• Royce Fellowship
Justin
Driver

Concentration 

Public Policy

Award Year 

1996

Justin research focuses on evaluating African American male academies. His work includes examining the academic performance of academy graduates as well as interviewing education experts who have spoken in support of and in opposition to the academies. He will also spend time developing a case study through firsthand interviews with students, teachers and administrators of an academy in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Justin joined the faculty of the University of Texas School of Law in 2009. He received a master's degree in teaching from Duke University, and a master's degree in modern history from Magdalen College, University of Oxford, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar. In 2004, he graduated from Harvard Law School, where he was an Articles Editor and Book Reviews Chair of the Harvard Law Review. Driver served as a law clerk to Judge Merrick B. Garland, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (ret.) and Justice Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court of the United States. His principal research interests include constitutional law, constitutional theory and the intersection of race with legal institutions.