Prof Valorie K. Vojdik

Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Law Programs, University of Tennessee

Valorie K. Vojdik is a Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Law Programs at the University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville, Tennessee.   Professor Vojdik’s research and scholarship focuses on gender and feminist jurisprudence, constitutional law, comparative international law, and women in the military. She has twice served in the West Bank as an international to the European Union’s Seyada II Project on Empowering the Palestinian Judicial System, creating training programs for the Palestinian Bar Association and a legal aid training program. She has taught for the Open Society Foundation in Turkey and as a guest lecturer in South Africa.  Professor Vojdik practiced law at Shearman & Sterling in New York City, where she was lead counsel to Shannon Faulkner in her lawsuit against The Citadel, the military-style college in South Carolina that excluded women for over 154 years, successfully challenging its males-only admission policy.  At the University of Tennessee, Prof. Vojdik directs and oversees nine law school clinics and five externship programs.  She also teaches in the Advocacy Clinic, supervising students representing low-income clients in juvenile and housing court cases, as well as courses such as Sex, Gender, and Justice and Children and the Law.  She has taught at New York University School of Law and at West Virginia University College of Law, where she was also Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development and Deputy Director of the Legal Clinic.