Vania Blaiklock Assistant Professor of Law

Phone: 540-458-8016

Email: vblaiklock@wlu.edu

Office: Lewis Hall 

Education

BA, Lee University

JD, William & Mary

PhD, William & Mary

Areas of Expertise

Constitutional Law, Education Law, and Law & Religion

About

Professor Vania Blaiklock joined W&L in 2026 as an Assistant Professor of Law. She teaches in the areas of constitutional law, education law, and law and religion. Her research and published works consider the role that race, religion, and education have played and continue to play in American constitutional law, with an emphasis on how the intersection of these concepts impact Black American political and societal advancement in the United States. She has written on the relationship between school choice alternatives, educational inequality, the history of segregation, and religious charter schools. Her articles have appeared in Harvard Law & Policy Review, Northwestern Law Review, and William & Mary Law Review.

Professor Blaiklock earned her B.A. in political science from Lee University and her J.D. from William & Mary Law School. During law school she was a member of the Bill of Rights Journal, the Moot Court team, and served as a leader in the Black Law Students Association. Following Law School, Professor Blaiklock spent two years as an employment attorney at Woods Rodgers (formerly Vandeventer Black) in Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia. Pivoting to a focus on constitutional research, Professor Blaiklock left the practice of law and returned to William & Mary, where she earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in American Studies.