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Shepard Broad Faculty Member Featured in Lawyers of Color 50 Under 50 Edition
Olympia Duhart, J.D.
Olympia Duhart, J.D., (’03), professor of law and director of the Lawyering Skills and Values (LSV) at NSU’s Shepard Broad Law Center, was featured in the “Law School Diversity Special Edition” of the publication, Lawyers of Color.
Duhart, along with Ruben Garcia, J.D., of the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, began serving terms as co-presidents of the Society of American Law Teachers’ (SALT) Board of Governors earlier this year. SALT, a community of progressive law teachers, is dedicated to teaching excellence, social justice, and diversity.
Duhart teaches LSV I and LSV II, Constitutional Law I, Constitutional Law II, and Women and the Law. Duhart has been active with SALT since 2006 and was elected to the Board of Governors in 2009. Her work with the organization includes serving as chair of its Membership Committee, co-chair of the Issues in Legal Education Committee, chair of the SALTLAW blog and an organizer for SALT’s “Breaking-in” programs for new law teachers and administrators. She has monitored the American Bar Association on behalf of SALT and contributed to Amicus Briefs that SALT submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States. Duhart also served as a member of the editorial board for Vulnerable Populations and Transformative Teaching: A Critical Reader.
In addition to her service with SALT, Duhart serves on the Board of Advisors for the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning and on the LexisNexis Publications Advisory Board. She is a member of the Legal Writing Institute and of the Association of Legal Writing Directors. Duhart has coached for NSU’s Moot Court Society and Black Law Student Association and also has been appointed to serve as a member of the Grievance Committee for the 17th Circuit “D” for The Florida Bar.
Duhart’s scholarship focuses on government accountability. She has written made presentations concerning the expansion of services for historically marginalized groups of people. She is also a frequent speaker and contributor in the area of learning theory and law teaching. Recognized as NSU’s recipient for the Association of American Law Schools Award for Teaching in 2009 and 2013, Duhart was named Professor of the Year in 2012 by the NSU Student Bar Association. She graduated magna cum laude from the NSU Law Center, where she was a Goodwin Scholar. She earned her B.A. in English, cum laude, from the University of Miami. Duhart grew up in Liberty City, Florida.