Her teaching and academic scholarship focus on Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, Legislation, Civil Rights, and Sports Law. She was a tenured Professor at the University of Oregon, at the University Wisconsin Madison Law School, the first Black Women to teach at Harvard Law, a visiting professor at Georgetown Law, and before dean at MSU, the Evjue Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin.
Greene’s recent scholarship reflects the breadth and depth of her inquiries. Her recent work includes: “Critical Race Theory: Origins, Permutations, and Current Queries” 2021 in the origins and developments in the CRT scholarship; “Up Against the Wall: Congressional Retention of the Spending Power in Times of ‘Emergency’” on the separation of law and congressional powers usurpation concerns therein; “Talking About Black Lives Matter and #MeToo” (with Lolita Buckner Innis and Bridget Crawford (2019) on the origins doctrinal and transformation potential of those movements”; “Two Justices: Brandeis, Marshall, and Federal Court Diversity on the history and importance of judicial diversity and related legitimacy; “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Gender, Olympic Competition, and the Persistence of the Feminine Ideal,” (2016), on the Olympic movement’s insistence on a feminine ideal as a criteria for competition as a woman in Olympic sport; “African American Women on the World Stage: The Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing China, 1995” (2015, role of African American women in shaping an intersectional framework for the 4th World Conference Platform for Action ; “The Battle for Brown”, (2015) on the contemporary significance of Brown and its relevance in a more diverse America; and “Before and After Michael Brown: Towards an End to Structural and Actual Violence,” (2015) on racialized police violence and the need for structural societal transformation for its elimination.