Professional Background

Professor Nicole Noël focuses on guiding students to become self-directed, life-long learners using evidence-based learning strategies. Having been a first-generation college and law student, she is dedicated to ensuring that AEP programming is effective and has measurable impact on student outcomes. As a learning expert, she writes and presents nationally on evidence-based practice and learning science in legal education. Before joining the New England Law faculty, she served as a Professor of Practice in the Academic Success and Professionalism Program at Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law.

Prior to teaching, Professor Noël was a capital defense attorney representing Florida death row inmates in their final appeals in state and federal court. As lead counsel, she conducted evidentiary hearings in state circuit courts, wrote motions and appellate briefs to state and federal courts and certiorari petitions to the US Supreme Court, and conducted oral argument in the Florida Supreme Court. She began her legal career as a public defender in Miami.