Danielle Boaz

Bar Admissions

• Florida State Bar (2009)
• North Carolina State Bar (2017)

Education

• Ph.D. in African diaspora, Caribbean and African History, University of Miami
• J.D. with a concentration in International Law, University of Toledo
• LL.M. in Intercultural Human Rights, St. Thomas University School of Law

Publications

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

• Tracey Benson and Danielle Boaz, “Leadership Amidst Racial Trauma and Unrest: UNC Charlotte’s Response to the Shooting of Keith Scott,” Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership (2017): 1-14.
• Danielle Boaz, “Introducing Religious Reparations: Repairing the Perceptions of African Religions through Expansions in Education,” Journal of Law and Religion 26 (2010): 213-248.

Book Chapters

• Danielle Boaz, “Modern Legal Issues in the Practice of African Diaspora Religions,” in Contemporary Perspectives on Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora, ed. Ibigbolade Aderibigde and Carolyn Jones Medine (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), 217-234.
• Danielle Boaz, “‘Instruments of Obeah’: The Significance of Ritual Objects in the Jamaican Legal System, 1760-Present,” in Materialities, Meanings and Modernities of Rituals in the Black Atlantic, eds., Akinwumi Ogundiran and Paula Saunders (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014).

Law Review/Law Journal Articles

• Danielle Boaz, “Dividing Stereotype and Religion: The Legal Implications of the Ambiguous References to ‘Voodoo’ in U.S. Court Proceedings,” The Scholar: St. Mary’s Law Review on Race & Social Justice 14(2) (2011): 251-299
• Danielle Boaz, “Examining Creole Languages in the Context of International Language Rights,” Human Rights and Globalization Law Review 2 (2008): 45-71. 
• Danielle Boaz, “Religious Reparations from the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Creating Demons, Cults, and Zombies to Justify Black Enslavement,” St. Thomas Law Review 20 (2008): 604-621.
• Danielle Boaz, “Equality does not mean Conformity: Reevaluating the use of Segregated Schools to Create a Culturally Appropriate Education for African American Children,” Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal 7 (2007): 1-49.