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Camille A. Nelson is a Canadian-Jamaican academic who is dean of the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Nelson previously served as the dean of The American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D,C. from 2016 to 2020 and as the dean of Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts from 2010 to 2015. Born in Jamaica, Nelson graduated with her Bachelors from the University of Toronto, her law degree from the University of Ottawa and a LLM from Columbia University. Camille Nelson was the first black woman to clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada, and is the first woman and first person of color to become dean at Suffolk University Law School; she became dean in 2010.

Nelson is an expert on the intersection of critical race theory and cultural studies with particular emphasis on criminal law and procedure, health law, and comparative law.

References

1. "New dean for UH William S. Richardson School of Law". University of Hawai'i News. 16 April 2020. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
2. "Suffolk taps Nelson as new law school dean". The Boston Globe. 24 June 2010. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
3. "Camille A. Nelson Chosen to Lead Law School". Retrieved 26 July 2010.

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