Christopher Alan Bracey is an internationally recognized expert who teaches and researches in the areas of the legal history of U.S. race relations, constitutional law, criminal procedure, civil procedure, and civil rights.
A magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina, Provost Bracey received his law degree from Harvard Law School, where he served as a supervising editor on the Harvard Law Review, a general editor on the Harvard Civil Rights–Civil Liberties Law Review, and an editor on the Harvard Blackletter Law Journal. He clerked for the Honorable Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and subsequently joined the Washington, DC, Office of Jenner & Block, where he litigated a variety of civil and criminal matters.
Provost Bracey previously taught at Northwestern University School of Law and Washington University School of Law before joining the GW Law faculty in 2008. He previously served as senior associate dean and interim dean of GW Law, as well as vice provost for faculty affairs.
Provost Bracey has delivered lectures and presentations on a variety of topics involving race relations, constitutional rights, and celebrity trials, as well as general criminal justice matters and U.S. politics. He has been interviewed and featured in several hundred media articles and broadcasts.