Patricia A Broussard

College of Law

Tuesday and Thursday: 10 am - 3 pm

Program Assistant is Iana Hair, Phone:  (407) 254-4022, iana.hair@famu.edu

Constitutional Law II
Woman and The Law

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Professor Patricia A  Broussard is a twenty-year member of the faculty at Florida A&M University College of Law, having previously taught for seven years at Howard University School of Law. She teaches Constitutional Law I and II, First Amendment, Advanced Appellate Advocacy, and Advanced Topics in Women and the Law. She earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Howard University School of Law and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern University.

After completing law school, Professor Broussard began her legal career as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable George W. Mitchell of the District of Columbia Superior Court. After her clerkship, she practiced Family Law before entering academia.

In addition to her teaching duties, Professor Broussard has published several articles that focus on civil rights and human rights, with particular emphasis on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). She has co-authored two Amicus Curiae briefs to the United States Supreme Court in Grutter v. Bollinger and Shelby County v. Holder. She has served on many panels and participated in several presentations on a range of topics that complement her areas of expertise, such as:  The Hobby Lobby Decision,  Citizens United, Free Speech, and Elections, and Free Speech or Animal Cruelty? United States of America v. Robert J. Stevens.

Professor Broussard is a strong adherent to the quote "Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth."  To that end, Professor Broussard has been a Commissioner for the City of Orlando Mayor’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission for several years. She has coached Moot Court and Client Counseling teams at law school. She serves as Faculty Advisor to several student organizations while serving on various University committees. In addition, she has been a member of the University Faculty Senate.

Professor Broussard has received numerous honors recognizing her contributions to legal education. While at Howard University School of Law, she was awarded the Warren Rosmarin Award for Outstanding Teaching and Service. At FAMU College of Law, she has been a five-time recipient of the Percy Luney Spirit of Service Award and a six-time recipient of the “Professor of the Year” honor.  She received the Women of Distinction Pathfinder Award from the Central Florida Association for Women Lawyers and the Community Recognition Award in Educational Development from the alumnae chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

Professor Broussard regards the academic and professional success of her students as her greatest accomplishment. She is deeply committed to excellence in teaching and to meaningful service and mentorship, and she approaches her work with a sustained dedication to developing thoughtful, capable, and engaged legal professionals.

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• Constitutional Law
  
• First Amendment
  
• Women and the Law
  

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• Professor of Law, 2013 - Present
  Florida A&M University College of Law
• Visiting Associate Professor of Law, 2006 - 2011
  Orlando, Florida
• Acting Director Legal Reasoning, Research, Writing Program, August 2005 – May 2006
  Howard University School of Law
• Instructor, Intensive Legal Methods LL.M. Program, August 2000 – May 2005
  
  
• Instructor, Legal Reasoning, Research, Writing Program, Summer 2001
  
  
• Patricia A. Broussard Curriculum Vitae, August 1993 – May 1997
  
  
• Instructor, Advanced Legal Writing Seminar, Summer 2006
  Georgetown University
• Judicial Law Clerk
  District of Columbia Superior Court

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PUBLICATIONS:

Articles

• The Attempted “Anita Hillification” of The Honorable Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson: God of Our Weary Years, God of Our Silent Tears. TBP Fall 2023, Elon Law Review
  
  
•  Damn It! A Conversation on Being Black, Female, and Marginalized during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Is the World Listening? A Conversation between Black Female Law Professors [article] Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review, Vol. 12, Issue 1 (2020), pp. 1-76
  Broussard, Patricia A. (Cited 37 times); Page, Cheryl T. (Cited 1 times); Downes, Angela
  12 Ala. C.R. & C.L. L. Rev. 1 (2020-2021)
  
  
• Unbowed, Unbroken, and Unsung: The Unrecognized Contributions of African American Women in Movements, Politics, and the Maintenance of Democracy, 25 William and Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice, 631 (Spring 2019).
  
•  Broussard, Patricia A. (2015) "Eviscerating the Voting Rights Act and Moral Authority: Freedom to Discriminate Comes with a Price," Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity: Vol. 7: Iss. 1, Article 2.
  Available at: http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/jrge/vol7/iss1/2
  
  
• Black Women’s Post Slavery Silence Syndrome: A Twenty-First Century Remnant of Slavery, Jim Crow, and Systemic Racism. Who Will Tell Her Stories? University of Iowa Journal of Gender, Race & Justice Summer 2013).
  
  
• Patricia A. Broussard, Reaction Article – Shayan Modarres, The Fourteenth Amendment Isn’t “Broke”: Why Wealth Should Be a Suspect Classification under the Equal Protection Clause, 3 Georgetown Law's Modern Critical Race Perspectives Journal (2012).
  
  
• First Do No Harm: Why Pricking is Not the Solution to Ending Female Genital Mutilation, The Student Appeal cite as: Patricia A. Broussard, First Do No Harm: Why Pricking is Not the Solution to Ending Female Genital Mutilation (May 2010), available at: http://thestudentappeal.com/international/first-do-no-harm.
  
  
• Repair versus Rejuvenation: The Condition of Vaginas as a Proxy for the Societal Status of Women, 9 Seattle J. Soc. Just. 935 (2010 – 2011).
  
  
• The Importation of Female Genital Mutilation to the West: The Cruelest Cut of All, 44 University of San Francisco Law Review 4 (Spring 2010).
  
  
• Now You See it, Now You Don’t: Addressing the Issue of Websites which are Lost in Space, 35 Ohio Northern University Law Review 1 (2009).
  
• Female Genital Mutilation: Exploring Strategies for Ending Ritualized Torture: Shaming, Blaming, and Invoking the Convention Against Torture, 15 Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy 19 (2008).
  
  
• The True Legacy of Rosa Parks, Findlaw.com - November 2005, http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20051102_broussard.html
  
• Brown Did Not Fail America; America Failed Brown, 47 How. L.J. 829 (2004).
  
• Drafted USDA Title VI Manual in conjunction with HUSL– January, 2002
  
• Honoring African American Women in Academia, The New Barrister, Vol. 37 No. 5, (2001).
  APPELLATE BRIEFS
•  Amicus Brief to the U.S. Supreme Court Shelby County v. Holder – January, 2013.
  
• Supervised Amicus Brief Grutter v. Bollinger Amicus Brief to the U. S. Supreme Court –January, 2003.
  BOOKS
  
• Feminist Judgments Rewritten: Opinions of the United States Supreme Court Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales, Commentary (2016, Cambridge Press).
  
  
• Case Study, THE A-Z GUIDE TO FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT LAWS FOR THE SMALL BUSINESS OWNER, by Shannon Johnson with Berit Everhart, Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc., (2011).
  
• Cynthia Cook, Medical Sociology: A Reader, Chapter, Understanding Female Genital Mutilation (Forthcoming January 2012, University Readers & Cognella Academic Publishing).
  
  CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION AND PRESENTATIONS
  
  • 9/2022 Speaker at Law Review Induction
  • 9/2022 Panelist- Stop the Woke Act
  • 10/2022 Panelist – Living in a Post-Roe World – Paul Perkins Bar Assoc.
  • 10/2022 Panelist – Black Hair Symposium – George Mason/Anton Scalia Law School
  • 1/2023 – Interviewee – Wesh2 News – Black Excellence/Judge
  • 2/2023 – Panelist – Civil Discourse – FAMU College of Law
  • 2/2023 – Speaker – League of Women Vot

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AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
• U.S. Dept. of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs Fulbright Specialist, 2013
• 2013 Florida A & M University College of law “Professor of the Year” Award
• 2012 Florida A & M University College of law “Professor of the Year” Award
• 2012 Percy Luney Spirit of Service Award
• 2011 Florida A & M University College of Law “Professor of the Year” Award
• 2010 Percy Luney Spirit of Service Award
• 2010 Florida A & M University College of Law “Professor of the Year” Award
• 2008 Percy Luney Spirit of Service Award for Faculty
• 2007 Percy Luney Spirit of Service Award for Faculty
• 2006 Percy Luney Spirit of Service Award for New Faculty
• 2003 Warren Rosmarin Award for Outstanding Teaching and Service

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•  Advanced Appellate Advocacy
  
• Constitutional Law I
•  Constitutional Law II
•  Constitutional Law - First Amendment
• Legal Methods I and II
  
• Professional Responsibility
  
• Torts I
  
•  Torts II
  
• Advanced Topics of Women and the Law
  

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