Tina Fernandes Botts

Tina Fernandes Botts is an American legal scholar and philosophy professor currently teaching at Washburn University School of Law. ^[1] She is known for her work in constitutional law, legal hermeneutics,^[2] intersectionality, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of race (particularly mixed-race theory).^[3] 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;^[4] and Assistant Professor of Philosophy, and Faculty Associate and Area Leader in Public Policy and Diversity, at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.^[5]

Tina Fernandes Botts
Philosophical work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic Continental
Main interests	Philosophy of Law Hermeneutics Philosophy of Race Feminist Philosophy Ethics Social & Political Philosophy History of Philosophy

Education and career

Botts earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Memphis^[6] under the supervision of Thomas Nenon, her J.D. from Rutgers School of Law,^[7] and her B.A. in philosophy with a minor in physics from the University of Maryland at College Park.^[8]

Research areas

Botts' research areas are constitutional law, philosophy of law (including critical race theory), philosophical hermeneutics, philosophy of race, feminist philosophy, ethical theory, and applied ethics.^[9]

Selected works

• For Equals Only: Race, Equality, and the Equal Protection Clause. Lexington. 2018. ISBN 9781498501231.
• "Legal Hermeneutics," Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2015. ISSN 2161-0002^[10]
• Botts, Tina Fernandes, ed. (2016). Philosophy and the Mixed Race Experience. Lexington Books. ISBN 9781498509428.
• "Antidiscrimination Law and the Multiracial Experience: A Reply to Nancy Leong" 10 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 191, Summer 2013.^[11][12]
• "Hermeneutics, Race, and Gender" in The Routledge Companion to Philosophical Hermeneutics, Jeff Malpas and Hans-Helmuth Gander, eds., London: Taylor and Francis (2014).
• Feminist Thought. 5th Edition, co-authored with Rosemarie Tong, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0813349954