Reader in Law, Birkbeck College, University of London.

Sterling Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, Yale University, and Director of the Child Study Center at Yale University. He is the author of numerous books and articles on child development, child psychiatry and child welfare

Alec Karakatsanis graduated from Yale College in 2005 and Harvard Law School in 2008, where he remains a Post-Graduate Research Fellow. He is currently a public defender in Alabama.

Assistant Professor of Legal Studies, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia

Professor Alexis Karteron is the Director of the Rutgers Constitutional Rights Clinic.  Prior to joining Rutgers in September 2016, Professor Karteron was a senior attorney at the New York Civil Liberties Union. At the NYCLU, she litigated complex constitutional cases

Professor of Law and Herbert J. Hanoch Scholar, Rutgers Law School, Newark, NJ.; A.B., J.D., University of Michigan. Professor Blumrosen has served as a consultant to the Departments of Justice and Labor, as Chief of Conciliations for EEOC and as

L.L.M. (Advocacy) 1991, Georgetown University Law Center, J.D. 1985, New York University; B.A. 1979, Bryn Mawr College.

New York University Fellow, Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama. J.D., New York University School of Law, 2005.

J.D., New York University School of Law, 2005; M.P.A., New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, 2005; A.B., Harvard University, 2001.

Lecturer of Law, Boston University School of Law. J.D., 1986, Boston University School of Law; B.A., 1983, Boston University.

J.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley, 2012.

Executive Director, ACLU National Prison Project. Mr. Bronstein has been the Executive Director of the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation since 1972 and, in that capacity, has been involved with much of the major prisoners’

J.D./MPA, New York University School of Law, 2011.

Senior Detention Attorney with the Immigrant Rights Program of the American Friends Service Committee (“AFSC”) in Newark, New Jersey. She has served as adjunct faculty at Rutgers School of Law-Newark where she teaches Immigration Law, and adjunct faculty at Seton

Professor of Law, NYU School of Law.

The author is currently a Policy Career Development Fellow sponsored by The Pew Memorial Trust at The RAND/UCLA Center for Health Policy Study, P.O. Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA 90406. She will be returning to her position as a supervising

J.D. Candidate, May 2022, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.

Andrew Gerst, NYU Law ‘18, RLSC ‘18, is currently the Sinsheimer Fellow at Mobilization for Justice.

Coordinating Attorney in Housing Law at Community Action for Legal Services, New York, New York. B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1972; J.D., New York University, 1978.

Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. A.B., Harvard University, 1956; LL.B., Harvard University, 1960.

Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering, New York University School of Law.

Anjali Pathmanathan is a criminal defense attorney by training, and former public defender at the Legal Aid Society of New York’s Criminal Defense Practice. As a public defender, Anjali represented individuals accused of misdemeanors and felonies in Brooklyn, New York.

Anna Arons is an Assistant Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law. She teaches evidence, criminal law, and courses related to family law. Professor Arons writes about the government’s regulation and policing of families and the intersection

Chief of Capital Division, Orleans Public Defenders.

Kent Law School, University of Kent

B.A., 1986, Carleton College; J.D., 1992, New York University School of Law. The author is currently a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Harold A. Baker, United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois. Starting in the Fall

Assistant Professor of Law, University of Arkansas School of Law, Fayetteville. L.L.M., The George Washington University Law School, J.D., University of Wisconsin School of Law, B.A., Brown University.

Ph.D. candidate, Political Science and Public Administration and Policy, University of Georgia; J.D., Washington and Lee University; B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Anthony Thompson is a Professor of Clinical Law at New York University School of Law whose work focuses on criminal law and civil litigation. He and Professor Bell have been friends and colleagues for a number ofyears. Thompson has written

Associate Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Programs, Syracuse University College of Law. B.A., Trinity College; J.D., New York University School of Law; LLM., Georgetown University Law Center.

Director, Political Asylum Project of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, New York City; member, State Bar of New York. A.B., Columbia University, 1971; J.D., New York University, 1976.

Legal Director, New York Civil Liberties Union; B.A., Johns Hopkins University, 1964; J.D., Cornell University Law School, 1968.

Adjunct Professor of Law, New York University School of Law. Vice Chairman, U.S. Helsinki Watch Committee; Vice Chairman, Fund for Free Expression; Director and Fellow, New York Institute for the Humanities. Formerly Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union

Professor McFarlane has an A.B. from Harvard-Radcliffe and a J.D. from Stanford Law School where she was a member of the Stanford Law Review. She joined the University of Baltimore School of Law faculty after clerking for the Hon. A.

Legal & Advocacy Director for Project South. Past President, National Lawyers Guild.

Executive Assistant, the Honorable Juanita Bing Newton, Deputy Chief Administrative Judge for Justice Initiatives.

Professor of Law, University of Manitoba, Faculty of Law. B.A.. 1963. Trinity College; LL.B., 1967, University of Connecticut Law School; LL.M.. 1969. New York University School of Law.

Beenish Riaz graduated with a J.D. from NYU Law in May 2020 and is currently an Arthur Helton Global Human Rights Fellow in Pakistan.

Professor of Law, New York University School of Law.

Judge, Criminal Court of the City of New York (New York County).

Assistant Professor of Law, Villanova University School of Law.

Bill Baker is a 2022 graduate of NYU School of Law. He is currently clerking for the Honorable Jon P. McCalla in the Western District of Tennessee.

Brandon Lewis is a writer and author who has been incarcerated for the last 13 years and has engaged in revolutionary work for the last seven. He has written novels, screenplays, articles and essays, and hopes to continue developing his

J.D. Candidate, 2013, New York University School of Law.

Senior attorney at Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A.

Brian Pace is from Indianapolis, Indiana. Prior to his incarceration, he ran a successful home improvement business. He now strives to turn his life around, be the best man he can be, and show the youth in his community how

Brianna Hathaway graduated from New York University School of Law in May 2019, and is now an Associate at Jones Day.

Law Fellow, Equal Justice Initiative; J.D., New York University School of Law, 2015.

Professor of Law, Duquesne University School of Law. The author recently served as Secretary of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.

Inez Milholland Professor of Civil Liberties, New York University School of Law; National Legal Director, American Civil Liberties Union (1981-1986); founding Legal Director, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU.

Visiting Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis, Professor of Law, Saint Louis University, School of Law, LL.M. Columbia University, Law Clerk to the Honorable Mr. Justice lacobucci, Supreme Court of Canada, LL.B. University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Carey Shenkman is a co-author of the book “A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press” (University of Illinois Press, 2022). Shenkman is a human rights lawyer and NYU Law School Alum (’13) focusing on freedom

Professor of Law & Judge Frederick Lacey Scholar, Rutgers University School of Law (Newark).

President and CEO, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice

Associate, Zalkind & Sheketoff, Boston, Massachusetts; B.A. Carnegie-Mellon University, 1972; Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 1977; J.D. Yale University, 1982.

Caroline Fredrickson is President of the American Constitution Society (ACS). During her tenure, Fredrickson has helped grow ACS, which now has lawyer chapters across the country, student chapters in nearly every law school in the United States, and thousands of

Professor of Law, UCLA; Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown Law Center, 1994; A.B. Barnard College, 1971; J.D. University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1974.

Law Clerk to the Honorable Harry Pregerson, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. J.D., 2000, N.Y.U. School of Law.

President-Elect, New York County Lawyers’ Association.

J.D. Candidate, Northern Illinois University College of Law, December, 2010;M.S., Northern Illinois University; B.S., Benedictine University.

Professor, University of Louisville, Brandeis School of Law. B.A., Oberlin College; J.D., New York University School of Law. Managing Editor, N.Y.U Review of Law & Social Change (1986-87).

Commissioner, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center (on leave). Government ethics rules preclude me from doing much more than editing the transcript of the speech I delivered at this symposium. For that reason, this speech

Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Partner, Jessamy Fort & Ogletree; former Deputy Director, Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. B.A., 1974, MA., 1975, Stanford University; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1978.

A.B., 1972, Cornell University; J.D., 1978, Georgetown University Law Center. Assistant Director of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly which is responsible for research, project development, and education in the areas of health law, long-term

Clinical Law Professor, Criminal Law Clinic, New York University School of Law. A.B., Emory University, 1965; J.D., New York Law School, 1968.

Chloe Walker is a staff attorney within the ABA’s Children’s Immigration Law Academy. Chloe earned her J.D. and Masters in Social Work from the University Houston. Chloe is a New Leaders Council Fellow and was honored in 2019 as one

Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law and Co-Director of the Family Defense Clinic, New York University School of Law.

J.D., University of Virginia School of Law.

Staff Attorney with the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.

Law Clerk to the Honorable Harry Pregerson, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. J.D., 2002, New York University School of Law.

Clifford L. Powers has been a jailhouse lawyer and legal advocate for over 15 years. He is currently serving a life sentence in the Illinois Department of Corrections.

Colie Levar Long was born and raised in Washington DC. At the age of 18, he was sentenced to life without parole. While serving 25 years, he became a youth mentor and an accomplished author. He writes about the carceral

Mr. Rosen is Executive Director at the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO), a private, non-profit membership and research organization located at 426 17th Street, Suite 650, Oakland, California 94612.

Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz. B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University; J.D., Stanford Law School.

Professor of Law, Michigan State University-Detroit College of Law.

Ph.D. candidate at Harvard Business School. J.D., New York University School of Law.

Associate Clinical Professor, Boston College Law School; Director, Boston College Immigration and Asylum Project.

J.D., Yale Law School, 2012.

Danny Ray Thomas is a graduate of the Stratford Career Institute with a diploma in psychology and social work, and has received a certificate in “offender responsibility” from the American Community Corrections Institute. He is the creator and facilitator of

Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Author, GOOD COPS: THE CASE FOR PREVENTIVE POLICING (2005) and PROFILES IN INJUSTICE: WHY RACIAL PROFILING CANNOT WORK (2002).

Associate Professor, Creighton University School of Law. J.D., University of Illinois College of Law; LL.M., University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Manhattan Borough President. B.A., Howard University 1950; J.D., Brooklyn Law School, 1956.

Law clerk, The Honorable Leonard B. Sand, Southern District of New York; J.D. ,1996, New York University; A.B., 1989, Harvard University.

Mr. Fanshel is a professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work. He is the author of a large-scale longitudinal study of foster children and has published numerous books, monographs and articles reporting on studies of foster care, adoption,

Staff Associate for Economic Development, Interface, New York City; Project Director, Industrial Retention Project

B.S. Cornell University (1965); LL.B. Columbia University (1968); LL.M. University of Pennsylvania (1971). Member of the Philadelphia law firm of Kairys, Rudovsky & Maguigan and Philadelphia counsel for the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee.

Law clerk to the Honorable Timothy K. Lewis, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; J.D. 1996, New York University School of Law.

The past 25 years of incarceration have inspired David Santana Sell to share his experience through writing, in an attempt to bring about awareness and create change. He writes for the millions of families and prisoners who have who been

Member of the firm of Anderson, Russell, Kill & Olick, P.C, B.A., State University of New York at Binghamton, 1984; J.D. magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1987. Law Clerk to the Honorable Gary S. Stein, Justice, Supreme Court of New

J.D., The George Washington University; M.A., Johns Hopkins University; B.A., University of Pennsylvania. This article benefited substantially from faculty presentations at the University of New Mexico School of Law, Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver, and Seattle

B.A., Brandeis University; M.A.T., Harvard University; J.D., Northeastern University School of Law; LL.M., Harvard Law School; Lecturer on Law (Immigration Law and Asylum and Refugee Law), Clinical Instructor and Coordinator, Immigration and Refugee Programs, Harvard Law School.

Staff attorney, Community Legal Services, Inc., 3638 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140.

Director of the Keck Center on Legal Ethics and the Legal Profession, Professor of Law, Stanford University. B.A., 1974, Yale University; J.D., 1977, Yale University.

Co-Director, Central Park East Secondary School, Coalition Campus School Project.

Ms. Rothberg was co-editor of the Symposium entitled “Sex, Politics, and the Law: Lesbians & Gay Men Take the Offensive,” held at New York University School of Law on February 22, 1986. She is an associate at Sage, Gray, Todd

Project Director, Supreme Court Watch, The Nation Institute.

Visiting Professor, New York University School of Law

B.A., 1988, New York University; JD., 1994, New York University School of Law (expected); Co-Founder, WHAM! (Women’s Health Action and Mobilization).

Assistant Professor at the School of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong; J.S.D. candidate, Yale Law School; Attorney admitted to practice in the State of New York; B.A. in Jurisprudence (Oxford); LL.M. (Yale).

Dean and Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. B.A., University of California, 1951; Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School, 1959

Director of Research, New York State Defenders Association. Ph.D. candidate, StateUniversity of New York at Albany. B.A., State University of New York at Utica, 1979; M.A., State University of New York at Albany, 1980.

Professor of Law, Political Science, and Women’s Studies at Rutgers University.

Harvard Law School.

Chief Counsel, Asian Americans for Equality. B.S., University of Illinois, 1966; J.D., Northwestern University, 1969.

Professor of Law, Touro College of Law. B.A., 1970, Skidmore College; J.D., 1975, L.L.M., 1991, New York University School of Law

Elica Vafaie is the Pro Bono & Strategic Partnerships Director at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, a civil rights organization focusing on Immigrant Justice, Criminal Justice, and Economic Justice. She is President Emeritus

Elisa Cariño, New York University School of Law, 2017; B.A. University of Chicago, 2013.

Staff Attorney and former Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Public Interest Fellow, Community Legal Aid Society, Inc.; Adjunct Professor of Law, Temple Law School; B.A., Stanford University, 1997; J.D., NYU School of Law, 2001.

Associate, Dewey & LeBoeuf, LLP. J.D., New York University School of Law,2008. B.A., Barnard College, 2004. Since November 2008, the author has served as aCommunity Service Fellow at the Juvenile Rights Practice of the Legal Aid Society, where she represents

Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago School of Law, 2003-05. J.D., Yale Law School, 2002. Ph.D. in English, King’s College, University of Cambridge, 2002.

New York University School of Law, Class of 2013.

Hon. Ellen M. Yacknin is an Acting County Court Judge in Monroe County, New York. From 1989 until she assumed the Rochester City Court bench in 2003, Judge Yacknin was Senior Counsel for Health and Litigation at the Greater Upstate

M.D., Ph.D., Center for Biomedical Research, The Population Council.

Executive Director, Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law.

Lecturer in Law and S.J.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, School of Criminal Justice, University of Toledo. Ph.D., University at Albany.

Erika Wilson serves as the Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Chair in Public Policy and associate professor of law at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her research and teaching interests include clinical legal education, education law and policy, specifically obtaining educational equality for disadvantaged

Mr. Waters is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He earned his Ph.D. from the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota. He has published more than thirty research

Farhan Ahmed, born in Punjab Pakistan, is a writer and an activist. He has earned his Associate’s Degree in Liberal Arts and Bachelor’s Degree in Social Studies from Bard Prison initiative (BPI) and is in the process of applying for

Staff Attorney, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem; J.D., 1993, NYU School of Law; B.A., 1989, Dartmouth College. Florian Miedel grew up in Berlin, Germany

Francine Banner is an attorney at Bingham Dana LLP.

B.A., 1976, Antioch College; J.D., 1979, University of Pennsylvania School of Law. The author is Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and an adjunct professor of law at C.U.N.Y. Law School.

Jackson Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin. B.S., University of Wisconsin, 1947; LL.B., University of Wisconsin, 1949.

Associate Professor, Suffolk University Law School. J.D., Duke University; B.A., Amherst College.

B.A., Princeton University, 1977;  J.D., New York University School of Law, 1994.Visiting Assistant Professor, Cornell University School of Law, Spring 1996.

Ph.D., 1971, University of Pennsylvania (sociology); Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. Medical College of Pennsylvania; Regional Coordinator, Section on Drug & Alcohol Abuse, Medical College of Pennsylvania; Consultant to the Criminal Law Education and Research Center, New York University School of

Frederick Willie Kearse is 48-years old. After serving almost 30 years in prison, he was granted parole in 2021. He’s a Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) alumnus and resides in New York. He can be reached at willheflly@gmail.com.

Blackmun Fellow, Center for Reproductive Rights.

Professor of Law and Associate Dean, University of California School of Law, Davis. B.A., Indiana University, 1961; J.D., Indiana University Law School, 1965. The author is a former Chief Assistant State Public Defender, State of California.

LL.M. Candidate, International Legal Studies, New York University School of Law, 2006; J.D., New York University School of Law, 2005.

Geoffrey A. Manne is the president and founder of the International Center for Law and Economics (ICLE), a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center based in Portland, Oregon. He is an expert in the economic analysis of law, focusing particularly on antitrust

Staff Attorney, Housing Conservation Coordinators; Member, Asian Americans Advisory Board. B.A., University of Rochester, 1967; J.D., New York Law School, 1977.

Senior Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. B.A., Southern Methodist University, 1933; A.M., Harvard University, 1934; J.D., Detroit College of Law,1949.

Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

Professor of Law, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

Glenn D. Magpantay, Esq. is the Executive Director of the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA), a national federation of Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender organizations, where he oversees the

J.D. Candidate, 2019, New York University School of Law; B.A., 2013, Princeton University

Professor of Law, New York University. B.A. 1948, M.A. 1950, Cambridge University; L.L.B. 1950 University of Wales; LL.M. 1960, New York University.

Assistant Professor of Psychology, City University of New York Graduate Center.B.A., University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1977; Ph.D., University of California at Davis, 1983. Dr. Herek is Chair of the American Psychological Association’s Committee on Lesbian and Gay Concerns.

Hana Yamahiro is a Staff Attorney at the King County Department of Public Defense in Seattle, Washington. She graduated from NYU School of Law in 2021.

A.B., Drew University (1966), Ph.D., American University (1971). Dr. Relyea is a specialist in American National Government with the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress.

Professor of Law, New York University School of Law.

A.B., 1987, Princeton University; J.D., 1992, New York University School of Law.

Herbert M. and Svetlana Wachtell Professor of Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties at New York University School of Law. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Brennan Center for Justice, which convened this symposium.

Chairman, Department of Nuclear Energy, Brookhaven National Laboratory. B.S., 1941, Louisiana State University; M.S., 1946, Louisiana State University; Ph.D., 1952, Princeton University.

University of Washington School of Law, J.D. Class of 2012. B.A., Yale University, 2004.

Hillela B. Simpson, Gault Fellow, National Juvenile Defender Center. J.D., 2016, New York University School of Law; B.A., 2010, Mount Holyoke College.

Toko Serita is a New York City Criminal Court judge who was appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2005. She is currently the presiding judge of the Human Trafficking Intervention Court (HTIC), the Queens Misdemeanor Treatment Court (a drug treatment

Attorney General Humphrey received his B.A. in political science from American University in 1965 and his J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1969. Prior to serving as Attorney General, he represented Minnesota’s 44th Senatorial District from 1972-82

Associate Professor of Law, Hofstra Law School. B.A. Princeton University; J.D. Columbia Law School.

JD candidate 2008, New York University School of Law.

Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union. B.S., 1959, Queens College; M.A., 1960, Ohio State University.

Isais Torres is a solo practitioner in Houston, Texas. He served as co-counsel in Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982), a case in which the Supreme Court recognized the right of undocumented children to attend public school.

A.B., 1977, Rutgers College; J.D., 1980, Harvard Law School. Jack F. Trope is a partner in the law firm of Sant’Angelo & Trope, P.C., in Somerville, NJ., where his primary specialty is American Indian Law. Previously Mr. Trope was Senior

Jacob E. Adams, Jr. is a research associate professor in the University of Washington’s Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs and director of the School Finance Redesign Project.

SJ.D., New York University School of Law, 2002.

Associate Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law

Professor of Law at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law, and coauthor of Collective Bargaining in Private Employment.

Associate Professor, The American University, School of Justice; Senior Fellow, The Police Foundation. B.S. 1971, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of NewYork; M.A. 1972, Ph.D. 1978, State University of New York at Albany. The Police Foundation was

Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Law, Columbia Law School.

James Weinstein is the Dan Cracchiolo Chair in Constitutional Law in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, a faculty fellow in the Center for Law, Science and Innovation at Arizona State University and an associate fellow with the Centre

Clerk (1985-86), Chief Justice Robert Wilentz, Supreme Court of New Jersey. J.D., Northeastern University, 1985; B.A., Columbia University, 1979.

Advocacy Fellow, Center for Applied Legal Studies, Georgetown University Law Center; B.A., Hollins College, 1977; J.D., New York University School of Law, 1983.

Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law. BA., 1968, U.C.L.A.; Graduate, 1973, Boston Family Institute; J.D., 1983, Yale Law School.

Janet Bond Arterton received a B.A. in Political Science from M. Holyoke College in 1966 and a J.D. from Northeastern University in 1977. She was a law clerk for the U.S. District Court for New Jersey (the Honorable Herbert J.

Professor Calvo is on the faculty of the City University of New York (C.U.N.Y.) Law School. She received a B.A. from William Smith College in 1969 and a J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1973.

Associate Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh; Professor of Law, Boston University beginning July 1, 2020.

Attorney with the California Appellate Project, a non-profit private law firm providing quality control for the California Court of Appeals, Second District, in indigent criminal felony appeals. B.A., 1970, University of California, Los Angeles; J.D., 1973, University of California, Los

B.A., 1979, Swarthmore College; J.D., 1983, Harvard University. Ms. Sternlight is currently a member and Vice President of Samuel & Ballard, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, specializing in plaintiffs’side employment litigation.

Professor, Chair, Department of Philosophy, Director of Center for Ethics, Law, and Medicine, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania. B.A., 1978, California State University, Chico; M.A., 1980, Ph.D., 1983, Purdue University.

Winner of the Leonard M. Henkin Prize, awarded annually at New York University School ofLaw for the article of distinction on the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Senior Counsel and Director, Law and Policy Project, Lambda Legal. Before rejoining Lambda Legal to found and direct the Law and Policy Project, Pizer was Legal Director and the Arnold D. Kassoy Senior Scholar of Law at the Williams Institute

Jennifer Dohrn is a nurse-midwife who directs the Childbearing Center of Morris Heights and teaches nurse-midwifery at Columbia University. She also has been involved in women’s health issues in Nicaragua and South Africa.

Henry LeBarre Professor of Government, Harvard University, Departments of Government, and African and African American Studies.

Professor of Law, U.C. Davis School of Law.

¥ Jennifer Weiss-Wolf is vice president and the inaugural women and democracy fellow of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law. A leading advocate for issues of gender, politics—and menstruation—she was dubbed the “architect of the U.S. campaign to

J.D., 2002, New York University School of Law.

2016–2017 Law Clerk to the Honorable Eugene E. Siler Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit; 2015–2016 Law Clerk to the Honorable Jimmie V. Reyna of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal

Staff Attorney, Family Law Unit, South Brooklyn Legal Services.

Jessica Neuwirth is founder and co-President of the ERA Coalitionand author of Equal Means Equal: Why the Time for an Equal Rights Amendment Is Now. She directs the Roosevelt House Human Rights Program at Hunter College.

Assistant Director, Literature Program, New York State Council on the Arts. Ms. Gomez is an author and critic; her fiction has appeared in Worlds Apart, Ikon, and The American Voice, and she has published two collections of poetry, The Lipstick

Senior Counsel at the National Women’s Law Center, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC.

Jill Laurie Goodman is Counsel to the New York State Judicial Committee on Women in the Courts.

Yale Law School, J.D. 2013.

Professor of Law, Kent Law School, University of Kent, U.K.

Professor of Law at the University of California (Los Angeles).

john a. powell is the founder and Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity at the Ohio State University, where he holds the Williams Chair in Civil Rights & Civil Liberties at the Moritz

B.A., 1990, University of Michigan; J.D., 1993, New York University School of Law: MLA. (Philosophy), 1994, New York University;, M.P.S. degree candidate, 1996, New York University.

John Glasel is vice-chair of the Gray Panthers of Northern New Jersey. He recently retired from ten years of service as president of Local 802, American Federation of Musicians, where he also served on the board of trustees of its

Professor of Law, Stanford University; author or editor of, among others, THE POLITICS OF PEACE (1981), Anits CONTROL II: A NEW APPROACH TO INTERNATIONAL SECURITY (1981), and Intensified Nuclear Safeguards and Civil Liberties (unpublished paper prepared under NRC Contract No.

John Hovey is an author/artist doomed to a “life” sentence who has been continuously incarcerated since 1984 when he was sixteen. His articles, fiction and illustrations appear in numerous books, magazines, and other venues. He wrote Chapter 35 “Growing Up

Jack and Freda Dicker Distinguished Professor of Health Care Law, Hofstra University School of Law. B.A., 1951, Mary Immaculate College; J.D., 1960, LLM. 1971, J.S.D., 1977, Columbia Law School. Member, New York State Task Force on Life and the Law.

Mr. Oshinski began his labor work with District 50 of the Allied and Technical Workers, first as a staff representative and later as director of organizing. Both before and after District 50 merged with the Steelworkers, he worked on organizing

B.A. 1988, Queens College (CUNY); Ph.D. 1995, University of Chicago; Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale University.

Associate, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, Washington, D.C. B.A., University of California, 1977; J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1982.

John T. Vance, #923106, is an incarcerated advocate, author, poet, and artist at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in Carlisle, Indiana. Vance has been incarcerated since age 15, beginning in 1991. Over the years, Vance has made a positive impact

Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, University of Texas-Pan American.

M.Phil., University of Cambridge, 2010; J.D., UCLA School of Law, 2009; A.B., Harvard College, 2006.

Staff Attorney, Criminal Defense Division, Legal Aid Society of New York; B.A., Hamilton College, 1978; Fulbright Scholar in West Germany, 1978-79; J.D., New York University, 1982.

Distinguished Professor of Law, Wayne State University School of Law; Reporter, Michigan Committee on Rules of Criminal Procedure; former Assistant District Attorney, Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office.

Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina School of Law.

Associate Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh; Professor of Law, Boston University beginning July 1, 2020.

Joshua J. Schroeder is owner/founder of SchroederLaw in Oakland, CA where he practices immigration law, constitutional law, and intellectual property law. He holds a J.D. from Lewis & Clark Law School, and is admitted to practice in the United States

Joshua Matz received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2012 and is currently clerking for Judge J. Paul Oetken of the Southern District of New York.

Vice President at the National Women’s Law Center, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC.

Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School.

Associate Professor, Law School, S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo.

Julian M. Hill is an Assistant Professor of Law and a Co-Founding Director of the Community Development & Entrepreneurship Law Clinic at Georgia State University College of Law.

Women’s Rights Project Fellow, American Civil Liberties Union. J.D., 2008, NYU School of Law; B.A., Yale University.

Julie Dona is a law clerk at Allen & Overy, LLP. In2011, she received a Master in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and a Juris Doctor from the New York University School of

B.A., 1987, The Evergreen State College; M.S., 1990, Northeastern University.

A.B., 1989, Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges; J.D., 1992, New York University School of Law;, M.A. (Political Science), 1994, University of Michigan. The author is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Michigan.

J.D., NYU School of Law, 2004.

Assistant Professor of Law, Michigan State University College of Law.

Kaitlyn A. Crowe is a litigation associate at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.’s New York office. Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation across a variety of areas, including contract disputes and business dissolutions. She regularly advises

Karen Kithan Yau is an associate at the law firm of Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, P.C.. She practices in the area of employment law, representing employees indiscrimination and wage and hour matters. Ms. Yau was a Skadden Fellow and

Assistant Professor, Boston College Law School, and founder of the Boston College Ninth Circuit Appellate Program, a clinic that represents non-citizens with criminal convictions in the Ninth Circuit.

L. Kate Mitchell, a Clinical Teaching Fellow with the University of Michigan Law School Pediatric Advocacy Clinic, has fifteen years of experience practicing poverty law with expertise in special education law, EPSDT, and interdisciplinary approaches to advocacy.

Law Clerk to the Honorable James B. Moran, Northern District of Illinois, 2005-2007. J.D., New York University School of Law, 2005.

Staff Attorney, New York Legal Assistance Group, Tenants’ Rights Unit; J.D. 2015, New York University School of Law.

J.D., 1986, Northeastern University; LL.M., 1993, Yale University; J.S.D. candidate, Yale University.

Levin, Mabie & Levin Professor of Law and Director of the Race and Crime Center for Justice at the University of Florida, Levin College of Law. The Author extends a special thank you to colleagues, for their critical and helpful

Instructor, Brooklyn Law School, 1986-87, Coordinator Legal Writing Program, New York University School of Law, 1985-86; A.B., 1975, Stanford University; J.D., Columbia University, 1980.

Kathryn is a candidate for a 2020 J.D. from NYU School of Law, and graduated with a B.A. from Union College in 2017.

Willard and Margaret Carr Professor of Labor and Employment Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, B.A. 1978, University of Wisconsin, M.A., Economics, and J.D. 1981, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ph.D., Economics, 1984, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

Associate Professor, Paul M. Hebert Law Center of Louisiana State University. B.A., Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, 1969; J.D., University of Virginia, 1972; M.A., University of Virginia, 1975.

I will likely die in prison, or get out as an afflicted senior. This may be my just fate. Nevertheless, I live life as if I will be released tomorrow. Thus, I am currently in college and pursuing a paralegal

Kevin Bennardo is a Clinical Associate Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law and a Non-Resident Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Palau.

Mitch Willoughby Professor, University of South Carolina School of Law, Richard S. Melvin Emeritus Professor, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, B.S. 1978, Indiana University, J.D. 1982, Yale Law School.

Khaled Beydoun is an Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas School of Law and Senior affiliated faculty at the University of California Berkeley Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project. His research examines the tension between First Amendment protections and prevailing

Dr. Khandare is Director of MSW Program and Co-Chair of Claire Argow Social Work Program at Pacific University and serves on EDI committee and Faculty Senate. Dr. Khandare is also appointed as a member on Global Young Academy (GYA) for

Professor Lan Cao is the Betty Hutton Williams Professor of International Economic Law at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law (JD Yale Law School, BA Mount Holyoke College).

Associate Professor, Georgetown University Law Center. J.D., Boalt Hall School ofLaw, University of California, 1975; B.A., University of California at Santa Barbara, 1972.

Member, Oregon Bar. B.A., 1966, State University Of New York at Binghamton; M.S.W., 1968, University of Michigan School of Social work; J.D.. 1975, Lewis and Clark Law School. Deputy County Counsel, Multnomah County, Oregon.

Mr. Shadburn is a Program Officer for the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). Although based in New York, Mr. Shadburn manages LISC’s Pittsburgh, Southwestern Pennsylvania and West Virginia programs.

Lee Gelernt is the Deputy Director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. He is an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School. During the past 18 months he’s argued several groundbreaking challenges to Trump Administration policies. He regularly appears in the

Leo Cardez is an award-winning inmate writer. Cardez is a Pushcart Press Prize and Best Essays in America-nominated essayist and journalist. Mr. Cardez is a winner of the prestigious PEN America Award and was published in a print anthology earlier

Associate Professor of Law, the Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University.

Lucas Guttentag is the Professor of the Practice of Law at Stanford Law School and Martin R. Flug Lecturer in Law and Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School. He is the founder and former national director of the ACLU’s

Lucy Gray-Stack has been a public defender in New Jersey since 2019, after receiving her JD from NYU Law School. During law school, Lucy interned at the Rhode Island Public Defender and the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender,

Harvard Law School, J.D. 2020.

Lydia Davenport is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, cum laude, and of Brown University.

Lynn M. Paltrow is the Founder and Executive Director of National Advocates forPregnant Women (NAPW). Ms. Paltrow is a graduate of Cornell University’s School ofIndustrial and Labor Relations and New York University (NYU) School of Law. During her career, she

Madeleine Gyory, StaffAttorney, New York City Commissionon Human Rights.New York University School of Law, J.D. 2017; Barnard College, B.A. 2010.

Marc Cohan is the Director of Litigation at the Welfare Law Center, which advocates on behalf of low-income people to ensure that adequate income support is available to meet basic needs. The Center’s program is concentrated in two areas: Project

Dr. Marty Beyer holds a Ph.D. in clinical and community psychology. In addition to working with children and families and providing clinical supervision in public and private agencies, she has served as an expert in class action litigation and as

Fiorello LaGuardia Professor of Clinical Law, New York University School of Law; Co-Director of the NYU Family Defense Clinic.

Mary Ziegler is the Stearns Weaver Miller Professor at Florida State University College of Law.  

B.A., 1976, Rutgers University; M.A., 1980, Montclair State College; M.A., 1982 and Ph.D., 1984, Adelphi University. The author is a supervising psychologist at University Behavioral Healthcare in Newark, New Jersey. He is also Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of

I live by the quote, “If Life is What You Make It, How Do You Change It?” I was born on April 5th, 1997. I am currently in prison serving a life sentence for being at the wrong place, at

Despite their distinct doctrinal backgrounds, family regulation and immigration enforcement systems mutually reinforce the state’s power to separate families...These systems, created independently, fail to account for each other’s consequences.

J.D. Candidate, University of Wisconsin Law School/M.S. – Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis Candidate, University of Wisconsin School of Education; B.S., University of Wisconsin, 2015.

Meg Barnette is a Skadden Fellow working as a staff attorney at the Lawyers Alliance for New York, the primary source of free and low-cost corporate, tax and real estate legal services available to not-for-profit and community development organizations in

Professor of Law, Albany Law School (J.D., The University of Michigan Law School).

Melissa S. Ader is a staff attorney in The Legal Aid Society’s Worker Justice Project, where she removes barriers to employment for New Yorkers with arrest and conviction records through the use of litigation, pre-litigation advocacy, advice to criminal defense

General Counsel, American Arbitration Association. B.S., Columbia University, 1956; J.D., Columbia University, 1958.

Professor of Law and Urban Planning, New York University and Director, New York University School of Law Center For Real Estate and Urban Policy.

Professor Michael Z. Green is a member of the Texas A&M University School of Law faculty. Professor Green’s scholarship focuses on workplace disputes and the intersection of race and alternatives to the court resolution process. He previously served on the

"Too often, even 28 years after the NYU clinic’s founding, parents and their lawyers are painted as people who are not focused on the child’s safety. This could not be further from the truth. Parents are the people who most

Staff attorney, New York City Commission on Human Rights AIDS Discrimination Unit. B.S., Cornell University, 1975; J.D., Rutgers Law School -Newark, 1981.

Molly Griffard, J.D., New York University School of Law, 2019; B.A. Macalester College, 2009.  

Associate, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, LLP. J.D., Harvard Law School,2008. A.B., magna cum laude, Harvard College, 2003.

Monica (she/her) is a Litigation Fellow with the Immigrant Rights program at Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus. In this role, she focuses on cases challenging the detention and deportation of immigrant communities targeted for policing and immigration enforcement.

Assistant Professor and Director, Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women, SMU Dedman School of Law.

Nicole A. Ozer is the Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director at the ACLU of Northern California (ACLU-NC), where she developed the organization’s Demand Your dotRights online privacy campaign. To learn more about her work and the campaign, please visit

Associate Professor and Co-Director, Defenders Clinic, The City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law.

Professor of Law, Hofstra Law School; Senior Research Scholar and Visiting Professor, Yale Law School.

Norrinda Brown Hayat is the Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Civil Justice Clinic, Rutgers Law School – Newark, J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, B.A., Dartmouth College.

Patrick Irving writes from the Idaho Maximum Security Institution, often cramped behind his desk, on the starboard side of the toilet, not infrequently rubbing shoulders while his cellie is taking the throne. It’s from this desk that he publishes the

Philip L. Torrey is the Director of the Harvard Law School Crimmigration Clinic and the Managing Attorney of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program (HIRC), as well as a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. The Crimmigration Clinic

Phillip Vance Smith, II attends the College at Southeastern as a senior and works as a Writing Consultant. He coauthored The Prison Resources Repurposing Act, a legislative proposal for North Carolina. His most notable writings have appeared in The Humanist

Ralph Engelman is a co-author of the book “A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press” (University of Illinois Press, 2022). Engelman is senior professor emeritus of journalism and communication studies at Long Island University, Brooklyn,

"Prosecutors [in juvenile court] can and do use the threat of adult prosecution as a bargaining chip, raising the stakes in a process that adolescents are developmentally ill-equipped to handle. . . Furthermore, evidence concerning racial disparities at all stages

Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles. B.A., Harvard College, 1962; LL.B., Columbia Law School, 1965; Ph.D., University of London, 1974.

Assistant Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Ph.D. (Cultural Psychology), University of Chicago, 1990; J.D., Columbia University School of Law, 1993.

Associate Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law (St. Louis). A.B., Williams College, 1973; J.D., New York University School of Law, 1977. The author contributed to the petitioner’s brief on the merits in Marek v. Chesny.

Samantha is a J.D. Candidate for 2020 at NYU School of Law, and got her B.A. in 2014 from the University of Pennsylvania. Samantha is committed to defending civil rights and civil liberties, with a particular emphasis on voting rights

J.D., 2010, New York University School of Law; B.A., 2004, Duke University. 2010-11 Sinsheimer Children’s Rights Fellow, Partnership for Children’s Rights.

My name is Shawn Younker. I am incarcerated at SCI-Green in Pennsylvania. I have just finished serving a three-year parole violation for the crime of petty theft/retail. I am a nonviolent offender, advocating for prisoner rights, parole reform, and diversionary

Sherry Leiwant is a senior staff attorney at the National Organization for WomenLegal Defense and Education Fund (NOW LDEF), working on issues related to women’spoverty, sexual harassment and reproductive rights. Prior to joining NOW LDEF in 1996, Ms. Leiwant worked

So-Young Kim is a licensed attorney with a background in business administration. She is passionate about utilizing her expertise in both fields to find solutions to corporate accountability issues.

Soohan Kim, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Korea University, Ph.D. in Sociology, Harvard University, 2011

Associate Professor of Law, University of Miami, B.A., Yeshiva College, 1974; J.D.,Columbia University, 1977. As an assistant-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., the author represented Mr. Garner before the Supreme Court and the lower federal courts.

Sue Finegan is a partner in the Litigation Section and is Chair of the Pro Bono Committee at Mintz, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.. Appointed the firm’s first Pro Bono Partner in 2007, Sue serves as lead