Brec Cooke
Legal Writing Instructor
Professor Cooke joined the UDC Law faculty in September 2021 as a legal writing instructor in the Legal Writing Program. In addition to teaching courses such as Lawyering Process and Moot Court, he works in the UDC Law Writing Hub, which offers regular workshops and provides opportunities for all UDC Law students to work with legal writing mentors one on one. He also coaches UDC Law’s Moot Court Competition Team.
A graduate of UDC Law, and a member of the Maryland Bar, Professor Cooke joined the faculty after working ten years in private practice as Senior Counsel in the Criminal Group at Price Benowitz LLP, where he developed the criminal group’s appellate and post-conviction practice. He also supervised the training and development of the group’s numerous law clerks and paralegals.
Prior to attending law school, he served as Professor of the Practice in the School of Education at American University in Washington, D.C., teaching critical race theory, social justice and education, and education and the law. He has also taught philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at Edison Community College in Naples, Florida, and in the School of Education at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, N.H. His scholarship, an example of which has been published in the academic journal Qualitative Inquiry, has focused on the discriminatory perspectives of federal and state legislative bodies in enacting federal and state statutes relating to marginalized groups in the United States.
Professor Cooke earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from the George Washington University. He received a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (Literary Theory) from Dartmouth College and a Masters in Theology y from Saint Leo University (Florida). He also holds a M.Ed. from Plymouth State University (N.H.).