HARVARD LAW SCHOOL - Key Persons
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- Visiting Professor of Law
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- Assistant Director of Admissions and Financial Aid
Amy received her B.A. in Government from Cornell University. Prior to joining the Graduate Program, she worked in the Office of Technology Development at Harvard University. Amy began her career in the financial services industry where she worked at Fidelity Investments for over fourteen years in compliance. Amy enjoys running, ballet, and hiking, as well as gardening, studying psychology, and learning about different cultures.
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Amy can answer questions about financial aid and visas for LL.M. and S.J.D. students, as well as about the LL.M. admissions process.
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- Program Officer, International Legal Studies
Andre was previously associate director of New Program Development, Logistics and Operations in the Global Experience Office at Northeastern University. Prior to that, he served as assistant director of the Dean Rusk Center for International Law and Policy, where he developed and managed a range of international programs and initiatives for the University of Georgia School of Law. He also has experience working overseas, primarily in China and Europe, as well as at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, where he worked for both Conference Services and as a legal intern in the Office of Legal Affairs. From 2011-2013, Andre was in charge of an educational media startup in Atlanta, GA. Andre speaks fluent French, and holds a B.A. from Loyola University Chicago and a J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law.
Audrey received a B.A. in American Studies from Yale University. Before coming to work at Harvard Law School, she worked extensively with law, accounting, and consulting firms on communications and marketing strategy, and with McKinsey and Company offices in the U.S. and internationally on branding and messaging for recruiting attorneys and other lateral hires to work as consultants.
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Audrey writes about the Graduate Program and its students for Harvard Law Today and the Harvard Law Bulletin, produces the Graduate Program Handbook and Face Book, helps manage the Graduate Program's web pages, and coordinates publicity for special events.
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- Student Affairs Program Administrator
Caitie joined the Graduate Program in 2015 shortly after moving to Boston. She received a B.A. in Journalism at the University of Connecticut, and an M.S. in Global Studies and International Relations at Northeastern University. Caitie loves to travel and has visited 18 countries across 5 continents. She also enjoys puzzles, reading, hiking, and discovering new documentaries.
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Caitie can answer questions about the LL.M. degree program, LL.M. student life and academics, mechanics of course registration, and event planning.
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- Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs
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- Senior Events Coordinator
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- Assistant Dean for Public Service Director, OPIA
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- Assistant Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies
Catherine received her B.A., J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Duke University and is a member of the New York Bar. Prior to joining the Graduate Program, she was an associate and then partner in the corporate restructuring group at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in New York, having started her legal career as an associate in the business finance and restructuring group at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Before attending law school, Catherine was the Assistant Director of J.D. Admissions at Duke University School of Law. Between practicing law and returning to academic administration, Catherine spent 18 months trekking and traveling in Nepal, India, Southeast Asia, New Zealand, Spain, Portugal, and the U.K.
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Catherine oversees the administration of the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies. She is also a resource for students with general questions about student life and careers in law.
Christine Desan is the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard and co-founder of Harvard's Program on the Study of Capitalism. Credit: Lorin Granger
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- Vice Dean for Experiential and Clinical Education and WilmerHale Clinical Professor of Law
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- Professor Emeritus at the University of Utah
- Utah Professor Emeritus
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- Professor of Constitutional Law
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- Director of the Harvard Law School Center
- Lester Kissel Professor of Law / Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession / Director, Center on the Legal Profession
- Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession and Lester Kissel Professor of Law
Professor Wilkins is the Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession, and Faculty Director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Fellow of the Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics.
Professor Wilkins has written over 80 articles on the legal profession in leading scholarly journals and the popular press and is the co-author (along with his Harvard Law School colleague Andrew Kaufman) of one of the leading casebooks in the field. His current scholarly projects include Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies (where he directs over 50 researchers studying the impact of globalization on the market for legal services in rapidly developing countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe); After the JD (a ten-year nationwide longitudinal study of lawyers' careers); The Harvard Law School Career Study (examining, among other things, differences in the experiences of male and female graduates and the careers of lawyers who do not practice law); and The New Social Engineers (charting the historical development and current experiences of black lawyers in corporate law practice).
Professor Wilkins teaches several courses on lawyers including The Legal Profession, Legal Education for the Twenty-First Century, and Challenges of a General Counsel. In 2007, he co-founded Harvard Law School's Executive Education Program, where he teaches in several courses including Leadership in Law Firms and Leadership in Corporate Counsel.
Professor Wilkins has given over 40 endowed lectures at universities around the world and is a frequent speaker at professional conferences and law firm and corporate retreats. His recent academic honors include the 2012 Honorary Doctorate in Law from Stockholm University in Sweden, the 2012 Distinguished Visiting Mentor Award from Australia National University, the 2012 Genest Fellowship from Osgoode Hall Law School, the 2010 American Bar Foundation Scholar of the Year Award, the 2009 J. Clay Smith Award from Howard University School of Law, and the 2008 Order of the Coif Distinguished Visitor Fellowship. In 2012, Professor Wilkins was elected as a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
David B. Wilkins, David M. Trubek & Bryon Fong, Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies: The Rise, Transformation, and Significance of the New Corporate Legal Ecosystem in India, Brazil, and China, in Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies (Hilary Sommerlad, Ole Hammerslev, Richard L. Abel et al. eds., 2022).
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- Clinical Professor of Law
Dehlia Umunna is a Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (HLS), and the Faculty Deputy Director of the law school's Criminal Justice Institute (CJI), where she supervises third-year law students in their representation of adult and juvenile clients in criminal and juvenile proceedings in Massachusetts Courts, including the Supreme Judicial Court. Her teaching interest and research focus on Criminal Law, Criminal Defense and Theory, Mass Incarceration, and Race Issues. She serves as a Faculty Adviser to some student organizations. Professor Umunna coaches the HLS National Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy and the HLS Black Law Student Association Trial Teams, and has led them to numerous regional and national awards. In addition to her work at HLS, Professor Umunna serves as a faculty member for Gideon's Promise (formerly the Southern Public Defender's Training Center), and is a frequent presenter at Public Defender Training Conferences and Social Justice Reform Panels around the country. She was recently appointed by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to the newly-established Bar Admissions Curriculum Committee to assist in crafting the Uniform Bar Exam.
Prior to coming to Harvard, Professor Umunna spent several years at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS) as a trial attorney. At PDS, she was a felony one trial attorney, representing indigent clients in hundreds of cases from misdemeanor charges of theft, assault, and drug possession, to kidnapping, child sexual abuse, rape, and homicide. Some of her cases received nationwide media attention. She also served as faculty training attorneys under the District of Columbia Criminal Justice Act.
From 2002 to 2007, Professor Umunna was an Adjunct Professor of Law and Practitioner in Residence at American University, Washington College of Law. She was a board member of the District of Columbia Law Students in Court Clinic, and a guest lecturer for several years at the George Washington University Law School.
Among her recognitions, Professor Umunna has received Harvard Law School's Dean's Award for Excellence, in acknowledgment of her outstanding service to the HLS community where she has excelled as a student supervisor, staff manager, lecturer, coach, and mentor, and the Southern Public Defender Training Center Outstanding Faculty Mentor of the Year Award.
Professor Umunna is a member of the Massachusetts, Maryland, and District of Columbia Bar Associations. She holds a B.A. in Communications from California State University, a Masters in Public Administration (MC) from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a JD from George Washington University Law School, where she was awarded the J.B. Shapiro Prize for Public Interest ($10,000). Her article "Rethinking the Neighborhood Watch: How Lessons from Nigerian Villages Can Creatively Empower Communities to Assist Low-Income, Single Mothers In America," was recently published in AM. U. J. GENDER, SOC. POL'Y & L. (Volume 20, Number 4). She is the very proud mother of daughter, Ifeanyi, and son, Edozie.
Education
M.P.A. Public Administration Harvard Kennedy School of Government, 2011
J.D. George Washington University Law School, 1998
B.A. Communications California State University, 1995
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- Assistant Director Campus Housing / Human Resources
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- Copy Center Manager / Dean of Students ( DOS )
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- University of Michigan Law School Professor
University of Michigan Law School Professor Ellen Katz made a more sobering point about the insufficiency of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on minority status. She cited this year's Allen v. Milligan case as a "warning sign": While the Supreme Court did uphold voting rights in the Alabama case, Katz suggested that greater and perhaps more successful challenges are to come.
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- Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies and Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Guy-Uriel E. Charles, the Charles J. Ogletree Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and director of the Charles Hamilton Institute for Race and Justice (CHHI), welcomed participants to the CHHI sponsored event. Credit: Lorin Granger
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- Facilities Management Office
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- Deputy Dean and James a. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law
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- University of Denver Professor
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- Learned Hand Professor of Law
Jack Goldsmith is Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University. He is the author, most recently, of After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency and In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, A Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth, as well as of other books and articles on many topics related to presidential power, terrorism, national security, international law, and internet law. Before coming to Harvard, Goldsmith served as Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, from October 2003 through July 2004, and Special Counsel to the General Counsel to the Department of Defense from September 2002 through June 2003. Goldsmith taught at the University of Chicago Law School from 1997-2002, and at the University of Virginia Law School from 1994-1997. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a B.A. and M.A. from Oxford University, and a B.A. from Washington & Lee University. He clerked for Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Court of Appeals Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, and Judge George Aldrich on the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal.
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- Leslie Williams Professor of Law
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- Executive Assistant to the Dean and Administrative Coordinator
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- Interim Associate Dean for Communications and Public Affairs / Communications
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- Executive Assistant to Jessica Soban, Dean for Student Services, and L. Tracee Whitley, Dean for Administration, and Special Projects Coordinator
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- Professor of Law
- Staff Writer at the New Yorker
Lepore is also a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she has been contributing essays American history, law, literature, and politics since 2005. Her audio storytelling includes, "The Last Archive," "Elon Musk: The Evening Rocket;" and the audiobook, "Who Killed Truth?" Her three-part story, "The Search for Big Brown," was broadcast on The New Yorker Radio Hour in 2015.
Lepore received a B.A. in English from Tufts University in 1987, an M.A. in American Culture from the University of Michigan in 1990, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1995.
Lepore is the recipient of many honors, awards, and honorary degrees, including from Yale, NYU, and Tufts. She has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and to the American Philosophical Society. Her research has been funded by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Pew Foundation, the Gilder Lehrman Institute, the Charles Warren Center, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In 2021, she was awarded the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought.
Professor Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker, where her essays include histories of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, debt, voting, torture, reproductive rights, the right to privacy, the gun debate, and the right to die.
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- Interim Dean
- Interim Dean and Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence
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- Deputy Dean and John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics
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- Interim Provost
- Interim Provost / Morgan and Helen
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- Boston University Professor
Boston University Professor Jonathan Kirshner countered that the dollar's dominance in world markets is still secure, if only barely and perhaps temporarily. He compared it to a table on which three legs have fallen: the United States' political stability; its invulnerability to financial crises (which he said, was the case for half a century); and the U.S. role as leading decision-maker in the global economy.
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- Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources and George Bemis Professor of International Law
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- Graduate Student Affairs Coordinator
Kathryn received her B.S. in Communication and History from Grace College and her M.A. in Communication from Ball State University. Prior to joining the Graduate Program, Kathryn taught public speaking at Ball State University to undergraduate students. Kathryn enjoys reading, crafting, and traveling, and spent a semester abroad in Budapest, Hungary.
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- Associate Dean
- Chief Financial Officer
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- Assistant Dean
- Chief Admissions Officer
- Interim Dean for Student Services
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- Dean for Administration
- Dean for Administration / Dean
Lani Guinier, the late Harvard Law School professor and esteemed legal scholar, was above all a champion of social justice. Her son Nikolas Bowie '14, Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law, made that point during two-day seminar on multiracial democracy that was held in her honor last week.
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- Associate Dean of Learning Experience and Innovation, Executive Director of Harvard Law School Online, and Lecturer on Law / Library
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- Professor of Law at Harvard University
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- Director of Dean 's Office Events and Senior Executive Assistant to the Dean
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- Vice Provost for Graduate Studies at UC Berkeley School of Education, Argued That Racial Injustice Is Built into the System.
Lisa Garcia Bedolla, vice provost for graduate studies at UC Berkeley School of Education, argued that racial injustice is built into the system.
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- Associate Director of Communications and Senior Editor, 617 - 495 - 8116
Education
Ph.D. US Social, Political and Legal History Duke University, 2002
J.D. Yale University, 1997
M.A. US Political and Social History Duke University, 1993
B.A. History Furman University, 1992
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- Graduate Program Staff Assistant
Maja received her B.S. in Communications from NYU and her M.A. in Communication, Culture, and Technology from Georgetown University, where she published two papers and wrote her thesis on the evolution of queer romantic comedies. Prior to joining the Graduate Program, she worked in financial aid at Georgetown's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In her free time, Maja enjoys drawing, knitting, and taking dance classes.
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- Assistant Dean for Office of Career Services
Weinrib began her lecture by pointing out the growing economic inequality in the U.S., particularly along racial lines, adding that "this inequality is profoundly shaped by our legal regime." A second major point of her book, she said, is that "political spending in the United States is out of control," "swamp[ing] political spending in other countries."
She then traced the history of campaign spending of the kind we see today to the late 19th century, when businesses spent millions of dollars to defeat the populist Democrat William Jennings Bryan. By the early 20th century, Weinrib said, the public - and labor unions, which were growing in power - demanded reform. Congress first passed the Federal Corrupt Practices Act, which was easily sidestepped by corporations. It was replaced in 1971 by the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), which was amended in 1974 to "impos[e] strict new limits on contributions and expenditures."
The other controversial premise of modern campaign finance law, added Weinrib, "is that corporations count as protected speakers." She said this principle, too, is ordinarily traced to the 1970s, pointing to advocacy and Supreme Court decisions by Lewis F. Powell, Jr., "expand[ing] free speech rights for corporations where they were seeking to influence the vote." But according to Weinrib, these developments in First Amendment doctrine did not in fact begin in the 1970s. They built on decades of litigation and debate over political spending by unions, she said.
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- Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs
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- Assistant Dean for Clinical and Experiential Education and Pro Bono Programs
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- Deputy Dean and Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law
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- Assistant Dean for Community Engagement, Equity, and Belonging
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- Public Interest Professor of Law, HLS
At HLS, a wide variety of extracurricular activities complement and enrich the classroom and clinical experiences. Whether exploring professional interests, serving the public, or merely socializing, students engage in an enormous range of activity on the HLS campus beyond the classroom. At present, there are more than 100 student organizations and journals at HLS. Student organizations based on a range of personal or professional interests plan workshops, panels, concerts, networking opportunities, and conferences.
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- Senior Director of Administration and Student Affairs
Nancy joined the Graduate Program in August of 2001. Originally from New Jersey, Nancy earned both a J.D. and an A.M. in East Asian Studies from Washington University in St. Louis. She also earned a B.A., in English, from Tufts University. A member of the New York Bar, Nancy previously worked as a lawyer in several corporate roles, including nearly three years in-house at the headquarters of a Japanese multinational. She has also worked as Coordinator for International Relations for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and as an English teacher at a Tokyo high school. Nancy enjoys reading, cooking, finding humor in unexpected areas, and exploring New England's many outdoor and cultural offerings. She welcomes the chance to practice her foreign language skills (particularly Japanese, French, and some Spanish) and to learn new things about new places.
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Nancy is responsible for administrative matters and for the academic affairs (course requirements, registration, writing requirements), overall coordination, and general student life issues for the Graduate Program population.
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- Assistant Dean for Student Financial Services / Financial Office
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- Chief Information Officer
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- Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
William P. Alford
Senior Advisor to the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies
Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law
Director of the East Asian Legal Studies Program
Chair of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability
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- Director of the Election Law Clinic
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- Partner at Jenner & Block
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- Director, International Legal Studies
For eight years, Sara was the director of the Project on Justice in Times of Transition, a program that brought together individuals from a broad spectrum of countries to share experiences in ending conflict, establishing peace, and building civil society. Sara's work with political and community leaders has had a particular focus on issues of civil rights and peace in Northern Ireland, the Balkans, Israel and Palestine. She served as the executive director of American Friends of Ratz / Meretz (the Israeli Civil Rights and Peace Movement) and worked for organizations that include the Committee to Protect Journalists, B'Tselem (the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories), and the Israeli-Palestinian Human Rights Committee. Sara holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Brown University and an M.A. in International Affairs, with a specialization in Human Rights and International Law, from Columbia University.
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- Executive Assistant to Catherine Claypoole, Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs, and Faculty Services Coordinator
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- Director of Admissions and Financial Aid for the Graduate Program
Sarah received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and J.D. from the University of Virginia. During her legal career, Sarah worked as a health care regulatory attorney at several law firms and served as in-house counsel for a hospital and a software company. She also spent four years as a high school math teacher and holds a degree in Math for Teaching from the Harvard Extension School. Sarah grew up in Massachusetts and enjoys travel and many outdoor activities, including skiing, hiking, and running.
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Sarah oversees admissions, financial aid, visa matters, and student billing for the Graduate Program and is happy to answer questions on these topics.
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- Law Professor
- Professor of Practice
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- United Auto Workers Leader
United Auto Workers leader Shawn Fain wasn't wearing a suit when he addressed the graduates of the Harvard Trade Union program at Harvard Law School last week. And as he explained, that tied in with his message of workers' dignity.
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- Interim Chief Human Resources Officer / Human Resources
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- Assistant Dean and Dean of Students / Dean of Students Staff Directory / Dean
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- Associate Dean and Dean for Development and Alumni Relations
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- Clinical Professor of Law
- Crafting Change & Elevating Impact: Advanced Skills & Ethics in Human Rights Practice / Fall 2024 Seminar
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- Assistant Dean for Academic Career Advising
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- Bae Family Professor of Government
- Harvard Professor of Government
Harvard professor of government Taeku Lee concurred: "White Americans thought our elections were just for a long period of time. Then Barack Obama got elected. All the political science I know says that there has never been a society where one group has held a majority of the power that has voluntarily ceded that power after demographic change."
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- Chairman of the Presidential Committee
- Dean of Harvard Radcliffe Institute
- Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, received the 2023 the Order of the Coif award for her book "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality." Awarded annually, the Order of the Coif recognizes "outstanding publications that evidence creative talent of the highest order."
Tomiko Brown-Nagin is dean of Harvard Radcliffe Institute, one of the world's leading centers for interdisciplinary research across the humanities, sciences, social sciences, arts, and professions. She is also the Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School and a professor of history at Harvard University.
An award-winning legal historian and an expert in constitutional law and education law and policy, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Law Institute, and the American Philosophical Society; a fellow of the American Bar Foundation; a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians; and a member of the board of directors of ProPublica. Brown-Nagin has published articles and book chapters on a wide range of topics, including the Supreme Court's equal protection jurisprudence, civil rights law and history, the Affordable Care Act, and education reform. She is a contributing editor to POLITICO Magazine as well as a frequent lecturer and media commentator.
Brown-Nagin's latest book, Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality (Pantheon, 2022), explores the life and times of the pathbreaking lawyer, politician, and judge. It won the Order of Coif book award, among other honors. Her book Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement (Oxford University Press, 2011) won a 2012 Bancroft Prize in American History, among other honors.
In 2019, Brown-Nagin was appointed chair of the Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery, which was anchored at the Radcliffe Institute. The Committee issued a landmark report detailing the University's direct, financial, and intellectual ties to slavery, which resulted in Harvard's commitment to redress harms to descendant communities in the United States and in the Caribbean.
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Ketanji Brown Jackson is the beginning, not the end, of this story, Phila. Trib. (Apr. 12, 2022).
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Ketanji Brown Jackson is the beginning, not the end, of this story, CNN (Apr. 8, 2022).
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- Northwestern University Professor
Northwestern University professor Traci Burch pointed out that many politically engaged citizens choose not to vote, preferring to express themselves through protests and other means.
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- Admissions and Financial Aid Coordinator
Victoria Johnson joined the Graduate Program in September 2022. Victoria earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst where she graduated from the Commonwealth Honors College and completed an honors thesis in a cognitive neuroscience lab. She also holds an Associate of Arts in Psychology from Normandale Community College. Victoria has experience working as a Clinical Research Assistant at UMass Chan Medical School and at MIT. Victoria has a passion for working in academia and has a desire to assist those in higher education. In her free time, Victoria enjoys traveling along with reading, music, and movies from almost any genre
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- Information Technology Services
- Student Financial Services, J.D. Program
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- Senior Advisor to the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies