B.A., cum laude, English, Xavier University of Louisiana
J.D., Tulane University Law School
LL.M., The George Washington University Law School
Professor Wendy Greene joined the Cumberland faculty in 2007 and since then has presented extensively on a number of topics: racial equality in the workplace; U.S. racial determination cases; comparative slavery and race relations in Brazil and the United States; critical race theory; and law and literature. Professor Greene has also published a number of articles likewise devoted to the intersection of race, law, and history, with specific concentration on the areas of employment discrimination and comparative slavery and race relations law.
Professor Greene teaches Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Equitable Remedies, and Real Property and seminars on Critical Race Theory and Race and American Law. In the spring of 2012, Professor Greene will also teach Constitutional Law. While at Cumberland, Professor Greene has been recognized by colleagues and students for her excellence in teaching and scholarship; she is the 2011 recipient of the Harvey S. Jackson Excellence in Teaching Award for Upper Level Courses and the 2009 recipient of the Lightfoot, Franklin & White Award for Best Junior Faculty Scholarship for her article, “Title VII: What’s Hair (and Other Race-Based Characteristics) Got to Do With It?” 79 Col. L. Rev. 1356 (2008).
Professor Greene is a native of Columbia, South Carolina. She graduated cum laude from Xavier University of Louisiana with an Honors Distinction in English and a double minor in African American Studies and Spanish. Professor Greene graduated from Tulane University Law School. Following graduation from Tulane, she was employed with the Capitol Hill Consulting Group, a Washington D.C. lobbying firm, and Neel and Hooper, P.C. in Houston, Texas, a boutique labor and employment law firm specializing in the representation of management. Thereafter, Professor Greene earned a Masters of Law degree from the George Washington University Law School where her areas of scholarly focus were comparative slavery and race relations law in the Americas and the Caribbean and employment discrimination law.
