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 access to courts and law. His scholarship has appeared in or is forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review, Stanford Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, and George Washington Law Review.

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.