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	Anthony Amsterdam University Professor A pioneer in clinical education, Anthony Amsterdam came to the NYU School of Law in 1981 to serve as director of Clinical and Advocacy Programs. Throughout his career, Amsterdam has litigated cases––all of them pro bono––on issues ranging from the death penalty to free speech to equal opportunity for racial minorities and indigent people. A former clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, Amsterdam has argued numerous important cases before the Supreme Court.
	Claudia Angelos Clinical Professor of Law Claudia Angelos, who teaches the Civil Rights Clinic, is an authority on prisoners’ rights. A member and past president of the board of the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), Angelos previously was a staff attorney of Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York and Greater Boston Legal Services.
	Sarah Burns Professor of Clinical Law Sarah Burns teaches the Brennan Center Public Policy Advocacy Clinic and the Mediation Clinic. With Professor Nancy Morawetz, she created the simulation course Civil Litigation. Burns began teaching in clinical law in 1983 at the Georgetown University Law Center; she was involved in developing the Sex Discrimination Clinic and the Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program.
	Alina Das Assistant Professor of Clinical Law Alina Das specializes in issues related to detention, deportation and the rights of immigrants. In addition to supporting students’ work, she also carries her own immigration law caseload on behalf of individuals and organizations, and she has litigated issues involving criminal conviction-related immigration consequences before immigration courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Attorney General, federal district and appellate courts, and the Supreme Court. As a Soros Justice Fellow and staff attorney, she worked for the New York State Defenders Association Immigrant Defense Project from 2006 to 2008, creating a project developing criminal justice diversion programs and sentencing alternatives that do not result in deportation. Das has also been co-teaching the Immigration Rights Clinic with Professor Nancy Morawetz ’81 since 2008.
	Paula Galowitz Clinical Professor of Law An expert on civil legal services for impoverished clients, Paula Galowitz is a faculty member in the Civil Legal Services Clinic, which represents litigants who need assistance with housing, government benefits, immigration, education, family law and AIDS-related matters.
	Martin Guggenheim Fiorello LaGuardia Professor of Clinical Law Director of Clinical and Advocacy Programs from 1988 to 2002 and a faculty member since 1973, Martin Guggenheim '71 has taught a juvenile rights clinic and created the Family Defense Clinic. Having worked at the Juvenile Rights Division of the Legal Aid Society of New York and the Juvenile Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, he has litigated many cases on behalf of families in state and federal courts.
	Randy Hertz Vice Dean Professor of Clinical Law Director, Clinical and Advocacy Programs Randy Hertz, the director of the NYU School of Law’s Clinical and Advocacy Programs, is an editor-in-chief of NYU’s Clinical Law Review, the first scholarly journal to focus on clinical legal education and one of the country’s few peer-edited law reviews. He also works on a pro bono basis on briefs in criminal appeals. He previously worked at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, where he handled criminal trials and appeals, and litigated a class action suit challenging conditions in juvenile detention facilities.
	Holly Maguigan Professor of Clinical Law Holly Maguigan teaches a comparative criminal justice clinic. She is a member of the Family Violence Prevention Fund’s National Advisory Committee on Cultural Considerations in Domestic Violence Cases and the boards of MADRE, the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women, the Society of American Law Teachers and the William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice.
	Nancy Morawetz Professor of Clinical Law A former clerk for the Honorable Patricia M. Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and attorney with the Legal Aid Society in New York City, Nancy Morawetz '81 is an expert on deportation law. She teaches the Immigrant Rights Clinic.
	Smita Narula Associate Professor of Clinical Law Faculty Director, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Smita Narula’s award-winning book, Broken People: Caste Violence Against India’s “Untouchables," is a widely referenced resource on the plight of India’s 160 million Dalits. Narula helped form India’s National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights and cofounded the International Dalit Solidarity Network to address caste discrimination in Asia and Africa.
	Laura Sager Clinical Professor of Law Laura Sager is an expert in employment discrimination law and litigated a class action sex discrimination suit against the FDNY, which enabled women to serve as firefighters for the first time in New York City’s history.
	Margaret Satterthwaite Associate Professor of Clinical Law Faculty Director, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice A Root-Tilden-Kern alumna and the program’s faculty director, Margaret Satterthwaite '99 founded Amnesty International’s network for lesbian and gay human rights. Before law school, she was an investigator for the Haitian Truth and Justice Commission, and clerked for Judge Betty Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for the judges of the International Court of Justice at The Hague.
	Bryan Stevenson Professor of Clinical Law The executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, Bryan Stevenson has represented capital defendants and death-row prisoners since 1985. The winner of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the Olaf Palme Prize for International Human Rights and the Reebok Human Rights Award, he has written extensively on criminal justice, capital punishment and civil rights issues.
	Kim Taylor-Thompson Professor of Clinical Law Kim Taylor-Thompson spent a decade working at the District of Columbia Public Defender Service. She cofounded the Lawyering for Social Change Program at Stanford Law School, and at NYU has taught Criminal Litigation; Evidence: Litigation Planning; the Criminal and Community Defense Clinic, and the Juvenile Defender Clinic. Taylor-Thompson is interested in the impact of race and gender on public policy, as well as the need to better prepare lawyers for meeting the demands of practice in subordinated communities.
	Anthony Thompson Professor of Clinical Law Formerly a public defender in California, Anthony Thompson is an expert in search and seizure practices, community prosecution programs and treatment of ex-offenders. He regularly consults with policymakers on the implementation of criminal justice policy.

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