Associate Professor of Law
Professor Danielle Weatherby teaches Education Law, Employment Discrimination, and Legal Research and Writing. Professor Weatherby also co-directs the law school’s student competitions program. In addition to overseeing the law school’s three annual internal competitions, Professor Weatherby co-coaches the ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition teams.
Professor Weatherby’s research focuses on the intersection between religious exercise and public accommodation laws, First Amendment jurisprudence and its impact on student speech, education law, and emerging legal protections for transgender individuals. Professor Weatherby’s recent work has appeared in the Florida Law Review, Washington and Lee Law Review Online, Brooklyn Law Review, Connecticut Law Review, Pepperdine Law Review, and the New York University Review of Law & Social Change. Professor Weatherby has also been published in Fortune Magazine, The Seattle Times, Detroit News, and The Conversation, and she has provided legal commentary to Fox News, Wall Street Journal, and many other national, State, and local news publications.
Professor Weatherby is committed to public service and works to raise awareness about issues affecting minority populations, including transgender youth. In 2015, Professor Weatherby authored a civil rights ordinance, which is now city law, extending anti-discrimination protections to LGBT individuals in employment, housing, and places of public accommodation. She is the former Chair of the AALS Section on Labor Relations and Employment Law.
Prior to joining the University of Arkansas faculty, Professor Weatherby clerked for Chief Judge Gary L. Sharpe of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York and practiced at the Albany, New York law firm, Whiteman, Osterman & Hanna, LLP, where she advised private and public sector clients on a wide range of labor, employment, and education law issues.
Professor Weatherby earned her B.A. with a double major in classical Latin and Greek from Franklin and Marshall College and her J.D., cum laude, from the University of Florida, Levin College of Law. She is licensed to practice law in New York, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia.
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About Danielle Weatherby
Professor Danielle Weatherby teaches Education Law, Employment Discrimination, and Legal Research and Writing. Professor Weatherby also co-directs the law school’s student competitions program. In addition to overseeing the law school’s three annual internal competitions, Professor Weatherby co-coaches the ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition teams.
Professor Weatherby’s research focuses on the intersection between religious exercise and public accommodation laws, First Amendment jurisprudence and its impact on student speech, education law, and emerging legal protections for transgender individuals. Professor Weatherby’s recent work has appeared in the Florida Law Review, Washington and Lee Law Review Online, Brooklyn Law Review, Connecticut Law Review, Pepperdine Law Review, and the New York University Review of Law & Social Change. Professor Weatherby has also been published in Fortune Magazine, The Seattle Times, Detroit News, and The Conversation, and she has provided legal commentary to Fox News, Wall Street Journal, and many other national, State, and local news publications.
Professor Weatherby is committed to public service and works to raise awareness about issues affecting minority populations, including transgender youth. In 2015, Professor Weatherby authored a civil rights ordinance, which is now city law, extending anti-discrimination protections to LGBT individuals in employment, housing, and places of public accommodation. She is the former Chair of the AALS Section on Labor Relations and Employment Law.
Prior to joining the University of Arkansas faculty, Professor Weatherby clerked for Chief Judge Gary L. Sharpe of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York and practiced at the Albany, New York law firm, Whiteman, Osterman & Hanna, LLP, where she advised private and public sector clients on a wide range of labor, employment, and education law issues.
Professor Weatherby earned her B.A. with a double major in classical Latin and Greek from Franklin and Marshall College and her J.D., cum laude, from the University of Florida, Levin College of Law. She is licensed to practice law in New York, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia.