Tina Fernandes Botts


Tina Fernandes Botts is an American legal scholar and philosophy professor currently teaching at Washburn University School of Law.
She is known for her work in constitutional law, legal hermeneutics, intersectionality, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of race. 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; and Assistant Professor of Philosophy, and Faculty Associate and Area Leader in Public Policy and Diversity, at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Education and career

Botts earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Memphis under the supervision of Thomas Nenon, her J.D. from Rutgers School of Law, and her B.A. in philosophy with a minor in physics from the University of Maryland at College Park.

Research areas

Botts' research areas are constitutional law, philosophy of law, philosophical hermeneutics, philosophy of race, feminist philosophy, ethical theory, and applied ethics.

Selected works