Clinical Faculty

The Mentoring Advantage

Harvard Law School has nine Clinical Professors of Law and more than 60 Clinical Instructors on staff, expert practitioners in their fields who are passionately devoted to mentoring students in their professional development. The clinical faculty not only teach clinical courses but also carry active caseloads of their own. This practical experience is invaluable as they supervise and guide students in developing their own practice skills and client relationships. With the remarkable breadth of in-house resources at Harvard, students are carefully matched by their practitioner-supervisors with cases that meet their skill levels and educational interests.

Ahmad Amara
Global Advocacy Fellow, Human Rights Program
Phone: 617-496-4661
Email: aamara@law

Deborah Anker
Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program
Courses: Refugee and Asylum Law, Immigration Law
Topics of Interest: Refugee and Asylum Law, Gender Law, Immigration
Office: Pound 408
Phone: 617-495-5912
Email: danker@law.harvard.edu
Office Hours: Thursdays, 12:00-2:00 p.m.

Sabrineh Ardalan
Clinical and Advocacy Fellow, Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program
Office: Pound 415
Phone: (617) 384-7504
Email: sardalan@law.harvard.edu

David Ardia
Clinical Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Topics of Interest: Media law, Intellectual Property, First Amendment
Office: 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor
Email: dardia@cyber.law.harvard.edu

  Christopher Bavitz
Clinical Fellow, Cyberlaw Clinic at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Topics of Interest: Intellectual Property Law, Internet and Computer Law, Media Law, Entertainment Law, Civil Litigation
Office: 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor
Phone: (617) 495-7547
Email: cbavitz@cyber.law.harvard.edu

Sam Bayard
Clinical Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Office: 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor
Phone: 617-495-7547
Email: smbaynard@cyber.law.harvard.edu

Roger Bertling
Clinical Instructor, Predatory Lending/Consumer Protection Clinic, LSC and Lecturer on Law
Courses: Clinical Predatory Lending/Foreclosure Prevention/Consumer Protection
Topics of Interest: consumer law, mortgages, foreclosures
Public Interest Legal Experience: Legal Services attorney in Missouri and Massachusetts
Office: WilmerHale Legal Services Center
Phone: 617-390-2572
Email: rbertlin@law.harvard.edu

Sarah Boonin
Senior Fellow, Family and Children’s Law Unit
Topics of Interest:  Domestic violence
Public Interest Legal Experience: Family Law and HELLP units at WilmerHale
Office: WilmerHale Legal Services Center
Phone: 617-390-2713
Email: saboonin@law.harvard.edu

Robert Bordone
Thaddeus R. Beal Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinic
Courses: Dispute Systems Design: Seminar; Negotiation Clinic: Seminar
Topics of Interest: ADR, Dispute Resolution, Dispute Systems Design, Negotiation
Office: Pound 513
Phone: 617-495-1684
Email: rbordone@law.harvard.edu

Ilisabeth Smith Bornstein
Senior Fellow, Community Enterprise Project Practice Unit at WilmerHale Legal Services Center
Office: WilmerHale Legal Services Center
Phone: 617-390-2552
Email: ibornstein@law.harvard.edu

Emily Broad
Delta Clinical Fellow supported by the Winokur Family Foundation
Topics of Interest: Getting HLS clinical students involved in finding interdisciplinary approaches to improving health, education, and economic opportunities in the Mississippi Delta region
Office: 143 Yazoo Avenue, Clarksdale, Mississippi
Phone: 610-952-0393
Email: ebroad@law.harvard.edu

Clarissa Bronson
Clinical Instructor, Harvard Legal Aid Bureau
Office: 23 Everett Street, 1st Floor
Phone: 617-495-4408
Email: bronson@law.harvard.edu

 Jessica Budnitz
Managing Director, Child Advocacy Program and Lecturer on Law
Courses: The Art of Social Change: Child Welfare, Education and Juvenile Justice; Child Advocacy Clinic
Office: Pound 407B
Phone: 617-496-1684
Email: jbudnitz@law.harvard.edu

Esme Caramello
Clinical Instructor, Housing Law/Litigation Practice Clinic, LSC
Office: WilmerHale Legal Services Center
Phone: 617-390-2568
Email: ecaramello@law.harvard.edu

Peter Carfagna
Lecturer on Law
Courses: Sports and the Law: Examining the Legal History and Evolution of America’s Three “Major League” Sports: MLB, NFL and NBA; Sports and the Law: Representing the Professional Athlete
Email: pcarfagna@law.harvard.edu

  James Cavallaro
Clinical Professor of Law and Executive Director, Human Rights Program
Courses: International Human Rights Advocacy Seminar (with Binaifer Nowrojee); International Human Rights Litigation Seminar (with Sharan Parmar); Human Rights and Film Reading Group
Topics of Interest: Human rights, Latin America
Public Interest Legal Experience:
- Annunciation House (US-Mexico border) 1985-1986
- Human rights organizations in Chile, 1988-1990
- Brazil Office Director, Human Rights Watch, 1994-1999
- Founder, Director, Global Justice Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1999-2002)
Public Interest Legal Activities: Harvard Law School Human Rights Program, Global Justice Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Office: Pound 400
Phone: 617-495-5204
Email: jcavalla@law.harvard.edu
Office Hours: open door or by arrangement

Jeanne Charn
Lecturer on Law and Director, Bellow-Sacks Access to Civil Legal Services Project
Courses: The Legal Needs of Moderate Income Households; Legal Profession: Delivery of Legal Services; Legal Profession: The Lawyering Process A and B
Office: Lewis 425
Phone: 617-495-5448
Email: charn@law.harvard.edu

  Steve Churchill
Clinical Instructor, Employment Civil Rights Clinic at WilmerHale Legal Services Center and Lecturer on Law
Courses: Employment Law Clinical Workshop (fall); Employment Civil Rights Clinical Workshop (spring)
Topics of Interest: Employment law, law and social change, social entrepreneurship, transition between private sector and public interest
Public Interest and Legal Experience:
- In current postion at LSC, represent low- to moderate-income workers in employment civil rights cases
- Co-Founder and President, Fair Employment Project, Inc., a non-profit whose mission is to reduce violations of employment civil rights laws through more effective enforcement
- Board of Directors (Past President), Somerville Community Corporation, a local community development corporation
- Associate & partner, private law firm
- Associate, private public-interest law firm
- Student Advocate and Executive Director, Harvard Legal Aid Bureau
Office: WilmerHale Legal Services Center
Phone: 617-390-2578
Email: schurchi@law.harvard.edu

  Susan Cole
Clinical Instructor, Special Education/Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative, LSC and Lecturer on Law
Courses: Special Education/Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative
Office: WilmerHale Legal Services Center
Phone: 617-390-2737
Email: scole@law.harvard.edu

  Paul Collier
Director of Litigation and Clinical Instructor, LSC and Lecturer on Law
Courses: Civil Litigation Workshop
Topics of Interest:
Public Interest Legal Experience:
Office: WilmerHale Legal Services Center
Phone: 617-390-3734
Email: collier@law.harvard.edu

 John Corrigan
Lecturer on Law
Courses: Introduction to Trial Advocacy (ITA): Criminal - Prosecution Perspectives
Email: jcorriga@law.harvard.edu

Judge John C. Cratsley
Lecturer on Law
Courses: Trial Advocacy Workshop; The Judicial Process in the Community Courts
Topics of Interest:
Public Interest Legal Experience: Associate Justice, Massachusetts Superior Judicial Court, Boston
Office: Lewis 312
Phone: 617-495-9559
Email: jcratsley@law.harvard.edu

  Walter Dellinger
Visiting Professor of Law
Courses: Supreme Court and Appellate Practice
Public Interest Legal Experience: Acting Solicitor General for 1996-97 for U.S. Supreme Court; Assistant U.S. Attorney General and head of the Office of Legal Counsel, 1993-1996
Email: wdellinger@law.harvard.edu

  Bonnie Docherty
Clinical Instructor, Human Rights Program and Lecturer on Law
Courses: Human Rights and the Environment B: Advocacy Seminar
Topics of Interest: Human rights, international humanitarian law especially cluster munitions and civilian protection during war
Public Interest Legal Experience: Since 2001, she has been a research in the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch
Office: Pound 405B
Phone: 617-496-7375
Email: bdocherty@law.harvard.edu

J. Soffiyah Elijah
Clinical Instructor and Deputy Director, Criminal Justice Institute
Office: Austin 303
Phone: 617-496-8143
Email: jelijah@law.harvard.edu

Prill Ellis
Clinical Supervisor, Harvard Mediation Program
Topics of Interest:
Public Interest Legal Experience:
Office: Austin 002
Phone: 617-522-5552
Email: prillellis@earthlink.net

Susan Farbstein
Clinical Litigation and Writing Fellow
Phone: 617-495-4589
Email: farbstein@law.harvard.edu

John Fitzpatrick
Clinical Instructor, Prison Legal Assistance Project
Office: Gannett House 100
Phone: 617-495-3969
Email: jfitzpat@law.harvard.edu

Tyler Giannini
Clinical Director, Human Rights Program and Lecturer on Law
Courses: Human Rights and the Environment Advocacy Seminar (Clinical)
Topics of Interest: of Interest: Human rights; environment
Public Interest Legal Experience:
- Former co-director of EarthRights International (ERI), an organization at the forefront of efforts to link human rights and environmental protection
- Spent the past decade in Thailand conducting fact-finding investigations on human rights abuses in Burma and corporate accountability litigation
- Co-counsel in the Doe v. Unocal litigation; the case sought to hold the corporation accountable for abuses surrounding the Yadana gas pipeline project in Burma, and was settled in early 2005.
Office: Pound Hall 401
Phone: 617-496-7368
Email: giannini@law.harvard.edu

Shaun Goho
Clinical Instructor, Environmental Law and Policy Clinic
Phone: 617-496-5692
Email: sgoho@law.harvard.edu

Lee Goldstein
Clinical Instructor, Harvard Legal Aid Bureau
Office: 23 Everett Street, 1st Floor
Phone: 617-495-4408
Email: goldste@law.harvard.edu

Thomas Goldstein
Lecturer on Law
Courses: Supreme Court Litigation (Winter Term)
Topics of Interest:
Public Interest Legal Experience:
Office:
Phone:
Email: tgoldstein@law.harvard.edu

Robert Greenwald
Senior Clinical Instructor and Managing Attorney, Health, Disability and Planning Practice Group and Family and Children’s Law Unit, LSC and Lecturer on Law
Courses: HELLP: Health, Employment, Living Legacy and Planning A; Family and Children Law
Office: WilmerHale Legal Services Center
Phone: 617-390-2584
Email: rgreenwa@law.harvard.edu

Michael Gregory
Senior Fellow, Special Education/Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative, LSC and Lecturer on Law
Courses: Special Education/Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative
Office: WilmerHale Legal Services Center
Phone: 617-390-2550
Email: mgregory@law.harvard.edu

David Grossman
Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Harvard Legal Aid Bureau
Courses: Introduction to Advocacy; Skills and Ethics in Clinical Practice; Housing Law and Policy; Poverty Law Reading Group; Advanced Clinical Workshop
Public Interest Legal Experience:
- Housing attorney representing low-income tenants and tenant groups both in private practice and in law school clinic settings
- Pro bono work in three-year stint at large commercial law firm.
- Clerkship on the Supreme Court of Israel
Office: 23 Everett Street, 1st Floor
Phone:  617-495-4408
Email: dgrossma@law.harvard.edu

Jonathan Hacker
Lecturer on Law
Courses: Supreme Court and Appellate Practice
Topics of Interest:
Public Interest Legal Experience:
Office:
Phone:
Email: jhacker@law.harvard.edu

Jean C. Han
Albert M. Sacks Clinical Teaching & Advocacy Fellow, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program
Topics of Interest:  Refugee and Asylum Law; Immigration; Access to Education

Office: Pound 410
Phone: 617-496-5497
Email: jeanhan@law.harvard.edu

Office Hours: Open door or by arrangement

Pamela Harris
Lecturer on Law
Courses: Supreme Court and Appellate Practice
Email: pharris@law.harvard.edu

David Hoffman
Lecturer on Law
Courses: Mediation
Email: dhoffman@BostonLawCollaborative.com

James Jacobs
Clinical Instructor, Community and Enterprise Project Practice Unit, LSC
Topics of Interest:
Public Interest Legal Experience:
Office: WilmerHale Legal Services Center
Phone: 617-390-2538
Email: jjacobs@law.harvard.edu

Wendy Jacobs
Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Environmental Law & Policy Clinic

Courses: Environmental Law Practice: Skills, Methods, and Controversies Seminar, Spring 2009 

Areas of Interest:

Environmental Law, Administrative Law, Liability Regimes for Carbon Capture and Sequestration in the U.S. and China, Polices and Technologies for the Reduction of Air and Water Pollution, Financial and Other Incentives for Development of Renewable Power Sources, Quantification and Reduction of Environmental Risks, Due Diligence and Distribution of Environmental Liabilities in Corporate Transactions, Development of Contaminated Properties (brownfields), Enactment of Pollution Reduction Laws in Europe (REACH, WEEI, and ROHS)

Office: Pound 415
Phone: 617-496-3368
Email: wjacobs@law.harvard.edu

Nancy Kelly
Clinical Instructor, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic
Email: nkelly@gbls.org

Chris Jochnick

Lecturer on Law, Human Rights Program

Phone: 617-495-9362

Email: cjochnick@oxfamamerica.org

Phillip R. Malone
Clinical Professor of Law, Berkman Center for Internet & Society Cyberlaw Clinic
Courses: Practical Lawyering in Cyberspace; Antitrust, Technology and Innovation
Topics of Interest: Department of Justice, criminal and civil prosecution work, antitrust, internet & computer law, high-tech public advocacy
Public Interest Legal Experience:

• 20+ years as a federal white-collar prosecutor with the US DOJ, Antitrust Division
• Numerous civil and criminal investigations and cases, including Microsoft antitrust case/trial and Oracle/Peoplesoft trial
• Currently working on internet, High-tech and IP-related advocacy litigation and representation through Berkman Center Clinical Program

Assistance to Students: advice and guidance on DOJ Summer and Honors Program applications and interviewing; DOJ and prosecution careers in general; internet and tech-related advocacy careers such as EFF, EPIC, etc.
Office: 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor
Phone: 617-384-9134
Email: pmalone@cyber.law.harvard.edu
Office Hours:  by appointment

Rafael Mares
Clinical Instructor, Housing Law/Litigation Practice Group, LSC and Lecturer on Law
Courses: Housing Law Litigation Clinical Workshop
Topics of Interest:
Public Interest Legal Experience:
Office: WilmerHale Legal Services Center
Phone: 617-390-2564
Email: rhmares@law.harvard.edu

Julie McCormack
Paralegal Clinical Instructor, Administrative/Disability Law Clinic, LSC
Topics of Interest:
Public Interest Law Experience:
Office: WilmerHale Legal Services Center
Phone: 617-390-2522
Email: jmccorma@law.harvard.edu

Maureen E. McDonagh
Clinical Instructor, Housing Law/Litigation Practice Group, LSC and Lecturer on Law
Courses: Housing Law Litigation Clinical Workshop
Topics of Interest: Litigation, Trial Skills, Clinical Legal Education, Housing
Public Interest Legal Experience:
- Represented indigent clients in criminal cases as well as state intervention in child custody cases
- Mentor attorney for the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services Children and Family Law Program.
- Clinical Instructor at the Law School’s Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center; supervises students representing indigent clients in a live client housing law/litigation clinic.
Public Interest Legal Activities:
Member of the Boston Bar Real Estate Section Pro Bono Subcommittee overseeing the Lawyer for the Day Program at Boston Housing Court
Suggestions for Students:
Students should get involved in a clinical.
Office: Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center
Phone:617-390-2542
Email: mcdonagh@law.harvard.edu
Office Hours: vary depending on Court schedule, please call or email to arrange a meeting time.

Verner Moore
Clinical Instructor, Harvard Legal Aid Bureau
Office: 23 Everett Street, 1st Floor
Phone: 617-495-4408
Email: jvmoore@law.harvard.edu

Matthew Muller
Clinical Teaching and Advocacy Fellow, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic
Topics of Interest:
Public Interest Legal Experience:
Office: Pound 409
Phone: 617-384-5975
Email: mmuller@law.harvard.edu

Kristin Muniz
Clinical Instructor, Criminal Justice Institute
Phone: 617-496-3652
Email: kmuniz@law.harvard.edu

Elizabeth Nessen
Clinical Instructor, Harvard Legal Aid Bureau
Office: 23 Everett Street, 1st Floor
Phone: 617-495-4408
Email: enessen@law.harvard.edu

Binaifer Nowrojee
Clinical Instructor, Human Rights Program and Lecturer on Law
Topics of Interest:
Public Interest Legal Experience:
Office: Pound 401
Phone: 617-495-9362
Email:

Nnena Odim
Clinical Instructor, Family and Children’s Law Practice Unit
Topics of Interest:
Public Interest Legal Experience:
Office: WilmerHale Legal Services Center
Phone: 617-390-2586
Email: nodim@law.harvard.edu

John Palfrey
Professor of Law; Vice Dean, Library and Information Resources;  and Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Courses: Practical Lawyering in Cyberspace: Seminar; Web Difference? Digital Media, Entertainment, and the Law
Topics of Interest: Intellectual Property, International e-commerce, Internet and Democracy, Internet Governance, Legal and Regulatory Control of Online Technologies
Office: 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor
Phone: 617-495-7547
Email: jpalfrey@law.harvard.edu

Sharanjeet Parmar
Clinical Advocacy Fellow, Human Rights Program and Lecturer on Law
Courses: International Human Rights Litigation: Seminar
Office: Pound 401
Phone: 617-495-9362
Email: sparmar@law.harvard.edu

Marcia Peters
Clinical Instructor, Tenant Advocacy Project
Public Interest Legal Experience: Massachusetts Union of Public Housing Tenants -- represented tenants and tenant groups statewide; Legal Services Institute (now WilmerHale Legal Services Center) -- housing unit; Boston Housing Authority -- represented the Leased Housing Department during the court-ordered receivership
Office: Austin 009
Phone: 617-495-4394
Email: mpeters@law.harvard.edu

Brian Price
Clinical Professor of Law and Director, WilmerHale Legal Services Center
Courses: Transactional Practice Clinical Workshop: Business, Nonprofit, Real Estate and Entertainment A and B
Topics of Interest: Community Economic Development, Entertainment Law, Small Business and Micro-Enterprise Development
Office: Pound 413
Phone: 617-495-4626
Email: bprice@law.harvard.edu

Mindy Roseman
Academic Director, Human Rights Program and Lecturer on Law
Courses: International Reproductive/Sexual Health Rights: Reading Group
Office: Pound 402
Phone: 617-495-6912
Email: mroseman@law.harvard.edu

Amy Rosenberg
Clinical Instructor, WilmerHale Legal Services Center
Phone: 617-522-2677
Email:arosenbe@law.harvard.edu

Diane L. Rosenfeld
Lecturer on Law
Courses: Gender Violence, Law and Social Justice-seminar; Reading Groups: Feminist Jurisprudence and the Common Law (for first-year students); Power, Beauty, Sex and Violence; Sexual Violence and the Law: Theories of Violence: Gender and Sexuality, supervises clinical placements on women’s rights advocacy and gender justice
Public Interest Legal Experience:
- Senior Counsel, Violence Against Women Office, US Department of Justice
- Legal Policy Advisor to the Illinois Attorney General
- Assistant Attorney General Environmental Control Division, Illinois Attorney General's Office
- Currently provide expert advice on cases involving domestic violence, domestic homicide and sexual assault
Public Interest Legal Activities:
- Consultant for the Department of Justice on the use of Title IX to prevent campus sexual assault and on batterer intervention
- Counseled state and local governments on domestic violence prevention
- A Commissioner on the Governor's Commission on Sexual and Domestic Violence in Massachusetts
- Work closely with Jane Doe, Inc. (the Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence) and the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center.
Office: Austin MZ 217
Phone: 617-495-5257
Email: rosenfel@law.harvard.edu

Kevin Russell
Lecturer on Law
Courses: Supreme Court Litigation
Topics of Interest:
Public Interest Legal Experience:
Office:
Phone:
Email: krussell@law.harvard.edu

Dena Sacco
Clinical Instructor and Assistant Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society Cyberlaw Clinic
Courses: Child Exploitation, Pornography & the Internet
Office: 23 Everett Street
Phone: 617-384-9125
Email: dsacco@cyber.law.harvard.edu

John Salsberg
Clinical Instructor, Harvard Defenders
Topics of Interest:
Public Interest Legal Experience:
Office: Gannett House 107
Phone: 617-495-3144
Email: jsalsber@law.harvard.edu

Jiewuh Song
Clinical Instructor, Human Rights Program
Phone: 617-495-9362
Email: jiewuh@gmail.com

Matthew Smith
Clinical Fellow and Lecturer on Law, Negotiation and Mediation Clinic
Phone: 617-496-6901
Email: mjsmith@law.harvard.edu

Stephan Sonnenberg
Clinical Fellow and Lecturer on Law, Negotiation and Mediation Clinic
Phone:617-495-5425
Email: ssonenb@law.harvard.edu

Ronald Sullivan
Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Criminal Justice Institute
Topics of Interest: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Criminal Law, Legal Ethics, Race
Public Interest Legal Experience: Served as Staff Attorney, General Counsel, and Director of the Washington, DC Public Defender Service
Office: Pound 414
Phone: 617-496-4583
Email: rsullivan@law.harvard.edu

Gloria Tan
Clinical Instructor, Criminal Justice Institute
Phone: 617-496-8143
Email: gtan@law.harvard.edu

Dehlia Umunna
Clinical Instructor, Criminal Justice Institute
Phone: 617- 496-8143

Max Weinstein
Clinical Instructor, WilmerHale Legal Services Center
Areas of Interest: Predatory Lending, Foreclosures
Phone: 617-390-2694
Email: maweinstein@law.harvard.edu

Lynn Weissberg
Clinical Instructor, Tenant Advocacy Project
Office: Austin 009
Phone: 617-495-4394
Email: lweissbe@law.harvard.edu

Patricia Whiting
Clinical Instructor, Harvard Legal Aid Bureau
Office: 23 Everett Street, 1st Floor
Phone: 617-494-5592
Email: pwhiting@law.harvard.edu

Dan Williams
Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Death Penalty Clinic

John Willshire-Carerra
Clinical Instructor, GBLS Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic
Email: jwillshirecare@law.harvard.edu