Wendy Parker

Wendy Parker

Research Professor of Law

Wendy Parker loved law school so much that she decided to become a law professor. Her passion for the law derives from her interest in discovering and exploring the complexities of legal norms with her students and from her desire in employing the law for social change. Her research focuses on identifying solutions for how the law has created – intentionally and unintentionally – inequalities in employment and education. Her work has been published by the Northwestern University Law Review, Texas Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Washington University Law Review, William & Mary Law Review, and Hastings Law Journal, among … Read more »

Wendy Parker loved law school so much that she decided to become a law professor. Her passion for the law derives from her interest in discovering and exploring the complexities of legal norms with her students and from her desire in employing the law for social change. Her research focuses on identifying solutions for how the law has created – intentionally and unintentionally – inequalities in employment and education. Her work has been published by the Northwestern University Law Review, Texas Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Washington University Law Review, William & Mary Law Review, and Hastings Law Journal, among others. In 2012, Professor Parker became the James A. Webster Professor of Public Law. In 2006, she received the Joseph Branch Excellence in Teaching Award. She joined the Wake Forest faculty in 2003 from the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where she twice won the Goldman Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Before teaching, she litigated school desegregation cases as a Skadden Arps Fellow and staff attorney for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. Her articles on SSRN may be downloaded here.

Twitter: @ProfWendyParker

Education

  • JD, honors, University of Texas School of Law, 1990
  • BA, magna cum laude, University of Texas, 1986

Courses

Publications

Book Chapters

  • Brown's 60th Anniversary: A Story of Judicial Isolation, in The Pursuit of Racial and Ethnic Equality in American Public Schools: Mendez, Brown, and Beyond 97-117 (2015).
  • The Story of Grutter v. Bollinger: Affirmative Action Wins, in Education Law Stories 83-110 (2007).

Articles

Presentations

  • Why Alabama School Desegregation Succeeded (And Failed)
    Case Western Reserve University School of Law, October 1, 2017
  • Black Lives Matter & The U.S. Constitution
    Wake Forest University, September 1, 2016
  • Recent Changes in Housing Patterns
    Wake Forest Drama Department, October 1, 2014
  • 60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
    Wake Forest, September 1, 2014
  • Brown's 60th Anniversary: A Story of Judicial Isolation
    Michigan State University College of Law, May 1, 2014
  • Juries, Race, & Gender: A Story of Today's Inequality
    Wake Forest University Law Review, November 5, 2010
  • Ricci v. DeStefano
    Wake Forest University School of Law, February 28, 2010
  • Revisiting Affirmative Action in Higher Education: Fisher v. Texas
    Wake Forest University, Date unknown

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Wendy Parker
Contact Information
 336.758.7322

Worrell 3303
Expertise
  • Civil Litigation & Procedure
  • Civil Rights/Anti-Discrimination Laws
  • Employment Discrimination
  • Remedies
  • Sex Discrimination