About
Danielle Tully serves as Associate Professor of Legal Writing at Brooklyn Law School, a position she has held since 2021. As of July 1, 2025, she additionally holds the role of Co-Director for the Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Fellowship. Prior academic appointments include faculty positions at Northeastern University School of Law and Suffolk University School of Law, along with a clinical teaching fellowship in the Civil Rights and Constitutional Litigation Clinic at Seton Hall University.
Her educational credentials comprise:
- J.D. from Boston College Law School
- M.A. in Law & Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University
- B.A. in Development Studies from Brown University
Professor Tully's research pioneers transformative approaches to legal education, with concentrated expertise in culturally responsive lawyering pedagogy and assessment methodologies. Her scholarship critically examines race-conscious instruction in legal writing classrooms while advancing frameworks for professional identity development. She advocates for dismantling traditional grading paradigms and integrating social justice principles into core legal education curricula through empirically grounded teaching innovations.
Her publication trajectory reveals consistent focus on disrupting Langdellian orthodoxy, with recurring themes including norm-referenced grading reform, culturally adaptive teaching models, and professional identity cultivation. Work appears in premier venues such as the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties and Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, demonstrating interdisciplinary reach across legal education, critical race theory, and pedagogical psychology.
Recognition for her scholarship includes:
- Newer Scholars’ Showcase selection by the American Association of Law Schools (2021)
While specific advising details remain unpublicized, her leadership in the Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Fellowship underscores commitment to mentoring future public interest attorneys. Her pre-academic career included public interest law practice domestically and internationally, plus judicial clerkship with U.S. District Judge D. Brock Hornby of Maine, providing practical foundations for her educational scholarship.
