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Harvard Law School; University of Southern California.
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Gerald Lopez
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He is also the author of several influential books about lawyering and law practice. López obtained his undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Southern California in 1970 and his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1974. He served as a judicial clerk for Edward J. Schwartz, then joined three other attorneys in founding a firm specializing in specializing in criminal defense, civil rights litigation and community mobilization.
They used criminal defense, immigration law, and personal injury cases to pay the bills and subsidize their civil rights practice, where the odds of winning were less.
lieutenant was around this same time that he began teaching, also to support his civil rights practice. He has taught at University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, Stanford Law School, New York University School of Law, and Harvard Law School.
At Stanford he co-founded the now defunct Lawyering for Social Change Program, at University of California, Los Angeles the Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, and the Center for Community Problem Solving at New York University. Law students at Yale Law School have organized an annual public interest law conference called RebLaw, which was inspired by Lopez"s book Rebellious Lawyering. Works = Books The has sponsored three law conferences in New Mexico, in 2008, 2010, and 2013, and a fourth law conference at University of California Hastings College of Law, San Francisco, California in 2014.
