Stacy Hawkins is a frequent writer and sought-after speaker on the issue
of employment law and diversity. She's served on the Philadelphia
Diversity Law Group and the Pennsylvania Bar Association Commission on
Women in the Profession Diversity Task Force. She worked as a senior
labor and employment attorney and as the director of diversity for major
law firms.
Professor Hawkins teaches Constitutional Law, Employment
Law, and an original seminar, Diversity and the Law. Her scholarship
focuses on the intersection of law and diversity and has been published
in the Fordham Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law and the Columbia Journal of Race and Law,
among others. She is a recognized expert on employment law and
diversity and has been interviewed or quoted in various news outlets,
including the Courier Post, Law 360, and Philadelphia Magazine.She is an experienced employment lawyer and diversity
professional. Prior to law teaching, Professor Hawkins spent more than a
decade in private practice advising clients in both the public and
private sector on the development and implementation of legally
defensible diversity policies and programs. She served as special diversity counsel to Holland & Knight, LLP, and was the first diversity director for Ballard Spahr, LLP. As a management side
employment lawyer, Professor Hawkins has counseled and defended
employers in a wide range of legal matters, including labor relations,
employment discrimination, wage and hour compliance, and affirmative
action planning. She has held or holds a number of professional and
civic appointments, including as an advisory board member of the Public
Interest Law Center, as an inaugural member of the Pennsylvania Bar
Association Diversity Team, and as a member of the board of the
Philadelphia Diversity Law Group. Professor Hawkins earned her B.A. from
the University of Virginia and her J.D. from the Georgetown University
Law Center where she was the national champion of the 1996 Frederick
Douglass Moot Court Competition.
