Dr. Dustin Brown

Biography

Dustin Brown joined the legal research and writing faculty at the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2018. He has a decade of experience in private practice at Godfrey & Kahn in Madison, where he worked as a staff attorney for the law school's State Democracy Research Initiative in 2022-2023. His litigation experience spans matters in both state and federal courts, including issues related to electoral redistricting, public records access, defamation, insurance coverage, product liability, and deceptive trade practices. Professor Brown previously clerked for Hon. John M. Walker, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York and Hon. Thelton E. Henderson of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco. He began his legal career at Bingham McCutchen in San Francisco after earning his Bachelor’s degree in English from Yale University and his law degree, magna cum laude, from New York University School of Law. As a law student, he was a member of NYU Law’s Immigrant Rights Clinic and interned at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and Make the Road New York. He also served as the executive editor of the NYU Law Review and, prior to studying law, worked as a reporter for a chain of weekly newspapers in Queens, New York, and taught English in Quito, Ecuador.

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