Biography
Lisa A. Tucker is a Professor of Law at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law, where she has been a member of the faculty since 2007. Her scholarship focuses on the “underdogs” in family law, or those family members whose interests are underrecognized, undervalued, and underrepresented. Professor Tucker is also an expert on the United States Supreme Court and has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and the mainstream media about the Court as an institution. Her work has been published in the Duke Law Journal, the Boston University Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, the North Carolina Law Review, the Florida Law Review, the Indiana Law Journal, the BYU Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review Online, the Georgetown Law Journal Online, and many more.
Professor Tucker is the co-founder of We Hold These Truths, a groundbreaking, nationwide effort to promote freedom, equality, and democracy by providing Americans with clear, reliable, and accessible facts about the protections provided under the U.S. Constitution for all people and the work required to safeguard our freedoms and nation’s ideals.
Professor Tucker is the editor of Hamilton and the Law: Reading Today’s Most Contentious Legal Issues through the Hit Musical, a book that was lauded by the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
In 2021, Professor Tucker was elected to membership in the American Law Institute.
Professor Tucker is the author of numerous books for children about Supreme Court justices and prominent elected officials, as well as the 2015 novel Called On. Professor Tucker has appeared on the Today Show, CNN, NPR , and many other radio and television outlets. She, her books, and her scholarship have been featured and reviewed in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the L.A. Review of Books, the Chicago Tribune, the National Law Journal, Legal Times, People, Time, Parents and “NBC Nightly News,” among other newspapers, magazines and programs across the country.
Professor Tucker is a graduate of Dartmouth College, the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and Harvard Law School.