Joe Schottenfeld is a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law. Joe’s research focuses on the interrelationships among procedural rules, judicial prerogatives, and civil rights, and, in particular, the ways in which courts as institutions determine the shape and nature of access to courts and law.

Before joining the Law School, Joe was an assistant general counsel at the NAACP, where he litigated First and Fourteenth Amendment cases, and taught a civil rights clinic at NYU School of Law. Prior to working for the NAACP, Joe clerked for Judge Marsha Berzon on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

He received his JD from Yale Law School and his BA from Yale College.