Justin L. Brooks is a lawyer and writer. His first academic publication, "Juridical Occasions for Racial Formation: The Freedmen's Bureau, Labor, and Private Law," is forthcoming in Discourse of the UCLA Law Review.  His public essays have appeared in The Appeal, American Prospect, Truthout, and Slate. 

In 2023, Justin was featured in Exposing Parchman, a documentary film on the A&E Network. Produced by Roc Nation, the three-hour investigative series explores ongoing efforts to reform Mississippi's correctional system. In 2024, Justin gave a talk at Harvard Law School's annual Critical Race Theory Conference that emphasized the importance of bridging critical race theory and black studies as the former looks towards the horizons of race and law scholarship. 

Justin is a former judicial law clerk for the Honorable James E. Graves, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and a former public defender for the Committee for Public Counsel Services in Roxbury, MA.  Presently, Justin is a judicial law clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for the 2024-2025 term.

Justin earned his B.A. in Political Science, magna cum laude, from Morehouse College, his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, and his A.M. in Government (Political Philosophy) from Harvard University.

He is based in New York, New York.