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Robin A. Lenhardt

Robin A. Lenhardt is an Associate Professor of Law at the Fordham University School of Law, where she specializes in matters pertaining to race, civil rights, family law, and constitutional law. Prior to accepting her position at Fordham, Professor Lenhardt served as a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, and as a fellow and adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. Before entering legal academia, Professor Lenhardt held a number of positions in the private and non-profit sectors. A former law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer and Judge Hugh Bownes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Professor Lenhardt was formerly a Counsel in the Washington, DC, office of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, where she was a member of the litigation team that defended the University of Michigan in the Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger affirmative action lawsuits.  Professor Lenhardt also received a Skadden Foundation Fellowship to work as a staff attorney for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and has been employed as an attorney advisor in the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel. Professor Lenhardt is a fellow with the Jamestown Project at Harvard Law School.