Susan Chung
Susan Chung (susan.chung@nyu.edu) is Director of the Graduate Lawyering Program. She joined the Graduate Lawyering Program faculty in 2021 after teaching Legal Writing at Fordham Law School for over fifteen years. At Fordham, she also directed the LL.M. Legal Writing Program as the Legal Writing Coordinator. Prior to teaching, she was an attorney at the Bronx Defenders. She also clerked for Honorable Maryanne Trump Barry of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, as well as for Honorable Robert Ward of the Southern District of New York. She received her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, where she was an editor of the Fordham Law Review, Crowley Scholar in International Human Rights, Stein Scholar in Public Interest Law, and a member of Order of the Coif. She received her M.A. and B.A. from Columbia University.
Karen Ross
Karen M. Ross (karen.ross@nyu.edu) is the founding Director of the Legal English Program and the Deputy Director of the Graduate Lawyering Program. She began teaching at NYU Law in 2010 as an Adjunct Professor of Law and was appointed to the full time faculty in 2015. Before teaching, Ms. Ross worked in private practice and as a law clerk to judges in the state court system. She also served as an administrative law judge in New York City for various city agencies. Ms. Ross received a Master’s Degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, a Juris Doctor from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from Tufts University. Ms. Ross is the author of Essential Legal English in Context: Understanding the Vocabulary of US Law and Government (NYU Press, 2019).
Alice E. Burke
Alice Estill Burke (aeb13@nyu.edu) teaches in the Graduate Lawyering Program. She began teaching at NYU as an Adjunct Professor of Graduate Lawyering in 2019 and was appointed to the full-time Graduate Lawyering Program faculty in 2020. Ms. Burke has also served as an Adjunct Professor of Practice at Seton Hall University in Newark, New Jersey and as a Writing Specialist at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois. Before entering academia, Ms. Burke represented management in labor and employment matters both in private practice and as in-house counsel. Ms. Burke graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif. She received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Mississippi University for Women.
Rachael Liebert
Rachael Liebert (rachael.liebert@law.nyu.edu) is a member of the full-time faculty of the Graduate Lawyering Program. She previously taught at NYU in the J.D. Lawyering Program from 2018 to 2022, and served as the Associate Director of the Lawyering Program from 2021-2022. Before returning to NYU, Rachael worked to improve indigent defense systems across the country as an attorney at the Sixth Amendment Center. Rachael began her legal career as a public defender in Boston, where she spent five years representing clients charged with misdemeanors and felonies in all aspects of their criminal cases. Rachael received her J.D. from NYU Law and her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Dorien Ediger-Seto
Dorien Ediger-Seto (they/she) (ediger.seto@nyu.edu) teaches in the Graduate Lawyering Program, which she joined after serving as Acting Assistant Professor in NYU's JD Lawyering Program from 2022-2024. Dorien has also served as Adjunct Professor at the City University of New York School of Law's CLEAR Clinic and as a clinical fellow at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law Immigration Law Clinic. Prior to academic teaching, Dorien practiced deportation defense at various non-profit legal service providers including the National Immigrant Justice Center and the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project. Dorien received her J.D. from the City University of New York School of Law and her B.A. from Vassar College.
Gerald Lebovits
Gerald Lebovits (gerald.lebovits@nyu.edu) is an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Lawyering program. A judge since 2001, Justice Lebovits presides in the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan. He previously presided in the New York City Civil Court, the New York City Criminal Court, and the New York City Housing Court. After completing his Civil Law license in French at the University of Ottawa in Canada in 1979, he received a Master of Civil Law at Tulane University School of Law in 1980 and, in 1986, an LL.M. from NYU, where he studied international and comparative criminal justice. This is his 35th year teaching law. Students at three law schools have elected him Adjunct Professor of the Year.
Nicholas W. Haddad
Nicholas William Haddad (nwh5581@nyu.edu) is an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Lawyering Program. He also serves as Senior Legal Editor at Practical Law, where he writes and speaks on all aspects of federal civil litigation, and teaches First-Year Legal Writing at Fordham Law School, where he was named the 2018 Adjunct Teacher of the Year.
Previously, Mr. Haddad was a member of Jones Day’s Issues & Appeals group. His practice focused on appellate litigation and motion practice in both state and federal courts. Before that, he clerked for the Honorable Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, and the Honorable Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. Mr. Haddad began his legal career as a litigation associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell.
Mr. Haddad graduated summa cum laude from Fordham Law School, where he served as an Associate Editor of the Fordham Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He received his A.B., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University.
Amanda Sen Villalobos
Amanda Sen Villalobos (amandasen@nyu.edu) is an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Lawyering Program at NYU Law and is the Associate Director of Legal Writing and Moot Court Programs at Columbia Law School. Previously, Ms. Sen Villalobos taught in the J.D. Lawyering Program at NYU Law. As a practicing attorney, Ms. Sen Villalobos litigated family and special education matters in court and in administrative proceedings. Her scholarship focuses on families and the state.
Ms. Sen Villalobos earned her J.D. from NYU Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern (Sinsheimer) Scholar and an Executive Editor of the NYU Law Review. She received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Washington University in St. Louis and also earned an M.A.Ed. from Washington University in St. Louis.
Jackie Duhl
Jackie Duhl (jackie.duhl@nyu.edu) is an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Lawyering Program and Legal Fellow II with NYU's State Energy and Environmental Impact Center. Prior to joining the Center, Jackie played a pivotal role in building financial technology startup, BlockFi, serving as the organization’s Senior Counsel, Policy Counsel, and Associate Corporate Counsel. Prior to joining BlockFi, Jackie was an associate with Kirkland & Ellis, representing companies with billion-dollar capital structures in a variety of restructuring and capital markets deal contexts. Jackie’s pro bono work has included representing clients in immigration and family law proceedings, as well as nonprofit formation and operations. Jackie was selected for the New York City Environmental Law Leadership Institute in 2023. Jackie earned her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, graduating magna cum laude, with honors in earth science.