The CUNY Law faculty is an extraordinary and diverse group of public interest and public service practitioners and scholars. Their extensive practical experience adds great depth to the classroom and creates internship and employment opportunities for students, while they produce cutting edge, engaged scholarship in areas as diverse as capital punishment, domestic violence, indigenous land rights, cross cultural lawyering, GLBT rights, aging, ecology and international human rights. Working as colleagues, faculty and students are on a first name basis; the faculty's highest priority is training and graduating excellent public interest lawyers.