Thomas Jefferson School of Law's Teaching Fellowship Program was launched in July 2010. The Fellowship Program is designed to provide support for highly qualified, diverse practitioners to make the transition to academia. The Faculty Fellows will teach Legal Writing I and other courses while devoting a substantial amount of time to pursue scholarship.
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The Faculty Fellows for 2011-12
Anastasia Boles first came to TJSL in January 2010 as an Adjunct Professor of Legal Writing. She plans to focus her scholarship at the intersection of employment law and race, gender, disability, sexuality and class. Since her graduation from Columbia Law School, Professor Boles has practiced labor and employment law for several years with the Los Angeles office of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, the litigation department of O'Melveny & Myers LLP in Los Angeles and the litigation department of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York. Professor Boles also clerked for the late Honorable Napoleon A. Jones, Jr., Southern District of California.
Prior to becoming a TJSL Faculty Fellow, Liz McCuskey practiced law with Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP in Philadelphia. Her litigation practice focused on appellate, antitrust and professional responsibility matters, as well as federal jurisdiction and attorney general litigation over Medicaid and FDA issues. She also maintained an active pro bono practice in which she litigated First Amendment and federal habeas issues. Professor McCuskey graduated from Penn Law School and clerked for the Honorable David A. Faber on the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.
Beth Caldwell has worked as a public defender in Los Angeles County and has practiced appellate law, representing juveniles in delinquency appeals. She graduated from UCLA with a Juris Doctor as well as a Master’s in Social Welfare. Professor Caldwell’s research focuses on criminal law, with an emphasis on its intersection with race, class, gender, and age. As a Fulbright scholar, she recently conducted research in Mexico regarding the country’s criminal justice system.
