Dehlia Umana has been appointed Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

Dehlia Umunna has been appointed Clinical

Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

She has

been a lecturer at HLS since 2007, and is

Deputy

Director and Clinical Instructor at HLS’s

Criminal

Justice Institute (CJI), in which she

supervises

third-year law students in their

representation of

adult and juvenile clients in criminal and

juvenile

proceedings and arguments before

Massachusetts’ Supreme Judicial Court and

Appeals court.

“Dehlia’s students revere her; her colleagues

at

HLS and nationally look to her as an

exemplary

advocate, teacher, and mentor,” said Martha

Minow, dean of Harvard Law School. “From

her

unprecedented win record in criminal

defense

trials, her deft leadership of the Criminal

Justice

Institute day-to-day, and her superb

coaching of

student moot court teams, her published

scholarship, to her numerous awards in

recognition of her outstanding work as a

criminal

defense attorney, advisor, and teacher,

Dehlia is

simply extraordinary, an inspiration to her

students and her clients in every way. It is a

true

privilege to be her colleague.”

Prior to coming to Harvard Law School,

Umunna

was a trial attorney with the D.C. Public

Defender

Service and an adjunct professor of law and

Practitioner in Residence at the Washington

College of Law, American University. She

currently

serves as a faculty member for Gideon’s

Promise,

and is a frequent presenter at Public

Defender

trainings across the country. She was a

board

member of the District of Columbia Law

Students

in Court Clinic and was a guest lecturer for

several years at the George Washington

University

Law School.

She is the author of the article “Rethinking

the

Neighborhood Watch: How Lessons from the

Nigerian Village Can Creatively Empower the

Community to Assist Poor, Single Mothers in

America,” published in the American

University

Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law.

“I am blessed and honored to join Harvard

Law

School’s remarkable faculty,” said Umunna.

“I

relish this extraordinary opportunity to

continue

work that I am truly passionate about, and I

am

grateful for the deep interest and

commitment of

the school to issues of criminal justice, mass

incarceration, indigent defense and social

justice.”

Umunna received her law degree from the

George

Washington University Law Center. She also

holds

a Masters in Public Administration (MC)

from the

Harvard Kennedy School of Government and

a

B.A. in Communications from California

State

University, San Bernardino.