Professor Brower graduated from Princeton and subsequently won a Fulbright-Hays scholarship to France to teach and do research. Following graduation from law school, Professor Brower joined a major San Francisco law firm. He became a member of WSU's full-time faculty in 1983. He was co-counsel pro bono in Karahalios v. Defense Language Institute, argued before the United States Supreme Court in the 1988 term. In 2002-2003, Professor Brower was an Academic Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies – University of London. He is the author of two Surveys and Reports on Sexual Orientation Fairness in the United Kingdom, Department For Constitutional Affairs (2003) & (2005). Professor Brower is a consultant to the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law & Public Policy at the UCLA School of Law and directs its program on judicial education.

Courses: Constitutional Law, Employment Discrimination, Property

Publications:
It's Not Just Shopping, Urban Lofts, and the Lesbian Gay-by Boom: How Sexual Orientation Demographics Can Inform Family Courts, 17 AM. U. J. Gender, Socl Pol. & the L. 1 (2009)

Social Cognition 'At Work:' Schema Theory and Lesbian and Gay Identity in Title V11, 18 Tul. J. L. & Secuality 1 (2009)

Multistable Figures: Sexual Orientation Visibility and its Effects on the Experiences of Sexual Minorities in the Courts, 27 Pace L. Rev. 141 (2007)

Pride & Prejudice: Sexual Orientation Fairness in the Courts of Englend and Wales, 13 Buff. Women's L. J. 17 (2006)

Obstacle Courts: Results of Two Empirical Studies on Sexual Orientation Fairness in the California Courts, 11 J. Gender, Soc. Pol. & The L. 39 (2003).

Of Courts and Closets: A Doctrinal and Empirical Analysis of Lesbian and Gay Identity in the Courts, 38 San Diego L. Rev. 565 (2001).

A Stranger to Its Laws: Homosexuality, Schemas, and the Lessons and Limits of Reasoning By Analogy, 38 Santa Clara L. Rev. 65 (1997).

Communities Within the Community: Consent, Constitutionalism and Other Failures of Legal Theory in Residential Associations, 17 J. Land Use & Envir. L. 203 (1992).

Towards a Unified Accommodation of State Law and Collective Bargaining Agreements: Federalism, Public Rights and Liberty of Contract, 26 Hous. L. Rev 389 (1989).

The Duty of Fair Representation in Farm Labor Legislation: Cultivating the Seeds of Individual Rights, 56 U.M.K.C. L. Rev. 239 (1988).

The Duty of Fair Representation Under the Civil Service Reform Act: Judicial Power to Enforce Employee Rights, 40 Okla. L. Rev. 361 (1987).

Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Title IX as an Alternate Remedy for Sex Discrimination in Employment, 31 N.Y. L. Sch. L. Rev. 485 (1986).

Book Review, May It Please the Court, 21 W. St. U. L. Rev. 356 (1994).

Book Review, The Tempting of America, 18 W. St. L. Rev. 485 (1991).

Book Review, The Concept of Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution & Red, White and Blue: A Critical Analysis of Constitutional Law, 16 W. St. U. L. Rev. 317 (1988).

Book Review, Collective Bargaining: How It Works and Why, 14 W. St. U. L. Rev. 363 (1986).

Presentations:
Presenter and Panel Participant: Social Cognition and the Visibility of Lesbian and Gay Identity: Lessons from Schema Theory for Nondiscrimination Law, Equal Employment Opportunities Conference, Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey (July 2009)

Presenter and Panel Participant: It's Not Just Shoppoing, Urban Lofts, and the Lesbian Gay-by Boom: How Sexual Orientation Demographics Can Inform Family Courts, Gender, Family Responsibility and Legal Change Conference, Univ. of Sussex, England (July 2008)

Presenter and Panel Participant: The Effects of Sexual Orientation Visibility on the Experiences of Sexual Minorities in the Courts, AHRC Research Centre for Law, Gender & Sexuality, Univ. of Keele, England (July 2007)

Author: Survey and Report on Sexual Orientation Fairness in the UK Dept. for Constitutional Affairs (2003). Presented to Lord Filkin, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, DCA London, England (December 2003);

Report on Sexual Orientation Fairness in the UK Dept. for Constitutional Affairs (2003). Presented to DCA Diversity Steering Committee (Senior Managers, Heads of Departments, Heads of Networks) London, England, (December 2003);

Report on Sexual Orientation Fairness in the UK Dept. for Constitutional Affairs (2003). Presented at Annual Meeting DCA Rainbow Network (employee group) London, England (July & December 2003)

Professor, Jurisprudence I, Continuing Judicial Studies Program, California Judicial Education and Research, San Diego, CA (August 11-16, 2002)

Presenter and Panel Participant: Sexual Orientation Bias in the Judicial System, American University Law School, Washington, DC. (March 2002).

Presenter and Panel Participant: State Bar of California, Sexual Orientation Fairness in the California Courts, Annual Meeting, Sonoma, CA. (March 2002).

Presenter and Panel Participant: State Bar of California, Sexual Orientation Fairness in the California Courts, Winter Meeting, Anaheim, CA. (November 2001).

Presenter and Panel Participant: Oxford Round Table, Employment Discrimination Roundtable, Oxford University, Oxford, UK (August 2001).

Public Service:
California Judicial Council, Access and Fairness Committee, Member (appointed for four 3-year terms by the Chief Justice, California Supreme Court)

Co-Chair, Krieger Sexual Orientation Fairness

Subcommittee on Access for Persons with Disabilities;

Member: Executive Committee, Subcommittee on Sexual Orientation Fairness; Education and Implementation.

Co- author, Sexual Orientation Fairness in the California Courts [Report] (2001);

Task Force on Judicial and Court Employee Curricula on Sexual Orientation, California Judicial Education and Research.

Orange County Legal Education Foundation, Chairman of the Board (1999-2009).