction relief cases.  She has also received national training as a child forensic interviewer, and worked from 1998-1999 as a teenage pregnancy prevention community educator and staff attorney at The CASIE Center, an accredited child advocacy center in South Bend, Indiana.

Jennifer Brobst is a member of the American Bar Association, North Carolina Bar Association, Durham County Bar Association, North Carolina Women’s Forum, the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse, the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and the North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault.  She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys, North Carolina Women United, and a member of the Advisory Council to Legal Aid of North Carolina in Durham.  She is licensed to practice law in California, Indiana and North Carolina. 

B.A., University of Cape Town in South Africa (1991); J.D., University of San Diego School of Law (1996); LL.M., Victoria University School of Law in Wellington, New Zealand (2002) 

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