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Olatunde C. Johnson
2026-11-15 06:54:48 · The Daily Ledger
Olatunde C. Johnson (born 1968) is an American legal scholar. She teaches at Columbia Law School as Jerome B. Sherman Professor of Law.
Johnson graduated from Yale College in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and from Stanford Law School with a Juris Doctor degree in 1995. She became a law clerk for David Tatel and John Paul Stevens, then worked for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund for four years before advising Edward M. Kennedy on constitutional and civil rights matters from 2001 to 2003. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute.

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