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Awards and Honors
Faculty Award for Outstanding Achievement in Public Discourse or Nontraditional Legal ScholarshipNon Traditional Scholarship
Education
J.D., New York University School of Law
B.A., Grambling State University
Daniels, an expert on voting rights, has served as a deputy chief in the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Voting Section, in both the Clinton and Bush administrations. She is a national speaker on civil rights, race and the law and the law of democracy. She is the author of Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America (NYU Press 2020, paperback October 2021). She has more than a decade of voting rights experience, bringing cases that involved various provisions of the Voting Rights Act, the National Voter Registration Act and other voting rights statutes. Before beginning her voting rights career, Daniels was a staff attorney with the Southern Center for Human Rights, representing death row inmates and bringing prison condition cases.
She was a Root Tilden Scholar at New York University School of Law and clerked in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals with the Hon. Joseph W. Hatchett. Her areas of expertise and interest also include religion and democracy.
Race and the law, civil rights, intersectionality, election law, the law of democracy, community empowerment/engagement
Election Law, Civil Rights, Critical Legal Theory, Critical Race Theory,Appellate Advocacy, Federal Courts, Civil Procedure