Roger Anthony Fairfax Jr. is an American legal scholar who is Dean of the Howard University School of Law.

Roger Fairfax Jr. attended Harvard College before completing a master's degree from the University of London.

[1][2] He also attended Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington, D.C.[3] While a student at Harvard Law School, Fairfax edited the Harvard Law Review.

[9] Fairfax was a federal prosecutor and worked for O'Melveny & Myers before joining the George Washington University Law School faculty, where he served as Patricia Roberts Harris Research Professor of Law until 2021,[10] when he was appointed dean of the Washington College of Law at American University.

[13] Fairfax is also the chair of Archbishop Carroll High School's board of directors.