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Civil Rights Clinic, Civil Procedure, Legal Methods, Supreme Court Jurisprudence

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Biography

Professor Francois is the Supervising Attorney of the Civil Rights Clinic and also teaches Civil Procedure, Legal Methods, and Supreme Court Jurisprudence. He received his J.D. from New York University School and clerked for the late Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. In his practice, Professor François has alternated between commercial litigation as an associate at the New York Offices of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, pro bono death penalty representation before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and civil rights policy analysis with the United States Commission on Civil Rights in Washington, D.C. Before joining Howard’s faculty in fall 2005, Professor François was an Acting Assistant Professor and the Assistant Director of the Lawyering Program at New York University School of Law.

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