Dena Sacco

Lecturer on Law

Appointments

• Assistant Clinical Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society

Practice Information

Ms. Sacco served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Massachusetts from 1999-2005. As the Child Exploitation and Obscenity contact for the U.S. Attorney's office, she prosecuted cases involving the sexual exploitation of children, including child pornography, sex tourism, and solicitation of minors over the Internet. From 1997-1999, she was a Counsel in the Office of Policy Development at the United States Department of Justice, where she worked on a range of issues, including sex offender registration and community notification and the vetting of candidates for positions as United States District Court Judges. From 1994-1997, Ms. Sacco was an associate in the Employment Law Department at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP in Washington, DC. She was a Fulbright Scholar to Belgium in 1993-1994, during which time she earned a Masters in European Community Law at the College of Europe in Bruges. She graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1993 and cum laude from Yale University in 1990.

Additional Information

Ms. Sacco will co-teach, with Diane Rosenfeld, the seminar Child Exploitation, Pornography, and the Internet in the Spring Term 2010.

Biographical Statement

Dena T. Sacco is a Fellow in the Cyberlaw Clinic at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. In the Spring of 2009, she is co-teaching the seminar Child Exploitation, Pornography & the Internet, through which students may enroll in the clinic. In the past, Ms. Sacco has taught An Introduction to American Law for LL.M students in the graduate program and Legal Research and Writing for first-year students, which she did as a Climenko Fellow from 2005-2007.