J.D., magna cum laude, North Carolina Central University School of Law
M.A., Fayetteville State University
B.A., Fayetteville State University
Biography
Professor Titichia Mitchell Jackson’s scholarship focuses on legal pedagogy, curriculum reform, and the relationship between legal education, professional licensing, and accreditation standards. Her work examines how the NextGen Bar Exam creates an opportunity to reconsider traditional approaches to legal instruction and assessment, particularly the continued reliance on input-based regulatory frameworks reflected in the American Bar Association Standards. Her research advances competency-based approaches to legal education that align doctrinal instruction, skills development, and professional readiness. Through this work, Professor Jackson explores how legal education can better prepare students for licensure while maintaining fidelity to the profession’s public responsibilities.
A central component of Professor Jackson’s scholarship connects these reform efforts to the doctrinal study of Contract Law. She examines how doctrinal courses can incorporate applied lawyering competencies such as problem solving, client counseling, drafting, and analytical reasoning that reflect the skills assessed on the NextGen Bar Exam and required in practice. Her research demonstrates how competency-based curriculum design can preserve doctrinal rigor while improving transparency in learning outcomes and strengthening alignment between legal education, accreditation policy, and professional formation.
Professor Jackson’s published scholarship includes Embracing a New Approach to Academic Success: How the Adoption of a Growth Mindset Can Enhance Legal Education and Reimagining Legal Education: Aligning Curriculum and Pedagogy with the NextGen Bar Exam, which examine how pedagogical innovation can support student learning, equity, and bar readiness.
Her teaching reflects these scholarly commitments. Professor Jackson has taught Legal Writing, Advanced Legal Analysis, Systematic Problem Solving with emphasis on Contracts, Torts, and Evidence, and Fundamental Skills for the Bar Exam. Across these courses, she integrates doctrinal mastery with structured analytical frameworks that support the development of transferable lawyering competencies. Her teaching emphasizes clarity in legal reasoning, structured problem solving, and the connection between doctrinal study and professional application.
Professor Jackson’s service reflects her commitment to the legal profession and broader community. She previously served on the Board of Directors for United Way of Carlisle and contributes to national conversations on legal education through leadership roles in the Association of Academic Support Educators and the American Association of Law Schools.
Through her scholarship, teaching, and service, Professor Jackson advances a model of legal education that integrates doctrinal depth, skills development, and competency-based assessment to prepare students for the NextGen Bar Exam and the evolving demands of legal practice.
Fundamental Skills for the Bar Exam
Pathways to Legal Success: Foundations, Skills, and Career Development
Treasurer Elect for the Association of Academic Support Educators (Present)
Association of American Law Schools Section on Academic Support Chair (2025)
United Way of Carlisle and Cumberland County Board of Directors (2022–Present)
Association of American Law Schools Section on Academic Support Treasurer (2022–Present)
Association of Academic Support Educators’ Scholarship 101 program, Getting Funded (September 26, 2025) (Panelist).
Virtual panel: Maintain Your Mental: Healthy Minds in Law School and Beyond, National Black Law Students Association program (September 10, 2025) (Panelist).
Bar Prep for 2Ls: What You can do Now to Prepare for the Bar Exam, North Carolina Bar Association, Young Lawyer Division Bar Exam Committee (May 11, 2022) (Panelist).
African Americans and the Bar Exam: Overcoming the Obstacles of the Final Rite of Passage to Becoming a Lawyer, 17th Annual National Black Pre-Law Conference and Law Fair, (November 18–21, 2021, Online) (Speaker)
