Faculty Director
Deborah N. Archer
Deborah N. Archer is associate dean for experiential education and clinical programs, professor of clinical law, and faculty director of the Community Equity Lab at NYU School of Law. Deborah is also the president of the American Civil Liberties Union and a leading expert in civil rights, civil liberties, and racial justice. She is an award-winning teacher and legal scholar whose articles have appeared in leading law reviews. Deborah has also offered commentary for numerous media outlets, including MSNBC, National Public Radio, CBS, Monocle, The Atlantic, and The New York Times.
Deborah is a graduate of Yale Law School, where she was awarded the Charles G. Albom Prize, and Smith College. She previously worked as an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., where she litigated in the areas of voting rights, employment discrimination, and school desegregation. Deborah is also a former chair of the American Association of Law School's Section on Civil Rights and the Section on Minority Groups. She previously served as Chair of the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board, the nation’s oldest and largest police oversight agency.
Deborah has been honored by numerous community organizations and legal institutions, including Yale Law School, Columbia Law School, Boston University School of Law, New York University, Smith College, New York Law School, the American Association of Law Schools, and the Law and Society Association. In 2021, the Law and Society Association awarded her the John Hope Franklin Prize, Honorable Mention for her article "'White Men's Roads Through Black Men's Homes': Advancing Racial Equity Through Highway Reconstruction" which appeared in the Vanderbilt Law Review. Deborah also received a 2021 Podell Distinguished Teaching Award, the 2020-2021 Jacob K. Javits Professorship from New York University, the 2021 Stephen Ellmann Memorial Clinical Scholarship Award from the American Association of Law Schools, the Otto L. Walter Distinguished Writing Award from New York Law School, and the Haywood Burns/Shanara Guilbert Award from the Northeast People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference.
Affiliated Faculty
Sandeep Dhaliwal
Sandeep Dhaliwal joined the faculty at NYU School of Law in 2021. Dhaliwal previously taught first-year Lawyering and he now leads the law school's Business Transactions Clinic. His research critically examines the criminal legal system's relationship to broader political-economic processes.
Prior to joining the faculty at NYU, Dhaliwal was an associate at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York where he had a wide-ranging bank and financial regulatory practice, focused on post-financial crisis rules coming out of the Dodd-Frank Act. Dhaliwal also maintained an active pro bono practice, representing incarcerated clients seeking sentence reductions and defending immigrant clients from removal. Dhaliwal earned his JD from Columbia Law School.
Brittany Farr
Brittany Farr is an assistant professor of law at NYU School of Law. She joined NYU from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was a Sharswood Fellow.
Farr is a scholar of private law and race. With more than a decade of interdisciplinary training, her research draws on history, legal theory, and cultural studies to theorize how marginalized populations have availed themselves of otherwise inhospitable legal regimes. In particular, her research focuses on enslaved and free African Americans’ use of contract law during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and interrogates the ways in which contract law mediated African Americans’ relationship to bodily autonomy, economic freedom, and legal agency both during and after slavery. Her writing has appeared in UCLA Law Review, The University of Chicago Law Review Online and many other academic publications. Farr has also co-authored policy reports on mental health and banking, as well as on gender and mass incarceration.
Farr earned a JD from Yale Law School in 2019 and was a recipient of the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund’s Earl Warren Scholarship, which is awarded to law students with a demonstrated commitment to racial justice. Prior to law school, Farr earned a PhD in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. Her dissertation, Reproducing Fear Amid Fears of Reproduction: The Black Maternal Body in US Law, Media, and Policy examined how persistent fears about black motherhood and reproduction have shaped certain laws, public health campaigns, and popular culture. Her first chapter, which theorizes slavery as a reproductive technology, received the Louise Kerckhoff Prize for Best Graduate Paper from USC’s Center for Feminist Research.
Farr’s interest in the interplay between law and culture was sparked as a Folklore & Mythology major while an undergraduate at Harvard College.
Daniel Harawa
Daniel Harawa is an associate professor of clinical law and director of the Federal Appellate Clinic. His scholarship focuses on race and the criminal legal system. Harawa is particularly interested in studying how doctrine, institutional design, and litigation practice contribute to the subordination of people of color. His research also contemplates novel innovations to limit the influence of race in the criminal legal process. Harawa's scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the California Law Review (twice), Georgetown Law Journal, Georgia Law Review, and Washington & Lee Law Review, among other journals. Harawa also regularly provides commentary on pressing criminal justice and civil rights issues, with his popular writings appearing in the Washington Post, Politico, Slate, Inquest, and SCOTUSblog. Prior to joining NYU, Harawa was an associate professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, where he directed the Appellate Clinic. Before that, he was assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and an appellate staff attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. Harawa began his legal career clerking for Judge Roger L. Gregory of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Alexis Karteron
Alexis Karteron is a professor of clinical law and directs the Civil Rights in the Criminal Legal System Clinic, which handles cases and matters addressing a range of issues, such as the rights of incarcerated people and others under community supervision, and racially biased police practices. Karteron has also taught courses on constitutional law, policing, and education law. In addition to her teaching, Karteron engages in scholarship that examines how constitutional and civil rights law shape various practices in the criminal legal system, such as school policing, stop-and-frisk, and probation and parole supervision.
Karteron previously worked as an attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and New York Civil Liberties Union, where served as lead counsel in one of three cases challenging the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices. She also served as Associate Staff Secretary in The White House in 2009 and 2010.
Karteron is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University, and graduated from Stanford Law School with distinction. Following law school, Karteron clerked for Judge Marsha S. Berzon of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is a member of the boards of the Clinical Legal Education Association, the ACLU of New Jersey, and Prisoners' Legal Services of New York. In 2020, she received the M. Shanara Gilbert Award from the American Association of Law Schools.
Jessica Rofé
Jessica Rofé '14 is deputy director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic and the Advanced Immigrant Rights Clinic. Together with clinic students, she represents immigrants and community organizations in litigation at the agency and federal court level, and supports immigrant rights campaigns at the local, state, and national level. Prior to joining the Immigrant Rights Clinic, Rofé was an Immigrant Justice Corps Fellow and staff attorney at Brooklyn Defender Services, where she advised clients, families, and attorneys about the potential immigration consequences of contact with the criminal legal system, and represented individuals facing deportation before immigration agencies and the federal courts. She was also an associate in the Latin America practice at Cleary Gottlieb. Before law school, Rofé was a NYC public school social studies teacher for nearly 5 years. Rofé received her JD from New York University School of Law where she was an Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Fellow and the recipient of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Earl Warren Scholarship. She graduated from New York University with a BA in History, magna cum laude, and from Fordham University with a Master’s in Teaching.
Noah Rosenblum
Noah A. Rosenblum is an assistant professor of law at New York University School of Law, where he was previously the Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History. Rosenblum works on state and federal administrative law, constitutional law, and legal history, and is a frequent commentator on the New York State judiciary. His scholarship takes a historical approach to the study of state institutions, seeking to understand how law can be used to promote democratic accountability. He is currently pursuing several projects on the place of the president in the administrative state.
Rosenblum graduated from Deep Springs and Harvard College, earned his JD from Yale Law School, and received his PhD in history from Columbia University. Before joining NYU, he clerked for Judge Jenny Rivera of the New York Court of Appeals and Judge Guido Calabresi of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Senior Affiliated Research Scholars
David Chen
David Chen is a clinical teaching fellow at NYU School of Law. He co-teaches the Civil Rights and Racial Justice Clinic and the Civil Rights in the Criminal Legal System Clinic.
Previously, David was the Special Assistant to the New Jersey Solicitor General where he litigated civil rights issues. David was also a Justice Catalyst Fellow at the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project where he challenged numerous federal executive actions restricting the right to asylum, including the Trump Administration's Title 42 Policy shutting the border to asylum seekers, and the Trump Administration's separation of asylum-seeking families. David clerked for Judge Marsha S. Berzon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Justice Goodwin H. Liu of the California Supreme Court. He earned his JD from Yale Law School, where he was a member of the school's Worker and Immigrants Rights Advocacy Clinic, and his BA from Princeton University.
Alex Rose
Alex Rose has spent the past several years litigating data-driven civil rights class actions at Fairmark Partners, LLP, a progressive law and policy office focused on improving community equity outcomes and corporate accountability. He has, as part of this work, developed substantive workstreams pertaining AI and algorithmic bias discrimination, reproductive justice and access, carceral industries exploitation, and infrastructure reform.
Prior to joining the firm, Alex served as Special Advisor to the New York Governor’s Counsel. In that role, he worked with several agencies on a host of legal disputes, advised on policy strategy, co-drafted regulations and administrative code, and served as Counsel’s speechwriter. Alex also served on the Council on Community Reentry and Reintegration: a public-private body tasked with removing legal and societal barriers faced by individuals with criminal records. In that role, he also was on the team reviewing clemency petitions, wherein he made recommendations for pardons and commutations.
Prior to government service, Alex worked for campaigns, think tanks, and multiple publications, including the Moscow Times, where he was a reporter on the crime and news beats, and the New Yorker Magazine, where he was briefly at the Cartoons Desk.
Alex got his JD from NYU Law and his AB from Harvard College. He is licensed to practice law in New York. A dual-citizen, Alex is originally from Montreal, Canada, but has roots in Boston as well.
Joe Schottenfeld
Joe Schottenfeld is an assistant general counsel at the NAACP, where he litigates civil rights cases and builds advocacy projects to advance the interests of the NAACP and its members around the country. He currently co-teaches the Civil Rights and Racial Justice Clinic and the advanced Civil Rights and Racial Justice Clinic as an adjunct clinical faculty member at NYU School of Law.
Schottenfeld is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School. He began his legal career as a clerk for Judge Marsha S. Berzon of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Before law school, he was a grantee of the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Journalism and the National Geographic Society; he’s published writing and media projects in outlets like Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, and The New York Times.
Student Fellows
Patrick Archer
Patrick Archer (he/him/his) is a 3L interested in the intersections of racial justice, class hierarchies, and access to educational opportunities for students across the United States. Originally from New Jersey, Patrick graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2018 with majors in Political Science and Peace, War, and Defense and a minor in Education. After graduating, he served as a mathematics teacher at public middle schools in Memphis, Tennessee and Raleigh, North Carolina. While in law school, Patrick has interned with Bronx Legal Services in their Education Law practice and with the National Center for Youth Law. Additionally, he has worked as a student advocate in the Civil Rights and Racial Justice Clinic and NDS Police Accountability Externship, as an Article Selection Editor on the Review of Law and Social Change, and as the co-chair of the Education Law and Policy Society.
Suchait Kahlon
Suchait (Suchy) Kahlon is a 2L from Orlando, Florida, interested in First Amendment, media, and civil rights law. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 2021 with a degree in History, Suchy volunteered for Florida-based public interest law firms specializing in environmental conservation and anti-human trafficking efforts, before interning for Congresswoman Val Demings, the International Rescue Committee, and the Wilson Center. As an NYU Law student, Suchy serves as the Diversity and Outreach Chair for the Public Interest Law Students Association, Litigation & Advocacy Co-Chair for the American Constitutional Society, and staff editor for the Review of Law & Social Change. He spent his 1L summer at the ACLU-FL and is currently a part of the law school's Civil Rights and Racial Justice Clinic.