Laura Matthews-Jolly is an assistant professor of law. She teaches civil procedure and family law. Her research explores the government’s regulation of families, with a particular focus on the intersection of parental rights and race, gender, and poverty. Her recent article, Visitation as Family Regulation, was published in the North Carolina Law Review.
Professor Matthews-Jolly joined the NCCU faculty from Loyola Chicago School of Law, where she was a clinical teaching fellow in the Child Law Clinic. Before entering academia, Professor Matthews-Jolly practiced law for many years, including as a public defender in the family defense practice of Brooklyn Defender Services and as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the City Bar Justice Center.
She graduated from Vassar College and received her J.D. from CUNY School of Law. Prior to law school, she was a Fulbright Scholar in South Korea.