UMass Law is pleased to announce that four new faculty members are joining the law school this fall. In addition, Erica Sylvia '15, JD '17, a summa cum laude alumna of UMass Dartmouth and a magna cum laude graduate of UMass Law, is returning to the law school as an adjunct professor and will help to prepare law students for the bar exam.
The new faculty bring strong teaching and career experience to the law school as well as diverse areas of expertise and published scholarship in refugee and immigrant rights, Islamic and Asian studies, health policy and law, and public housing and homelessness.
“Student enrollment at UMass Law has grown substantially over the past few years, and so we are delighted that the law school has been able to recruit such outstanding new faculty members across a variety of legal disciplines that are so critical to our mission,” said Dean Eric Mitnick. “I am especially gratified to be able to work with our new Assistant Director of Bar Success, Erica Sylvia, not just because she is my former Torts student, but also because I know how well she will be able to relate to and work with our students as they prepare to succeed on the bar exam.”
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