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Joe Schottenfeld is a Harry Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. His research focuses on the interrelationships between procedural rules, judicial prerogatives, and civil rights, particularly concerning how courts and institutions determine access to justice. Joe’s scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in notable legal journals such as Columbia Law Review, Stanford Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, and George Washington Law Review. Prior to joining the Law School, he served as an Assistant General Counsel for the NAACP, where he litigated cases involving the Fourteenth Amendment. Joe also worked as a teaching assistant in a civil rights clinic at NYU School of Law. His legal career includes a clerkship with Judge Marsha Berzon on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He received his Juris Doctor (JD) from Yale Law School in 2019 and his Bachelor of Arts (BA) from Yale College, graduating cum laude in 2012.
University of Chicago Law School • Chicago, IL
New York University School of Law • New York, NY
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) • Washington, DC
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) • Washington, DC
Honorable Marsha Berzon, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit • San Francisco, CA
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