Jeffery M. Brown
Associate Professor of Law

A.B., Davidson College
J.D., University of Michigan

Email: jmbrown@niu.edu
Phone: (815) 753-9489
Room: 194A

Biography

Jeffery Brown teaches public international law, torts, environmental law, select commercial law courses, a seminar on the rules of law issues in emerging democracies and select international courses. Before joining the faculty, he was a visiting assistant professor at Syracuse University College of Law and at Vermont Law School.  From 1994 to 1996, Professor Brown worked as a law lecturer with the Yale University and Open Society-sponsored Civil Education Project in the Republics of Bulgarian and Macedonia, respectively. He returned to Bulgaria from 1996 to 1997 as a William J. Fulbright Fellowship recipient. Prior to teaching, Professor Brown worked for several years as an associate at the Atlanta-based law firm Alston & Bird.

Articles

• Professor Brown Applies Game Theory Techniques to the Truth and Reconciliation Question in War-Torn Sub-Saharan Africa, The Professor's Column, N. Ill. U. C. L. (May 2008).
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• Beyond Nationalism and Toward a Dynamic Theory of Pan-African Unity, 8 Berkeley J. African-Am. L. & Pol'y 60 (2006).
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• Deconstructing Babel: Toward a Theory of Structural Reparations, 56 Rutgers L. Rev. 463 (2004).
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• Black Internationalism: Embracing an Economic Paradigm, 23 Mich. J. Int'l L. 807 (2002).
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Areas of Expertise:

Public International Law, The Rule of Law in Emerging Democracies, Environmental Law, Torts