T
a n y a H e r n a n d e z
Visiting Professor
of Law
Spring
2009
Tanya K. Hernandez is the Leroy Sorenson Merrifield Research Professor of Law at George Washington University School of Law, where she teaches Property, Trusts & Estates, Employment Discrimination, and Critical Race Theory. Professor Hernandez earned an A.B. in sociology from Brown University and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was note topics editor of the Yale Law Journal and chair of the Northeast Black Law Students' Association Moot Court. She has been a law professor for over a decade. She previously taught at Rutgers School of Law-Newark and St. John's University School of Law. She has also been a Visiting Professor at Brooklyn Law School, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and the University of Puerto Rico Law School.
Her scholarly interest is in the study of comparative race relations. Her work in that area has been published in the California Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Harvard Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and many other publications. Hispanic Business Magazine selected her as one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics of 2007. Before entering academia, Professor Hernandez clerked for U.S. District Judge Jaime P. Pieras, Jr. in Puerto Rico and then received a fellowship to the Center for Reproductive Law & Policy in New York, where she litigated challenges to women's health care restrictions and clinic violence. Thereafter she worked as a staff attorney for the HIV Unit of Brooklyn Legal Services, where she litigated in Family Court and Housing Court on behalf of AIDS infected clients.
