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E. Tendayi Achiume
Assistant Professor of Law Tendayi Achiume was the second recipient of UCLA Law’s Binder Clinical Teaching Fellowship and is now joining the UCLA Law faculty. Her research and teaching interests lie in international human rights law, international refugee law, comparative immigration E. TENDAYI ACHIUME law, international criminal justice and property. Most recently, her scholarship has focused on how international law and norms along with transnational legal processes shape domestic equality outcomes. Professor Achiume earned a B.A. degree from Yale University and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School. While at law school, she also earned a Graduate Certificate in Development Studies from Yale. She served as managing editor of submissions for the Yale Journal of International Law and was a recipient of the Fox International Fellowship and the Howard M. Holtzmann Fellowship in International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution. Professor Achiume clerked for Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke and Justice Yvonne Mokgoro on the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Following her clerkships, she was awarded the Bernstein International Human Rights Fellowship to work for the Refugee and Migrant Rights Project unit at Lawyers for Human Rights in Johannesburg. Professor Achiume also taught on the faculty of the International Human Rights Exchange Programme based at the University of the Witswatersrand. She then joined the New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP as a litigation associate. As the Binder Clinical Teaching Fellow, she taught the International Human Rights Clinic, supervising students in litigation before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Her clinic also partnered with the Coalition to End Sheriff Violence in L.A. Jails to draft a model policy for civilian oversight of L.A. county jails. In addition, she co-taught in the Asylum Clinic and the International Justice Clinic, and was the founding faculty supervisor for the UCLA School of Law International Justice Project, which partners students with international human rights organizations worldwide in need of research and advocacy support.
Her publications include “Beyond Prejudice: Structural Xenophobic Discrimination Against Refugees,” 45 Georgetown Journal of International Law 323 (2014), and a co-authored piece, “Prison Conditions in South Africa and the Role of Public Interest Litigation Since 1994,” 27 South African Journal of Human Rights 183 (2011).
Beth A. Colgan
Assistant Professor of Law Beth Colgan joins the UCLA Law faculty from Stanford Law School, where she was a Thomas C. Grey fellow. Her scholarship focuses on criminal and juvenile justice, and centers on an understanding that constitutional interpretation is properly informed by the practical effects of BETH A. COLGAN the law. Recently, her work was cited by the Iowa Supreme Court in Iowa v. Hull, in which the court held that a 52.5-year mandatory minimum sentence applied to a juvenile was unconstitutional. While at Stanford Law School, Professor Colgan taught firstyear courses on federal litigation and legal writing, rhetoric and research, as well as an upper-level sentencing and corrections seminar. She continued to serve the criminal justice community as a consultant on issues related to punishment and access to counsel, as well as through service on the Board of Directors of the Justice Policy Institute and Advisory Board of Northwestern University’s Center for Wrongful Convictions of Juveniles. Previously, Professor Colgan was the managing attorney of the Institutions Project at Columbia Legal Services in Seattle, Washington, where her practice focused on class litigation and legislative advocacy on behalf of juveniles and adults who were incarcerated on issues ranging from constitutional deprivations to conditions of confinement. Prior to joining Columbia Legal Services, Professor Colgan was an associate in the Seattle office of Perkins Coie, LLP. Her practice involved complex litigation in federal and state courts in the areas of election law, torts, securities, intellectual property and environmental disputes. She also engaged in extensive pro bono work while focusing primarily on access to competent public defense counsel in rural Washington and the treatment of youth in the adult criminal justice system.
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