{"id":389,"date":"2019-11-02T18:07:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T18:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=389"},"modified":"2019-11-03T21:59:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T21:59:43","slug":"the-first-nigerian-to-be-appointed-as-a-professor-at-harvard-law-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"THE FIRST NIGERIAN TO BE APPOINTED AS A PROFESSOR AT HARVARD LAW SCHOOL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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According to the publication Harvard Law Today,\n43-year-old Dehlia Umunna, the first Nigerian to be appointed as a professor in\nHarvard School of Law (HSL), has been a lecturer at Harvard Law School since\n2007.
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\nShe is the author of the article \u201cRethinking the Neighborhood Watch: How\nLessons from the Nigerian Village Can Creatively Empower the Community to\nAssist Poor, Single Mothers in America\u201d, which was published in the American\nUniversity Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law.
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\nUmunna is the deputy director and clinical instructor at Harvard Law School\nCriminal Justice Institute (CJI), through which she supervises third-year law\nstudents in criminal and juvenile proceedings and arguments before\nMassachusetts\u2019 Supreme Judicial Court and Appeals Court.
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\nFurthermore, she is a board member of the District of Columbia Law Students Law\nClinic, serves as a faculty member for Gideon\u2019s Promise (formerly the Southern\nPublic Defender\u2019s Training Centre) and is a frequent presenter at Public\nDefender training sessions across the country.
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\nSpeaking on her appointment, Umunna said, \u201cI am blessed and honoured to join\nHarvard Law School\u2019s remarkable faculty.
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\n“I relish this extraordinary opportunity to continue work that I am truly\npassionate about, and I am grateful for the deep interest and commitment of the\nschool to issues of criminal justice, mass incarceration, indigent defence and\nsocial justice.\u201d
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\nUmunna holds a Law degree from the George Washington University Law Centre, a\nMaster\u2019s in Public Administration (MC) from the Harvard Kennedy School of\nGovernment and a BA in Communications from California State University, San\nBernardino. From 2002 to 2007, Professor Umunna was an Adjunct Professor of Law\nand Practitioner in Residence at American University, Washington College of\nLaw.
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\nHer teaching interest and research focus on Criminal Law, Criminal Defense and\nTheory, Mass Incarceration and Race Issues. In recognition of her outstanding\nservice to the HLS community she has received Harvard Law School\u2019s Dean\u2019s Award\nfor Excellence and the Southern Public Defender Training Centre Outstanding\nFaculty Mentor of the Year Award. The awards acknowledged her as a stellar\nstudent supervisor, staff manager, lecturer, coach and mentor.
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\nMartha Minnow, Dean of Harvard Law School, said, \u201cDehlia\u2019s students revere her.\nHer colleagues at HLS and nationally look to her as an exemplary advocate,\nteacher and mentor.
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\n\u201cFrom her unprecedented win record in criminal defense trials, her deft\nleadership of the Criminal Justice Institute day to day, and her superb\ncoaching of student moot court teams, her published scholarship, to her numerous\nawards in recognition of her outstanding work as a criminal defense attorney,\nadvisor, and teacher, Dehlia is simply extraordinary.
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\nShe is an inspiration to her students and her clients in every way. It is a\ntrue privilege to be her colleague.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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