Maureen Edobor Assistant Professor of Law

Email: medobor@wlu.edu

Office: Lewis Hall 

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Areas of Expertise

Constitutional Law, Voting Rights

Education

BA, University of Texas at Arlington

JD, Washington and Lee University School of Law

About

Maureen A. Edobor teaches and writes in constitutional law, election law, and democratic theory, and serves as a Theodore DeLaney Center Fellow focusing on Southern race relations, politics, and culture. Professor Edobor's scholarship examines how constitutional and election law doctrines influence access to democratic participation and shape collective understandings of civic identity. Her work weaves together doctrine and narrative to examine how law structures the boundaries of belonging in American democracy. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the Texas Law Review, UCLA Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Washington and Lee Law Review, and Richmond Law Review, among other publications. In 2022, she received the Ethan Allen Faculty Fellowship for excellence in scholarship.

Professor Edobor was also the inaugural Steven M. Polan Fellow in Constitutional Law and History at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law for the 2024-2025 academic year and she serves as an appointed member of the Virginia Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Her legal commentary has been featured in Slate, Bloomberg Law, The Hill, and the Higher Learning Podcast with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay.

Before joining W&L, Professor Edobor served as Policy Director and Counsel for the Congressional Black Caucus and as Counsel to the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in the U.S. House of Representatives. She also worked as a staff attorney at the League of Women Voters of the United States and as a litigation associate in private practice. Professor Edobor earned her J.D. from Washington and Lee University School of Law and her B.A., summa cum laude, in Political Science from the University of Texas at Arlington.