Andrew Budzinski, Associate Professor of Law, American University Washington College of LawAndrew (Andy) Budzinski is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Elliott Milstein Civil Advocacy Clinic at the American University Washington College of Law. Professor Budzinski’s teaching, scholarship, and advocacy seek to promote access to justice for litigants who would otherwise lack counsel. In the Civil Advocacy Clinic, Professor Budzinski supervises students in civil cases involving survivors of intimate partner violence and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. He empowers students to grow as lawyers and advocates through zealous representation of clinic clients. Professor Budzinski’s scholarship focuses on maximizing procedural fairness for unrepresented litigants in civil courts across the country. He has also written on clinical pedagogy and technology ethics in clinical teaching. His work has been published in the University of Colorado Law Review, the University of Richmond Law Review, the Clinical Law Review, and the University of Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law. He has served as a faculty presenter for the D.C. Bar’s Continuing Legal Education class on civil protection order litigation and edits the D.C. Bar’s Practice Manual chapter on domestic violence. Prior to joining the faculty at the American University Washington College of Law, Professor Budzinski co-directed the General Practice Clinic at UDC David A. Clarke School of Law. He has also taught and supervised in George Washington University School of Law’s Family Justice Litigation Clinic, Georgetown University Law Center’s Domestic Violence Clinic, and Washington & Lee University Law School’s Community Legal Practice Center. He served as a law clerk to Judge Roy W. McLeese III on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Professor Budzinski graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Washington & Lee University, where he earned a B.A. in Politics and a B.A. in Music Composition. He earned his J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where he served as an Articles Editor for Michigan Law Review. He received his L.L.M. in Advocacy, with distinction, from the Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Budzinski is admitted to the District of Columbia Bar and the Virginia State Bar.
Alina Das, Professor of Clinical Law and James Weldon Johnson Professor of Law, New York University Law SchoolAlina Das is a professor, immigrant rights attorney, and co-director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at New York University (NYU) School of Law. For the past two decades, she has defended the rights of immigrants facing detention and deportation, including activists and leaders of the immigrant rights movement. She specializes in litigation and advocacy at the intersection of the U.S. immigration and criminal legal systems. Her legal scholarship has been published by leading law journals and cited by the U.S. Supreme Court. She is the author of No Justice in the Shadows: How America Criminalizes Immigrants (Bold Type Books, April 2020). Professor Das is the recipient of numerous awards for her advocacy and teaching, including the Immigrant Defense Project Champion of Justice Award, the Daniel Levy Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in Immigration Law, the New York State Youth Leadership Council Outstanding Attorney Award, the NYU Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award, and the NYU Law School Podell Distinguished Teaching Award. She clerked for the Honorable Kermit V. Lipez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and is a graduate of Harvard University, NYU Wagner School of Public Service, and NYU School of Law.
Eduardo R.C. Capulong, Professor of Law and Director of Experiential Learning, University of Hawai’i William S. Richardson School of LawProfessor Capulong directs the experiential learning program, which consists of our in-house clinics, externships, and simulation courses. Prior to joining Richardson Law, he was a professor, lawyering program director, and interim dean at the City University of New York School of Law; professor and associate dean for clinical and experiential education at the University of Montana Alexander Blewett III School of Law; lawyering professor at the New York University School of Law; and public interest and public policy programs director and lecturer in law and urban studies at Stanford Law School.Professor Capulong was also a visiting professor at the University of the Philippines College of Law; China Youth University for Political Studies; and Universidad de Granada Facultad de Derecho, where he helped launch the school’s first clinical course. His current scholarly interests include legal education, lawyering, professional identity formation, law and social justice, race and racism, and dispute resolution. Before joining the academy, Professor Capulong was a litigator, policy analyst, and community organizer for various nonprofits, including the Center for Constitutional Rights, Chinese Staff and Workers’ Association, Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence, Community Service Society, Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights, Philippine Center for Immigrant Rights, and Public Interest Law Center (Manila). A former Karpatkin Fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union and pro se law clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Professor Capulong received his BA from NYU and JD from CUNY as a Patricia Roberts Harris Scholar and Davis-Putter Fellow. Professor Capulong is the former co-chair of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Clinical Legal Education and has served on the boards of the Montana ACLU, Society of American Law Teachers, National Lawyers Guild (San Francisco), International Endowment for Democracy, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, and Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
