All cases that the Clinic takes are staffed by a combination of students and faculty. Typically two faculty members, but often three or four, are actively involved in each case. You can lean more about the Clinic's supervising faculty by browsing below. (Please note: When browsing among faculty, please do not use your browser's back button.)

Yale Law School Faculty & Fellows Co-Directors from Mayer Brown LLP
Dan M. Kahan, Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law

Dan Kahan is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His principal areas of teaching and scholarship include criminal law and evidence. A member of the Supreme Court Bar, Professor Kahan has represented clients in both the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Courts of Appeals. He served as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court (1990-91) and to Judge Harry Edwards of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (1989-90). He received his B.A. from Middlebury College and his J.D. from Harvard University, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review.

You can learn more about Professor Kahan's academic interests by visiting his website.

Brett Dignam, Clinical Professor of Law and Supervising Attorney

Brett Dignam is Clinical Professor of Law and Supervising Attorney at Yale Law School. She has represented state and federal prisoners for more than 20 years. With her students, she has successfully assisted inmates in bringing a wide variety of claims, including medical claims, claims of sexual assault, felon disenfranchisement, challenges to sex offender classification, and cross-gender pat searches. The clinics she directs at Yale Law School represent inmates in habeas, individual, and class actions and have brought successful claims in federal court under Bivens, Section 1983, the Voting Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Violence Against Women Act. Professor Dignam received a B.A. from Mt. Holyoke College, an M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a J.D. from the University of Southern California.

Charles Rothfeld, Of Counsel, Mayer Brown LLP

Charles Rothfeld is a visiting lecturer in law at Yale Law School and counsel at Mayer Brown LLP in Washington, D.C. A former Assistant to the Solicitor General (1984-88) and law clerk to Justice Harry Blackmun (1981-82), Mr. Rothfeld specializes in appellate litigation. He has argued 20 cases before the Supreme Court of the United States and been involved in hundreds of others. He has also argued numerous cases in the U.S. Courts of Appeals and state appellate courts. He received his A.B. degree, cum laude, from Cornell University, and his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Chicago Law School.

Andrew J. Pincus, Partner, Mayer Brown LLP

Andrew Pincus is a visiting lecturer in law at Yale Law School and a partner at Mayer Brown LLP in Washington, D.C. A former Assistant to the Solicitor General (1984-88) and General Counsel of the United States Department of Commerce (1997-2000), Mr. Pincus specializes in briefing and arguing cases in the Supreme Court of the United States and in federal and state appellate courts. He has argued 18 cases before the Supreme Court and filed briefs in hundreds of other cases in that Court. He received his B.A. cum laude from Yale College in 1977, and his J.D. with honors from Columbia University Law School.

Terri-Lei O'Malley, Robert M. Cover & Supreme Court Clinical Teaching Fellow

Terri-Lei O'Malley is a Robert M. Cover & Supreme Court Clinical Teaching Fellow at Yale Law School. Prior to graduating from Yale Law School in 2007, she had served as a law clerk for Earthjustice. While at Yale, she participated in the Morris Tyler Moot Court of Appeals and was a member of The Yale Journal of Law and Humanities.