Aderson Bellegarde François

Visiting Professor of Law

Aderson Bellegarde François is Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Civil Rights Clinic at Howard University School of Law. He joins New York Law School for the fall 2011 semester to teach Constitutional Law. At Howard, Professor François teaches Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Federal Civil Rights, Legal Methods, and Supreme Court Jurisprudence. He has also been a professor at New York University School of Law, where he was also Assistant Director of the Lawyering Program. Professor François was appointed Lead Agency Review for the United States Commission on Civil Rights by the Transition Team of President Barack Obama in 2008. He has testified before Congress on civil rights issues and drafted numerous briefs to the United States Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of California, the Supreme Court of Iowa, and Maryland’s highest court, on such civil rights matters as equal protection in education, employment discrimination, voting rights, marriage equality for same-sex couples, and the right to a fair criminal trial. Previously, Professor François was a special assistant with the United States Commission on Civil Rights in Washington, D.C., a litigation associate in New York City with Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, and clerked for the late Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.