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Myrisha S. Lewis Visiting Assistant Professor of Law AB, Harvard University JD, Columbia University School of Law
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yrisha Lewis teaches legal writing at Chicago-Kent and specializes in areas related to family law and criminal law. Prior to joining the Chicago-Kent faculty in 2015, she spent approximately four years as an attorney at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Rockville, Maryland. There, she filed pleadings on behalf of agency staff, advised legal and technical staff on federal rulemakings and statutes, and reviewed staff analyses of new nuclear power reactor licenses and designs. While employed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Professor Lewis also completed a seven-month detail in the Sex Offense and Domestic Violence Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, where she prosecuted domestic violence misdemeanor cases. Professor Lewis’ research and teaching interests include family law, criminal law, comparative constitutional law, European Union law, administrative law, trusts and estates, bioethics, and torts. Her articles have been published in the Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender and Society and the Charleston Law Review. She has a forthcoming article in the Nevada Law Journal. Professor Lewis earned a law degree from Columbia Law School and an A.B. in Government from Harvard University. During law school, she was a case law editor of the Columbia Journal of European Law and a teaching assistant for a seminar on International Environmental Law. Professor Lewis is a member of the New York Bar and speaks French and Spanish. For more, visit her faculty webpage here.
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