{"id":29272,"date":"2023-12-07T14:34:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T19:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=29272"},"modified":"2023-12-07T15:02:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T20:02:44","slug":"book-by-brown-nagin-receives-order-of-the-coif-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/book-by-brown-nagin-receives-order-of-the-coif-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Book by Brown-Nagin receives Order of the Coif award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University alumna Tomiko Brown-Nagin has received the 2023 the Order of the Coif award for her book \u201cCivil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality.\u201d The Order of the Coif is an honor society for United States law school graduates. The annual award recognizes \u201coutstanding publications that evidence creative talent of the highest order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hls.harvard.edu\/today\/tomiko-brown-nagin-receives-order-of-the-coif-book-award\/\">Harvard Law Today<\/a> describes Brown-Nagin&#8217;s book &#8220;a deeply researched biography that explores the life and times of the pathbreaking lawyer, politician, and judge Constance Baker Motley.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A 1992 Furman history graduate, Brown-Nagin is dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School. She earned a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1997 and a Ph.D. in history from Duke University in 2002. She received an honorary doctorate from Furman in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brown-Nagin&#8217;s \u201cCivil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality\u201d is awarded the Order of the Coif, which recognizes \u201coutstanding publications that evidence creative talent of the highest order.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":28664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2425,42,6],"tags":[1272,2424],"class_list":["post-29272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-harvard-law-today","category-history","category-in-the-news","tag-harvard","tag-the-order-of-the-coif"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}