School of Law

 

Phyllis Goldfarb

Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, Jacob Burns Foundation Professor of Clinical Law

Jacob Burns Foundation Professor of Clinical Law and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, she has represented a number of clients on a pro bono basis, including death row inmates and one of the Framingham Eight, incarcerated for killing her batterer. Her scholarly focus is on the relationship between theory and practice and the impact of the theory-practice relationship on legal education and the legal profession. Her publications and presentations have addressed divergent topics such as legal education, clinical education, criminal procedure, jurisprudence, critical theory, feminist theory, racial justice, the death penalty, and domestic violence. In 2012, she received the Clinical Legal Education Association’s national award as Outstanding Advocate for Clinical Teachers. In 2014, Dean Goldfarb became an Editor-in-Chief of the Clinical Law Review (CLR), following several years of service on CLR’s editorial board. In 2014, she was appointed a member of the Committee on Clinical Legal Education of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS).