Conference Presenter Profile

Name: Anne Gordon
Professional Title: Senior Lecturing Fellow
Affiliation: Duke University
Country: United States
Title of Presentation(s):
- From Idealist to Activist: Paving the Way for Future Social Justice Lawyers Through Experiential Learning
- How Ethics Education and Regulation Advance Social Justice
Short Bio: Professor Anne Gordon is the Director of Duke Law’s externship programs. Before coming to Duke, Gordon taught at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where she helped lead the Appellate Advocacy Program and served as a senior research fellow at the California Constitution Center. Before that, she was a staff attorney with the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, and practiced criminal appellate law and capital habeas with the Habeas Corpus Resource Center and the Fifth and Sixth District Appellate Projects. Professor Gordon received her A.B. from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, and clerked for Judge Boyce F. Martin, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She spent the 2015-2016 academic year as a distinguished visiting professor at Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey in Puebla, Mexico, teaching professional skills and comparative constitutional law - she is thrilled to be back in her second home for this conference.
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