Kristi L. Bowman
Associate Professor of Law
419 Law College Building
Michigan State University College of Law
East Lansing, MI 48824-1300
517/432-6974
kristi.bowman@law.msu.edu
Degrees: J.D. magna cum laude with high honors 2001, Duke University; M.A. 2001, Duke University; B.A. summa cum laude 1998, Drake University
Biography: Professor Bowman joined the Law College faculty in 2007, where she teaches Property, Remedies, and Education Law. With academic interests in Education Law and Policy and Constitutional Law, she has published numerous articles in scholarly journals examining students' free speech rights, racial/ ethnic equality in education, and the teaching of evolution in public schools.
The founder and editor of the SSRN Education Law Abstracting Journal, Professor Bowman is active in several professional organizations including the American Association of Law Schools, for which she currently is the Education Law Section Chair-Elect. She is the recipient of a Michigan State University Lilly Teaching Fellowship during the 2009-2010 academic year.
Professor Bowman also has served as a visiting professor at University of Mississippi School of Law and an assistant professor at Drake University Law School. Prior to teaching, she practiced at Franczek Sullivan, P.C., in Chicago, where she represented school districts, and worked at the United States Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights. She also clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
In 2001, Professor Bowman graduated magna cum laude from the Duke University Law School, having served as both the Articles Editor of the Duke Law Journal and the Associate Executive Editor of the Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy. She simultaneously received her M.A. in Humanities from Duke University.