Associate Professor of LawFaculty Director, Center for Race and Law
J.D. University of Florida Levin College of LawB.A. Mercer UniversityM.S. University of Tennessee
Renee Nicole Allen joined the faculty in 2019. She teaches Professional Responsibility, Race and the Law, The Music & The Movement: Race, Rhythm, and Social Justice, and Comparative Social Justice. Since 2021, she has been the faculty advisor to the Women’s Law Society. She is the founding faculty director for the Center for Race and Law which launched in the fall of 2022.
Professor Allen’s scholarship focuses on race, social justice, and legal education. Her articles and essays have been published in several journals, including the UCLA Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Rutgers Law Review, University of Maryland Journal of Race, Religion, Gender, & Class, and William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice. She has presented her scholarship at national conferences, including AALS, SEALS, SALT, LWI, the Institute for Law Teaching & Learning, and the National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference.
Professor Allen is a proud first-generation attorney and an accidental law professor. Prior to joining the St. John’s faculty, she held academic support and bar preparation positions at several law schools. Before academia, she practiced family law in metro Atlanta. She received her J.D. from the University of Florida Levin College of Law and her B.A. in English Literature from Mercer University. In 2019, she earned a master's degree in educational psychology from the University of Tennessee.