Professor Stacy Hawkins is an award-winning teacher and scholar. She formerly served as the vice dean of Rutgers Law School in Camden, N.J., where she also teaches courses in constitutional law, employment law, and an original seminar on diversity and the law. She is the recipient of numerous honors, including the 2023 Chancellor’s Award for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leadership, the 2022 Black Law Students Association Champion for Social Justice Award, and the 2018 Association of American Law Schools Derrick A. Bell Award, which is given to junior faculty who exemplify a commitment to diversity and critical race theory in their teaching, scholarship, and service. She was also named Faculty of the Year by the graduating class of 2013 and Co-Professor of the Year by the graduating class of 2018.
Professor Hawkins’ scholarship focuses on the intersection of law and diversity, and can be found in journals published by the University of Michigan Law School, Fordham University School of Law, UCLA School of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Maryland School of Law, and Columbia Law School, among others. She is a recognized expert on employment law and diversity, has given testimony before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, and has been interviewed or quoted in various news outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, CNBC, NBC, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Time, Bloomberg News, The Courier Post, and Philadelphia Magazine.
In addition to law teaching, Professor Hawkins has spent more than two decades advising and training clients in both the public and private sector on issues of workplace diversity. She has held or holds a number of professional and civic appointments, including as a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement, an advisory board member of the Public Interest Law Center, and as an inaugural member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Diversity Team.
Professor Hawkins earned her B.A. from the University of Virginia and her J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she earned various honors including the title of national champion of the Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition.