Tina Fernandes Botts is an American legal scholar and philosophy professor currently teaching at Washburn University School of Law. [1] She is known for her work in constitutional law, legal hermeneutics,[2] intersectionality, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of race (particularly mixed-race theory).[3] Previous posts include Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College; Visiting Professor of Law at University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law; Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fresno; Visiting Assistant Professor of philosophy at Oberlin College; Fellow in Law and Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor;[4] and Assistant Professor of Philosophy, and Faculty Associate and Area Leader in Public Policy and Diversity, at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.[5]
Botts earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Memphis[6] under the supervision of Thomas Nenon, her J.D. from Rutgers School of Law,[7] and her B.A. in philosophy with a minor in physics from the University of Maryland at College Park.[8]
Botts' research areas are constitutional law, philosophy of law (including critical race theory), philosophical hermeneutics, philosophy of race, feminist philosophy, ethical theory, and applied ethics.[9]
For Equals Only: Race, Equality, and the Equal Protection Clause. Lexington. 2018. ISBN9781498501231.
"Legal Hermeneutics," Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2015. ISSN2161-0002[10]
Botts, Tina Fernandes, ed. (2016). Philosophy and the Mixed Race Experience. Lexington Books. ISBN9781498509428.
"Antidiscrimination Law and the Multiracial Experience: A Reply to Nancy Leong" 10 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 191, Summer 2013.[11][12]
"Hermeneutics, Race, and Gender" in The Routledge Companion to Philosophical Hermeneutics, Jeff Malpas and Hans-Helmuth Gander, eds., London: Taylor and Francis (2014).
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