Ted Brown
Theodore Brown, Jr., B.S. (History) summa cum laude, University of Tennessee, J.D., Vanderbilt University School of Law, is a lecturer in the University’s Department of Political Science, where he teaches (or has taught) Constitutional Law, Judicial Process, and Law in American Society, is and Adjunct Professor of Law in American Legal History at the University of Tennessee’s College of Law. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1949, Brown grew up in Etowah, Tennessee. He practiced law in Atlanta for 25 years before returning to Knoxville in 2006 to begin his teaching career.
Brown is the author of “The Formative Period in the History of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, 1796–1835,” in A History of the Tennessee Supreme Court (University of Tennessee Press, 2002), sponsored by the Tennessee Supreme Court Historical Society, which was awarded the Tennessee Book Award by the Tennessee Historical Commission and the Tennessee Library Association as the most outstanding book on Tennessee history published during the year 2002.
Brown authored the entry for John Catron, Tennessee Supreme Court Justice and U.S. Supreme Court Justice, in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Law and Politics, vol. 11 (University of North Carolina Press, 2008), and his book review of Matthew Warshauer’s Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Martial Law: Nationalism, Civil Liberties, and Partisanship (University of Tennessee Press, 2006) was published in the Winter 2008 issue of The Tennessee Historical Quarterly. He contributed biographical profiles of Tennessee Supreme Court Justice William J. Harbison, early Tennessee jurists John McNairy and John Overton, and U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee for inclusion in the Tennessee Historical Society’s Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture (1998). He is co-editor, with Professor James W. Ely, Jr., of the Vanderbilt University School of Law, of Legal Papers of Andrew Jackson (University of Tennessee Press, 1987) and the author of “The Tennessee County Courts under the North Carolina and Territorial Governments: The Davidson County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1783-1796, as a Case Study,” in the Vanderbilt Law Review (1979).