University of Georgia
School of Law
Athens, GA 30602
United States
A.B., A.B., University of Georgia
J.D., Northwestern University
Property
Environmental Law
U.S. Trade in Africa Seminar
Taylor Nchako will join the University of Georgia School of Law in the fall semester of 2027 as an assistant professor. She will teach property, environmental law and a U.S. trade in Africa seminar.
She is presently serving as a staff attorney for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Previously, she was the Climate and Clean Energy Fellow for two years at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, where she also taught an environmental justice seminar in the spring of 2025.
Her scholarship includes “ESG Backlash in the United States – Investor Concerns or ‘Red Scare’?” in the Journal of Law and Political Economy as well as the forthcoming articles “A Strategic Approach to ESG Reporting” and “Reimagining International Investment Law for the Age of Minerals” in the Lewis & Clark and Washington & Lee law reviews, respectively.
Nchako earned two bachelor’s degrees summa cum laude from UGA and a J.D. cum laude from the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, where she served as the online editor-in-chief of the Northwestern University Law Review.