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Linda S. Greene
Distinguished Lee Chair in Constitutional Law
The John Marshall Law School
315 South Plymouth Court
Chicago, Illinois 60604
Phone: 312.386.2830
Email: lgreene@jmls.edu
BA, California State University, Long Beach
JD, University of California at Berkeley
Linda S. Greene is the Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her teaching and scholarship are concentrated in Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, Legislation, Civil Rights, and Sports Law.
Following graduation from the University of California at Berkeley Law School in 1974, Professor Greene began her legal career as a civil rights attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in New York City. After visiting professorships at Harvard University Law School and Georgetown University Law Center, she was counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee from 1986–1989 where she specialized in judicial confirmations, federal courts, and constitutional and civil rights issues. Professor Greene joined the University of Wisconsin Law School faculty in 1989. From 1999–2004, she was Associate Vice Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Her book, "I Dissent!" The Dissenting Opinions of Thurgood Marshall (with Wendy B. Scott, Carolina Academic Press), is forthcoming in August 2011. She has contributed to several other books and has published articles in many law reviews. Professor Greene has led efforts to bring minorities and women into academia. She served as president of the Society of American Law Teachers and as chair of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Minority Groups. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute.
